{"id":64093,"date":"2015-02-22T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64093"},"modified":"2019-06-16T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T01:21:06","slug":"smells-like-teen-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64093","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Teen Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people ask converts to Judaism if they feel accepted by other Jews and some converts complain about a lack of acceptance. I&#8217;ve found that most Jews I&#8217;ve known accept me 100% as Jewish and treat me indistinguishably from others Jews. I&#8217;ve long been counted in the minyan and called to the Torah for an aliyah. I may be fooling myself, but it sure feels like acceptance to me. They&#8217;ve brought me into their homes for meals, they&#8217;ve set me up on dates with Jewesses born into the tribe (usually the dregs, but hey, no rabbis daughters have come my way), they&#8217;ve offered me jobs, they&#8217;ve rented apartments to me, sold me cars, etc. Most of the Jews who don&#8217;t accept me don&#8217;t accept me on my own demerits and they do accept other converts who have gotten with the program.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hTWKbfoikeg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XFkzRNyygfk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HydvceA1PAI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/radiohead\/creep.html\">When you were here before<\/a><br \/>\nCouldn&#8217;t look you in the eye<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re just like an angel<br \/>\nYour skin makes me cry<br \/>\nYou float like a feather<br \/>\nIn a beautiful world<br \/>\nI wish I was special<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re so fucking special<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m a creep<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a weirdo<br \/>\nWhat the hell am I doing here?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t belong here<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if it hurts<br \/>\nI wanna have control<br \/>\nI want a perfect body<br \/>\nI want a perfect soul<br \/>\nI want you to notice<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m not around<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re so fucking special<br \/>\nI wish I was special<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m a creep<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a weirdo<br \/>\nWhat the hell am I doing here?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t belong here<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s running out the door<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s running out<br \/>\nShe run run run run&#8230;<br \/>\nRun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever makes you happy<br \/>\nWhatever you want<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re so fucking special<br \/>\nI wish I was special<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m a creep<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a weirdo<br \/>\nWhat the hell am I doing here?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t belong here<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t belong here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/patrice-oneal-why-white-people-like-creep-by-radiohead\/\">The late comedian Patrice O\u2019Neal said<\/a>: &#8220;White people have had a bad rap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;White people have this innate thing where they want to feel bad. That&#8217;s why they voted for Barack. I&#8217;m a creep. I didn&#8217;t own slaves, but I&#8217;m a weirdo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/patrice-oneal-why-white-people-like-creep-by-radiohead\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An important bit of advice by O\u2019Neal for nonwhites trying to learn how to deal with whites: \u201cYou cannot meet passive aggression with aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microaggressions are a hallmark of a high civilization \u2014 e.g., the dialogue in Jane Austen\u2019s or Evelyn Waugh\u2019s novels \u2014 so they are particularly irritating to people worried that they come from a lower civilizational level, inciting them to respond with macroaggressions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I look for rejection from Jews, I can find it. If I look for acceptance, I can find that too. I guess it is up to me to decide what to concentrate on.<\/p>\n<p>Steven: &#8220;When I worked at Strand book store in New York City one of my supervisors was a black American convert to Orthodox Judaism. He chided me about being non-observant (I was raised Reform and never Bar Mitzvah-ed). He wore a prayer shawl and payos at work. I never doubted this guy was a zillion percent more Jewish than I was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Judaism is a religion, and despite Hitler and all the DNA research into Jewish genetic relatedness (which I welcome), it is not a race. When I worked at Strand I respected my black convert supervisor Tom Weatherly as a Jewish elder. Tom knew and experienced more about Judaism than I ever did or will, as I am sure Luke Ford has done. The faith and the culture of Judaism means more than genetics. It&#8217;s both offensive (and unfounded) to say otherwise. I&#8217;m sure a hell of a lot of Islamic supremacist Palestinian Arabs have ancient Hebrew ancestors. What&#8217;s important is the choices you make and the tradition you identify with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chris: &#8220;What polite Jews may say to your face, Luke, and what they really think of you, could be entirely different things. I don&#8217;t believe Jews really trust any Goy deep down, even converts to the tribe, or those who marry into it. At best, it is grudging acceptance, though they aren&#8217;t really happy about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chris: &#8220;Jews are not a race in the classic sense of the term and run the gamut of phenotypes from kinky-haired and hook-nosed Mizrahis to Aryan blond, blue-eyes, snub nosed Ashkenazi, but there is a peculiar mentality ingrained in Jews culturally and spirtually where they see themselves as and often act as if they are racially distinct from the Goyim they live amongst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Corwin: &#8220;It&#8217;s a figment of your self regard that any jew would ever welcome you into his family. Sorry, bud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &#8220;Jews aren&#8217;t polite. So when a Jewish family has me over for Shabbat meals in excess of 50 times? That is all just for show? I&#8217;m not sure exactly what they get out of my presence if it is just for show. Show to whom? I don&#8217;t think anyone can read my blog or my FB and think I slant my impressions in favor of the Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Corwin: &#8220;A friend, a Shabbat guest, a co-religionist &#8212; sure. When you say that you have been set up with jewesses, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not by a father with a daughter, but with a distant relative or cast of acquaintance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had Jewish fathers try to set me up with their daughters, but admittedly the daughters were 5s or below if I recall correctly. Some of them were a bit retarded.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8844\">Orthodox rabbis<\/a> who are <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8577\">converts to Judaism<\/a> and they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9121\">respected positions in Jewish life<\/a> and are often married to women born Jewish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people ask converts to Judaism if they feel accepted by other Jews and some converts complain about a lack of acceptance. 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