They believe that "civilization" depends on ethnically and culturally homogenous nation-states, and that Jewish people become acceptable if they shed their diasporic Jewishness and become "normal people" in a "normal country" by setting up a nation-state of their own
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
What kind of country this country becomes -- and whether this country has realistic hopes of long-term survival -- is not their problem, in their view, at least not right now They just want all the troublesome minorities in their own country OUT, by any means necessary
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
"Everyone should have 'their own' country that's a homogeneous population of 'their own' ethnicity Then the different countries can play the Great Game and the fittest survive That's what God intended" It's an openly anti-internationalist anti-cosmopolitan worldview
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
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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I have NOT heard the take but...interesting
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Replying to @Sarahndipity44 @arthur_affect and
Yeah, I think it's probably more accurate the more it gets to "the experience of Jewish and Chinese immigrants in America overlap in key ways" but at that point...yeah.
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It's not about Jewish-American and Chinese-American immigrants, although that's a similar hot take I guess It's about the waves of anti-Chinese violence that periodically sweep through various Asian countries
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarahndipity44 and
Ah, fair, yeah - I posted that before the rest of the thread but I see the direction now.
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