i noticed this really annoying trend in people claiming to fight antisemitism. There’s this thing people do, where they care SO much more about fighting the bigots, making sure to call out harmful tropes and point fingers at antisemites, than about. You know. Protecting those affected. They’ll happily try to punish those to be perceived antisemitic, but won’t care about changing the system or making sure affected Jews are ok. To the point where they’d happily ignore what Jews tell them just to pursue their crusade. It’s been happening in British politics somewhat as well.
I notice it the most in fighting “tropes”. They care more about “don’t draw pointy noses, green/yellow skin, X fantasy creature is bad actually!“ than looking at very real issues. I’m a Jewish history nerd who was born in Germany. I promise you, none of the stuff I’ve seen called out on here comes even CLOSE to what actual caricatures are like. That cute cartoon character with the large pointy nose is nothing. If you think that’s offensive then prepare a fainting couch for when you look up real things.
And the worst thing is, they care SO much about “UwU fighting antisemic things” they’ll just? Fucking come to accuse actual Jews of that. The amount of “hey don‘t draw that character with a pointy nose :T” I’ve gotten. The amount of nonsense when I was mostly just in the Hobbit fandom for liking the Dwarves. I promise you, sweeties, that yelling at someone from any minority about “problematic” tropes isn’t as progressive as you think it is. You can’t fight any kind of bigotry while talking over the group affected. It just makes you look like a fucking moron who’s performing social justice callouts for brownie points.
Egypt parades 22 of their ancient kings and queens through the streets of Cairo as they’re being transferred to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
