Help me understand why this is racist / something is off about it
There's this woman Jane I've known for some time. I like her as a colleague but sometimes as a friend I find she is just too white and liberal for me. But she keeps reaching out so I see her once every few months for a co work or something.
I get an invite for a celebratory party she is having and the name for the party is a pun including the word ""jew." Weird, but i keep reading. It has a lot of jokes about Christianity (because the celebration is of her getting a new job which happens to be at a christian institution) and then at the end of the invite it says that these jokes are not sacrilege because "I'm Jewish now."
I texted a mutual friend being like what is going on in this party invite. And my friend says Jane is Jewish now, she identifies as Jewish, she converted to judaism, she is on J date, that she "like Judaism" and has been thinking about converting for a few years. I am thoroughly confused because it seems random, this is all news to me, and she's making jokes about it (??).
I then meet her a couple days later and she's like oh I can't eat that bec of passover. and i'm like, oh yeah, what's up with your invite? And she says "Oh you don't know? I'm jewish now"
I don't know how to explain that there is something very off about this. It's not that I think all conversion is weird in this particular way. I'm not religious, but I understand conversion, it's fine, good for them.
And so I want to know if any one else thinks this is weird and can explain why. Now this part is obviously racist to me (even though I still can't articulate why). But after she says "I'm Jewish now." she makes a "joke" and says to me: I guess we're enemies now haha. (I'm Muslim)
This is obviously racist. But I want to understand why even before she said this, I had a strong feeling something was off about it.