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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a few fairly religious Jewish friends who regularly ask folks to share the list of high holidays so people don’t schedule important meetings in those days.  I think tagging people is a bit much on holiday good wishes but tbf I almost never tag people and rarely post on social media at all so my normalcy calibration might be off.  I do see your point about making assumptions about people’s religion, though.  If any of these are close friends you can maybe mention it to them another time that it feels odd to be wished greetings as part of a blanket statement without any personal calibration?  If acquaintances, I would probably mute them; maybe if their posts get little enough engagement they’ll stop?[/quote]

I am not close enough with either of them to say anything - and honestly I'm not even sure what I'd say. I don't have an argument for NOT doing this - it just feels off to me. There's nothing I can point to and say, "you shouldn't do this and here's why" - I just feel like it's a weird thing to have non-Jews posting about Jewish holidays, and presuming to share some expertise.

The thing my friend shred about the holidays was originally put up by someone who went to a Lutheran theology school (I see in his profile) then got shared something like 4,000 times. It's not objectionable in content - it just feels weird for someone who is a Christian to be holding himself up as an expert in how to be considerate to the Jews around their holidays (which obviously we can't presume anyone is already familiar with since of course Jews are other and exotic). It feels weird is all![/quote]

Oh yeah, I get this. I am generally exhausted by people who position themselves as experts on "being inclusive" or whatever on social media. It's one thing for someone to speak to their own identity and experience -- I'd have no issue with a Jewish person saying "hey as a PSA, these are the high holy dates this year and here's some info so you don't go wishing someone a happy day of atonement!" And if someone shared that, all the better.

But when you have people who are NOT of a certain identity lecturing others on how to be tolerant and inclusive of that identity -- it just comes off as self-promotional. Like when straight people lecture about how to be inclusive of LGBTQA+ people, or when white people lecture each other about racism. Share/promote something from a person of that identity? Yes, for sure. Jump on your soap box to pontificate on how to be a good liberal? Nope, it's annoying.

I basically stopped going on Facebook back in 2018 or so for this reason -- so many likeminded people lecturing each other on how to be progressive, it got really tiresome.[/quote]

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