racism

Sorry for the delay. For some reason I missed this question. The question of racism is complicated. You can search here on the Torim website where I wrote about it, and you will see that it actually has no definition. And I certainly do not see it as a serious problem that requires a solution, even if there are occasionally problematic phenomena in this area. I also dealt there with the refusal to admit male or female students to institutions because of the spirit of the institution. Again, this has nothing to do with racism, whether I like it or not. Beyond all of this, it is clear that there is crazy hysteria surrounding the issue of racism. For example, the statements you quoted at the end are really not shocking to me. I refuse to give in to the accepted demagogy and brainwashing. There is indeed primitive religiosity, and sometimes it has an affinity with origin and ethnicity. In my opinion, this is a fact. This does not mean that it is true for all individuals in the same ethnicity, but referring to the public always involves generalizations. Such statements can be with or without taste, but I do not necessarily see them as anything wrong. Similarly, Garbuz's words about those who kiss amulets are in my opinion an accurate description of the prevailing religious primitivism (by the way, as far as I remember, he did not mention ethnicity, and therefore the victims are only testifying to themselves that they are racists in their own way. But even if he had mentioned it, I do not see this as a reason for a flaw. At most, a little tactless). When I was sent the above video (even before I saw the uproar it caused online), I chuckled to myself for several reasons. First, I wasn't impressed that it was necessarily about the racism of these girls. The possibility occurred to me that it was mocking the racism of the Ulpana. Beyond that, there are more or less good jokes in Purim videos by high school students, and it seems ridiculous to me to draw conclusions from them. And third, in an era when the entire Zionist-religious public, with its rabbinical and political leadership, is one big attack of blasphemy, to see such an attack in a stupid video of a few girls (as Roy Lachmanovitz wrote on the Kippa website) is simply a sad joke. If this is what makes him ashamed of his affiliation with the sector, then this is itself a crazy attack on the sector.