When my progressive friend says ‘But the Y-word isn’t as bad as the N-word?’, however stunned I might be, at some level I’m not. At some level, actually, I’m grateful to him for laying out the discrepancy in attitude towards different racisms so clearly. And that thought is: Yes, all right, antisemitism isn’t nice but let’s not compare it to racism against Black and Brown people. Jews are, after all, white. Aren’t they?
