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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are recent immigrants, recent by most standards,  and trying to understand this request. [b] Is there a lot of animosity towards Jewish people in Southern colleges? [/b] What about towards Muslims or Hindus who probably stand out more than Jews (who IMO are as White as any other White person)?  Getting worried now that I've read this thread for my kids..  This topic has never come up in discussions with other immigrant friends..  Thanks![/quote]

It's not unique to the South. Some of it is white supremacists, mostly right-wing/conservative who are anti-Semitic based on historical stereotypes of Jews (see the "Jews will not replace us" chants at the Charlottesville protests)...they would not agree with your opinion that Jews are "as White as any other White person....and ps, there are a lot of Jewish people who aren't white and who "stand out" in your words based on skin color)

Some is activists on Palestine, mostly left-wing/liberal, who assume that being Jewish = support for Israel and/or support for Israel = being anti-Muslim/racist.

How each of those groups would treat Muslims would be quite different (and of course, there are Muslims of all races and skin tones so that would matter too). Folks who are pro-Palestine might also have views on how the Indian government treats Muslims which could affect their views of Hindus, or they might be focused just on Israel/Palestine.

Of course, most college students don't care about any of this. And plenty of white supremacists/Palestinian activists outside of the college world too.[/quote]

Thanks!  For some reason, our friends seem more concerned about racism from Whites and "entrenched" minorities such as Blacks and Hispanics.  Not so much from non-black Muslims who are lower in number on college campuses and likely mostly first-gen and therefore [b]"better behaved" (Their words, not mine so please don't dissect)  :-)[/quote][/b]

Slight -- but relevant -- derail: In a question about where members of your particular minority group might find community and support, you throw out racist generalizations, which you conveniently attribute to "friends".  Please ask yourself how you would feel if someone made anti-Semitic comments which they then attempted to minimize or even normalize by attributing them to someone else then adding a perky little smiley face.  Obviously you realized the pain that your words could cause.  A smiley only emphasizes their impact by your casual assumption that a cute emoji is enough to cancel out the damaging bias of your words.  I guess you felt that you were in a community that would agree with you?

Tikkun olam.  A righteous choice, embedded in kindness could easily have made your point without denigrating anyone.

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