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“How can you call yourself a humanist and support Israelis?”

Well, you see, it’s really absurdly simple - Israelis are human beings and I’m against demonisation and dehumanisation and murder and rape and kidnapping being justified on the basis of where any human being happened to be born or calls home. That’s a pretty fucking baseline humanist position.

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Maybe I wouldn’t hate the phrase “free Palestine” so much if it wasn’t constantly muttered to me as some type of rebuttal for the horrific crime of being a Jew.

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Incredibly niche PSA-

ALEPH and the Aleph Institute are two totally different groups that have nothing to do with each other.

ALEPH is the Jewish renewal rabbinical ordination program (which has more JVP members than the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College per enrolled student ) and the Aleph Institute is a mainstream Jewish organization focused on providing social services to Jews in prison and their families, among other good things.

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I absolutely loathe the Israeli Government, but I will never hate the country of Israel. Half of my people live there and my connection to the land of Israel is a central pillar of my Jewish identity.

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Oppositional sexism is a very useful term actually. Like, so much is better explained by the idea of “there’s a societal belief that men and women should remain opposites and should have no overlapping traits” than “this is homophobia/transphobia”. Why does society hate displays of femininity in men and masculinity in women? It’s oppositional sexism. They hate that you’re proof that masculinity and femininity aren’t inherently opposites. Thank you julia serano for another banger

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i think it should be illegal to not have paper menus. and it should be illegal to only accept digital payments and not accept cash

generally making anything accessible only with a phone sould be illegal. like genuinely regulated by the govt and forbidden. IMO

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a minor headcanon that I will die defending is that reigen initially assumed that mob’s supposed “psychic powers” were just how he rationalized his autism to himself. like here’s an obviously autistic kid, one reigen clocks immediately because he’s, well, reigen, and he’s talking about extra sensory perception and having powers he can’t control, powers that are scary. obviously, he assumes, this is something the kid picked up from his parents, a way for him to rationalize his alienation from other children— that no, you’re not “different”, you’re special (not even going into the parents who think their autistic children are like, aliens) and the other kids can see that you’re special and so they treat you like you’re weird and creepy and they don’t invite you to play and they whisper behind your back but it’s fine, because one day they’ll see how special you really are. and adult autistic reigen arataka, who was also probably-definitely bullied as a child, decides to nip that thought in the bud and gives the whole spiel, that no, “psychic powers” (autism) don’t make you special, and yes, they do make you different, and that’s fine because everyone’s different, and at the end of the day you have agency and you get to decide the kind of person you’ll be, so choose to be a kind one, and he sees this kid hanging off his every word as he tells him the kind of stuff he wishes someone had told him when he was so little and alone, and he mentally pats himself on the back and hypes himself up for another cigarette.

and then the kid makes a teacup float in front of him and he’s like oh. damn. can you kill ghosts

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art fight for @owlyjules!

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did y’all know that “land of milk and honey” is actually a Zionist phrase that supports colonization? definitely not a phrase that stems from a 3000 year old verse in the Torah

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Fucking tired of seeing takes that boil down to "well it's real sad about the [insert latest antisemitic crime] but you can't blame people because Israel"

Human beings are responsible for their fucking actions. It is absurd to even entertain the idea that because of Israel, people suddenly lose any sense of responsibility and they just can't HELP but attack Jews.

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It's really funny how consistently the most rabid, crazy, pro murder Neo Nazis on this platform will just randomly start claiming to be Jewish out of nowhere 45 minutes into a conversation the second they're cornered with their neo Nazi beliefs. And by "really funny" I mean "would be really funny if every gentile on the planet didn't believe them and claim all the actual Jews are paid Israeli shills because they don't support Hamas." :/

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this is so fucking wild to me I can’t stop laughing literally no wonder the perceived top shortage exists