So if they have to pick they naturally pick Zionism over Bundism, its closest historical competitor, and the explicitly left-wing, internationalist, anti-borders, pro-diaspora vision of Jewish identity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
It's that idea that Jews have the right to exist HERE, in Germany or England or America, and to be fully German or English or American AND ALSO JEWISH, and by so existing to create a "hidden link" between this country and other countries that have Jewish minorities in them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
They fucking hate that It's what all their conspiracy bullshit is based on They invent lurid ideas about kidnapping children and plotting assassinations and whatnot to justify it But the idea itself, of "undermining national borders", is in and of itself a great sin to them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
I mean look I'm not Jewish, and my life experience and family history is vastly different from a Jewish person's And yet I do feel a certain degree of connection here I'm a "rootless cosmopolitan", unapologetically and proudly, and I'm vulnerable to this shit too
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
There's a hot take I've seen people throw around that "The Chinese are the Jews of Asia" Inaccurate on many levels (including the fact that East Asia has had Jewish people in it for centuries, and they're the "Jews of Asia") But Chinese minorities have been targeted by pogroms
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
My mom's family was driven out of Indonesia following the Sept. 30 coup in 1967 and the ensuing chaos that led to the ascension of the Suharto New Order regime
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
A quite brutal ethnic cleansing, as these things go, that had as much impact on my family history on my mom's side as WWII and the Rape of Nanking had on my dad's side One that had its apologists then and even still has them now
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
"Although there were regrettable acts of violence, the anti-Chinese uprisings were a necessary stage in Indonesians asserting a unified national identity after generations of foreign imperialism" Tell it to the corpses and their survivors you asshole fash bootlicker
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
A lot of the same tropes are there, like targeting a relatively tiny and helpless (and therefore convenient) ethnic minority for being rapacious capitalists taking all the good jobs, while simultaneously accusing them of being Communist spies on behalf of the PRC motherland
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
The contradiction between these two tropes doesn't matter The question of the history of how all these objectionable things happened (blaming the Chinese minority for the actions of Dutch colonists who used them as servants and proxies) didn't matter
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What matters is people who just don't belong here having the gall to succeed where you can see it Undermining your sense that this country is YOUR country and belongs to people LIKE YOU Acting as a sinister connection between your country and others, undermining its "identity"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
So anyway I have a personal connection to this kind of thing I don't think what happened to my mom's family is really directly analogous to antisemitic pogroms in every respect, or that either is directly analogous to my situation, now But the connections are there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
People like me in general, "rootless cosmopolitans" from immigrant minorities, "hyphenated" Americans, piss the fascists off Not all to the same degree and not all with the same long bloody history But it's that in-between-ness, blurring boundaries, they can't stand
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