Interesting thread on Twitter:
Todd Gitlin: To Bay Area friends: I’ll be speaking on Jewish identity, courtesy the Berkeley Jewish Studies program…
Alan Neff: Shouldn’t that be Jewish “identities”? Owing to the fact that we have so many of them, one seems to undershoot the mark.
Casey: and really aren’t we all just humans and we can cut it out with tribal identities orrrrrrr…?
Alan Neff: That would be good.
Casey: Really? It seems “problematic” — it implies erasing existing tribal identities, like, say, “Jewish,” among others.
Alan Neff: You seem interested in taking my comment in a direction I did not intend, like toward another anti-semitic holocaust. Goodbye.
