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I find the whole thing offensive in concept, even if he had used "Israeli" instead of "Jew". If some white dude wrote "If I was a Black, I would find it increa
by stickfigure 5y ago
I find the whole thing offensive in concept, even if he had used "Israeli" instead of "Jew".
If some white dude wrote "If I was a Black, I would find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the long cycles of oppression that Blacks have endured and the insatiable appetite for crime that permeates inner cities", we would rightly castigate him as a virulent racist.
It also wouldn't matter if you replaced "Black" with African, or Senegalese, or Mexican, or any other nationality. You aren't that thing, you don't have the experiences of that culture, you don't get to write from that perspective.
- csa 5y agoHe was writing about the government of Israel using some questionable stylistic choices. Folks seem to have turned his stylistic choices into his thesis, which seems slapdash at best.