@QueenEsther4351@trishaposner@DahliaKurtz@RuthwithSnow Honestly, what are you trying to prove here? That your medical knowledge is better? That it actually is antisemitism? Believe me, there is plenty real antisemitism to focus on, but if ppl like you keep crying wolf over A MEDICAL QUESTION, real cases won't be taken seriously. Stop
@meichano_O@humanbeastie@DahliaKurtz Exactly. They can ask more questions when they see you. This just tells them to be on the lookout for certain things they might otherwise not be so vigilant for. If they don't see them bc your great-grandparents converted and aren't genetically Jewish, ok, great. No harm done
@mwsc18@JoyceWhiteVance Sure. Idiots like my Hungarian cousins who grew up behind the iron curtain, saw it fall, then lived through rise & fall of Orban. Or my Holocaust survivor mom. THEY understand exactly what it looks like when democracy is in jeopardy. YOU don't have a clue what you're parroting.
@DahliaKurtz Every time you go for a medical procedure they ask your ethnicity. Not that Jew or non-Jew were not the only possible answers.
Anyway, here’s something that Jews are prone to that shows up in an MRI.
@Another_JStone@gbishop34@DahliaKurtz It's not about religion, it's about race. And yes, there are diseases and genetic issues more common in certain races.
This is Baby. She is celebrating her first ever International Corgi Day today. Personally thinks she should be celebrated every day, but this is a good start. 14/10
She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.
Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.
She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.
The one everyone could see.
The one that said: nobody wants her.
For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.
The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.
The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.
Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.
But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.
She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."
So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.
She called it Sit With Us.
The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.
No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.
Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.
Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.
Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.
"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."
She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.
That's not just survival. That's transformation.
@AMCKunneke@DahliaKurtz The question is about race. If you cover and you aren't racially Jewish no, if course that wouldn't apply. There are other genetic issues as well, including at least one that shows up on MRI. I don't know why you're questioning this.
Once again, the irony remains that if California just ripped open the envelopes and counted ballots without signature verification the results would be much faster and far, far less secure.
And a whole lot of "election integrity" folks would not complain about it.
@trishaposner@DahliaKurtz@RuthwithSnow It's not about religion in this case, it's about racial predisposition to certain diseases and genetic markers. It's valid in this context.