Why is it that so many gentile progressives either seem to explicitly attack Jewish identity in those they hate, or simply erase it in those they love.
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I guess I'll never know.
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What are behind these conspicuous omissions or conspicuous inclusions are the same thing:
These gentiles appear uncomfortable thinking about Jews outside their own contexts.
Either these Jews are "white men" or else their Jewishness must only exist in relation to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
It's their own biases and discomfort on display. Their "persecutor/persecuted" framework leaves no room for Jews, especially not prominent Jews.
This seems like a random comment, so let me offer the context.
I watch Steve Shives, an explicitly progressive Star Trek Youtuber. He did an obituary for Walter Koenig, the actor who played Chekov on Star Trek.
Walter Koenig was Jewish, and was open about his Jewishness, even going so far as to talk about it in conspicious ways to measure his safety, as he explained once in an interview.
But Steve didn't mention his Jewishness, even though he goes to great lengths to mention gender, sexual and gender diversity.
Similarly, several years ago Jose, another progressive Youtuber made a video about comic books and mentioned the struggles of women and POC, but didn't mention that the people who made most of the original comic book heroes was Jewish.
Then about two years ago he made a video about Larry David's Jewishness and in doing so, explicitly and directly mentioned his Palestinian episode of Curbed, but not much else. It was "odd" and when I confronted him on it, he became defensive.
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