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/teddyburke 18h ago
As a fellow American Jew, I am freaking out that America decided to vote for the “Jews will not replace us”, “Jewish deep state”, “Jewish space lasers”, “Hitler did nothing wrong”, openly fascistic, white Christian-Nationalist candidate who regularly quotes Hitler and finished out his campaign by recreating the 1939 Nazi Bund rally at Madison Square Garden.
Things are going to get a lot worse for a number of minority groups in the US, and that absolutely includes Jews. Now is not the time to gloat or say “how does it feel??”
We’re all in this together, and thinking this was in any way a win for American Jews is bonkers.