I don't make the rules, either. Hannah Arendt had a rule, though. "If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew," she wrote. "Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man." So is that what I have to do? What I have been putting off doing all this time? Do I have to defend myself from all this as a Jew?

XREF: Connects to Arendt's broader political philosophy on identity and the public realm, and to debates about whether one can transcend particular identities.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 914