Citing the “political climate,” a Florida JCC canceled a Jewish author’s talk about a book set in Virginia in 1811 that mentions slavery.
Citing the “political climate,” a Florida JCC canceled a Jewish author’s talk about a book set in Virginia in 1811 that mentions slavery.
No other Jewish book has ever mentioned slavery, right?
spoiler
Exodus.
Additional spoiler, the Holocaust.
Did not Florida forbidden some Holocaust related children book about year ago?
I’m…not sure that counts.
Jews were forced to labor for the Nazis. How was that not slavery?
It wasn’t a “book”. It may have had many books written on it but that wasn’t the original statement.
Does the Holocaust count as slavery or not?
That was not the point I was making so it doesn’t matter.
That’s quite the evasion of a yes or no question.
Usually you think of the extermination aspect, but yes there was some. But my point was that responding to me saying another book containing slavery with a historical event was kind of unusual. There’s been books written on it for sure by it’s mostly unrelated.
Looks like Florida chose to be the wicked son for Passover.
I thought it was mostly proven myth that any slaves or Israelites were building shit in Egypt. Also there’s zero record of any sort of Exodus or anything to corroborate the story of Moses
You are correct, but it is still a book that often mentions slavery and which they are perfectly fine with.
Yes, it might be a book of bullshit, but it’s a bullshit book we read every year and sing songs from about how we were foreigners and slaves and should be nice to foreigners and slaves. The fact that there’s even a part about “what if I question how trial and tribulation I’ve never known affects me?” And you’re supposed to essentially say, “bitch! God wouldn’t have saved you cuz you’re too much of a bitch!”
Eta: hell, there’s even a part where we’re like, “God killed the Egyptian oppressors, let’s dance and sing!” And then God, who could only speak to Moses, spoke to everyone all like, “look you ungrateful fucks! I may have made the Egyptians with my left hand while getting over a cold, but they’re my creations nonetheless! Quit celebrating and pour one out for your fallen homies.” Then we get rid of 10 drops of wine to resemble 10 drops of blood for the 10 plagues and how horrible it was that God made the Pharoh say no and then punished all the poor people for it.
On a yearly basis, multiple times per year, our parents dress us up and misinterpret the importance of all these holidays that are supposed to teach us empathy, apology, forgiveness, and patience. But fuck all that, right? Being a Jew is about… Checks notes …Banning books about actual slavery?