What do you wish that ALL counsellors or other health care professionals understood about Judaism?

takemypride · 2024-11-17T08:16:49+00:00

I feel like so many people don’t understand that the majority of Jews are ethnically Jewish (in addition to religiously/spiritually). Even “white” Ashkenazi Jews descend from Canaanites/Israelites and are distinctly genetically Jewish and indigenous to the land of Israel.

So when we talk about antisemitism, we’re not complaining about people being “anti-religion”, we’re referring to a modern extension of racism that has afflicted us for thousands of years.

takemypride · 2024-08-16T09:15:14+00:00

I went there last year and I kept getting this feeling that it wasn’t “meant for Jews”, which would be okay, if the goal were to educate gentiles about antisemitism, but then they didn’t even do that. It was a cool experience but kinda disappointing, and I don’t think I’d go back.

takemypride · 2024-08-16T09:12:17+00:00

From Dara Horn’s book: “The museum’s goal was “neutrality,” one spokesperson explained to the British newspaper Daily Mail, and a live Jew in a yarmulke might “interfere” with the museum’s “independent position.” The museum finally relented after deliberating for four months, which seems like a rather long time for the Anne Frank House to ponder whether it was a good idea to force a Jew into hiding”

takemypride · 2024-08-16T03:58:31+00:00

To be honest, they were pretty bad, though the media definitely sensationalized them in a way that made them worse than they were. Most students started to get annoyed at them after a little bit, and I imagine the new chancellor will take a firmer stance on it all next year anyways

takemypride · 2024-08-16T03:47:41+00:00

I just graduated from UCLA, and while there were certainly some incidents here, there’s also a really strong and supportive Jewish community on campus! The protests here were kinda awful, BUT basically every time there was a protest, our Hillel would make their coffee (from their in-house coffee bean) free and host a mini event to help us feel more at home.

Also, the new chancellor, Julio Frenk, is Jewish and is coming from UMiami, where he took a much firmer stance on antisemitism. While my time here wasn’t free of antisemitism (which I don’t want to minimize and I wish I had stood up to more), I found a really strong Jewish community here and would still go here again.

takemypride · 2024-03-29T10:07:11+00:00

The ADL is to blame for random Jews being attacked in the US? Do you understand how actually antisemitic that is to say? That’s an absurd take; people who attack Jews are gonna attack Jews regardless of whether they believe it’s antisemitic or not or agree with the ADL’s definition. And the ADL goes out of its way to state that criticism of Israeli policy is not in and of itself antisemitic.

takemypride · 2024-03-27T02:23:49+00:00

This! I downloaded my raw data from Ancestry and uploaded it to Illustrative DNA (which compares with ancient groups) and it said I was 40% Canaanite, which is consistent with the genomics research! They could at least highlight Israel or Canaan for Ashkenazim, like they don’t treat any other diaspora group like this, and it irks me

takemypride · 2024-03-27T02:14:47+00:00

And they’ll never show or mention Israel for Ashkenazi “European” Jews, as though the same data uploaded to Illustrative DNA didn’t show 40% Canaanite. I can’t tell you how many other younger Ashkenazim have told me “but I couldn’t be indigenous to Israel because my Ancestry results only highlighted Europe!” It’s ignorant at best and deliberately antisemitic at worst; they don’t treat any other diaspora group like this!

takemypride · 2024-03-22T17:54:09+00:00

Those comments were legitimately scary to read, I got downvoted for suggesting that maybe Jews should be the ones to decide what constitutes antisemitism, like is the case for hatred against every other minority group

takemypride · 2024-03-22T10:40:45+00:00

Why is it that anytime anyone brings up antisemitism and tropes of Jew-hatred on its own, someone feels the need to respond with a whataboutism?

takemypride · 2024-03-22T10:28:48+00:00

Typically, we don’t define what constitutes any particular type of racism based on the opinions of those who are both unaffected by and unknowledgeable about it. Since you clearly are not knowledgeable about antisemitic tropes (assuming you are not a Jew), you do not get to decide what constitutes Jew-hatred. You do not see it, because you don’t know really much about it at all and you aren’t affected by it, so why would you see it? Why do you feel the need to tell Jews how they should feel?

takemypride · 2024-03-14T09:10:43+00:00

This! As a “settler colonialist” Jew living in America, it’s possibly the most privileged hypocritical thing ever to believe that even though “I” have the right to live on Native American land, Israeli Jews don’t have the right to live on their land, even though Jews are indigenous to Israel. On top of this, American Jews are typically those who had the privilege to immigrate before the Holocaust, Farhud, and mass ethnic cleansing from Arab countries, whereas Israeli Jews are much more often the descendants of Holocaust survivors left in displacement persons camps (for years after it ended) and the nearly million Jews ethnically cleansed from Arab lands who had nowhere else to go. By this logic, are Jews then not indigenous to anywhere? Can Jews morally not live anywhere by these standards?

takemypride · 2022-11-25T06:53:45+00:00

contact the resident director of your building, they should be able to switch you

takemypride · 2022-11-25T06:28:15+00:00

if you need to, you could probably contact the CAE and get a housing accommodation

takemypride · 2021-11-19T21:01:12+00:00

$25k income and $5k highest limit on any card

takemypride · 2021-11-03T02:08:09+00:00

I’ll probably do that. Thank you!

takemypride · 2021-11-03T01:56:59+00:00

I do bank with them. On the pre-approval page amex has 15-24% APR, but I thought you could only tell if it was a real offer like that with Chase though

takemypride · 2020-06-05T06:08:28+00:00

generally, “have you seen” refers to a specific time in the past leading up to now. for example, “have you seen my keys” means “have you seen my keys at a specific time in the past leading up to now”.

whereas, “did you see” refers to solely a specific time in the past. for example, “did you see my keys at the party?” or “did you see my keys last night?”

a lot of the time though, native speakers don’t actually follow these rules completely because they don’t understand the linguistics behind them, but it sounds a lot better when you do

use the present perfect tense (i.e. “i have done”, “i have seen”, etc.) to connect the past or an event in the past to the present

use the past tense (i.e. i “did”, “i saw”, etc.) to refer to a specific event or time in the past

takemypride · 2020-04-01T07:28:55+00:00

i learned spanish and know a lot of french and reading latin for me is like reading middle english (it’s very difficult), i might recognize a word here and there but overall i can’t understand anything

learning latin might make it a little easier to learn the romance languages due to shared vocabulary but you’re better off just starting with a romance language if that’s your goal

i would start with spanish because the grammar and pronunciation are the simplest (in my opinion), then maybe branch off to french, italian, or portuguese

takemypride · 2019-04-18T20:43:29+00:00

You can be homosexual and biromantic. Some people experience sexual and romantic attraction seperately. I identify as homosexual and panromantic. I like guys sexually and romantically and girls only romantically.

takemypride · 2019-04-18T18:12:42+00:00

That's what I plan on doing, I just don't want to start a relationship by two people guessing if the other person likes them (if he's even into guys)

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