Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) on Nostr: for me, an Israeli, it's incredibly easy to spot a racist: whenever they call me ...
for me, an Israeli, it's incredibly easy to spot a racist: whenever they call me white, or the state enforcing white privilege.
Yes, my skin color is white.
But no, I have family from Yemen, Kazakhstan, Morocco...
And I have European, *Jewish* family. Not white, Jewish.
Whenever someone goes, "yes, but you're white, you don't understand...". What is this word, "white"? What does it mean? Because I have Arab-Israeli friends whose skin color is lighter than mine. All the difference between us isn't really ethnicity, but religion.
We, here, have "Israeli", "Arab Israeli", "Palestinian", "Arab", and "Gazan". Those are theoretically ethnicities, but the differences are actually in where people live geographically, their religion, and their citizenship, not their skincolor. You'll notice it's a table, actually: Religion and Citizenship. There are also Palestinian Jews, Samarians.
Yes, my skin color is white.
But no, I have family from Yemen, Kazakhstan, Morocco...
And I have European, *Jewish* family. Not white, Jewish.
Whenever someone goes, "yes, but you're white, you don't understand...". What is this word, "white"? What does it mean? Because I have Arab-Israeli friends whose skin color is lighter than mine. All the difference between us isn't really ethnicity, but religion.
We, here, have "Israeli", "Arab Israeli", "Palestinian", "Arab", and "Gazan". Those are theoretically ethnicities, but the differences are actually in where people live geographically, their religion, and their citizenship, not their skincolor. You'll notice it's a table, actually: Religion and Citizenship. There are also Palestinian Jews, Samarians.