Is seems like Jews get a pass on this, but why

[NeilCartwright]

Im a pretty big Seinfeld/Curb your enthusiasm fan, mainly bc i like the comedy, but why is it that Jews has a whole can usually be so sensitive to "antisemitism" but blacks cannot be sensitive to the past?


People are quick to call someone an anti-Semite but blacks are told to stop living in the past, get over it, etc
It seems like a pretty big double standard

 

[ba'al]

The united states is one big double standard man. But to answer your question I think two things that allows the jews to pull the anti semitic card is, one they're organized and two it's only one main group that oppressed the jews. In the black struggle the whole world was involved in some shape or form. So everyone will say blacks need to get over it to sort of relinquish their own involvement and gain from the enslavement of africans.

 

[onlylno]

you're watching seinfeld/curb your enthuiasm right? A show created by a Jew and with a cast of mostly jews, talking about he Jewish experience, including anti-semitism

just like on the boondocks, a show created by a black man with a staff of mostly black people talk about black issues, including racism.

 

[Alan Emerald]

Im a pretty big Seinfeld/Curb your enthusiasm fan, mainly bc i like the comedy, but why is it that Jews has a whole can usually be so sensitive to "antisemitism" but blacks cannot be sensitive to the past?


People are quick to call someone an anti-Semite but blacks are told to stop living in the past, get over it, etc
It seems like a pretty big double standard

Mayb because the Jews don't often call out their oppressors or children of their oppressors on this. I would think many ppl who are quick to tell us to get over it do so because reflection on our treatment in this country means they must face their wrongdoings.

 

[onlylno]

To answer your question:

Anti-semetism is heavily tied in the popular consciousness to the atrocities of the Holocaust, hitler, and WW2. This era is forever romanticized and thus, will always have a special in America

2. Racial resentment -
since the post-civil rights era, Whites have perceived racism differently then we do. Since there are no longer the overt signs of discrimination, such as Jim crow, they think that racism is, "largely", over.

This has led to resentment for the many "affirmative action" policies, protests, and other products of race politics.

to them, our plight is just us complaining and refusing to move forward. To them, other groups, such as the jews and the Irish have ascended from their struggle.

They feel that we live in a post racial society that allows for any person of color to succeed on merit alone. Yo them, at this point, if black people can't succeed, it's because we're lazy and If black people are harassed by the police, it's because we're thugs.

So when racism is brought up on in the media, it unconsciously, triggers this resentment.
White americans roll their eyes when the racism comes up

 

[jeh]

Idk. I never got into Seinfeld. More of a Frasier guy.

 

[ViShawn]

Gays and Jews: two groups you don't eff with in the Entertainment biz.

 

[NERO]

The united states is one big double standard man. But to answer your question I think two things that allows the jews to pull the anti semitic card is, one they're organized and two it's only one main group that oppressed the jews. In the black struggle the whole world was involved in some shape or form. So everyone will say blacks need to get over it to sort of relinquish their own involvement and gain from the enslavement of africans.

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