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There’s a lot of talk in the Pitt fandom about Robby being white and having power. And I want to believe that for a lot of people this characterization comes from ignorance rather than from overt antisemitism. So with that in mind I want to share a little bit of what it’s felt like to be a Jewish doctor in America these last few years.

First I want to set up a framework. Being Ashkenazi Jewish means often being perceived as white and also being part of a racialized minority. What do I mean by racialized minority? That this group is understood in a social context as distinctly immutably other. Remember that racial groups are very much social constructs rather than facts of genetics. If this is hard to grasp, it might help to think about other groups like Latinos or Arabs and how they are viewed in America. A person in these groups might look white but when someone finds out they are part of this group they are understood to be not white. Jews are historically viewed as a racialized other in most places in the world. This is very much true in American history even if we think of Jews here as having been accepted as white. Remember back when businesses had signs that no Black people were allowed, at the same period of time there were signs all over America at those same establishments saying no Jews allowed.

For context of my experience: I’m a Jewish woman with Ashkenazi heritage who looks pretty stereotypically Jewish but doesn’t wear anything that would identify that I’m Jewish. What this means is that if I’m in a place with a large Jewish community I’m typically read as Jewish. If I’m somewhere that people have rarely met Jews before then I’m read as white.

Here are fun things that happen when your patients read you as white:

- you get to listen to them say wildly antisemitic conspiracy theories and assume you agree and want to hear it

- you get to examine your patients and find their neonazi tattoos that they seem entirely unashamed for someone to see

- you get to debate whether to tell patients that you’re Jewish or to lie. For me because I work in an outpatient setting and know my patients for years, at some point when they ask what I’m doing for Easter or Christmas, I often do tell them I’m Jewish. And then unfortunately you get to deal with a myriad of responses ranging from “oh that’s ok dear, I don’t mind,” to a patient of mine who came into their next visit and handed me two typed pages explaining why the Jews faked the Holocaust so they could take over Palestine and how Jews love murdering babies (real experience I had).

-you get to do this same dance with coworkers. You get to have coworkers you considered friends say antisemitic things and feel betrayed.

This is not an experience of privilege. This is an experience of hiding. This is an experience of wondering how many patients who seem perfectly nice actually think vile things about you. It’s an experience of calculating if it’s safe to be open with patients or colleagues.

And over the last few years it’s also the experience of having people devalue the discrimination and pain that the Jewish community is experiencing. For non-Americans, Jews experience close to the greatest number of hate crimes in this country and by far the greatest compared to the size of our population. This is of course a global phenomenon but I know the US statistics and we’re discussing an American context so that’s what I am sharing. Despite this I watched the CEO of the healthcare organization I work for send out an email condemning every other type of racism. She sent an appropriate email after George Floyd was murdered calling out systemic racism. She sent an email calling out racism against Latinos in the wake of everything our government is trying to do. But after Bondi Beach there was an email saying that gun violence was bad and never once mentioning antisemitism. And after October 7th there was silence. Being a Jew at a progressive healthcare organization has meant going from feeling like part of a coalition of people with common purpose to understanding yourself to have become many of your coworkers favorite scapegoat for all the evil in the world.

Being Jewish in America right now, as with most of the diaspora, is to feel profoundly isolated. To calculate when it is safe to disclose being Jewish to people who read you as white (or for that matter who read you as solely Black or Asian as is the experience of two of my friends who are biracial and so are never read as Jewish).

I think when people watch the Pitt they think about how being a woman in medicine or a Black person in medicine shapes that experience, how it’s complicated to have power over patients as a physician but also to have them demean you with sexist comments or assumptions that you’re a nurse or a CNA.

But I’m not sure viewers think about what it’s like to be Jewish in medicine. How you listen to patients repeatedly say antisemitic things and assume you agree. How sometimes they do know you’re Jewish and say antisemitic things to your face. How you calculate constantly how to respond when patients start talking about Jesus and ask if you believe (which they do all the time because this is America and people are so upfront about their Christianity). It’s tiring and othering and the experience of patients and coworkers being bigoted against you contributes to burnout.

So when Robby is so much more comfortable in the room with Yana Kovalenko, yes that’s the comfort and ease of interacting with someone from the same culture, but it’s also the relief of possible the only interaction that day where you don’t wonder if your patient thinks you’re not quite human.

shehungthemoon

Will never not be depressingly funny to enter new spaces and have people be all fun and friendly w you only to immediately lose their shit the second they find out ur a Jew. They ong start acting like you have the plague just because you said "I don't want my people to be mass-murdered again," and they're genuinely convinced the whole time that they're a saint for hating you.

percyfraser

THE O.C. 1.14 "The Countdown"

#nothing #can compaaare #to when you rollll the dice and swearrr your love's for me #<< prev tags #iconic #the slo-mo #the music #the kiss!!!#‘I love you’ ‘thank you’#shipping: ryan and marissa #the oc

dozydawn

nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

ch40s0w1

context explaining why the announcer is screaming, this is supposed to take a high level competitive agility dog 40 seconds

sandersstudies

This video makes me cry every time it’s on my dash and I can’t even iterate why.

