Antisemitism 4.3

In lesson 4.3, I learned the deeper context and justification to the KKK, rather than the basis to what I have been told. I understood before that the KKK was a racist affiliated group but this lesson, and previous lessons, has taught me that it’s never just one thing or it’s “intersectionality”. I never considered the religious perspective to the reasoning behind the KKK, that Americans were not only supposed to be white but Protestant. It’s interesting to see the KKK in perspective, especially in the early twentieth century when an influx of immigrants were coming to America and the KKK reawaken to the response of people who were not considered “American” coming to “infringe” on what the U.S. is supposed to be, which is apparently white and Protestant. One of the many groups coming to the U.S. were Jews, which was seen as one of the threats to America. Jews, throughout generations, have always been persecuted and considered an “other”, and this sentiment is only strengthen by supersessionism, the idea that Christianity “fulfills, triumphs over, and replaces Judaism”. Even the Bible is used to justify antisemitism, and is exploited to state that Jews are in the wrong and justifies the violence against them.