re: #603 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

Personally, I would not trade being who/what I am for the world. The problem is with the other people who cannot handle difference, be it real or perceived. That, you learn really early on as a racial/numerical minority.

What doesn’t kill ya, makes ya stronger, usually applies pretty well.

I had to unfollow a woman on Twitter who identifies as a “Jew of Color”. I was initially quite excited listening to her (and others) experiences because it’s unusual in the U.S. (10% of U.S. Jews are not white) and I dig the unusual, but this particular person is probably one of the most thinnest skinned Jews I’ve ever encountered. Her writings, her blog and her tweets are primarily about what she’s dubbed as the “white Jewish privilege” or the “Ashkanazi privilege” which isn’t just grossly insulting and highly inaccurate but to my ear, teeters on anti-Semitic. Jews have always been at the forefront of civil rights and champion minority causes other than our own all over the world, so I don’t get it. Personally, I think she’s enjoying some victimization status at the expense of dissing her fellow tribesmen.

And if I had any balls, I’d tell her so LOL