Comment on Is saying "Don't need to know hebrew to know the Holocaust was bad" antisemetic?

xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

No, it isn’t.

Does it erase Jewish culture, history, or trauma? No, it’s clearly doing the opposite of that: affirming the trauma.

Does it dehumanize Jews? No. It’s neutral to the humanity of Jews, except insofar as it’s clearly meant to affirm the horrors of the Holocaust, which dehumanized and destroyed Jews and Jewish culture.

Does it perpetuate a harmful stereotype? Nope! It might be considered a stereotype that Jews know Hebrew, but it’s not a harmful one, and it doesn’t make the claim that all Jews know Hebrew in any case. In fact, it strikes back at the idea that specific facts about Jews are even relevant to the conversation about the Holocaust.

The person you were arguing with just wanted you to go away, and gave you a bad faith rebuttal.

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