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@Mister44

Yeesh. I have heard some bat shit insane things from evangelicals and Baptists as well, usually during Evolution debates. Just know #notallchristians. I personally have never heard anyone say that, but then again I am in the pretty laid back Midwest. But I know there is antisemitism still out there.

Oh, I know #notallchristians. I’ve had this discussion before, so I’ll just let my prior words stand in this regard:
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@bibliophile20

As a Jewish person living in the USA, it took me close to 30 years of experiencing constant marginalization, micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions to realize that there is such a thing as a non-hypocritical, open-minded Christian in this country. They just don’t scream about their Christianity in everyone’s faces, but, instead, truly practice what their book preaches.

@bibliophile20

Oh, don’t get me wrong: In a free association test, “Christian” still comes up with the association of “murderous, hypocritical bigot” with a further association of “waiting for an excuse for a pogrom”, but that’s cultural history and personal experiences for you.

I’ve been stalked by Christian missionaries who believe that converting a Jew is guaranteed admission into heaven for them.

I’ve had Christians come up to me in public and ask where my horns and tail are.

I’ve had Christians tell me to shut up about antisemitism, and that I’m so privileged these days because we’re not being massacred in gas chambers anymore and that I should just shut up and be quiet already, Christkiller.

Heck, more days than not, I get Christian Neo-Nazis in my inbox threatening to murder me, in exquisite detail, and using misquotes and prooftexting of the Christian bible to justify it. (This morning’s threats lacked imagination, so I had to give him only a 1/10, especially since it was mostly C&P’d from Stormfront, and I’d seen it before).

I run a Jewish experiences blog on Tumblr, and I have to manage a Block List of antisemites for the rest of the community to use to keep themselves safe from bigots–the majority of whom are Christians.

And don’t get me started on Messianics, or we’ll be here all day.

I’ve just met a minority of people that actually live the words that the Christian zombie god gave them–to do good works, to care for the poor, to be kind, to work towards a better world–enough to know that the minority are not singular aberrations. These days, I’m working on shifting that association into splitting into two classifications: True Christians and Loud Christians™.

But, getting back to the original point:

Is “Christianity” synonymous with hypocrisy and oppression in your thinking?

Yes, “Christian”, to me, is synonymous with hate, bigotry, authoritarianism, mass murder, oppression, hypocrisy, wannabe martyrdom, persecution complexes, and abdication of personal responsibility and moral agency.

And while I can say #NotAllChristians fall under that, I’ve also noticed that the individuals who it applies to almost never announce that they are Christian, but instead work to make a better world and let their actions speak for them.

And on the other point: someone wearing anything supporting Trump is automatically classified as known and active threat to my life. And, since the Republican party voters, in the primaries, have thrown their support behind Trump, at this point, the Republican Party is, as far as I’m concerned, a neo-fascist, antisemitic, misogynistic, nativist, racist, tribalist, xenophobic, and willfully ignorant organization, and will be seen as such until and unless proven otherwise by wholesale rejection of the Short-Fingered Vulgarian.

I just wish that I could be making this stand on pure principle, instead of active fear for my life. I still get routine death threats from Trump supporters for the crime of being a living Jew. You can only laugh off so many posts of “Hitler should have finished the job” or “You’ll make a fine lampshade” or “you look like you need a shower”.

And it is pervasive. You just don’t notice it because you have the privilege of not being targeted by it. How pervasive is it? I’ll point to Tay as an example–within less than half a day after being activated, that twitter bot was essentially an antisemitic neo-Nazi.