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visenyaism · 1 month

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i've agreed with your ealier posts on this subject, but i'm a little confused by this comment of yours on the counterprotestors: "if you fail to kick out the violent white supremacists and the reactionary fraternity brothers and the people playing footage from October 7 on loop you also have to consider what that says about you and your movement." i do also agree with this. however, it comes in the same post where you claim that it is NOT appropriate to blame all pro-palestine protestors for the appearance of anti-semites among them.

i don't think it's fair to hold pro-israel protestors to a higher standard of behavior than pro-palestine protestors, which your last post seems to be doing. the universities's violent and hypocritical treatment of pro-palestine protestors and across the board failure to protect their right to speech has been appalling. however, much of the left's very casual dismissal of the anti-semitism mixed in with some of these protests has also, frankly, been appalling. it's possible to oppose the murder of innocent palestinians and want to uphold the civil rights of these protestors while ALSO taking the concerns of jews about anti-semitism seriously. the appropriate degree of anti-semitism in any protest, just like the appropriate degree of anti-black racism or misognyny, is none. it's no more ethical to say 'their bigotry towards jews is wrong, BUT it isn't very important compared to the rest of their message' than it would be to say this about bigotry towards any other minority in the country.

i don't mean this as an attack, and I apologize if it comes off that way. i enjoy your blog and appreciate the thoughtfulness of your posts on this topic. i don't think you are anti-semitic or are condoing anti-semitism. but i do think it's important to keep in mind that just because conservatives are cynically exploiting this moment by pretending to care about the welfare of jews in the face of anti-semitism, that doesn't mean that the anti-semitism itself isn't real, or that it hasn't been genuinely shocking and frightening for many jews to witness. support for palestine can and must be compatible with the absolute rejection of anti-semitism, and anything less is a betrayal of the principles of the left.

I agree with what you’re saying. Not sure I implied otherwise in anything else I’ve said? I think that pro-Palestinian protesters are being held to a higher ideological standard than the counterprotesters nationally because a lot of the national coverage is bad faith attempting to smear all of them as violent antisemites. however I think that antisemitism within the anti-israel movement like the united states of israel rhetoric or telling american jews to go back to poland is unequivocally reprehensible it’s awful and people absolutely should be calling it out. i do see people calling it out, especially jewish organizers and participants in the protests. i call it out when i witness it.

The conservative movements efforts to weaponize antisemitism as an excuse to run crackdowns, organizations like the ADL’s far-right pivot into Zionism under Jonathan Greenblatt, or allegations that antizionist orgs like JVP aren’t real Jews muddy the waters deliberately, but to dismiss good faith concerns about antisemitism entirely due to the presence of bad-faith actors is still a reactionary impulse. people shouldn’t be doing it. i hope that makes my thoughts clearer.

#antisemitism tw #i have ended up doing a lot of hearing and correcting rhetoric like that at my job as it turns out

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garden-of-gardy · 3 years

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Gender Reconstruction After 9/11

A few weeks ago in my American Studies class, I learned about the change of popular culture after the 9/11 attacks. Numerous situations occurred: anti-muslim violence grows, government surveillance increases, and the topic of this blog, the re-domestication of feminity and the return of the “manly” man. Of course this topic captured my attention because gender reconstruction is still a hot topic discussed today, and as someone who is figthing the patriarchy in her own household, I figure this was a perfect opportunity to cultivate America’s past and present values, and use it to my advantage to reconstruct the gender hierachy I am currently living through. As if my professor’s lecture wasn’t great enough, what helped me understand the gender reconstruction of 2001 was a book my professor assigned the first forty-five pages of Susan Faludi’s The Terror Dream: Myth And Misognyny In An Insecure America, in which Faludi questions why did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a summons of the “traditional” manhood, marriage, and maternity. This book helped me realize why the nation reacted as if the hijackers had targeted the family home and nursery, and not a large commercial and military building. From the attack follows a slow but strong reconstruction of the 1950s-to Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling "security moms," swaggering presidential gunslingers, and the "rescue" of a female soldier cast as a "helpless little girl". The United States had entered an era of the “neofities.” The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical abnormality unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attacks was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite "barbarians" on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms. So yeah, I really recommend this reading to anyone interested in gender reconstruction during the early 2000s.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Terror_Dream/k0-MhMsEGVcC?hl=en&gbpv=1

#gender reconstruction SusanFaludi 9/11

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