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This is so offensive in so many ways it’s almost breathtaking. Shall we ask the Jews killed because they were Jewish in the Jewish market in Paris about their Jewish white privilege?

Here’s a snippet from the piece of nonsense:

It’s entirely possible for a Jew whose relatives were killed in the Holocaust to benefit from certain aspects of (for lack of a better term) white privilege. That the Nazis wouldn’t have considered you white doesn’t mean that store clerks, taxi drivers, prospective employers, and others in the contemporary United States won’t accord you the unearned advantages white people, Jewish and otherwise, enjoy. That your ancestors were victims of genocide in a different place and at a different time doesn’t mean you can’t be part of the victimizing caste in your own society, any more than having had impoverished forbears means that you can’t have been born into money. (Not, to be clear, that all Jews are!)

So we move easily from the concept of white privilege meaning if you are white, you may not suffer from some of the discrimination that minorities might be subject to, to the automatic assumption that if you are white, you are inherently a victimizer. And that if you are Jewish but considered white, belly up to the bar, you too may be a victimizer…

HT: @DefendWallSt

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