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Should We Separate ‘Real’ Bigotry from the Armchair Variety?
At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum wondered why everyone’s talking about “white supremacy” these days, rather than just talking about “racism.” Had he wondered this, oh, I don’t know, in June, this might have been a contrarian but useful point: In one understanding “white supremacy” is the entire system, encompassing everything from racist beauty standards to…
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Links for Later: Long Weekend Long-form Edition
What I’m about to link to, below, is more reading material than you’ll know what to do with. Or, if you’re on a train home (or the only one at the office), maybe it’ll be just right. -Michelle Goldberg, in Slate, on “identity politics.” Goldberg speaks persuasively about the need to keep identity-related concerns in…
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Dear Mike Huckabee: Hands Off My Tofu!
If you leave your bubble, my fellow tofu-eaters, my fellow consumers of kale and quinoa, my fellow safe-space-trigger-warning-obsessed “Girls” fans, my fellow people who aren’t so much ‘people who actually exist’ as straw figurines constructed in the conservative imagination, you might be surprised to learn that right-wing websites also put “destroyed” in their headlines. In…
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A Yemenite Jewish Woman Wonders How ‘White’ She Really Is
Ayala Tiefenbrunn’s recent Hevria personal essay, “The White Girl In The Dunkin Donuts,” is worth reading, especially if you’ve been trying to make sense of all the Jews-and-whiteness conversations that have popped up ever since white nationalists emerged from the American woodwork to offer their opinion on the matter. Tiefenbrunn, a Yemenite Jew who wears…
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The Inadequacy of Reparations, Part I: A Holocaust Orphan’s Daughter Revisits France’s Sinister Past
Nineteen, newly married, the check from France must seem like a windfall and a blessing. My parents are still students, accustomed to scrimping and saving and doing without. The check is for $2,000, a lot of money in 1957, especially for a bride who tried to scoop up and save the rice that was thrown…
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Bernie Sanders and Mark Lilla Take On ‘Identity Politics.’ One As-A-Jewish-Woman Responds.
As a Jewish woman, I ought to begin, this being a post about ‘identity politics’, the buzz-phrase of the moment. As a Jewish woman. As a poodle owner. As a person who goes back and forth about that one pair of high-end leggings. As someone grasping at ways to sell anti-fascism to a surprisingly unreceptive…
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Why I’m Glad Gwyneth Paltrow Didn’t Stump for Clinton
Sisterhood readers will know that I’m mildly obsessed with the question of whether various lifestyle icons will take an anti-Trump (or pro-Trump!) stand. If you’re selling something — particularly something geared towards an audience of white women with conventional tastes — chances are you’re not storming any barricades. Fine. But maybe you’d make a statement…
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Dear College Students: You Can Be a Contrarian Without Embracing Trump
Good evening! In case any of this is starting to feel normal, here’s a real thing published by Steve Bannon’s funhouse mirror of a news site pic.twitter.com/ahHsrJ8pxZ — Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) November 19, 2016 A Breitbart Milo Yiannopoulos post from 2015 is making the viral rounds, not least because (see above) the headline and accompanying…
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Why Tila Tequila’s Jew Hatred Is So Disturbing
In the Daily Beast, Asawin Suebsaeng reports on one heck of a white nationalist convention. The most intriguing guest: one Tila Tequila, known for reality-TV appearances and general scandalousness. Suebsaeng reminds that Tequila “has dabbled in casual anti-Semitism and pro-Nazi declarations over the years, to the point where she has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation…
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No, Steve Bannon Did Not Call Jewish Girls Whiny
Joshua Seidel, who contributes to the Scribe at the Forward, is a self-identified Jewish supporter of Trump and the alt-right, as well as author of the sentence, “I have thick skin and a tolerance for others.” So in the spirit of healthy debate and open-mindedness, I’m going to respectfully ask what was up with his…
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National Review Writer Considers Role of “White Privilege” in 2016 Election
In the National Review, Ericka Andersen makes an important, timely point about the expression “white privilege,” and to a privilege meme she’s seen on social media, calling out Trump supporters for theirs: “For a good many white people in the U.S.,” notes Andersen, “‘privilege’ is not a word they relate to.” Andersen acknowledges “the very…
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