How cliche, you go right to condemning MY response for being "ad hominem" so you can pretend that you have any kind of moral or intellectual higher ground. May I remind you that *you* wrote a condescending response and then expected me to be kind in my reply? Or are you so desensitized to your own smugness that you genuinely weren't aware that your response might have come across that way? I'm sure anything I say will reinforce the words splattered across your bio, which certifies that you are an omniscient older white man who knows better than everyone about everything. Is that ad hominem enough for you?
You did not write a response as to the fact that I've been racialized my entire life. My whole family was stopped at the airport constantly after 9/11. It may be convenient for you to fantasize about the idea that people you'd like to squarely characterize as white (largely due to your own misunderstanding of them, but also due to your antisemitism) are in fact not, but my experience is far from unique.
I haven't had to change anything about my appearance to be racialized my entire life. I look the way that I do because Jewish people ARE Middle Eastern, regardless of whether that fact is inconvenient for you. We were forced into the diaspora, wherein many of us wound up as outsiders (continuously persecuted and genocided in the places where we ethnically and culturally did not ever belong). Being forcibly removed from your home due to colonization doesn't change the fact that it's your place of origin. African Americans will never not originate from Africa, even if they are in America for another 800 years.
Ashkenazi (and Sephardi) Jews are genetically completely distinct from Europeans, hence the ethic cleansing that involved measuring and discriminating against them in light of their non-Aryan features. Sure, after generations of r*pe and in some cases intermarriage and forced assimilation, some became more white-passing. And yet, through all of that, we have collectively maintained strong cultural ties to our ethnic and cultural place of origin.
Redlining is one of the most prominent ways in which Jews were historically discriminated against throughout the 20th century, FYI. Deed restrictions prohibited selling property or land to Jews technically until the Supreme Court ruled against the enforcement of racial restrictive covenants in 1948, but in many states (Arizona, Maryland, Washington, California and more) they were active beyond the 1960s nonetheless.
A certain form of redlining still exists today, where towns preventing eruvs (boundaries made of string) to be set up in the perimeters of towns-- these allow religious/Sabbath-observant Jews to carry items during the Sabbath in public. Blocking an eruv means that religious Jews can't publicly exist for 2 days of the week, effectively preventing them from moving to certain areas. There are constant attacks on Jews wearing visibly Jewish clothing, which is another part of the coercive assimilation that American Jews have faced.
Given that Jews are .2% of the population and most people in America don't understand that Judaism is an ethnoreligion (because that is not common), and that there are many subsets and indeed colors and phenotypic expressions of Jews, it would make sense that folks like yourself would ignorantly try to whitewash Jews to pretend that we are merely Europeans, while simultaneously yelling "Jews will not replace us" and propagating blood libel about us.
Funny you should mention the limits on Asian immigration; if you look up the 1909 NYT article barring Asian immigrants, many in government considered the Hebrews to be Asiatic people. It was a derivative of this very logic that prevented Jews in Europe from being able to escape to America when N*zism rose.
There have also been Jewish quotas in Ivy League schools, gatekeeping at law firms and country clubs (many didn't allow Jews at all until the 90s). The same Green Book that was leveraged by Black travelers was inspired by the same thing that existed for Jews, because at the time of publishing in 1917, we weren't allowed at many hotels, beaches, pools and restaurants.
You are not an expert on this topic, Will. You are not objected to CRT because of any sincere or comprehensible critical thinking; you are objected to CRT because you are a bigoted fossil clinging to the remnants of your ill-deserved privilege. Now why don't you go suck on some butterscotch candies and write more cancel culture screed :)
