by Jesse Berman, Baltimore Jewish Times
In Menken’s view, certain segments of the country are trying to divide the people by race.
“They basically claim that the color of your skin is the sole determinant of whether you are personally persecuted or privileged, and we know from history that that’s nonsensical,” Menken said. “And a lot of those people immediately turn around and say, ‘Well, the Jews have white privilege.’ At the same time that they try to say the Jews only have to worry about white supremacists for hatred, they say the Jews have white privilege, which kind of, you know, they contradict each other, but it doesn’t matter how crazy the idea, we’re just going to divide people by race.”
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