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"Passive" vs. "Active" Anti-Semitism.....personal experiences. [1]
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Date: 2023-01-27
I am a psychologist, not a racial theorist, so please forgive me if I am using the wrong terms.
I view Anti-Jewish as happening in one of two ways:
1) Active in which people approach a person or group of people that they perceive as Jewish and express various degrees of anti-semitic behavior, be it vocal/physical/etc.
2) Passive in which someone with anti-Jewish sentiments open up and share those views in conversation or some other form of interaction, and expresses openly their anti-Jewish behaviors,
An example from each that I have experienced.
1) Back in the early 80s I was lucky enough to hear and see the camp survivor and Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal speak at my Temple, Near the mid-point of his lecture we were suddenly informed that we could not go outside via police orders as two people known to the police were outside the building
2) Only a few years ago I was invited to a fancy lunch with a friend, her father and her father’s girlfriend. The whole convo was taken over by this woman who kept using the phrase “Jew down” to refer to try to get a reduction in price. I was made visibly uncomfortable and as soon as possible had an aside with my friend, She then addressed her father while this woman went to the restroom, The father then hemmed and hawed and said the usual “she did not mean it, blah blah” my friend admitted she had not even noticed the person making the statements saying it. Needless to say we are no longer friends.
By far and away these are not the only forms that I have experienced, I use these two only to represent what I mean by the use of the two categories. Do you think that such a breakdown is useful and/or appropriate?
I cannot answer the question as to which is worse or more offensive, if a person “just” holds anti-Jewish views and only lets them out when she or he feels safe to do so or a person who just feels no more or less Jewish than the passive type, but feels no need to hide their views.
Sometimes I prefer to deal with the more active people since at least with them you know who you are dealing with.
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