agnellina:

Listen, I help run a blog about antisemitism and Jewishness. It’s mildly popular; 3,500+ followers, but not up to the tens of thousands of followers other blogs this subject area get. The reblogs we’ve gotten concerning Steve Rogers being Hydra outrank posts about actual living Jews being attacked, spit at, and harassed. They outrank posts about the Holocaust, survivors, historical antisemitism, stories about Jewish people’s preserved bodies being discovered in a Nazi scientist’s lab. The only conclusion I keep coming to is that people care more about two dead Jewish men and the character they created than they care about Jewish people in general.

When someone tells me it’s because antisemitism doesn’t exist in the US, that you can care about both, that they just don’t see posts about antisemitism on their dash, when I see news articles where people on the right are ~so surprised~ that there’s antisemitism in their ranks because it’s a leftist problem, that conservatives can’t be antisemitic because they support Israel (not true), when I see news articles where people on the left are surprised that there’s antisemitism in their ranks because it’s a right problem, that antisemitism isn’t a problem anymore because Israel exists (not true), claim that all Jews are white so they can’t be oppressed or victimized (not true), or claim that all Jews received reparations for the Holocaust (incredibly not true), both the beginning and the end of antisemitism? It makes me want to scream.

Antisemitism exists. We post about. People report about. I can only continue to believe the “we just didn’t know” excuse for so long. We are ignored, we are mocked, we are used as rhetorical devices for other oppressed people.

I’m just so tired.