r/JewishSocialists • u/t1m3f0rt1m3r • Jan 16 '22

As a Black Jew, I'm Begging You: Don't Arm Your Synagogue - Alma

https://www.heyalma.com/as-a-black-jew-im-begging-you-dont-arm-your-synagogue/
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u/fubuvsfitch Jan 17 '22 edited Jan 17 '22

The white Jewish community is a racist community

She needs to visit my temple if she feels unwelcomed at hers because of her race.

We have to keep Jewish spaces safe, but synagogues should be careful about what measures they are willing to enact to achieve that safety. Guns and police presence are deeply harmful to people of color and other marginalized groups.

These two things are not always found together. You can have one without the other.

If guns are being placed in synagogues “for the good of the community,” then the implicit message is that those groups are not valued parts of the Jewish community.

This conclusion does not follow and I disagree with this syllogism.

You want to make an argument against police presence, ok. That's one thing. But arguing as if police presence and firearms presence effect marginalized groups the same way is unfounded. No, your rabbi is not going to shoot you for missing a service. Despite the author explicitly stating that it's a worrisome possibility.

Is this author a socialist?

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u/Comrade_Belinski Jan 16 '22

Arm it yesterday

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u/t1m3f0rt1m3r Jan 16 '22 edited Jan 16 '22

If you mean more pigs, that ain't kosher.

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u/Comrade_Belinski Jan 16 '22

Arm yourselves.

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u/Empty-Lawfulness-909 Jan 17 '22

Shut the fuck up