Former White House aide Sarah Hurwitz, who served as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, warned this week that Holocaust education was “confusing” young people into sympathizing with “weak, skinny Palestinians” instead of “powerful Israelis.”
She continued:
“You have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza, and this is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything that we try to say to them, they’re hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments, and they’re just seeing in their minds carnage, and I sound obscene.”
And you know, I think, unfortunately, the very smart bet that we made on Holocaust education to serve as anti-Semitism education, in this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit because, you know, Holocaust education is absolutely essential, but I think it may be confusing some of our young people about anti-Semitism, because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews and then they think, “Oh, anti-Semitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people.” So, when on TikTok all day long they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, “Oh I know, the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”
Perhaps the similarity is apparent because
ISRAEL IS COMMITTING A FUCKING HOLOCAUST
“Oh I know, the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”
Yes, that’s the lesson of the holocaust. If in your mind the lesson of the holocaust is that Israel get one free genocide, you are fucking psychotic.
The fact that those words came out of her mouth and she didn’t immediately stop and go “Oh, fuck, I’m the bad guy here” is completely insane. How cooked does your brain have to be for you to even be able to say something like that in the first place?
It’s pretty clear she’s gotten past this contradiction long ago.
So the answer is fried into a crisp
I’m sure these ghouls don’t think the hall pass is limited to just one genocide.
sympathizing with “weak, skinny Palestinians” instead of “powerful Israelis.”
I.e. sympathising with victims instead of fascists? Hell yeah.
You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.
Uhm… yeah?!
Like, this is fundamentally the basic plot of one most famous and watched movie of all time.
Star Wars: weak impoverished kid has his family slaughtered by the unstoppable Empire. Finds power in his faith and a “terrorist” resistance group to overcome their impossible power.
And yes. I know star wars was written as the Rebels representing the VeitCong. Almost like imperialism and genocide are on the wrong side of history.
Basically saying "We accidentally taught kids that the powerful preying on the weak and powerless is evil and now they can only see the carnage when we tell them to support the genociders like they’re supposed to.
We accidentally gave them the critical thinking skills to identify fascism-fueled genocide and this is bad because now we’re the ones trying to do it and they can’t see past all the carnage and genocide their tax dollars are sponsoring when we try to convince them to support it. Stupid kids."
Conflating the state of Israel and criticism of the actions of the state of Israel with anti- semitism is doing the work of anti-semites.
So her argument is that the lesson of the Holocaust was NOT that racism is wrong, that religious intolerance is wrong, that the overwhelming power of the strong used on the weak is wrong, that systemic genocide and ethnic cleansing are wrong. No, the lesson of the Holocaust is that antisemitism, AND SPECIFICALLY ONLY ANTISEMITISM, is wrong. You fucking moronic children that are angry over a powerful Jewish ethnostate systematically genociding and ethnic cleansing a weaker population due to their race and religion… you’ve missed the point of your Holocoaust education! Being Jewish makes their actions right, and saying otherwise is antisemitic.
Jesus fucking Christ, lady. You have managed to amplify this stupid antisemitic argument to absurd levels by claiming Holocaust education should, in fact, lead one to support carnage and genocide. A new low. You’re a monster, congrats.
But, like, Palestinians are by definition also semites, so it’s now antisemitism to criticize semites committing antisemitisim…
You’re semantically correct, but that isn’t the colloquial understanding of the term, nor what they mean when they say ‘antisemitism’.
GI Robot would be having the time of his life in modern day America.
Principled morality, what even is it?
Ok. So. Is there something wrong with me that ever since I learned about the Palestinian genocide in the late 2000’s my mind went immediately to “uh, what the fuck, why are we supporting this?”
I’ve always thought "well of course Palestinians are going to support Hamas. Hamas is actually doing something.
Is it empathy? Or is it autism that makes me more resistant to propaganda? Or is it simply that I have an above average means to change my mind in light of new information and most humans lack it?
I’ve kind of realized after my diagnosis and journey into understanding and reframing my whole life, that for people who are on the spectrum, in a lot of cases it’s almost entirely a syndrome of “thinking too much.”
This is a curse when you’re in a social situation and need to be spontaneous and witty and relatable, but it can also mean you have a very strong internal language system for working out situations and seeing things from many angles.
This isn’t to say that autistic people can’t get stuck in wrong modes of thought, or that neurotypical people don’t also have the capability to work things out in their mind, but it is going to have an effect on your politics and how you view the larger world.
I’ve read that autistic people generally have a very strong sense of “justice” in this regard, and this is why it can feel far more painful to see injustice happening, because the power of overthinking lets you experience it from all different angles or imagine being the person experiencing injustice. It’s like brute-forcing empathy.
What you have there is your basic human empathy, untainted by religious or cultural indoctrination.
Keep hold of that we need more of it.
Fuck Netanyahu but also his psyop Hamas. All enemies of Palestinians
Hamas is the only party fighting for Palestinians along with other Gazan resistance factions.
Hamas is fighting for Iran, not Palestine
My sides.
She’s mad that kids are taught to sympathize with the victims of oppression?
No one dishonors the holocaust victims like the very lucky descendants of its survivors. This is saddest irony I can think of.
We are not confused and neither are those kids. You show them what happened in germany and they rightfully compare it to what is happening today.
These morons have zero qualifications for speaking on issues like this.
These fucking nazi assholes…
Holocaust education was “confusing” young people into sympathizing with [the people being decimated in a genocide] instead of [the overpowered genocidal aggressor]
Wow what a ghoul
They’re not confused, they just have a modicum of empathy
