US Politics on Yik Yak | If white people should be held accountable for their sins of the past, should we hold Jewish people to the same standard and hold them accountable for the atrocities that their people are committing today?

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If white people should be held accountable for their sins of the past, should we hold Jewish people to the same standard and hold them accountable for the atrocities that their people are committing today?

Anonymous 1d

The level of concurrent misunderstandings this post requires is astounding

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Anonymous 21h

israelis are functional white. whiteness is not about skin color but one’s participation in settler colonialism instead. all settlers are white

Anonymous 1d

Yes

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Anonymous

#1 1d

Reparations isn’t about punishing white people. It’s about evening the playing field, because some people are economically ahead because they benefited from racism, while others are still behind because they were subject to racism.

Anonymous

#1 1d

Additionally, benefiting from something your ancestors did (while still not your fault) is different from people of the same ethnicity doing something bad today which does not benefit the person in question.

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Anonymous

_orangutan 21h

anyhoo, James Connolly in regards to the English in Ireland

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Anonymous

_orangutan 21h

functionally*

Anonymous

_orangutan 21h

Did you know that Ben Gvir is from Iraq? He’s mizrahi. Israelis are not ‘functionally white’. They are reproducing the radicalized experience of the Holocaust with the Gaza genocide as a form of traumatic reclamation

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Anonymous

#4 21h

*racialized experience