I think the people here in the West are in for a rude awakening when they move pass the Anglosphere and realize that non-Westerners without the legacy of the Holocaust are beginning to treat the star of David as a hate symbol in the same exact way Westerners treat the swastika as a hate symbol. And saying that it’s a religious symbol means nothing since religions aren’t inherently peaceful social institutions. If anything, given the Reddit atheist understanding of religion on Hexbear dot net, isn’t something being a religious symbol a bad thing? There are plenty of Indigenous people who see the Christian cross as a hate symbol, and given how much they have suffered at the hands of Christians since 1492, who can blame them?
The Reddit atheists on Hexbear dot net want a world without religion, and last time I checked, Judaism is a religion as well. A world without religion is a world where Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews don’t exist because no one practices Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Judaism anymore. Treating Jews as a monolithic ethnicity instead of a religion with multiple ethnicities that traditionally practiced that religion (Ashkenazim, Sephardim) on of top of unaffiliated individuals and families converts from varying ethnicities is a Zionist talking point. It’s like saying Armenians, Ethiopians, and Palestinians are one ethnicity because those populations are one of the oldest Christian populations.
The swastika being a religious symbol for Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism didn’t save the swastika, and I don’t think it will save the star of David either.
I agree. My partner stopped wearing her star of david necklace. It took about a year post-oct 7th, but the decision was made after someone made a comment saying she was “so brave to wear that at a time like this”. She decided to take it off due to the only comment she’s ever received on that necklace implied that she was supportive of “israel”.
My Palestinian parents also have a strong association of the star of david to israel, and how could they not? The flag is waved everywhere there, if someone beats you while waving the flag, burns your land and kills your livestock, I think it’s fair to associate the symbol on that flag as a hate symbol. In their minds, the star of david is a symbol of ethnic supremacy.
I think the people here in the West are in for a rude awakening when they move pass the Anglosphere and realize that non-Westerners without the legacy of the Holocaust are beginning to treat the star of David as a hate symbol in the same exact way Westerners treat the swastika as a hate symbol. And saying that it’s a religious symbol means nothing since religions aren’t inherently peaceful social institutions. If anything, given the Reddit atheist understanding of religion on Hexbear dot net, isn’t something being a religious symbol a bad thing? There are plenty of Indigenous people who see the Christian cross as a hate symbol, and given how much they have suffered at the hands of Christians since 1492, who can blame them?
The Reddit atheists on Hexbear dot net want a world without religion, and last time I checked, Judaism is a religion as well. A world without religion is a world where Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews don’t exist because no one practices Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Judaism anymore. Treating Jews as a monolithic ethnicity instead of a religion with multiple ethnicities that traditionally practiced that religion (Ashkenazim, Sephardim) on of top of unaffiliated individuals and families converts from varying ethnicities is a Zionist talking point. It’s like saying Armenians, Ethiopians, and Palestinians are one ethnicity because those populations are one of the oldest Christian populations.
The swastika being a religious symbol for Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism didn’t save the swastika, and I don’t think it will save the star of David either.
I agree. My partner stopped wearing her star of david necklace. It took about a year post-oct 7th, but the decision was made after someone made a comment saying she was “so brave to wear that at a time like this”. She decided to take it off due to the only comment she’s ever received on that necklace implied that she was supportive of “israel”.
My Palestinian parents also have a strong association of the star of david to israel, and how could they not? The flag is waved everywhere there, if someone beats you while waving the flag, burns your land and kills your livestock, I think it’s fair to associate the symbol on that flag as a hate symbol. In their minds, the star of david is a symbol of ethnic supremacy.