What Do Jews and Gays Have In Common?

You can’t say anything bad about them…

In all seriousness, hate speech directed towards marginalized communities remains a pervasive issue in society, with groups such as the LGBTQ movement and Jewish people often being targeted. Despite their differences, there are striking similarities in how these communities navigate and respond to such discrimination.

Both the LGBTQ movement and the Jewish community have faced historical persecution and discrimination based on their identities. Hate speech towards these groups often manifests in stereotypes, derogatory language, and even violence, perpetuating harmful attitudes and behaviors.

I must note that hate speech towards the LGBTQ movement in modern-day Western culture (especially before Israel’s invasion of Gaza) is much more prominent than hate speech towards the Jewish Community. However, in response to hate speech, both communities have mobilized advocacy efforts aimed at raising awareness, promoting tolerance, and combating prejudice. If you have anything negative to say – sometimes even if it's not hate speech, just a historical fact or your opinion – you will be canceled. It’s also important to mention that these two communities are dedicated to community building and members of their respective communities hold powerful and influential positions – politicians, billionaires, heads of entertainment organizations.

If you were even so much as to publically criticize or disagree with anything that either of these communities promotes or engages in, you would be labeled either antisemitic or homophobic, and ‘canceled’.

The LGBTQ movement has seemingly ingratiated into American culture with the increased prevalence of homosexual scenes and transgender characters in entertainment and advertisements, the creation of new pronouns, laws regulating public restroom use by transgenders, and changes to school curricula regarding sexuality.

Even those whose cultural and religious beliefs do not align with those of the LGBTQ movement have to support the movement to a certain extent or risk public crucifixion for not wanting to share a bathroom with someone who identified as the opposite sex a few months ago…

Similar to how the LGBTQ movement tosses around the word homophobic to label anyone who does not agree with their lifestyle, the Jewish community in the U.S. and abroad grossly misuses the word antisemitism to protect Israel and prominent Jewish-led organizations from receiving legitimate criticism.

Even some of Israel’s top human rights groups have come together (in 2023) to petition not to adopt the Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “working definition of antisemitism” because it “…has often been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as antisemitic, and thus chill and sometimes suppress, non-violent protest, activism and speech critical of Israel and/or Zionism, including in the US and Europe,” according to the petition.

Have Jews and members of the LGBTQ community gained so much influence, especially in America, that they have evolved above criticism?