Whoopi Goldberg says "the Holocaust isn’t about race"

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@Mindysan33

It also strikes me that the racialization of Jewish people in the 19th and 20th century was in part due to the emancipation of Jewish people in general in Western Europe. Governments lost a group of people they could reliable scapegoat for their failings as leaders, and so when the Nazis started to gin up anti-semitism in Germany, it found a ready audience among some Christian Europeans

@Mindysan33

but language has very real power to do very real harm to very real people. Unfortunately, far too many people read the term social construct as meaning we don’t need to address it.

Those are great points. You reminded me of this post and how stunned I was at how divisions are established/maintained. The use of “othering” as a means to maintain control (or the illusion of control) at multiple social, cultural, or political levels needs to be addressed on a regular basis - because there’s always a group that puts a new spin on it.