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I feel like I’m actually going insane
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I live in a reform Jewish hotspot. There is unironic usage of the term “kill em all” being bandied about
Me and my sister are genuinely afraid to speak out about it because I seriously think I might get assaulted over it
Discretion is often the better part of valor. It's not cowardice to avoid a fight you know you can't win. If you can identify other sympathetic people, though, it might be worth building ties with them with a view to making more open resistance tenable in the future. Some people will be emboldened just knowing they're not alone.
But that said, please do what you can to stay safe.
I’ve agitated to my close friends and about half of them are at least open to hearing my perspectives on it. Mainly the half that isn’t Jewish, to be honest. It’s always an uphill battle and I made to feel as if I am living in an entirely different world when I talk to my parents about this shit.
Someone in my class literally just approached me unprompted and said “Did you hear about the pro-Hamas protest on campus? Insane. I was at the counter-protest, were you there?” and I was just like
Like yeah, a liberal arts college in the states clearly has—I don’t fucking know—a Wahhabist wing. Known factor. They used to show up every time there was an ISIS bombing to dance on rooftop—you know absurd that sounds, right? Are you fucking kidding me? You can’t be legitimately falling for this in its entirety
Never believe that they don’t know the absurdity of their statements
Uh huh yeah I'm sure it was really a pro-Hamas protest and not a Palestinian liberation protest.
Fuck these people.