So I was thinking about this today among other things.

One thing I feel is that it's very hard to compare marginalized experiences on a one to one basis. For instance; African Americans have been basically kitbashing an identity as a new ethnic group ever since slavery brutally took away Ife, Hausa, Fulani, Ashanti, whatever African identities almost all at once. By contrast, there's a thread of identity across Europe and even into Africa and East Asia which unites Jews *but* the destruction of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities, most recently the Shoah's destruction of Jewish culture throughout Europe and even the Middle East, the hostile conditions of Ethiopia or the steady isolation of China, and the siren song of assimilation all mean that not just one but several Jewish cultures have been all but destroyed.

You can't clearly compare those and say one group's experience was worse than the other.

So if you put a flag in history - and you have to because that's context for what's going on now, *and* to ignore in creates the invisibility and silencing which is a universal problem for all marginalized groups - you're left with the important, well what are problems now. And there any comparison becomes specious because foci tend to emerge as immediate and clear. The suppression of Black voters is very clearly anti-Black and it's big enough to be urgent right fucking now. The wealth of trans panic bills are intended as a distraction but they still impact trans folk with dire effect and that's urgent right now. At some point, with anti-semitism on the rise, it will be time for hate crimes, casual comments and state suppression to be addressed as urgent - but now's probably not the time.

Does this make any sense?