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    1. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      sort of related: a big part, I think, of why jews tend to vote so liberal, is that the right's grievances feel bizarre, example: 1/

      3 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      Fox has spent years ginning up this fake outrage about the "war on Christmas". I go to any store in Dec. in any liberal city 2/

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      & as a person not looking to shop for Christmas gifts it feels everywhere. Wall-to-wall. If I get lucky Hanukkah gets one shelf 3/

      2 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
    4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      this is fine. Christians are a majority and people want to buy Christmas stuff. But hearing the right rage abt a War is surreal 4/

      2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      they're telling stores is that if a store wants to make me feel included by saying Happy Holidays it's a secular war on them 5/

      1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
    6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      so here we have a religious majority bullying and threatening establishments using benign language to be more inclusive to *me* 6/

      1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
    7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      and then these same people have the chutzpah to go on television and claim that they're the victims. 7/

      1 reply 1 retweet 19 likes
    8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      in short, when you're out of a particular privilege, the panicked fear of losing it feels bizarre, surreal 8/

      1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
    9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      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/

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    10. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      and if you've felt it w/ War on Christmas, you see the same pattern with "PC", War on Guns, police brutality. 10/

      1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      people who feel their privilege is under attack and in what they feel is self defense, attack those without privilege. 11/

      3:15 AM - 30 Oct 2016
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        2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          once you've felt it in any context you can't unfeel it, and that empathy creates electoral solidarity. 12/

          1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          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/

          1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          still a religious minority, experiencing a steady drumbeat of minor impacts of that status. We know how it feels in the small 14/

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          and can't help be horrified by all of the ways that it happens to other minorities in the large (police executions!) 15/

          1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
        6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          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/

          2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
        7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          the demonization attacks used against people on food stamps. Once you've felt the phony outrage in defense of privilege 17/

          1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
        8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          personally, even in a small way, it doesn't work that well against other groups. We stand together in solidarity. 18/18

          2 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
        9. ohayon‏ @ohayon 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          this was so well said. as a jew it's always been hard to express our marginalization given that we have so much more privilege than others.

          1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
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