In response to a pretty absurd tweet by Katie Halper, who says she is a history teacher (God help us), I wrote:
.@SalazarSenate18 is Jewish like @lsarsour is a person of color.— ElderOfZiyon (@elderofziyon) August 27, 2018
Both of them claimed their false new identities because it was politically expedient.
To which she answered sarcastically:
Yeah. Being a Palestinian is peek white privilege. Why is she fronting?— Host of the Katie Halper Show (@kthalps) August 27, 2018
So I dutifully responded that it was Sarsour herself who says that she could change her racial identity by changing her clothing, not me:
Excellent question. Why don't you ask her?— ElderOfZiyon (@elderofziyon) August 27, 2018
She says she used to be a white girl from Brooklyn:https://t.co/bSlKwj0Ec6
And now that she's Palestinian she can claim any color she wants: https://t.co/x2wMaozGyr
Let me know if this bothers you at all, or if this sounds right.
The first tweet I linked to is not embedded, so here it is from last year, where Sarsour says she used to be white and now she isn't:
Before putting on her hijab, Linda Sarsour admits she was white. Now she claims to be a "person of color." Neat trick! @lsarsour pic.twitter.com/4km7rs0sjj— ElderOfZiyon (@elderofziyon) September 4, 2017
But meanwhile Halper decided to branch the thread off to say that I was clearly the idiot:
Just to give you a sense of the integrity & intellect of the people we’re dealing with here. This guy is calling out a Palestinian woman for “only claiming” POC status for political expediency. Because I’m sure this gem sees Palestinians as white, especially when they wear hijabs https://t.co/pab4FRLgLc— Host of the Katie Halper Show (@kthalps) August 27, 2018
To which I responded that if anyone is showing a lack of integrity, it is Halper:
Thanks for proving that you are the one with neither integrity nor intellect. You can't admit that I was right about Sarsour and you instead want to ignore the issue rather than admit it.— ElderOfZiyon (@elderofziyon) August 28, 2018
Apparently, intellectual honesty is something foreign to you.
Halper is a nobody but she represents the moronic ultra-Left of today (she calls herself a "Bernie-bro.") It is sort of idiotic that she actually cannot fathom that in today's environment, claiming to be a person of color is indeed a way to make yourself appear as a perpetual victim and therefore above criticism, which is exactly what Sarsour is doing. It is a political move, just like Salazar's pretense to be Jewish.
The bizarre thing is that nowadays, claiming to be a person of color is more important than one's actual color.
If Sarsour can pass as white - which she admits she has - then how is she possibly being disadvantaged as a New Yorker who looks white? She chooses to wear the hijab for whatever reason (apparently more for identity politics than religion). I choose to wear a yarmulka. Which of us is more disadvantaged by a public display of our religion? And why does her hijab make her a person of color, and my headcovering does not do the same for me?
Moreover, according to the modern racists who feel that color is something one can choose rather than something objective, a Jewish member of Likud who is undeniably black does not get the "victim" brownie points of being a PoC, but a blonde Palestinian girl who punches a soldier does.
There is discrimination in the world based on skin pigment. That is not in question. What is bizarre is that the people who pretend to care about racism are creating a funhouse mirror environment where they want to define the people on their side as people of color, and the people they disagree with are automatically considered white. To them, the world really is black and white, and they want to ensure that all people they consider victims are also considered non-white while those they consider oppressors must be call white.
The formula seems to be that a Muslim is always considered a person of color and a Jew is always considered a white person, no matter how light or dark they are. And that completely arbitrary definition of race is what is proving that those who pretend to be against racism nowadays are too often the real racists.
Many of the people who really are being discriminated against cannot be considered victims because they are the wrong religion. The new "anti-racist" Left is institutionalizing antisemitism with their bizarre thinking that Israeli Jews are white, Palestinians are of color, there is only room for one good side in this world and the white side must be bad.
The formula seems to be that a Muslim is always considered a person of color and a Jew is always considered a white person, no matter how light or dark they are. And that completely arbitrary definition of race is what is proving that those who pretend to be against racism nowadays are too often the real racists.
Many of the people who really are being discriminated against cannot be considered victims because they are the wrong religion. The new "anti-racist" Left is institutionalizing antisemitism with their bizarre thinking that Israeli Jews are white, Palestinians are of color, there is only room for one good side in this world and the white side must be bad.