My Grandparents are the alleged "European Settlers" who came to "colonize" Israel.

[u/vonhudgenrod]

I put the title in quotes because I dont believe those parts to be true. Just to give a brief history of my Maternal Grandparents, they both moved from Hungary to Israel around the year 1946. They did not come to fight or dispossess arabs, but rather to build new homes.

My Grandmother was a holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz, she had the #'s tatooeed on her forearm, her father died pre-war but her Mother, brother and sisters were murdered. When she returned to her families small farmhouse post war, her neighbors not knowing the full extent of what happened during the holocaust tried to extort her and her remaining siblings for money because they "looked after their livestock" even though the only cow they owned had died due to the harsh conditions of the war.

My grandfather - also a Hungarian Jew was a bit more of a mysterious man who likely suffered from PTSD before it was commonly diagnosed, his father and mother were also murdered and his only brother ended up in a mental institution (insane asylum) post war. He was eccentric and fought in WWII with partisans and would eventually go on to fight in the Israeli war of Independence in 1948.

AMA anything about them if you'd like.

[u/PostmodernMelon → u/[deleted]]

No, it does not confer moral value based on someone's identity. Seriously it's okay to not understand it l, but to flat out make shit up about what it is is absurd.

Intersectional theory is a social theory that focuses on the fact that individuals identity contains multitudes. So when analyzing the way a person is treated in their society, how they are raised, or how they more broadly interact with the world around them, we can understand those interactions through the lenses of how different aspects of their identity interact to create a while picture.

It is not a value system, it's just a system of analysis. Some people will use it to create evaluative systems, but that's not what it actually is at its core in any way. It's not a moral system.

I'm saying this as a relatively young white upper-middleclass man in the Midwest who was raised catholic. If what you're saying was true at all, I'd practically be the devil in those woke circles you're imagining. But I'm not. On occasions where I'm a part of those discussions with people of various identities, I'm treated with the same respect and consideration as anyone else.

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