Apparently race and ethnicity have been reduced to a person’s outward physical appearance according to some on the left—especially those who so brazenly and unfairly dismiss Bernie Sanders as just another straight, white, cisgender male attempting to usurp power from the underprivileged masses.
As a straight, white (gentile), cisgender male whose group has never been the target of such a (hate) crime, I call bullshit on this bizarre attempt to undermine Sanders by stripping him of his oppressed-group identity.
As a straight, white (gentile), cisgender male whose group has never been the target of such a (hate) crime, I call bullshit on this bizarre attempt to undermine Sanders by stripping him of his oppressed-group identity.
Never mind that he’s Jewish. Never mind that being Jewish in the United States historically has not been a bed of roses. Ask Leo Frank. Never mind that there was a racist massacre at a synagogue in Pittsburgh just last year committed by a white man who clearly did not see Jews as his brothers and sisters. As a straight, white (gentile), cisgender male whose group has never been the target of such a (hate) crime, I call bullshit on this bizarre attempt to undermine Sanders by stripping him of his oppressed-group identity.
It’s a sign of how sectarian the left has become that somehow Jews lose their minority status if they present as white men. This could be good news for Sanders if racist voters agreed—but even the blindest white supremacists always seem to know when a person is a member of minority group no matter how WASPY said person appears to be. Some of my friends on the left have somehow become even blinder. They don’t seem to understand that the concept of race (and the privilege it bestows) is primarily political and has never been confined to physical appearance. Ask Irish Americans, who were not always considered white.
It’s particularly sad that Sanders’s status as a Jew does not even guarantee support from Israel, whose extremist government and jingoistic defenders are at least capable of seeing past not only his physical appearance but also his heritage—and closely examining his policies. His foes are strangely divergent: In the left corner is a raging bull that can’t stand the color white, and in the right corner is a cynic so committed that he would rather support a president who courts anti-Semites than a wayward member of his own tribe. What unites the two is that they are both prisoners to identity politics.
All of this conspires to undermine an incredible candidate who, despite enormous challenges, has moved the once-rigid Democratic party to the left and shaken both sides of the political establishment. If identity politics are used as a weapon to defeat what could (and should) be the first Jewish president of the United States, it would be a bitter, shameful irony.
Matt Johnson
PeaceVoice
WESLEY BARNARD says
The man has some wonderful ideas that will never be accepted by The Powers That Be, who actually control everything people think and do. Just watch the election results varify the programming. Methinks Trump will be re-elected.
However there are bigger fish to fry here. Remember the language: Jewish ala childish = appears to act one way when they are actually something else. These Jewish people are not descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They are the descendants of European ancestors who decided to convert to a religion known as Judaism. DNA analysis supports this fact. Thus, Judaism is just another religion that anyone can join or leave.
This is also the religion condemned by Christ at Matthew 23:13-36 because Judaism elevates the teachings of man above the Word of God.
The very same thing has happened with Christianity, another religion that elevates the teachings of man above the Word of God.
Islam is also guilty of following the teachings of man, rather than the Word of God. And no wonder, the entire world has been deceived by that evil spirit, called the devil and satan. But who believes such an entity exits? Most rather believe in aliens from another planet than in a Creator and a devil.
No one seems interested in “the elephant in the room”, which is: “Who are the true Jews?”
So be it. We must all decide what we will believe and act accordingly. Peace.
Connie says
What a steaming pile of anti-Semitic horseshit!
Alex Linder says
Yeah that poor jew leo frank. You rape and murder a white teenager who refuses to be seduced by you and then try and fail to frame two blacks…and all of a sudden everybody hates you.
Jesse says
I’m a Jewish man. I worked in an office full of so-called “progressives”. There was a day when I wasn’t there and another cis, white gentile man wasn’t there – and I was told that had only been the women and minorities in the office and how nice that was. Liberals, indeed. Jews are the one group the left and right can agree to hate.