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If I hear the term "Jewish privilege" one more time, I'm going to explode.
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Europeans stripped us away from our homeland, taught us that we had no history before Europe, and no future save for perdition. They told us we were backward desert savages with no culture and no civilization, and that we were too primitive to contribute anything to mankind.
They told us we were not God's children, and burned thousands (if not millions) of us at the stake on suspicion of witchcraft or in league with Satan himself.
They insisted that any Jew who succeeds or rises above his "station" (at the bottom of the totem pole) was a threat of cosmic proportions, and proof that we were up to no good. After all, if "white folk" really were superior to us, how could we possibly succeed except by cheating
The anti-Zionists of today would have us believe all of the same things. You can still see these same teachings being disseminated (albeit in less obvious and more "respectable" ways) in schools, universities, the media, and even the UN.
What hurts the most is that we are being denied our own indigenous heritage. We are told that we have no claim to the rich and globally influential civilization that our ancestors had built. We're treated as though we're stealing something that isn't really ours.
We don't even have our Middle Eastern ethnic origins (and the reality that comes with it, e.g. Orientalism, airport profiling, and so on) recognized by anyone.
We are robbed of our own heritage, made to feel like outsiders in our own land (where our entire culture, people, and civilization were born), and denied the right to narrate our own history and reality. It is the most perverse and sadistic form of gaslighting I've ever seen.
It is essentially an inversion of Black Hebrew Israelites wherein, instead of appropriating someone else's heritage, we are being denied ownership over what is ACTUALLY ours.
NOTE: This thread focuses primarily on the Ashkenazi experience, since that's what I know best. Other Jewish groups went through very similar (if not identical) things. We've been persecuted in almost every country we set foot in. China and India are the only exceptions I know of
