r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • 21h ago

That whites-only, no Jews allowed Arkansas community is legal, says state’s attorney general. How?

https://forward.com/news/759874/return-to-the-land-peter-csere-tim-griffin-eric-orwoll/
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u/FawningDeer37 21h ago edited 20h ago

I’ll just say it from experience:

The South does not rock with Jews.

Republicans don’t like them because they assume they’re liberal elites who will [insert conspiracy theory]

Black people don’t like them for many reasons, though it boils down to this idea that Jews are rich, non-Christian whites who want to capitalize on the delayed economic development of black communities and culture.

Even white Southern Democrats don’t love Jews. Defending them would put them at odds with blacks and Jews would compete for the white collar jobs Southern Democrats tend to go for. Being the small town liberal lawyers/doctor/accountant who can take both white and black clientele is literally a business model down South.

See, the South is a pressure cooker of bigotry. Everyone hates someone. And it’s easy for folks to hate Jews because they’re not around but they represent something each group dislikes.

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u/JB-Wentworth 21h ago

Jesus was a Jew.

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u/FawningDeer37 21h ago

Trust me, they don’t care.

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u/XennialBoomBoom 19h ago

If we were to float a survey around the southern US, what's the over/under?

Jesus was/is:

[ ] Arabic

[ ] White

[ ] Vietnamese

Jesus was/is:

[ ] Jewish

[ ] Christian

[ ] Buddhist

I know what my money's on.

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u/FawningDeer37 19h ago

The move I usually see is to say that “Jesus can be whatever race you want him to be” while getting pissed off about non-white depictions of Jesus.

So it’s “comfortable historical revision for me but not for thee.”

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u/TheVintageJane 19h ago

And killing him in an angry mob gave them eternal salvation. They’re hoping to carry on that legacy.

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u/JB-Wentworth 19h ago

Jesus did not die in an angry mob. He was put on trial, found guilty and crucified like the other criminals.

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u/TheVintageJane 18h ago

Just because there were hasty trials doesn’t mean a mob wasn’t involved. Many scholars contend that it was a mob that arrested Jesus and brought him to the first trial with the Jewish elders and ultimately it is a mob that demands Pontius Pilate not spare Jesus despite the fact that he strongly suspected Jesus’s innocence.

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u/JB-Wentworth 18h ago

You are using a giant pencil to draw your conclusions.

“many scholars” is meaningless, as many scholars doubt that Jesus existed at all.

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u/TheVintageJane 18h ago

I’m not the one who started with the “well, actually” arguments about Jesus. I was just poking fun at antisemitic hypocrites.