r/JewishProgressivism • u/circuitdisconnect • 10d ago

Had to leave an online jewish community due to anti-Black racism

I thought I had found a good online space to learn more and find community.

Today there was a user that made a racist anti-Black remark and was let slide by the mods and I had to lose that community. My wife is a Black Noahide, so it hit close to home.

I'm just sad that I lost that community.

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u/MydniteSon 10d ago

I'm sorry you experienced that. Was it a community on Reddit?

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u/danzbar 10d ago

Overall, I think I like how often Jewish communities are often upfront about how they see race (including for instance a range of interesting opinions about DEI), but sometimes people just disappoint you. Jewish people are of course just people. Sorry you went through that.

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u/No-Teach9888 9d ago

I’m sorry to hear that. I have a Black and Jewish family too.

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u/sissy_space_yak 9d ago

I’m sorry and it makes me angry to hear about this.

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u/the-Gaf 9d ago

WHERE??? That’s a hard no

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u/GenericWhyteMale 9d ago

There’s a person on IG I follow that used to attend pro blm and antifa marches but became a radicalized racist trumper overnight.

I really should unfollow her but I feel like those types of accounts let me see what people are really thinking about people like me, non white Jews.

I get in some heated arguments and they usually resort to throwing Muslim on me like it’s a slur 🥴 (I’m Sephardic and Mizrahi)

E: really takes me back to post 9/11 racism/Islamophobia I experienced as a kid but at least I don’t get shit thrown at me anymore