#you WILL be next if some n@zi decided to enact their beliefs onto you. it was never a hypothetical or a far-away notion for me. it never wa | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

shalom-iamcominghome · 2 months

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I'm still thinking about my professor proof-reading my rhetorical analysis essay about white supremacy, violence, and antisemitism because it went a bit like:

Prof: *shakes her head while reading* I can't understand how someone could believe this

I mean... You guys value education, and learning, and family, I just don't get it!

And the food? Have you ever been to Brooklyn?! Ugh, the food!

I don't want to be overdramatic, but it subtly tells me how different we engage with this subject. I definitely like my professor, and she's nice, but that essay for me was scary, and raw, and it's a subject I've been forced to experience and the violence that comes from these movements are violences I have experienced in some ways and just... I don't know, it was a weird dichotomy to simultaneously feel so raw while also realizing that non-jewish people will not understand why

#jumblr #jew by choice #jewish conversion #personal thoughts tag #antisemitism tw #it was a cathartic essay for me to write about though #the essay was in response to that TED talk a man delivered about leaving the american n@zi movement #i watched it years ago before this essay though and it was still just as scary to think about #to me it wasn't a matter of 'not the jews :(' but this skin-crawling deep KNOWLEDGE that you WILL be next #you WILL be next if some n@zi decided to enact their beliefs onto you. it was never a hypothetical or a far-away notion for me. it never wa #but my prof did say that my essay was GREAT so at least i have that going for me #i need to stop engaging with this topic as much because sometimes it just feels like a form of sh at this point #also i obviously don't think my professor is Evil or Bad. she just doesn't get it and i understand #what i'm saying is sometimes knowing that fundamentally we engage with antisemitism in different ways hurts i guess

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