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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s pretty sad how invested some posters are in maintaining “Jewish identity” as white. [/quote]

You have missed the point. It isn't about "whiteness " but it is about descent from Jews. They may read as "white" to people who have race on the brain, but we have long had our own thing going on and have preserved our peoplehood across millenia in spite of severe efforts to penalize us for resisting assimilation. Not sure how Adam Sandler, the guy who always told us we should feel seen for who we have always been, inserted this celebration of assimilation into his recent movie. [/quote]

So when you see Jews of Color or people of color in Jewish spaces, this is what you are thinking? That it represents assimilation? Rather than the continuation of the Jewish people? You would prefer that they (we) simply opt out of organized Judaism?
Wow, I hope you aren’t members at our shul. [/quote]

DP. Jeez, no one is saying that. We are saying that the diversity in the movie felt like more of a bow to woke cultural standards than it did to accurately representing diversity in the Jewish community. The fact of the matter is that there is some diversity in judaism, but far from the extent portrayed in the movie. It was like bridgerton casting that was completely blind to the actual profile of the demographic they were portraying. And some of us find that obnoxious in a movie that is already about a minority ethnicity. [/quote]

Many people didn’t have any issues with Bridgerton casting but I guess I know who the ones posting crazy stuff in those threads are. 
I’m still confused why this is bothersome, especially since I understand that the movie was produced by a Jew (Adam Sandler) so these where choices that he made. 
Again, why are so you so invested in maintaining racial purity (having the Jewish characters portrayed as white) that you are upset about 3 / 16 kids in the class being Jews of Color? Oh, I get it, Jewish spaces were “safe” places for you to shelter yourself from the changing demographics of the US.  [/quote]

Are you Jewish? If not, I suggest you can it.

Nothing wrong with bridgerton other than historical inaccuracy. Since accuracy wasn’t the point, that’s fine. There is also no one alive from the period it’s set in to take offense to it.

It feels disingenuous for the movie to portray Jews, a heavily persecuted people, by other minorities. It feels like we have to pretend to look like the rest of the population in order to have a mainstream movie. I have no problem with inclusion and diversity and I didn’t really care about it in the movie other than it didn’t feel realistic and it felt like virtue signaling.

There were way more than three white kids in the Hebrew school. [/quote]

Yes I am Jewish, a Jew of Color actually. I also have Jewish children and I’m sad and angry that if you see them (or me), you won’t perceive them as fellow Jews. I hope you don’t act on your views when you are in shul.

I’m sorry that you feel threatened by the portrayal of Jewish kids by non white actors.  But, you have no idea of any of them are Jewish.  Did you also check into all of the white actors to ensure that they are Jewish as well? Or did that not matter because they were white?

My family also includes Holocaust survivors and entire branches of the family wiped out by the Nazis. So I don’t need to get lectured on persecution by you. [/quote]

DP here, but wow you missed the point of what the poster you're responding to said.[/quote]

I didn’t miss the point. I just don’t agree with it and am providing a different perspective. [/quote]

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