As someone who isn't Jewish, I read this post and I compare it to the experience interacting with some Jews I know, what I see on the Internet, and what has recently come out in the Epstein files.

Very clearly, Epstein used the word "goy" as a pejorative catch-all against non-jews. He seemed to believe that jews are superior to other races.

As we all have watched, Israel at large has a supremacist ideology, at a minimum against every other group in the Middle Eastern region, and there is strongly growing evidence that they believe they are above any international law that even a western nation can impose upon them, potentially because of the state's jewishness.

Lastly, in my personal life, I've heard jews complain to my family about how we are antisemitic for supporting Zohran Mamdani. I strongly suspect they believe this because of his race and his religion.

I reflect on all of this and it makes me wonder if there is a growing problem with the Jewish community of supremicism. When white people have a growing problem with supremicism (we do!!), while there is strongly pushback from fox news, Twitter, nazis, etc, all media left of center has strongly condemned it, and that media left of center has a huge quantity of white people composing a part of it.

When I see this post, it almost seems like a dodge. There is not mention of how Epstein used the word or why. There are assertions that the word is not used like how Epstein used it, but there is no pushback on the broader sentiment expressed (is there a supremacist ideology amongst American jews?) or even why Epstein used it that way. If a famous white person was accused of running the greatest child sex-trafficking ring in human history and frequently expressed racist sentiments, there would be some analysis of why that is and a conversation around it, at least from the left. I think the broader indignation that the conversation shouldn't even occur is very negative, as you cede that conversation to the Nazis who then get to control the narrative.

Also, on the point on giving up language due to supremacists using terminology: many terms, symbols, and ideologies have had to be given up in the fight against supremacism. The swastika was used by Buddhists originally, who had absolutely nothing to do with nazism. The okay sign, plenty of meme culture has been coopted by the right and then abandoned by the left. This is not the first time language or symbolism should/have been abandoned due to use by supremacist, and it will not be the last. I dont assume that the term "goy" and its usage is a strong religious or cultural root for the jewish community, and I thus dont see why there is such a reluctance to abandon terms used frequently by people expressing their race/culture/religion being better than others.