I’m sorry you’re MISSING THE POINT OF THE ENTIRE ARTICLE BY MAKING IT ABOUT YOURSELF. As a Jew, I’m pretty freaked out seeing this shit too, but I could have been on that side holding up those vile signs and they wouldn’t have known I wasn’t one of them.

Your problem lies in “refusing to cultivate their understanding.” Are POCs not fighting enough battles on enough fronts to not ALSO have to do the work of educating white people? Can white people not Google or just listen to POCs?

Great user name!

Cis straight white dudes, owning the conversation since All Time.

I just need you to remember that as a half-Ashkenazi Jew, he just wanted to help, and be helpful, and make you help him help you.

I’m thinking this guy’s a troll or a complete idiot. I wouldn’t bother engaging, he refuses to admit any kind of privilege because he was called a k*** that one time.

Stop. Making. It. About. Your. Self. It’s. Not. About. You.

Read through this comment thread. So many “I’m white and here’s my hot take on Nazis” or “I’m white but Jewish, do I count”. Me me me me me me me. It’s the well-meaning people who just have to make it about their moment to be great. I’ve seen a lot of it from good people who had to put their whiteness at the center of…

I miss the ban hammer so much some days.

Huh? Are you ok? I’ve never once considered changing my name, and it’s unmistakably jewish. But if I did, nobody would ever guess my heritage. Because we’re white, brother, or white-passing enough that we get all the advantages.

I’ve finally figured it out. It’s like, suppose you’ve planned an amazing dinner party, you’ve got your menu and wine pairings, a tight schedule to get everything ready, Spotify playlist, the whole thing.

As a 100% ashkenazi jew with almost no blood relatives because of the holocaust, you’ll get zero sympathy from me. If I changed my name to Mackenzie Smith, nobody would know my jew ass from Adam.

I’m not sure why you’re arguing about this and making this the oppression Olympics. Do you look white? Are you white passing? If so, you greatly benefit from the power structures that exist. Just because you don’t feel privileged because of family history doesn’t mean you don’t benefit. Again, stop making this about…

I didn’t write this, it’s from a member of a BLM group in Massachusetts:

Huh? How... how do you think donating to the ACLU happens? Some kind of monetary osmosis? “We’ve held every president accountable for 100 years” is ALL over their social media. Or do people not use Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, either? The fact that it’s nonpartisan is also in the first sentence of its Wikipedia…

Literally on the website. They couldn’t possibly be any clearer. Why on earth would you think that their purpose statement is to be equivocal?

Let’s see. You wrote this: “Still, I can’t help but think it’s a bit opportunistic of them to have pounced on all the donations they got from anti-Trumpers (potentially diverting those resources that could’ve gone elsewhere) the way they did. I’m not so sure they did as good a job as they could have of clarifying…

ACLU lawyers and legal teams were the first to file lawsuits when Trump’s travel ban/s came down. They can’t accept every single case that comes their way, they’re not a legal aid clinic. The ACLU’s position is that they defend the bill of rights, which protects assholes and the righteous alike.

It’s. Not. About. You.

Some of the most virulently racist people I know have black friends, and even close black friends. Somehow, they see a distinction between their BFF Joe and n-words. There’s Joe, who is black but isn’t an n-word, and then there are n-words. And they hold these two thoughts at the same time.