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You know how I know that the anti-Israel hate is deeply rooted in antisemitism, and not just "social justice" or whatever people are calling it right now?

Let me tell you a common situation I encounter:

So, being a college student away from home, I don't have a car here. This means that if I ever need to go anywhere, I need to get an Uber or Lyft or something along those lines.

I always tuck in my Bring Them Home tag, magen david, turn my "am Yisrael chai" pin to the inside of my clothes, etc. I hate doing it, but I have heard of violently antisemitic drivers, and I'd rather not risk it, considering I'm alone in the car with them.

Every time, I call my mom. It makes me safer to have someone on call. And every time, she makes the same two recommendations.

The first is to put in an address of a neighboring house for pickup, because the house I live in has my landlord's car out front, and his car has stickers in Hebrew on it.

The second is, if asked where I'm from, to say Russia. I don't get asked where I'm "really from" unless I'm with my parents usually (they both have strong accents). But it's a warning my mom repeats every time anyway. The choice of Russia isn't random, I was raised fluent and can back up the claim if need be with random knowledge. But I have never been to Russia, except for the airport once to catch a connecting flight to Israel. I was, however, born in Israel, and I've been there multiple times (unfortunately not since 2014 though). So to say I'm from Russia is a lie, and to say I'm from Israel is the truth.

Both are countries at war. Russia, unlike Israel, actually started the war. Unlike Israel, Russia actually does have a history of colonialism, genocide, imperialism, and worse.

So why is it safer for me to lie about being from an aggressor country than to tell the truth about being from a country caught in a war it didn't want?

Antisemitism. Anti-Russian hate crimes globally didn't spike, Russian women haven't been raped as "justice" for Ukraine. Russian businesses weren't commonly vandalized simply for being from Russia. Meanwhile, all of these things were done to Jews as a result of a war Israel did not start.

If this global response to the war wasn't antisemitism it would be equally safe or unsafe for me to give either answer.

But in reality, it's safer for me to lie about being from Russia than to tell the truth about being from Israel.

That's how I know it's antisemitism.

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You know, I've hit a point where if you come at me with 'I won't outright state that I wish to destroy cultures and societies but I'll make up reasons why it should be considered evil that they exist in the first place'? I'm just going to fucking block you, you worthless little shit.

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Anon hate that transes your gender

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Leftists don't understand those because they can't comprehend a world where literally everything isn't determined by ideology.

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"Free speech is freedom from punishment from the government, not from consequences from the public".

Fun fact: various governments have taken away freedom of speech based on public opinion/outrage. As in these countries can punish you for merely offending someone.

That's where we're headed. That's why people are so adamant about letting people voice their opinions, even if we disagree. Freedom.

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Hello, I saw your article entitled "WHY DEFEND FREEDOM OF ICKY SPEECH?" And I'd like to ask... Are you normalizing lolicon now? It's not just a made-up story where there's inappropriate content with children, where it's portrayed as something terrible. It's portrayed as something normal and sexy😦

This article?

As I point out in the article, I'd not actually read any lolicon, and 16 years later, I still haven't. As I say in it:

Still, you seem to want lolicon banned, and people prosecuted for owning it, and I don't. You ask, What makes it worth defending? and the only answer I can give is this: Freedom to write, freedom to read, freedom to own material that you believe is worth defending means you're going to have to stand up for stuff you don't believe is worth defending, even stuff you find actively distasteful, because laws are big blunt instruments that do not differentiate between what you like and what you don't, because prosecutors are humans and bear grudges and fight for re-election, because one person's obscenity is another person's art.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

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Animal crossing is cancelled until y’all learn how to act like adults.

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And yet you'll gladly vote for candidates who take advantage of it.

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"The law is inherently unjust" said the person who enjoys the benefits of living in a country where theft and murder are felonies whose offenders are imprisoned to protect society from them. If you really believe the law is inherently unjust, go start an anarchist society and watch it turn into Syria or Haiti.

i miss the bad guys. like they really took the only good thing about zootopia (furries) and made it infinitely better by Not being copaganda

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I don’t know how this isn’t common sense, but: If your Blorbo has killed enough civilians for the ICJ to consider calling it a genocide, it is time to show solidarity with the victims. No one but infiltrated Fascists will even think of harming Jewish people that are not walking around with Israeli flags, and infiltrated Fascists never lasts long around antifascists. I know you are afraid, but also know that you do not have to be as long as you are not visibly pro Israel

@blorbomancer No no, don't leave this in the notes. Have it out in public for all to see that you think that only Jews who dare express support for Israel need to fear being attacked, and that the way they ought to stay safe is to stay silent.

