i think there’s many different reasons
- there are people who think all jews are white, therefore we must not be oppressed
- people think antisemitism started and ended with the holocaust
- antisemitism is usually only viewed through a U.S.-centric lens, rather than a global one. since certain jews have certain privileges in america, people think as a whole jews are more privileged than other people.
- antisemitism is more ingrained in people’s minds than they realize, and even the most casually antisemitic beliefs are taught to us growing up. so people can be antisemitic or think antisemitic things and not even realize it
- some people actually think that because israel exists, antisemitism in the diaspora is invalid or doesn’t exist
etc etc etc
social justice blogs fail to listen to us because of those points and more. people literally do not view as jews as oppressed. they refuse to view antisemitism on a global scale and see how badly jews are treated worldwide. it’s easier for them to say that jews really aren’t that oppressed in america so antisemitism is no big deal.
i don’t know why social justice bloggers act this way. i don’t know why they refuse to recognize antisemitism as a problem. instead of policing us or telling us we’re overreacting, they need to stop and listen. we will only be included in mainstream social justice if they understand us, and right now, they don’t understand us at all.
It doesn’t arrive in a vacuum.
Tumblr leftist politics didn’t come out of nowhere. It is in fact heavily informed by the leftist politics that came before it, and there is antisemitic leftist propoganda, especially from Eastern Europe and the former USSR, that was wildly popular decades ago and is still wildly popular today.
The issue is, is that while Tumblr politics is influenced by this zeitgeist, people on Tumblr individually and collectively are not AWARE of this influence, and seem to think these political ideals arrived on the internet ex nihilo.
I reblogged a post earlier that details it better than I could, but that could help explain why tumblr ~shoshul justize~~ is so gung ho on actively alienating and oppressing Jews, rather than allying with them.
"Antisemitism … is particularly dangerous because it appears to be antihegemonic, the expression of a movement of the little people against an intangible, global form of domination. It is as a fetishised, profoundly reactionary form of anticapitalism that I would like to discuss the recent surge in antisemitism" — Prof. Moishe Postone