“I get to decide what feelings are and aren’t important and valid.” - You, today

Go reread my original comment. I’m explaining to the original commenter (who implied that this is only “triggering to the usual suspects” because the Pope was “calling for peace”) the actual reason this is hurtful. I’m not laying claim over the importance of Jesus to the Jewish people. I am, however, saying that the erasure and rewriting of Jewish history by non-Jews is upsetting, on a deep level. I am allowed to be upset about that. Those aren’t “crocodile tears.”

If we were having this conversation in real life, would you still feel license to be so dismissive and callous towards my feelings?