Since I haven't checked my privilege as I should, I have found myself cancelled in recent weeks by a group of German women who had felt the need to engage in some victimhood porn.
I am a Jewish woman in Germany. I lived in East Germany. I was a child of divorced parents. My father illegally left East Germany and I was then treated as the child of a fugitive.
When I was 17, I left home. I started working as a waitress and completed my high school diploma while waiting three nights a week, even though my parents didn't have a high school diploma. I have experienced anti-Semitism, I have been boycotted before and subjected to violence, and after saving enough money I wrote my first novel without a printing house, without connections.
I brought a girl into this world, I became a single mother and live in a rented apartment. Ever since her birth, I have been working full time on top of being a writer. To put it simply, I am a whole host of minorities: A woman, a mom, an East Berliner, a single mother and the daughter of working-class parents.
But despite my biography, I have never considered myself to be a victim of my life circumstances or a victim of the social systems that have impacted me one way or another.
Everyone has the ability to decide if their definition of freedom is deterministic or part of free choice. In any event, my definition of freedom is actually very Jewish. For me, freedom is the understanding of borders and acting within those bounds. When all is said and done, the creation of the world is much less misogynistic than what people think. It actually shows the first time free choice is made.
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And now, in these past few days, hundreds of German granddaughters of Nazis have called for my cancellation, not because I am super unwoke when I dress up as an American Indian and not because I have used the n-word, or because I wrote a poem on rape or used the word homosexual. No. The reason is that I took away something from the term of Jewish freedom and did not define the raising of my daughter as a profession, and put question marks regarding materialistic feminism in a post on Instagram.
Because of this, the women lost it and charged me that I am privileged white capitalist woman, made me into a pinata, and made sure to cancel my appearances on social media and even in the print papers.
They called for boycotting me and even called on my employer to fire me. They are just rich b**ches, whose great-great-grandparents made sure to persecute family and boycott its property, as well as that of my friends' families. These are women who profited from the suffering of others.
Their behavior has of course a long tradition in Germany. They like boycotts and hate freedom. They like tyrannical leaders and project their childish wishful thinking on the state.
They are sure that they are entitled to something. That Jews should give them something. They have a ridiculous view of motherhood, inheritance from their Nazi grandparents and they want the state to give them a prize for changing diapers. I
In any event, the state, the system, society, politics, and the economy are all bad and unfair. These women fall to the ground with a great howl and wag a finger toward the elites who prevent them from pursuing happiness. In doing so, they forget that their families tucked gold into their pockets, as well as silver and artworks of millions of Jews in order to achieve Germany's economic miracle.
But this has not stopped them from casting themselves in the role of a discriminated minority even though they live in one of the richest countries in the world and their knowledge of real-world problems depends on what they watch on television. F-ing Germans!
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