frandroid

not great! i do feel like catholics have a particular moral duty to combat antisemitism tho, bc of, you know... doing most of it? but this kind of lazy 'philosemitic' framing is still super othering. it's a change in affect but not a change to the underlying conception of jewishness as Other & is vulnerable to being flipped back. (since well... the antisemite also believes jewish people are extraordinary...)

It's the whole challenge Levinas poses, to embrace the other as Other - w/o conversion/assimilation nor rejection nor fetishization