"Ashkenormativity" describes a very real phenomenon of Ashkenazi cultural hegemony within the American Jewish community. As a Mizrahi Jew who lived that, it was one of my favorite terms. Now leftist antizionist Jews, the most ashkenormative Jews on the planet, have ruined it.
"Ashkenormativity" describes a very real phenomenon of Ashkenazi cultural hegemony within the American Jewish community. As a Mizrahi Jew who lived that, it was one of my favorite terms. Now leftist antizionist Jews, the most ashkenormative Jews on the planet, have ruined it.
This is how "ashkenormative" is defined by Columbia's School of Social Work. The term has been distorted to imply that all Jews have white privilege, thus justifying the treatment of all Jews as white oppressors.
@daniela127 I don't want to dismiss your experience but at the same time it feels like the word carries unnecessary ideological baggage (of oppressor and oppressed, etc.) for just describing a commonplace relationship between a majority and minority culture.