Like the dog doesn’t even know it’s a competition and she’s made history. She(?) just is happy and knows she made her owner happy too.

solely-ashes

The face of a being with only a wind storm between their ears, moments before unleashing it unto the world

disgruntledexplainer

good girl

#happy things

caffeinatedopossum

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

#still beating myself up over something stupid I said in 2008 #my long term memory can be a curse

inthetags

in the age of smartphones, reblog and put in the tags whose phone numbers you still know (don’t say the actual # though lol just who the person is)

#parents home #mom cell #mom and dad’s work (both retired for years)#best friend #best friend’s parents #preschool bestie’s parents #high school best guy friend #next door neighbor #my home #my cell

morton-kosher-salt

I used to consider myself a leftist. I no longer do.

"What made you change?"

Nothing. I still hold the same beliefs, the same values, the same morals. I'm still the same person I was when I attended Pride, when I volunteered, when I was loudly fighting racism, sexism, and inequality.

But at some point you found a dusty old sign in your grandfather's attic. You gave it a lick of paint and proudly placed it on the front door.

"NO ZIONISTS ALLOWED"

it reads. "Don't worry" you told me. "We like you. We just mean the racists, the fascists, the evil ones. We don't mean you. You're one of the good ones."

But the thing is, I'm not stupid. And you didn't do a very good job. The paint has already begun to peel, and the original words are peeking through.

"NO JEWS ALLOWED"

#pretty much

konoko

originalleftist

The Maine Primary Is Not Over.

Many in the media, as well as Platner himself, will tell you that it is- with Mills' withdrawal, Platner is the nominee (or "presumptive nominee").

But there is still a primary in six weeks, and Maine voters still have a right to vote in it- and an alternative to vote for, if your consciences cannot stomach voting for an ex-Blackwater mercenary who proudly wore a Nazi tattoo until he ran for office.

David Costello and Graham Platner are competing to take on Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican seeking a sixth term. Democrats hope to take con

His name is David Costello, and like Platner he supports universal health care- the article notes he backs Medicare For All, as well as universal child care, a higher federal minimum wage, and federal support for "first-time homebuyers and renters." On economic policy, he has a solid progressive platform.

Unlike Platner, he does not have a Nazi tattoo, has decades of experience in government (including as Maryland's deputy secretary of the Environment), and is from an actual working class background. Platner's parents were a lawyer and a restaurant owner, and his grandfather a famous architect. Costello's mother, per the article, was a union organizer.

Costello also worked with USAid (the organization who's defunding by Tr*mp is projected to kill 14 million people worldwide by the end of the decade).

He's not well-known (and Platner has tried to make sure it stays that way, by acting as though the race is over and pulling out of all primary debates). But there is still a primary, and as Costello notes, whoever is the nominee will have no trouble garnering national support against Collins, given Democrats' desperation to unseat her.

You do not have to vote for Platner. Nor is it a choice between voting for Platner and staying home. There are other options. If you choose to vote for Platner, its because you prefer an ex-mercenary Reddit troll with a Nazi tattoo, over someone who supports progressive policies and is none of those things.

In any case, Maine voters deserve an actual choice, not to have Platner coast to a coronation.

transmutationisms

me after sleeping ljke shit for the 10,497th day in a row: this is good actually because now i'll be really tired when i go to bed tonight

hometoursandotherstuff

Z from the 1998 animated film Antz.

#oh my god #of the two they chose that one #amazing

whorerific

Art at the Met Gala

Gwendoline Christie in Giles Deacon, homage to The Viscountess of Poilloue of Saint-Perier by John Singer Sargent

Luke Evans in Alejandro Gómez Palomo, homage to the works of Tom of Finland

Amy Sherald in Thom Browne, homage to Miss Everything by Amy Sherald

Venus Williams in Swarovski, homage to Venus Williams, Double Portrait by Robert Pruitt

Hunter Schafer in Prada, homage to Mada Primavesi by Gustav Klimt

Gracie Abrams in Chanel, homage to Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt

Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo in Jean Paul Gaultier, homage to Winged Victory of Samothrace

Angela Bassett in Prabal Gurung, homage to Girl in a Pink Dress by Laura Wheeler Waring

Rachel Zegler in Prabal Gurung, homage to The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche

Madonna in Yves Saint Laurent, homage to The Temptations of St. Anthony by Leonora Carrington

#the flex of doing a homage to a portrait of yourself

silvermoon424

Naoko Takeuchi visiting the Kennedy Space Center in the 1990s and meeting an astronaut! She was visiting the Center to do research for her Sailor Moon side story, "The Lover of Princess Kaguya," which was later turned into the Sailor Moon S Movie.

