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Oh ffs, can people not?
Minding your business is so much easier than committing hate crimes.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks
I'm not remotely religious, but if the people who claim they are would actually read their fucking Bible, they would find that verse in Matthew
I think that verse still holds true as these people have hearts so full of hate that it overflows out of their mouths and hands.
Excellent point! Also rather partial to "Love your neighbor as yourself" from Leviticus.
Also, I think you meant to say "Christian," not "religious." There are billions of religious people who are not interested in the Christian scriptures. I honestly do not mean to be pedantic, but that kind of cultural erasure is not helpful to minority religions.
Why are we letting bigotries from across the world influence us in the United States? Jewish and Muslim Americans should not be getting attacked over what is happening in Gaza. It's not their war.
Right... But we're funding the bombs for one side. So is it our war or not?
It's "our" war in that the U.S. government is doing it.
That doesn't justify attacking American Jews because of what Israel is doing and it also doesn't justify attacking American Muslims because you support Israel. They had nothing to do with it.
Nobody is trying to justify that.
I just don't like it when people say "it's not our war". People say the same thing on social media on posts about the protests for a ceasefire. As long as the US is funding Israel, it is our war.
When I say "it's not their war" I mean that American Jews are not Israelis and American Muslims are not members of Hamas. Or even necessarily Palestinians. And as a member of one of those groups, I'd like to speak on behalf of both and say we're really fucking tired of being treated as if we're foreigners.
It’s very easy for people to conflate Jewish people with Israelis, for obvious, if incorrect, reasons.
It took us almost 2 damn decades to not associate Muslims with terrorists, and all that work went out with the wash water as well.😞
I apologize for how some of us are treating y’all.
People like to forget about the crusades.
Even if you do support Israel, that should be what people are judging you for, not just being Jewish or Muslim.
That is hateful bullshit and should not be tolerated.
Thank you, well said. And, sadly, there are still plenty of people who see a Muslim person walking down the street and view them with instant suspicion.
Unfortunately, being told to "go home" because you're a foreigner is an integral part of the American experience. It's happened to literally every group that's come over for hundreds of years.
That doesn't justify attacking American Jews because of what Israel is doing
Indeed.
Who are the Palestinian and Jewish-led groups leading the protests against Israel's action in Gaza?
That ought to blow some (small) minds.
It's not surprising, but it's disheartening to see people downvote you for this comment. Blind hate. Plain and simple.
3 out of 12 is not as disheartening to me as it could very well be. It would have been higher when I was a kid in the 80s.
Very disgusting anti semitism to see.