chikadee:

To see this spread, to see people not caring and saying it’s just a joke.

It’s revealing your true mask that you absolutely do not care about Jews. That you only see us as a punch line. That you don’t see us as human beings.

It makes me want to cry. This is such obvious antisemitism. And to see people you respected or people you never in a million years would have thought would harbor antisemitic ideas are showing support.

This is a perfect example of how insidious antisemitism today is.

Him using Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust as punchlines is blatant antisemitism.

But defending these actions as simple jokes? Would you be as appalled if your precious YouTube personality wore black face? What about making a Muslim terrorist joke?

If you support these men and their actions, you are antisemitic. Full stop.

Before you have a knee jerk reaction and deny it, please think and consider why that is.

Antisemitism is insidious and creeps into anywhere. You may consider yourself someone who stands so strongly for social justice. But if you defend this as just a joke, you’re an antisemite.

Please, I’m begging you all to put aside your rabid love of this man and try to see it from our perspective. Listen to us when we explain why it’s dangerous, why it’s a gateway, why it is horrible and hurtful.

That’s all we ask. Is to listen and try to understand.

If you believe in social justice, you must try and understand.

I would get on my hands and knees and beg you to think about this. To consider that we are human beings who have been persecuted for years. We have always sought safety but have never found true safety. Please consider that we fight for our lives every day. We fight the creeping insidious worm of antisemitism. In jokes, in media. To hear friends or coworkers make jokes. Too see graffiti.

We are never safe. And all we ask is to just understand our feelings.

I’m begging every single one of you that supports PewDiePie to just listen and to just try to understand. Consider our perspective. You can go on thinking it’s funny if you wish, it is difficult to change opinions on the Internet. But just try and understand. Try and empathize or at least sympathize.