I had this interaction on Reddit a couple of days ago, on a post about the story of a Holocaust survivor. That was all it was, just a video about a Holocaust survivor’s story. First came this (deleted now):
Then a long list of links to Jewish-related Reddit posts from him, then-
Jean Paul-Sartre, 1944:
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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Here’s the video in question. And… you know, that first string of garbage wasn’t even it, the first comment chain beneath this video involved a Holocaust joke, a few comments down and there was more deleted outright fascist-sounding stuff. All because a Jewish person was talking. I’m only part Jewish but man I’m always appalled to see things like this, out in the open, intimidating and disconcerting.
Do watch the video if you can. Suzanne Ripton (who is still alive, as far as I know) deserves so much better than to have her story shouted down.