u/Kaleb_Bunt

Anyone else dislike it when your non-Jewish friends repost Neturei Karta?

It just seems pretty appropriative to me. Because like, I know the people who repost this stuff probably know little to nothing about Judaism and are just sharing this content because they are pro Palestine.

And like overall I feel like the haredi(not necessarily NK) view on Israel does resonate with me. We should be cautious to not conflate religion with nationalism.

That said, Neturei Karta aren’t the arbiters of Judaism. It is vexing to see non-Jews act like they know more about Judaism than Jews just because they’ve listened to some stuff from Neturei Karta.

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u/Kaleb_Bunt — 3 days ago

Wanted to make this because the algorithm keeps reposting that video of a mom making her kid destroy his ps5 for hurting a cat, and while I am no parent, I feel like that situation is very perverse and it is frustrating how many people see this as “good parenting”.

I think fundamentally, the difference between discipline and abuse is that whereas discipline is for the child’s benefit, abuse is for the abuser’s gratification.

When you post videos of you discipling your child on the internet, that is entirely for your benefit. You are doing it to either posture yourself as a good parent or to sadistically humiliate your child in front of the entire world.

The internet, as we know, is not a great place. There are tons of people out there who don’t have the best intentions. Racists, pedophiles, and generally insane and toxic people. They do not need to see intimate moments of your child’s life.

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u/Kaleb_Bunt — 18 days ago

I guess it is important to debunk bad faith claims, but idk. I feel like every time people take these claims seriously, it just leads to people dismissing the concept of antisemitism altogether.

I feel like it would be better if folks just didn’t engage with these types of claims, instead of making a spectacle out of it, and thereby helping bad faith actors in achieving their goals.

u/Kaleb_Bunt — 25 days ago