Read on Twitter
// holocaust , antisemitism
because i'm jewish and today is yom hashoah (h0locaust remembrance day) i decided to make a thread not only on the h0locaust, but also antisemitism, including my own experiences with it. +
because i'm jewish and today is yom hashoah (h0locaust remembrance day) i decided to make a thread not only on the h0locaust, but also antisemitism, including my own experiences with it. +
yom hashoah is the day to remember everyone that passed in the h0locaust; six million jews, and five million others. the h0locaust was enabled to happen because a lot of people in germany decided to remain neutral, which only helped the side that wanted to wipe out +
jews, roma, disabled people, and lgbtq+ people. the h0locaust was a way for n@zis to rid the world of what they thought were "inferior races." in fact, judaism is not a race, but it is an ethnoreligion. there are many jewish ethnicities, and i am ashkenazi. +
elie wiesel, a h0locaust survivor who wrote memoirs on his experience, said "we must always take sides. neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." +
he also said "the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference." he was very right when he said neutrality helps the oppressor and never the victim, and that is what happened that enabled the h0locaust. +
please, do not make jokes about the h0locaust or n@zis or h¡tler. eleven million innocent people were killed, and that doesn't include the people that were killed in the war. think before you speak. +
two years ago, while in p.e. class, i overheard a few people in my grade talking. what they were saying immediately caught my attention. they were saying "n@zi," but it quite. there was a sound they said before the "n." +
i asked them what they were doing and they said that they were putting the word "n@zi" in their names. i asked them if they knew what n@zis were and what they did. i don't know if they told the truth or not, but one of them (no one else responded) said that she didn't. +
in response, i said that n@zis killed millions of people and tried to wipe out my own. the girl profusely apologized, but she was the only one in the group that did. she said she didn't know, and she just thought it was a funny word. +
but how did they come up with that word and put it in their names? although the next year was when we learned about ww2 and the h0locaust in school, we still mentioned it in class and they couldn't have not known what was. do not treat these words and fun things you can say. +
this experience showed me how much goyim are either oblivious to, or just plain don't care. if you want to be an ally to jewish people, don't make these jokes. don't treat these words lightly and don't treat antisemitism lightly. +
now i want you to think for a moment. if you're christian or grew up christian, did you have security guards at/outside your church? +
because i do outside my synagogue. we have security guards who are always watching the cameras and stand outside constantly to make sure no one enters, even if there aren't that many people inside the building. +
before covid, and sunday school was in person, one of the security guards would stand outside and make sure he recognized everyone entering the building. he also stood there before and after services. if he saw someone he didn't know, or someone he thought was holding a weapon, +
he would approach them and make sure they weren't a danger to our safety. did your church have this? +
another thing i would like to mention is learning about the h0locaust in school. in my experience, my school has us read the book "milkweed." its a story about a boy, who as far as he knows isn't jewish or roma or anything, but he just ends up in a ghetto. +
in fact, he is kind of antisemitic at the beginning of the book. not much, but it was still enough so that i noticed. the only media that everyone engaged in was the movie, "the boy in the striped pajamas." +
now, to be clear, i was doing my homework in the back of the classroom while my class watched because my teacher let jewish students do so if the movie was too much for them (it was for me). but there is one thing i do know about the movie. +
the main character isn't jewish, and in fact his father works at the camp where he meets a jewish boy. the story is told not only from an outside perspective, but by somebody who is antisemitic at least at the beginning of the movie. (again, i wasn't watching it). +
now please correct me if i'm wrong about that, but either way, we didn't all learn about the h0locaust from a real story, a real perspective, until we went to the h0locaust museum. that was the only time where everyone saw a real story that wasn't centered around ppl +
who weren't targeted because of they were jewish, roma, disabled, or lgbtq+, etc. and, at the museum, people in my grade were treating it like any other field trip. on the high levels in the hallway, they were running. they whispered to each other during the tour and +
cracked jokes. this is not how you act. this is not how you act when you are learning about how millions of people were killed. this is not how you act when genocide was attempted. you do not make jokes about how you're aryan. you do not make jokes on this topic. +
if you don't know that much about the h0locaust, i encourage you to research it. elie wiesel's "night" is a book i suggest. it's his experiences in the h0locaust. you can look it up on google and look at what you find. +
if anyone else has resources, feel free to leave them in the replies. i may make another thread later with more information, i'm not sure.
but, to wrap this all up, here is what i have to say: don't treat this like a joke and uplift jewish voices.
but, to wrap this all up, here is what i have to say: don't treat this like a joke and uplift jewish voices.
i definitely didn't cover everything, so please continue to rt other posts !! if you have any specific in mind, please reply to this thread with them linked
my other thread: https://twitter.com/edenizen_/status/1380154859094208515
