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I can't remember where I first heard it, but here's a joke that's lived rent free in my head for years:

two friends, a Jew and a Christian, are talking about holiday customs.

the Jew says "on Rosh Hashanah, it's traditional to blow the shofar 30 times"

the Christian looks at him awkwardly and says "wow. all we give our chauffeur on Christmas is a bottle of wine."

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Asking because my brother is one of the straightest people I've ever met despite how similar we are, but a lot of queer people I know seem to have at least one queer sibling.

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The demonization of actual charities/orgs in favor of individual GFMs has done nothing but stripped marginalized people of their privacy + dignity by forcing them to become internet celebrities in order to get their needs met as opposed to an org that could privately help them if said org had the funding!!!! Also it’s why people feel the need to go as far as to fake their own kidnappings just to get traction! Not to mention it’s just made the lives of grifters so much easier

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being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

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Hey, I don't usually respond to comments but I need you to look me in the eyes and tell me that antisemitism is "just microaggressions" when the Tree of Life shooting was in 2018. When antisemitism made up more than half of religion-based hate crimes in the USA for years, well before October 7. When the Holocaust museum in my city was vandalized with two-foot swastikas last week. When my synagogue had windows broken. When the Hebrew school I taught at had to get bulletproof glass put in because of the sheer amount of neo-nazi activity in the area. When I have lost a job due to antisemitism. When I couldn't get hired wearing mitpachat. When I have been beaten up and come home bleeding because of antisemitism. When I nearly grew up without a parent because of antisemitic violence. Look me in the eyes and tell me that I'm wringing my hands about imaginary future violence.

Your comment that modern antisemitism is "just microaggressions" isn't just dismissive of the reality of antisemitism in the United States, it's also wildly telling on yourself. If your knee-jerk reaction to the concern of antisemitism is to assume that must be pro-Israeli propaganda, it means that your context for antisemitism is exclusively its appropriation... because you don't see what the fuck is going on in your own communities.

And that's just it: it's easier for many leftists to take violence against women seriously because you see it: it happens to you, or your mother, or your sisters. You see people taking it seriously (mostly) on the news and in media, and you've been culturally conditioned to care about it (if only hypothetically for white cisgender women). So when right wing politicians appropriate the concept of violence against women to oppress transgender rights, you can still recognize that violence against women is a real issue outside of its appropriation.

On the other hand, it's harder for you to take antisemitism seriously because you don't see it. it doesn't happen to you or your family. You don't see it taken seriously outside of a star-spangled, "we won WWII and ended antisemitism" military propaganda piece, and have in many ways have been specifically conditioned to not care about antisemitism. So if the first real time you've seen people really talking about antisemitism is in the context of its appropriation over the last couple years, it makes total sense why you'd assume concerns about antisemitism are in relation to Israel. You don't have any other context, so you struggle to recognize that antisemitism is a real issue outside of its appropriation.

What's particularly embarrassing to witness is how your understanding of antisemitiam is exclusively the bought-and-paid-for-by-the-US-military propaganda on defeating antisemitism as part of the Allies' glorious victory in WWII. Captain America punched Hitler and saved the Jews, thus entirely negating a several thousand-year-old form of bias, so consequently all modern discussions about antisemitism must be overblown! It doesn't matter that the concept of Jews fabricating claims of antisemitism to control or manipulate gentiles is one of the oldest and most pervasive antisemitic canards. Didn't you hear? Antisemitism--or at least antisemitism that's a big enough deal for gentiles to care about--is over. You truly can't beat the hits, I guess.

The thing I'm baffled the most by is the idea that antisemitism has been "replaced" by Islamophobia. Not only are Islamophobia and Palestine not mentioned in this post, that's just... not how bigotry works. Has transphobia replaced ableism? Does sinophonia replace homophobia? You can absolutely make an argument about systemic vs. pervasive oppression or the degree of severity or urgency, but I've never seen anyone quite so full-throatedly endorse the oppression olympics before. Like we're all adults with object permanence, we know that multiple systems of oppression exist simultaneously, right? We can recognize their different manifestations without dismissing or deprioritizing them. Caring about multiple issues at the same time is possible, and more importantly, it's essential given that Islamophobia and antisemitism in the west both have the same root cause of Christian nationalism and white supremacy. All systems of oppression interact and uphold each other, but Islamophobia and antisemitism are profoundly intertwined in the west, and it's essential to recognize their shared root if your goal is actual liberation. You're doing nothing for no one here.

I won't argue that there are people (some Jews but mostly Christians) utilizing antisemitism to suppress freedom of speech and perpetuate Israel's genocide. No question. I personally choose not bring up antisemitism when the conversation is actively and specifically about Palestine because I recognize how within that context it can do real harm by recentering the conversation away from stopping an ongoing genocide. That doesn't mean that antisemitism isn't real, that it doesn't matter, or that all conversations about antisemitism are recentering discourse away from Palestine (especially when Palestine wasn't mentioned in the first place). And it certainly doesn't mean that goyisch leftists get a free pass on antisemitism, in the exact same way that they don't get a free pass on not caring about violence against women.

We're either working to collectively unwork all systems of oppression or we're not. Fucks sake.

If you as a leftist can understand that

the Trump administration is using the concept of violence against women to oppress transgender people and strip back civil rights

AND violence against women is a real societal issue that needs to be taken seriously, especially when women's safety and autonomy is directly attacked by the same right wing politicians claiming to care about it to further their agenda

Then you can also understand that

the Trump administration is using the concept of antisemitism to perpetuate oppress activists and strip back freedom of speech

AND antisemitism is a real societal issue that needs to be taken seriously, especially when Jewish safety is directly attacked by the same right wing politicians claiming to care about it to further their agenda

Right? ...Right??

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Got some VERY funny antisemitic messages this week. Like one was extremely mid ragebait but the other had such solid "listen up cumsluts" energy that I was so tempted to share it.

Like I think the last line was something like "I've schooled, mortified, and blocked you" which is AMAZING, absolutely no notes. Truly they don't make 'em like that anymore.

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Well you see minors under 25 years old should not be allowed to get gender reassignment surgery because what if they go to the clinic but instead of giving them a normal penis the nurses mess up and give them the evil penis. That's irreversible

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local sociologist deeply fucking tired of people on the internet using basic soc terminology incorrectly and harmfully

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One of my favorite genres of post

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Can you please just have an ounce of shrimpathy?

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dungeon meshi ah dungeon meshi

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kabru is so fucking funny. he’s out here playing 15 dimensional manipulation mind chess with a guy whose hobby is barking like a dog

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If you believe that any category of person is fair game to kill, harm, or treat inhumanely, an antisemitic propaganda machine will try to convince you that Jews fall into that category. That’s been a core and intentional aspect of antisemitism for hundreds of years.

The only way to become immune to that propaganda is to admit that all people deserve life and humane treatment. Yes, even those people. Yes, even when they take those actions. Dehumanization can never be justice. Death can never be reparation.

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now THIS is jewish culture