Tyler, obviously many people were shocked to read your article earlier this week, and I do appreciate your effort to further explain yourself. Unfortunately, you’ve missed the point again. I think the issue that people—including myself—found in your article is not with your message of intersectional support for all groups, but with your telling the Jewish community that their public displays of grief are somehow shameful and unwarranted. The fact that you are Jewish, and the descendant of Holocaust survivors does not make your opinion any less insensitive. The time to demand more from the Jewish community is not while we are still burying those that were killed. The time to make criticisms over what is being posted on social media is not now. Regardless of the intention, the article came off not as motivation to fight for complete equality, but as an insensitive and opportunistic way in which to use the Jewish community’s public displays of mourning as a false example of a single group only caring about themselves.

The Anti-Defamation League reports that anti-Semitic instances have increased 57 percent in the last year. One year and nine months ago the Jewish cemetery in St. Louis was desecrated. This was not the first attack on Jews. This is not us suddenly punching our ticket as an ethnic group that people should feel sorry for. Our long history of social activism is testament to the fact that we have always known that our community is not safe unless all communities are safe. If you believe that your friends, Jewish or not, are not sufficiently engaged you should be questioning your own choice of friends; not the long, unassailable history of Jewish activism.

In any event, social media posts are not the barometer by which you should be judging Jewish Americans. You paint an entire community as indifferent because they failed, in your eyes, to change their Facebook status after every tragedy. I ask you, what will do more to change the current state of our nation, more Facebook posts or a change in policy? An estimated 85 percent of eligible Jewish voters cast ballots in 2016 and 70 percent of them voted for Hillary. Half of all money raised by Democratic presidential candidates comes from Jews. Jews vote, and Jews raise money for politicians that fight for all social groups.