Because it’s not like there’s a long history of accusing Jews of being evil and behind everything that someone dislikes. It’s not like there was a massively distributed, half-plagiarized anti-Semitic text promoting just that. Oh wait.
This happened recently on a social justice blog I used to follow (unfollowed because of the rude attitude of some of the moderators).
Somebody asked a serious question about cultural appropriation in hopes of understanding it better and a few of the moderators started cursing them out and yelling at them for being uniformed on the subject. I’m sorry, but I was of the belief that the point of social justice blogs were to educate people, not yell at them. I understand it’s sometimes hard to not to get angry with someone who is ignorant to a subject that you’re particularly sensitive to, but by being rude to people who are genuinely trying to better themselves is not the way to go.
I don’t know if people have already done this, and its a pretty petty complaint, but it just irks me when I type how I talk and I’m called out because a group of people use a similar way of talkin, and I’m therefore copying or *gasp* culturally appropriating them.
In high school a girl told me that it was offensive that I spoke Spanish with an accent. I stopped speaking it around her out of shame and embarrassment, she told me I was a racist. When I was in junior high I learned Castilian from my teacher who was a Spaniard. I picked up her accent, but I didn’t know that, because my Puerto Rican godfather never bothered to point it out in all the years we spoke Spanish to each other.
