The so-called reasons are just a rickety structure designed to uphold mostly subconscious hatred.
Exactly. And trying to make them make sense from the outside is doomed to failure. They don't make sense, and they're only sustained by their adherents' wish to justify their prejudiced feelings.
I'm a polisci major and sociology/criminology minor, and once upon a time, I thought I wanted to work for the Southern Poverty Law center. Now there's one thing UNM's polisci and sociology/criminology departments do really really well, and that's social movements and race relations, because a lot of our professors, funnily enough got their starts in the Chican@ and American Indian rights movements.
It's actually really kind of cool to talk to people about how they always ate bitter herbs and honey apples for Easter, but didn't know it was for Passover, or how their grandmother wouldn't let them eat pork, because it would make them sick, but they've tried it and never had a problem with it. You have no idea how many times I've had a guest over at my house for Passover and have them exclaim that it's so familiar. It makes it a really strange place to be Jewish, on one side, there are a whole lot of anitsemites, on the other hand, you have this tremendous outpouring of crypto-Jewish cultural rediscovery.
Antisemitism in New Mexico is in my experience really really white. And given that a whole lot of Latin@s in New Mexico know about and are proud of their crypto-Jewish roots, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a covert way to be anti-Latin@, which is a bad thing to be in a state where Latin@s are the majority.
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Date: 2013-08-02 12:06 am (UTC)Exactly. And trying to make them make sense from the outside is doomed to failure. They don't make sense, and they're only sustained by their adherents' wish to justify their prejudiced feelings.
I'm a polisci major and sociology/criminology minor, and once upon a time, I thought I wanted to work for the Southern Poverty Law center. Now there's one thing UNM's polisci and sociology/criminology departments do really really well, and that's social movements and race relations, because a lot of our professors, funnily enough got their starts in the Chican@ and American Indian rights movements.
It's actually really kind of cool to talk to people about how they always ate bitter herbs and honey apples for Easter, but didn't know it was for Passover, or how their grandmother wouldn't let them eat pork, because it would make them sick, but they've tried it and never had a problem with it. You have no idea how many times I've had a guest over at my house for Passover and have them exclaim that it's so familiar. It makes it a really strange place to be Jewish, on one side, there are a whole lot of anitsemites, on the other hand, you have this tremendous outpouring of crypto-Jewish cultural rediscovery.
Antisemitism in New Mexico is in my experience really really white. And given that a whole lot of Latin@s in New Mexico know about and are proud of their crypto-Jewish roots, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a covert way to be anti-Latin@, which is a bad thing to be in a state where Latin@s are the majority.