Matthew Lawrence
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389 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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the typical way of doing things, just kind of listening and not asking questions, doesn't really work for us.
So, I mean
The Jewish community, like most communities, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to say that it's the most affirming place.
The society Jewish people still live in a in a greater, larger society.
Our greater, larger society is ableist and autistophobic.
Therefore, most uh Jewish communities are indeed the same, right?
Just as most communities, spiritual communities,
Are homophobic and queer phobic, transphobic, racist.
That exists, right?
And we'll always find ones which are not.
But on a whole
Most are and it's something that we struggle with and
Ableism in the Jewish community, whether that's in synagogue spaces, whether that's in community spaces that aren't uh of a religious nature and just kind of cultural spaces, that exists.
Not because it's Jewish, but because they're part of a greater society which is ableist and actually promotes and accepts ableism, and the Jewish community has a lot to do in that too, t to fix and to learn.
Well, it's it's challenging, right?
Because and and that I would say is not a uniquely Jewish thing, right?
Like
Um, any kind of space, people are going to assume that they're doing the right thing and that they're being good people while doing it, right?
And people don't love when you come to them and you tell them you're doing something wrong which is oppressive to me.
Right?
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