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Antisemitism is a genuine threat to American Jews AND it's on the rise (though nowhere near the level that my parents grew up with). However, it's a mistake to call it systemic. A 🧵: bsky.app/profile/eita...

I don’t know who you are, but I clicked your profile and the first thing I saw was genocide denial. So I don’t really have any interest in debating this with you

Stephen Miller is a senior goverment official be real

Like the only book we actually know trump has read is mien kampf. How the fuck is it not systemic

I just find the whole discourse baffling. It's like, do people know what the Great Replacement Theory even is, really? Do they know who runs the government right now and what those people believe? You can argue about gradations of who experiences impacts, obviously, but "not systemic" is just weird.

There was a mass shooting! At a shul! My friend's relative was murdered!

I am...genuinely kinda confused about the last part, because I am Jewish and I understand antisemitism to be real, dangerous, and on the rise, and also not (currently) systemic. Like, it's very real, and it is encouraged by politicians in some of the highest positions of power, but it doesn't

operate through systems like housing, healthcare, jobs, police, etc. American Jews aren't being discriminated against in the workplace, or being denied the chance to buy a house, or facing police harassment and violence in our neighborhoods, or getting subpar medical care, or being

disproportionately criminalized and incarcerated, or having polluting industries built in our neighborhoods, or any of the other things that I understand systemic oppression to be. So to me it seems pretty clear that antisemitism isn't systemic right now (although it was before light-skinned Jews