Your dismissal of antisemitism because “Jews are white” first and foremost
1) erases Sephardim, Mizrahim and Ashkenazim of color.
But also
2) shows your inability to consider complex narratives in an ethnoreligion older than the concept of race
And finally
3) really just shows your internalized antisemitism
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Also, people in the comments complaining that it calls non-Jews goyim… that’s… just a word for non-Jews? All it means is “people who are not Jews.” That is really not complicated. Just… stop.
Tu-ninq’ez. Cold, fresh water in the Tsilhqot’in language spoken on the remote reserves west of Williams Lake, B.C.
On Xeni Gwet’in First Nation — the most remote of the six Tsilhqot’in member bands — tu-ninq’ez (pronounced “too-ning-KAWZ”) is at the cultural heart of their salmon-fishing, wild horse-coralling, hay-baling lifestyle.
Despite that, the 252-resident community has been under a boil-water advisory for 17 years, which Ottawa originally announced in 2001 because of a high risk of sewage contamination, according to documents.
“Recently elected Xeni Gwet’in chief Jimmy Lulua doesn’t have running water in his own house. He brushes his teeth from a cup. It is a daily reminder of how precious water is to his people — but, he noted, “It’s not by choice.”
“We’ve never been high on the government’s priority list,” he said. “We live in a third world country in one of the richest countries in the world.”
Don0303 