In 1979 my parents fled #Iran because they were #Jewish. Fled, not immigrated. They left behind all of their belongings. A handful of pictures, clothes and some small trinkets that could fit in a suitcase was all they took. As my mother said goodbye to her family, she couldn’t stop crying. She was convinced this was the last time she would ever see her parents and siblings again. Once they arrived in #USA, their circumstances continued to deteriorate. The value of the rial plummeted, and with it their meager savings were wiped out. What was once an exchange rate of 71 Iranian Rials to 1 US Dollar, became 9,430 Rials to 1 US Dollar. My father, a college-educated pharmacist, couldn’t access his school records so he had to forfeit his degree and find work as a store clerk. Neither of them knew English, nor could they afford to take classes, so they would sit together with a Farsi-English dictionary and painstakingly translate the words they heard on TV to try to teach themselves a new language. I learned English in preschool, not at home. At night my mother would practice my older brother’s kindergarten homework to teach herself reading, writing and spelling. We scraped and saved throughout my entire childhood as my parents struggled to rebuild their lives in America. Yet, according to #DEI, because I am Jewish I am “white.” Because I am Jewish, I am “privileged.” And because I am Jewish, I am an “oppressor.” But a Muslim-Iranian family, with the same exact experience or even a better experience as my family, would be considered “brown”, “oppressed” and “not-privileged.” @mcuban diversity, inclusion and equality are noble concepts, but as applied by #DEI they are distorted into a form of reverse racism where discrimination on the basis of race is still permitted, and labels of “race” are applied with no regard to the unique backgrounds and experiences people have. #DEI is nothing more than a manipulation of words to promote divisions and exclusions within our society that have no basis in reality, facts or circumstances. And it is this same #DEI mindset that fuels students to blindly support #HamasRapists on the FALSE premise that they are “brown” and “oppressed” while simultaneously justifying the rape and slaughter of Jewish people like myself whose families have fled religious persecution and radical Islam. #AmYisraelChai #IStandWithIsrael #BringThemHome #BelieveIsraeliWomen #NeverAgainIsNow
In 1979 my parents fled #Iran because they were #Jewish. Fled, not immigrated. They left behind all of their belongings. A handful of pictures, clothes and some small trinkets that could fit in a suitcase was all they took. As my mother said goodbye to her family, she couldn’t stop crying. She was convinced this was the last time she would ever see her parents and siblings again. Once they arrived in #USA, their circumstances continued to deteriorate. The value of the rial plummeted, and with it their meager savings were wiped out. What was once an exchange rate of 71 Iranian Rials to 1 US Dollar, became 9,430 Rials to 1 US Dollar. My father, a college-educated pharmacist, couldn’t access his school records so he had to forfeit his degree and find work as a store clerk. Neither of them knew English, nor could they afford to take classes, so they would sit together with a Farsi-English dictionary and painstakingly translate the words they heard on TV to try to teach themselves a new language. I learned English in preschool, not at home. At night my mother would practice my older brother’s kindergarten homework to teach herself reading, writing and spelling. We scraped and saved throughout my entire childhood as my parents struggled to rebuild their lives in America. Yet, according to #DEI, because I am Jewish I am “white.” Because I am Jewish, I am “privileged.” And because I am Jewish, I am an “oppressor.” But a Muslim-Iranian family, with the same exact experience or even a better experience as my family, would be considered “brown”, “oppressed” and “not-privileged.” @mcuban diversity, inclusion and equality are noble concepts, but as applied by #DEI they are distorted into a form of reverse racism where discrimination on the basis of race is still permitted, and labels of “race” are applied with no regard to the unique backgrounds and experiences people have. #DEI is nothing more than a manipulation of words to promote divisions and exclusions within our society that have no basis in reality, facts or circumstances. And it is this same #DEI mindset that fuels students to blindly support #HamasRapists on the FALSE premise that they are “brown” and “oppressed” while simultaneously justifying the rape and slaughter of Jewish people like myself whose families have fled religious persecution and radical Islam. #AmYisraelChai #IStandWithIsrael #BringThemHome #BelieveIsraeliWomen #NeverAgainIsNow
My dad and uncle got here literally with what they were wearing as little kids. The rest of the family was wiped out in Auschwitz. Yet now we're 'oppressors' @mcuban since we studied hard, learned, worked hard and have excelled here in the USA. Same rags2success stories can be found among Irish, Italians, and so on. All considered less than by the DEI overlords, and so excluded from positions and considerations now.
Can we stop pretending that being jewish in USA is somehow disadvantage? I am sorry that your parents had tough times but that does not mean you get to inherit their struggle and be somehow a victim. You choose to support ongoing genocide and you want a victim status? Jewish people are literally on top of every meaningful hierarchy in USA and somehow we plebs should call them victims too. If they are not “white”, I do not know who is.
1979 in Iran was the equivalent of 1933 in Germany. The world did nothing then (at least for 6 years, until Germany invaded Poland and they had to act) and did nothing in 1979. When evil seizes tyrannical powers and enslaves and slaughters it’s people, the civilized world must act or they too are complicit.
@persianjewess the Persian jewess im sorry your family went through this terrible and awful time but can you not see that Palestinian families are going through this very same predicament now and you have the Israeli IDF murdering innocent Palestinians in the name of your god This
@persianjewess Mark Cuban is just a pandering ego at this point.
@persianjewess Just curious, is there like a DEI manual or something? Doesn't seem like a refugee from Iran would be prejudiced by it
@persianjewess Well said! It just makes people resentful of each other instead of judging people by their character.
@persianjewess Thank yiou for pointing those things out. Mark Cuban's take has no depth.
@persianjewess Very well said and thank you for sharing your story :-)
@persianjewess Thank you for sharing your family's story. It illuminates the critical importance of the individual and the foolhardy premise of using race in any decision, especially a political decision. (See the US Constitution.)