Decades later, when a plushie of Artemis was spotted in the mission control center during the Artemis II mission, Naoko expressed surprise and delight:

“In the manga, he’s the little cat who sends instructions to the Sailor Guardians from the command room,” she said. “That was just a fantasy that existed only in the story, so to think that 30 years later Artemis would appear in NASA’s mission control, a place I’ve always admired, is incredible. I’m so jealous. Thank you for watching over humanity’s great achievement for ten days. You did a wonderful job.”

“I’m overwhelmed that a classic from 35 years ago is still being talked about around the world,” she said. “I’m so happy. It may have been an immature work, but I’m amazed to realize that classics can become timeless across generations. Manga, anime, live action—it’s such a blessing that this work continues to be shared in so many forms.”

#naoko takeuchi #sailor moon #next year we reach thirty years of me loving this franchise #that ‘immature work’ changed my life #and I love this

grandadtwelve

hi guys i have been mad inactive because grad school is kicking my ass :) however i'm doing a little project on fanfiction and how much the fanfic community is NOT down with ai so! if any fanfiction writers/readers would like to fill out my lil google form on the subject i would GREATLY appreciate it!!!!!

questionnaire for fanfic writers and readers to better understand feelings within the community on AI generated fanfiction! thank you for a

fuzzytheduck

I think a lot of Americans have a hard time grasping the idea of Jewish indigeneity because they dont know where their own ancestors came from. Maybe they'll have vague ideas like German, Italian, or Irish, but what they know has very little bearing on their day-to-day lives. They don't dress any different, they don't speak the language their great grandparents spoke, they don't hold regular ceremonies and rituals that harken back to the old days.

The idea of an ethnic group maintaining a constant identity over thousands of years is patently absurd to them. "You're telling me you're still mourning something the ancient Romans did? That's ridiculous! Clearly you've fallen for modern Israeli propaganda, otherwise you're deliberately arguing in bad faith in order to justify land theft and genocide!"

It's very frustrating, because when I say these things I do not say them in bad faith. My friend once said "it's a very American thing not to understand large timescales", and I think she was right on the money. The process of American assimilation has cut peoples ties to their ancestors to such a degree that they can no longer comprehend a continuous identity spanning millennia.

So I'm going to say this in the clearest language I can:

There is a genuine, historically provable, continuous connection from ancient Israelites to modern Jews. By the laws and customs of those ancient Israelites I am one of them. Let me reiterate. I am an Israelite, a hebrew, like from the Bible, and the fact that my identity has been so mythologized and talked about as if it's a thing of the past will never change that.

pusheenthenerdcat

In goyish circles family traditions that go back a couple generations are farily rare. In jewish circles, the vast majority of people are still doing things every year that their earliest ancestors did, further back than you can trace any direct lineage. People still mourn something the romans did because there has not been a single year we forgot it since the year it happened

fittingoutjane

The main reason Jews retain our indigenous status in Israel is because we were denied it everywhere else. Sure, my ancestors 2000 years ago were dragged across the Mediterranean in chains. Some of them were probably thrown out of Spain in 1492. But it's a whole lot more recent, too. My grandfather was a refugee twice.

cantotallyeven

Not even just ancestors. I was personally denied indigenous status in the country that I, my father, and grandfather were born in. Our passports all said "Jew" on them rather than the country of birth. My mother's side wasnt any better when we were all kicked out, though it's a bit better now

fromchaostocosmos

We still remember and mourn the devastation the Babylonians did. To us historical figures like Nebuchadnezzar and Titus are not some distant long dead person, but rather people who had massive impacts on history and caused pain and suffering.

We speak of them and remember what they did as if it was very recent and not thousands of years ago because we still are dealing with chaos, pain, trauma, devastation, and consequences of their actions and choices thousands of years later.

This enmity we hold for these long dead and gone empires and civilizations and their leaders is something I find goyim really struggle to understand because to them it is all history and happened so long ago, but for us it is a history, yes, and it is the present.

Why do we live where live, why are do we have certain minhagim, way did we create certain dishes, why were certain prayers created, why did certain Yom Tovim come about, and more all of which is things that we deal in the present and all which can be traced back to these various empires who did harm to us.

So the Roman Empire might be gone, but the consequences of their occupation did vanish with them. And we understand and remember this, but goyim seem not to quite get that.

afurioushawk

Imagine what it must be like to be a 70-80 year-old Black Democrat who lived through the Civil Rights Movement, only to watch all that hard work be destroyed and the same racist white Zoomers currently supporting a Nazi in Maine are saying you need to retire because you're part of The Establishment (TM).

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