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I am not claiming that you cannot mitigate persecution for being a Jew (or really any immutable characteristic) by pretending not to be that thing, but I don't think that being criticized for which media products you consume or which afterschool activities you partake in or however else you want to slice it really rises to the level of antisemitism...pretty much any way you slice it. Even if you don't think the mutable versus immutable characteristics distinction is coherent, right now it is still more physically dangerous to be a Jew!
Moreover I don't think it's actually a good idea for nerds or those who wish them well to draw that parallel. Nor do I think it is good for society. "Everything I don't like is Hitler" is already a problem; it's risible for people who like Dungeons and Dragons to suggest that being bullied in middle school is in some way analogous to the Holocaust (even indirectly) and doing so just makes nerds seem out of touch, reinforcing the stereotypes that nerds presumably want to avoid.
I am not saying that no nerd can ever experience anything that is similar to anything a Jew can ever experience, or that Jewish persecution is ontologically different from other forms of persecution, or that any comparison is automatically invalid. Getting bullied for being a Jew and getting bullied for being a nerd are similar from the perspective that the bullying is very analogous. But that's analogous because the bullying is analogous. The Jewishness and nerdiness are not analogous. There is more to both of those things than their position on the woke totem pole.
Left wing antisemites (again ignoring Muslims) don't want to commit a Holocaust and are happy with Jews who oppose Israel, don't worship, have no ties to capitalism, and don't step outside of what leftists think is appropriate for white people.
In what way are these people antisemites? Slurs? Edgy memes? (I'll accept that as evidence!) Would they be okay with me if I supported Israel, worshiped, had ties to capitalism, and stepped outside of what leftists thought is appropriate for white people, just because I was not a Jew?
Anyway, I don't think it really changes the fundamental analysis one way or another that some antisemites are more casual about it than others (or perhaps more precisely, that some antisemites may be using antisemitism as a means of furthering their left-wing ideological agenda).
Any non-Muslim who attends Free Palestine rallies and chants "From the river to the sea!" qualifies in my book.
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