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" are not truly white, but yet in a way many of us are, particularly those of us who are light-pigmented. Some of us are both and so we must wear the yoke of oppressor and the oppressed. This is the essence of and the universalism of the prophets."

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Woke: Love Thy Neighbor‘Being woke is the most Jewish thing’ - Woke: Love Thy NeighborBy Mike Airhart

"I am because being woke is the most thing there is. And for Jews it means playing a dual role. ...

"As an open Rabbi, I agree that there are walls in halacha but walls can be torn down and rebuilt. They can be remodeled and repainted. Social justice is the most halachic thing a religious Jew can do in Israel, Europe, or the USA which has still not overcome her legacy of lynchings and Jim Crow."

-- Benyamin Zahav

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Woke: Love Thy Neighbor‘Being woke is the most Jewish thing’ - Woke: Love Thy NeighborBy Mike Airhart

All of us are to each other
the limbs of a single body, each of us drawn
from life’s shimmering essence, God’s perfect pearl;
and when this life we share wounds one of us,
all share the hurt as if it were our own.
You, who will not feel another’s pain,
you forfeit the right to be called human.

-- Saadi Shirazi,

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Woke: Love Thy NeighborSaadi of Shiraz and the Noble Heart - Woke: Love Thy NeighborBy Mike Airhart

If someone supports censorship, termination, eviction, arrest, and denial of health care against me and my friends, who are sex, gender, ethnic, or religious minorities, then why would I still be family with that person?

Ryan Short is right to hold his family accountable.

He was subsequently driven off Twitter (as I have been) by harassment from people who hate freedom and opportunity for everyone but themselves.