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When Palestinians are enduring a genocide, it’s “why don’t they move somewhere else?”
When a white Jewish student in the US gets weird looks for calling for mass genocide in class, they’re an innocent little baby whose safety is in grave danger, we must silence those antisemitic students immediately
“Nowhere is safe for us” coming from some American cracker like, give me a fucking break.
But I guess yeah, all those POC have nothing on them not being able to call for mass murder without social consequences. /s
P.S. a friend of mine is a lecturer and it’s truly jaw-dropping the number of whites who feel comfortable to have cracker tantrums in class if the professor says anything “woke”. Tell me again who’s “uppity”?
Nothing, absolutely nothing, pisses me off more than hearing this shit. Is there a chance that they could run into people that are legit anti-semites? Yes. But how is sustaining the colonial project that is Israel any safer for them when they are provoking wars all the time? Meanwhile you have all these zionists living in the comfort of the imperial core without a chance of facing an ounce of the violence that is being inflicted on Middle Eastern people by Israel.
Always the white ones saying it too, it's like white people feel the need to cosplay as more oppressed than they truly are. In this day and age no jewish person is more at risk than anti-zionist jewish people from the actual antisemites and the rest of the jewish community.
Seriously, this is why I think the acknowledgment that, in the current year, Jews are not systemically oppressed (specifically for being Jewish) needs to be emphasized.
If I said this anywhere else I'd be hung and quartered which proves your point cause literally no minority, certainly no non-white group would ever be defended like this while committing ethnic cleansing. Tired of crakkker whining.
Edit: Hell even here we had a whole debacle where even mods were sending death threats to people cause "you want an emoji burning the israeli flag so you're antisemetic cause it has the star of david" whites ruin every space they enter if not kept in line istg yes lets cosplay as communists but value a religious symbol over liberation of oppressed humans.
Nothing more infuriating than the whitest person I’ve ever seen saying that they’re systemically oppressed for being Jewish (they lost all their friends after posting genocidal rhetoric)
Come the fuck on, come talk to me about systemic oppression when a cop puts “Jewish” on your speeding ticket instead of “white”, or when simply walking through a neighborhood gets you posted to NaziDoor as a “suspicious individual” and the cops get called on you
Fucking preach, they'll never know what it's fucking like and even within jewish spaces non-white jewish people get the short end of the stick. Antisemitism is an issue but this is like white women who complain about being the most oppressed while hiding behind their white identities. Something something white before anything else, race still trumps it.
Edit: this reminded me of how that betar jewish group harassed a 15 yo mexican boy cause he DARED accuse an adult man of assaulting him... but the man was JEWISH so clearly thr ILLEGAL ALIEN (actual words used by the group) is an antisemitic liar ruining a poor white jewish man's life. Lmao ship him to pedo paradise pissrael ig!!!
They live such cozy fucking lives yet complain more then anybody else give me a fucking break. "Nowhere is safe for us" welcome to the world, guess what, you're not the only ones and you can still be guilty of heinous shit, like how some white USians are talking about seeking asylum elsewhere casue of trump lmaooooo. And it's almost always white jewish people saying that I've never seen a poc jewish saying it which goes to show cause you know, the poc part already makes it obvious absolutely nowhere is safe. Whites are white before anything else coming up as real again. Nobody is as arrogant and as sensitive as a crakkker. It's eurocentrism to ignore the countless groups who governed in Palestine before and after the jewish people yet only act like they're the ones who have the right to that land just as it is to focus on the history of antisemetism mostly in europe to justify borderline jewish supremacism and ignoring all kinds of bigotry besides antisemitism. Fuck anybody who contributes to it and may we see a fully liberated Palestine and the fall of the west in our lifetime.
Of all the whites I’ve had tell me they were going to do this since 2016, not a single one has actually done it, because ultimately they are not materially affected, ICE is never going to come for them (their “activism” is limited to making a post on Bluesky every month) and they aren’t willing to give up their comfortable lives to cosplay as refugees. A democrat will win in 2028 and ICE will go back to only killing POC and everything will be normal again.
As far as I can tell it’s just a conversation topic for the dinner table. Same thing as that one temporarily-embarrassed-millionaire relative talking about how this is the year they’re finally gonna quit that minimum wage job and invest in crypto/AI and become a trillionaire or whatever. Every year for the last 10 years.