I don’t know if my arguements convinced them, or if the active genocide convinced them, but beyond simply being against the state, they have started stereotyping Jewish people too, I don’t want this to happen, what can I do?

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    When my folks start using problematic tropes i become very socratic and annoying, asking them what do they mean “exactly”, and providing specific counterexamples. Sometimes they’ll double down, but it shows that those things don’t fly, and make no sense either. Most of the times they realize they weren’t making sense and stop using them.

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    Antisemitism does not exist as an institution today. Jews are not systematically oppressed anywhere in the western world and to claim so is to do Jewish exceptionalism and liberal zionism.

    Just tell them that part of being anti-racist and anti-zionist is to reject reactionary beliefs themselves and to focus your struggle on material reality.