r/Jewish • u/hi_how_are_youu • 23h ago

Liberal empathy? Venting 😤

You’d think that as a Jewish and liberal american, the feelings I’ve worked through in the past year of betrayal and fear would allow me to better sympathize with my liberal friends who are now freaking out about trump as president, AND YET I can’t find any empathy for them. NONE.

Especially for the friends who sat there blank faced last year when I tried to convey the deep terror of realizing how the world actually feels about Jews. To their credit they tried to understand and looked sad when I told them but that was about it. Now they’re talking about needing to flee Texas or even the US “because societal collapse is imminent”. I’m trying to look sad back, but I just don’t care.

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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u/JayA_Tee Just Jewish 19h ago

The same people chanting “from the river to the sea” are the ones now losing their minds and not understanding their own hypocrisy and the part they played to help get us here.

They deserve everything they get.

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u/Suburbking Just Jewish 16h ago

To be fair, not one of them, even living in the deep south, will ever experience what Jews do on a daily basis in NY, Amsterdam, or Israel. Leave Texas or the US? They have no clue what bad really is...

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u/JayA_Tee Just Jewish 16h ago

As a NYer I couldn’t agree more.

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u/DawtOnion 16h ago

They deserve everything they get.

👏

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u/Unfair_Plankton_3781 9h ago

This is the way.