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meta recs + the privilege to dismiss
Sunday, 9 September 2007 18:24![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
chopchica: So yes, I get more than enough of this in my daily life, and my question is, in fandom – where everybody is willing to discuss (the very valid issues of) Martha the maid, female characters being hated and ignored because they’re female and not male, het sex being thought of as gross and needing specific warnings, miscegenation, whether 'playing gay' is in any way analogous to blackface, and a billion other things about the daily homophobia/sexism/racism that exists on television, in movies, in books, in bands, and everywhere else - why have I yet to see any of these issues about Judaism and anti-Semitism addressed? ( here )
technosage: (in response to chopchica)Yet...when someone clearly is being anti-Semitic, and since I'm Jewish and vitriolic on the subject of anti-Semitism, I ought to call them on it. Learn some tools for saying "this conversation isn't about anti-Semitism, and this isn't the place to have this conversation, but what you've said is incredibly offensive to me. I'd like to engage you about it somewhere else."
I mean, I could just say that, right? But... I don't. And it's not for fear of co-opting the narrative. It's because...
It's because it's a fuckton harder to rock the boat on my own behalf than on that of someone else. It's much harder to hear "wtf are you whining about, you people have all the money and all the education?" than it is to hear "will you stop talking about color already? dude, you're harshing my squee." ( here )
kita0610: (also in response to chopchica)Try and come up with the last full on Jewish show. Not a "very special Channukah with the Rug Rats." I mean a show where the leading man/woman/children etc. were Jewish and it was a big part of their lives and it *mattered* to the plot.
I'll wait.
Just because you do not see racism does not mean there isn't racism inherent in the system. ( here )
I can't rec these posts enough.
( the privilege to ignore )
