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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the Jewish kids rejected in 1950 are now 90 and don't give a f*ck.

Just fix things going forward for all races, ethnicities and genders and mive along.[/quote]

But it was the 50's, so the younger of that group is closer to 80. And being a child of one of them I can tell you they do care because they have faced a lifetime of discrimination and exclusion. I still encounter antisemitism from people who don't know I am 1/2 Jewish.[/quote]

You experience it or observe it? If they don't know you are Jewish, you cannot experience antisemitism against you. The ability to pass means you do not experience the prejudice and in fact in some ways benefit from it, even if it might upset you to see antisemitism at work. It's still different from having it wielded against you.[/quote]

It is people making disparaging remarks about Jews. To me that is experiencing antisemitism because it means I don't feel comfortable around these people or revealing my religious heritage. Call it what you want, but whatever the term it is unpleasant. [/quote]

It's pointless to argue.  We are the one group against which prejudice is always considered OK.  Antisemitic beliefs are often so mainstream that people don't even realize they are anti-Semitic.  We are the group that other oppressed or marginalized groups often scapegoat for their own problems, instead of looking at the dominant groups that are actually responsible.  It's the nature of anti-Semitism.

It also ignores the effects of generational anti-Semitism.  People see a few rich Jewish people and don't even know that most of us have parents and grandparents that lived in abject poverty because of overt anti-Semitism, and that there were official policies limiting Jewish participation in many areas, from housing to education.  It was not like today's admissions policies, which are racist in their result but not overt - there were official policies even at Virginia state schools that limited the number of Jews, and many of us today have parents that got those rejection letters.

It's also the fear of literally being gunned down at the synagogue and always being the number one target of right wing hate groups.  They talk about killing us, wear Nazi symbols, and spread that hatred in now-mainstream politics that even some of our friends support.  That's not an easy thing to live with.

I don't put anything Jewish out at my house.  I don't tell anyone I'm Jewish anymore.  Just last week one of my neighbors had a few too many drinks and was sitting on his back deck ranting about how Jews are running the country.  My neighbor.  50 feet away.  I don't feel safe.  I worry for my child.

I support anti-discrimination measures of all kinds, whether it be lgbtq or Asian or whatever.  Most Jews do, and very actively so.  But it hurts to be the only group that it's still OK to hate.  Seeing the ignorant and dismissive posts in this thread makes me sad.[/quote]

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