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/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/Capital-Ad2133 Reform Jan 22 '26

I'm assuming that what Jews want to do is act like good Jews. Which isn't the same as weak Jews, as seen many times over our history.

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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.