Yeah I understand the babbling. I wanted to post something when I first learned of the attacks last week but I just haven't had words. Talking about the vigil gives me some concrete facts to hang things off of. Some reactions:

Jews (at least, the Ashkenazi, European-descended ones I grew up with and associate with mostly) have always known it could happen here. For any value of "here". The history of every country in which we've sheltered includes a passage from welcome to hatred. There's a reason I have a "Resisting Tyrants Since Pharoah" tee shirt (which I wore to the vigil). Much of what I've been reading in the two years since Hair Furor came to power has been about the conditional whiteness of Jews.

We also know that Jews of color share backgrounds that include being subjected to imperialism, slavery, and other ills inflicted on people of color on top of Jewish identities. (I'm also trying to learn more about intersectionality, particularly as it expresses in this population of my people.)

Bigotry is based on distortions and exaggerations, not on any actual facts. But you know that...