Mallory Mosner
1 min readDec 23, 2024

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I don't understand this comment. Why would me sharing the statistical likelihood of Jews being victimized by hate crimes bother you this much?

Proportionality matters, Tim, because there aren't equal numbers of Jews (given we are a tiny minority, more comparable if anything to the Muslim population in America) as there are Black people, for example -- or even LGBTQ people.

Your reductive math is unhelpful, and erroneous as it also lacks context. Nothing in the numbers you cited allude to the specific phenomenon of entire cultures changing from a few specific hate crimes against Black people; for example, Central Park Karen calling the cops on the Black man who was a birder had more of an outsize cultural impact and lasting impression on collective consciousness than any coverage of any antisemitic incident that I can recall (Tree of Life is the only thing that I might consider comparable, except that it was politicized and only considered "bad" because it was clearly a white nationalist who did the bad thing-- not because the victims were Jewish people in a place of worship).

Anyway, this conversation feels ugly to me. Surely you can find a better use of your time than trying to cherrypick whether the volume of media coverage about rising antisemitic hate crimes placates or invalidates the horror of that reality. Very bizarre.

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Mallory Mosner
Mallory Mosner

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Queer non-binary (they/she) Jewish writer and Ayurvedic Health Counselor who loves puzzles, cats and meditation.

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