If Israel made black people sit on the back of the bus…
July 1, 2008 Feminism, Haredim, Israel
Various segments of the liberal Jewish community would be spending all of their energy on communal hysteria. Each group would be respectively jumping up and down, screaming and crying, desperate to prove how much more upset and outraged they were than the next liberal Jew. It would galvanize the Jewish social Left like a bogus white on black rape case galvanizes African-American and feminist academics.
But when haredim force women to sit on the back of the bus, and seek to expand this policy on nationalized buses and rail lines (these buses are not private, contrary to the lies of the haredim), we don’t care all that much.
Do we really care less about our own women than we do about black people? Or does this illuminate that our professed love for other minorities and social justice is somehow disingenuous? Or can we just not smell our own shit?
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“Do we really care less about our own women than we do about black people?”
No. There is and has ben liberal outrage. It isn’t as if this issue is being ignored.
My goodness, are you setting up a strawman, or what? I’ve seen NOTHING but outrage from the progressive Jew-osphere. And yes, comparisons to Rosa Parks have been made.
I once had to sit on one coming back from Beit Shemesh. I had just met this really cute religious Zionist buchor from Australia at lunch, and we were riding back together to Jerusalem. He sat at the end of the men’s section, I sat at the front of the women’s. By the end of the ride we were exchanging phone numbers. Woe to the Hareidim that they hadn’t insisted on a mechitza.
It didn’t work out, for anybody who is curious. Hence why I am dating the biggest apicurus since Shabtai Tzvi.
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