r/Judaism • u/justjust000 • Jan 20 '26

We're what's left 😄

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u/ManicPixieDreamHag Jan 20 '26

I think it’s pretty funny albeit unhelpful.

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u/isaacF85 Jan 20 '26

I am not sure it is unhelpful.

If they have a caricature of us already… let’s live up to standards.

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u/carlandthepassions72 Reform Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

Yeah because playing into antisemitic stereotypes is helpful to us /s

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u/tiredhobbit78 Jan 20 '26

It's pretty obviously a joke. If someone sees that and it gives them a reason to be antisemitic, they were alread an antisemite.

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u/carlandthepassions72 Reform Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

Idk, there are a lot of guys whose mouths love to write checks their ass can’t cash. I don’t think this guy thinks it’s a completely a joke.

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u/isaacF85 Jan 21 '26

I stand behind what I wrote, and I actually do it irl. Try that.

Whenever they say “the Jews this” or “Israel that,” I play on their fears and say that they better not be heard, because the Mossad is everywhere.

Those who jokes about it — move on. Those who are serious — panic. And being in the military myself, I am able to add more information which they cannot verify, but they have to be scared of because Satan is helping us (yes, they genuinely believe it).

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u/isaacF85 Feb 23 '26

Their obsession with us shows much more about their pity lives than anyhow about us.

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u/Max_Kapacity Modern Orthodox Jan 21 '26

The antisemitic stereotype is that we’re sheep.

It’s not the 1930’s anymore. Nazis jihadis and communists all must know, we have a nation with a military that is unafraid to use it, and on a personal level,

Jews with ARs don’t wind up in boxcars.

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u/Swimming_Care7889 Jan 21 '26

The current anti-Semitic stereotype is that we are both evil monster terrors to the world but will also fold up and surrender at a little bit of violence against us.

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u/Max_Kapacity Modern Orthodox Jan 22 '26

And both are wrong.

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u/jmartkdr Jan 20 '26

Going out of our way to avoid them doesn't seem to help either.

It's still cringey to me - if you have too announce you're a tough guy you're not really a tough guy.

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u/spoiderdude bukharian Jan 20 '26

Sure. Don’t go out of your way to avoid the stereotypes but don’t give in to them out of spite.

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u/isaacF85 Jan 20 '26

They believe it anyway. Let them be scared of it.

Egypt lost the war in 1973 for that reason precisely.

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 Humanist Jan 20 '26

Or we can be good people

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u/Swimming_Care7889 Jan 21 '26

Even if all the Jews in the world act as good people as you define it, hundreds of millions of people will still rally against us and the rest will do nothing to stop them. Being a good people is well and good but Jew hatred has to be fought. We should not be so naive as to believe that if we did all that is good and right than we will be treated equally well.

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 Humanist Jan 21 '26

I'm not suggesting you be a good person so that others will think well of you and treat you better. Those are selfish reasons. There is both intrinsic and spiritual value to being the best most ethical person you can be.

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u/Capital-Ad2133 Reform Jan 22 '26

Fighting back against antisemitism, and even giving a warning that we’re doing so, is the epitome of being an ethical person.

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 Humanist Jan 22 '26

Which is different than "living up to the standards of their caricature of us"

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u/Capital-Ad2133 Reform Jan 22 '26

If anyone is caricaturing us, I don’t give a fuck what they think about just about anything.

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 Humanist Jan 22 '26

Just try following the logic... If someone creates a caricature of a greedy Jew, do you "live up to the standard" by being greedy? How does that fight antisemitism?

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u/Capital-Ad2133 Reform Jan 22 '26

I respond by doing whatever the hell I want. I don’t let antisemites determine my behavior in any way. Judaism is defined by Judaism, not by people who hate it.

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 Humanist Jan 22 '26

I wouldn't describe "doing whatever the hell I want" as the epitome of ethics.

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u/Swimming_Care7889 Jan 21 '26

I think that we need to take a more aggressive stance against Jew hatred even if it means that we can't be a good people in some ways. For too long many Jews have decided to do all that was good and right while people shitted on us behind our back. We have the right to make demands. People can not say we need to support their cause because of our history and try to gain money and manpower from us while at the same time maintaining that Jews do not deserve a justice of their own or the Jewish cause is not part of the universal fight for freedom of the Oppressed.

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u/mutabore Jan 21 '26

As long as we don’t confuse good with nice

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u/isaacF85 Jan 20 '26

We can. To the average person, not to the conspiratorial a$$holes.

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