The best analogy - knowing it's a bad one - I can make for my experience there is that it's kinda like how ppl in your community close ranks
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On an objective level I shouldn't care unusually abt Israel. I'm not Israeli, not likely to move there, and I strongly disagree w/occupation
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But you grow up hearing abt Israel from 3rd grade as an American Jew, and as a Jew your entire cultural legacy is being singled out as Evil.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
well...the image of Jews as victims is pretty ingrained in US, I think...
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Replying to @nberlat @loudpenitent
Victims AND as manipulators. They both cooexist, and I mean this conversation (which AFAIK is all Jewish in either ethnicity or religion) >
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> would be taken as really uncomfortable if it wasn't by a bunch of Jewish-identified people
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Because we are observing that for understandable reasons, a group of Jews actually did form a power elite at one point
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @nberlat
Eh. I would hesitate to say that. They were tolerated within that elite, but that's not quite the same.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @nberlat
I would say that it became easy to believe they're in charge. I mean, I'm sure Jared Kushner sees himself as helping Jewish folks
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Because in his mind, and he's not 100% wrong, he disgraced the actual Nazi advising his father in law and took his place
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What a weak and crappy version of the Purim story
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especially since the Nazi is still there!
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Jared actually thinks what his dad did to his aunt and uncle counts as a great moral victory too
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