#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

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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