Devorah Firestone
2 min readNov 21, 2022

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For most of my life the things I've heard have only been about being Jewish. I have never gone a month on a dating site without swearing and threats, many who followed to social media putting things on my profile in place and searching. I've been threatened on dates which isn't fun either, multiple times.

I had one altercation that came to blows, a male friend was a block behind me to come help, but I landed the first kick. It didn't go farther once he was there. Big guy. And I was chased out of my home 2 years ago for being Jewish because they decided it was cool to mentally abuse me in a group so they could "break me down" and change my beliefs.

I don't think it's only Whites, but as a Jew there have been a lot of assumptions and brushing off of my concerns. I don't actually ID as White, in part because I'm not in the White people club. I used to think I was, until I listened to them more closely in my teens. I'm one of their "other" friends.

The last few years, being White joined the criticisms, except from Whites ,who exclude and discriminate for being Jewish, and no they have no trouble picking me out.

Now there seem to be efforts from the WS types and certain minorities to erase Jews. At the same time. Some are very dangerous as they fully resemble the kind of talk that happened right before everything went off the rails. In the 1930s. Attacks are up and Mr Ye was the cause of 15 children's schools having security issues.

I have certainly seen people push back at every person that they may not believe in specific cases, or they believe a certain celeb we like, over actual quotes and tape and the feelings of others. We do need to learn to listen.

I had studied domestic violence behaviors years ago but I didn't catch Kanye announcing to Kim. I discovered that LA Cops had ignored her warnings about him as did most of her audience, but a NY Cop in a Domestic Violence unit, picked that language up, called them, and got people to go see him. My understanding is the meetings turned a corner, but he was becoming more threatening and scary until then. I was ashamed to hear I'd missed it.

Thanks for your insight, it's actually helpful.

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Devorah Firestone
Devorah Firestone

Written by Devorah Firestone

Engineer for people with disabilities, actress, long-term activist, scholar. Loves cooking, Porsche and boats. #antiwar #inclusion #films #A11y

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