So Elon

Elon’s Nazi salute at the inauguration brings up two things for me.

#1. Exhaustion.

After all I’ve seen people do, excuse, and cheer on over the past year+ I can’t help but feel like this is more of the “we don’t care that they’re fascist, we care that they’re fascists with no decorum”.

To be clear, I do think its is to be taken literally/seriously. If for no other reason than practical caution. Organizing with the expectation of rising anti-Semitic attacks is common sense. And I understand being scared of what is coming.

But…I don’t know. The gesture alone doesn’t flabbergast me. And I think there’s a difference between taking note of what’s happening and giving a whole show of “Oh, how did we get here. What lows America doth fall to.” Especially when we’re seeing so many things the last admin tossed up for this one to easily catch.

The trajectory to get to this point has been a straight line that never veered off course. In the hypothetical world where Kamala had a chance to win, we wouldn’t have seen the gesture, but we would have seen the action that is associated with because we’d already been seeing the fascist action in her history in power.

And Most Importantly, in This reality, the Democrats Knew they had no chance of winning and instead of setting up any precautions or safety rails, they swindled the people and ran off with their money.

Yes, the last admin Mentioned antisemitism. But they did nothing about the Nazi marches flooding the streets. They did nothing when a massive leak of Ancestry data was proven by releasing a scary amount of personal data about specifically Ashkenazi Jews and their family lines. I mean did, they even make a public statement to warn people. Since they cared so much about antisemitism.

But the focus is always on the big visuals. So Saying you care is equivalent to doing the work for a lot of people.

#2. Do “Israelis” know what they’ve done?

A thing that goes around the black community a lot is the idea that Jews do not face the continued struggles Black folks do because they aren’t afraid to teach their children their history. So they draw very hard lines of what is and isn’t okay with regards to how they are treated and portrayed.

But watching this genocide unfold, it is very clear to me that “Israelis” must not be taught all of Jewish history.

See, one of may special interests growing up was The Holocaust. Frankly, if I had stayed in school, I probably would have been a WW2 historian. (And unfunnily enough, one of the last projects I was gonna do before I dropped out was a comparison between how Musilms post 9/11 were talked about and treated and how Jews leading up to the Holocaust were talked about and treated)

I know the history of hate that existed long before Hitler was born.

I know the picture that was painted of the Jewish people that made his violence so welcome.

So to sit here and watch “Israelis”, emboldened by white supremacist entitlement, desperately try to claim those stereotypes. Going around insisting that it is their Jewish right to be blood-thirsty, greedy, heartless, selfish, inhumane. I truly do feel for the Jewish scholars world-wide that had tried to point out the circle we were going in.

Because now we are watching the hand that had been feeding them, turn and welcome in a man that sieg heiled.

And I really do wonder if “Israelis” know what they have done.