#Because I have THOUGHTS about how European antisemitism was the blueprint for colonial attitudes

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I've seen another one of those posts abt the term 'judeo-christian' going around again and it's absolutely right, but man, it hit me hard reading it how much that term relies On understanding Judaism as being fucking dead.

Like, In order to think that Judaism and Christianity have significant similarities that they don't share with other religions, you'd have to assume that Judaism hasn't changed or grown or had a culture in 2,000 years. That not only do Jews have the same beliefs and practices that we did during the second temple, but also that those beliefs and practices were just copies of modern Christian interpretations of the old testament. That we've never interpreted a text for ourselves, or developed our own practices, but instead are just models of something that was always a prelude. That we're dead and we've been dead for millenia.

And like this line of thought isn't entirely unfamiliar to me; it's exactly the attitude I've been trying as a white American to unlearn about, literally every Indigenous culture. But I didn't realize until today that people felt that way about me, and that's been really disconcerting.

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