When You Call Bernie Sanders a White Man, You Erase His Jewishness
And you erase mine too.
5 min readMar 10, 2020
“This primary is down to two old white men.” Every time I hear those words, a piece of myself — my Jewish identity— shrinks away from the light just a little bit more.
When you brush away Bernie’s Jewishness, you tell me mine is unimportant as well. You tell me I can’t trust you with all…