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→Notes Part I
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379542 INN]
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379542 INN]
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When the anti-racists are racists.
Andrew Pessin.
(Nov 1, 2023 / JNS).
I have a colleague at another institution, a person of color who has for years been vocal on matters of concern to people of color and to all marginalized people. He is the quintessential progressive. He speaks often of diversity, inclusion and allyship. He is quick to call out racism when he sees it and proudly declares himself anti-racist...
I wrote to him as follows...
When the anti-racists are racists.
What exactly do you think could possibly justify such barbaric cruelty? To babies, children, disabled people, grandmothers?...
When the Nazis showed up at Polish towns and forced all the Jews to strip and walk miles into the woods and dig their own graves and then shot them, mothers holding their babies, would you stop and say, “Wait a minute, I need to hear the Nazis’ perspective on this before I reach a judgment?”
Who watches little girls raped and then dismembered alive (yes) and says, “Well, I need to learn more before making a judgment”?
Who watches a mother and a father and their three small children tied up together and then burned alive (yes) and says, “Well I need to hear the other side before I make up my mind”?
When nine black people were gunned down in South Carolina in 2015, did anyone say, “Wait until we get the gunman’s point of view”? Or in regard to the 2019 mosque shootings in New Zealand in which 51 Muslims died?
Is there any other identity group whose massive slaughter is met with the search for justification, with the “need to learn more”?
Closer to home, when talking about your activism for important causes, you also said, “The George Floyd affair was about the daily police brutality black Americans have faced for centuries and the continued oppression of folks of African descent across the diaspora.”
Imagine someone responded to you and said, “Well, you know, that situation is actually extremely complicated. After all, black people do commit a lot of crime and have a lot of police interactions. And anyway, let’s hear from David Duke and the Proud Boys before we reach any conclusions.”
Do I need to go on to imagine how you would feel, and how pretty much everyone we know in academia would erupt against such a response, which would instantly be branded racist?
1,400 mostly unarmed Jews—babies, children, teenagers, pregnant women, grandmothers—were just slaughtered in the most sadistic manner possible by the members of an openly genocidal group. Their founding charter literally endorses the murder of all Jews on earth. They literally posted footage of the atrocities so everyone could celebrate it. And you need to “learn more”?
But you didn’t stop there.
Given the “complexity” of the conflict, you then endorsed the (otherwise surely laudatory) view that we needn’t play the “Oppression Olympics,” that “we must oppose all oppression, have empathy for every suffering person, etc.”
Of course. But when certain people responded to the Black Lives Matter campaign so dear to you by pointing out that, in fact, “all lives matter” and “unarmed white people are also shot by police,” well we know how that was received, not least as evidence of their racism. Yet when 1,400 Jews were slaughtered in the most cold-blooded manner possible, you responded, “Well, all lives matter.”
You literally just “all lives mattered” every Jewish person on earth.
[https://www.jns.org/when-the-anti-racists-are-racists/ JNS]
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