you are privileged, and you may well think Twitter "mobs" are at the top of our list of problems to fix. But the group of people 5/
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so here we have a religious majority bullying and threatening establishments using benign language to be more inclusive to *me* 6/
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and then these same people have the chutzpah to go on television and claim that they're the victims. 7/
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in short, when you're out of a particular privilege, the panicked fear of losing it feels bizarre, surreal 8/
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it's a visceral reminder of the ways (in this case relatively benign) systemic bias can cause ppl to feel they're under attack. 9/
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and if you've felt it w/ War on Christmas, you see the same pattern with "PC", War on Guns, police brutality. 10/
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people who feel their privilege is under attack and in what they feel is self defense, attack those without privilege. 11/
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once you've felt it in any context you can't unfeel it, and that empathy creates electoral solidarity. 12/
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I am deeply sad about how difficult it has been for Jews to get this basic point across. We're privileged in so many ways, but 13/
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still a religious minority, experiencing a steady drumbeat of minor impacts of that status. We know how it feels in the small 14/
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and can't help be horrified by all of the ways that it happens to other minorities in the large (police executions!) 15/
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I can't speak for all Jews of course, but it's not a coincidence that Jews are a highly liberal voting block, unpersuaded by 16/
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the demonization attacks used against people on food stamps. Once you've felt the phony outrage in defense of privilege 17/
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personally, even in a small way, it doesn't work that well against other groups. We stand together in solidarity. 18/18
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