I don’t know how this isn’t common sense, but:

If your movement has managed to put an already oppressed minority group in danger to the point where they don’t even feel safe to leave their home to go to school, your movement is heavily flawed.

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And wasn't it considered to be a bad thing among the left once upon a time to hate people based on their country of origin or ethnic makeup?

Not for quite some time. For at least most of the past decade it's been actively encouraged among certain leftist circles to hate all those who are determined to be members or supporters of the Evil Majority, and this is just a continuation of that. To these people, what they're doing is no different from all the other racist things they say and believe about white people, because their understanding of ethnicity is so americocentric that they can't comprehend that anything other than literal skin color could ever be a determining factor in race.

For a bunch of so-called "leftists", a lot of you are acting awfully right wing. Religious fundamentalism used the be the antithesis of leftist values, but you guys are happily supporting it when you scream for "intifada" and wave the flags of right wing terror groups.

And wasn't it considered to be a bad thing among the left once upon a time to hate people based on their country of origin or ethnic makeup?

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Random tweets with no backing source are a very trustworthy way to get information. Also, if it was never self-defense, then are you saying that Israel committed October 7th itself? Do you have any proof of that? Oh wait, of course you do! I'm sure you can find dozens of tweets from random people with barely comprehensible videos conveying no real information that just say it did.

Israel has deployed auto-firing quadcopters that emit the sounds of crying babies.

https://xtwitter.com/jam_etc_art/status/1780038184828608975

There is no possible reality where this is in any way capable of being passed off as self-defense. It was never self-defense. It is, and always has been, a genocide.

Crying babies. Crying babies. This is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meant to draw out and kill civilians while also making it far more difficult to locate and aid children who are trapped or alone.

If you have money to spare, please consider donating esims to help connect Gazans to their loved ones.

End the occupation. Free Palestine.

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A concentration camp that had 500 trucks coming in every day? Also, I agree that this situation is terrible. It's a shame that Hamas chose to instigate it by committing the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. But something tells me you'd rather die than admit that Muslims are capable of doing evil.

gaza is slowly going from being a concentration camp, and becoming a graveyard.

end this.

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#Immediate permanent ceasefire now

Hamas just turned the last one down, probably because they started this war. But you don't care about bad things when non-whites do them, so I get why you wouldn't have noticed.

The country of freedom and ridiculous democracy.

The moment of the violent arrest of the economics professor of Emory University Caroline Fohlinin in the state of Georgia

After these scenes, there must be a position for all universities around the world to stand with the people of Palestine in Gaza. All hypocritical authorities and rulers who support the Nazi terrorist Israelis must be confronted.

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All hypocritical authorities and rulers who support the Nazi terrorist Israelis must be confronted.

Very normal thing to say, and definitely not Nazi rhetoric at all

The country of freedom and ridiculous democracy.

The moment of the violent arrest of the economics professor of Emory University Caroline Fohlinin in the state of Georgia

After these scenes, there must be a position for all universities around the world to stand with the people of Palestine in Gaza. All hypocritical authorities and rulers who support the Nazi terrorist Israelis must be confronted.

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You'll forget about this just like you forgot about defunding the police and metoo and Iran. Remember Iran? The country your side now defends in its terrorism despite it currently waging war on women who don't wear the hijab? Anyways, Hamas is supported by the most evil countries on the planet that make America look like a kitten. Get your Putinist, Xi Jinping Thought propaganda outta here.

When the rest of the world looks at the united states right now, we see a government who sends billions to support genocide but cannot help their own people starving on the streets.

We see a police force who won't go in to save children from school shootings, but deploy at a rapid rate to arrest peaceful protestors using their right to free speech to protest a genocide

America, you are a war mongering snake eating your own tail. You will protect and support war criminals in another country but let your own people starve and die

To the students bravely protesting now, we see your strength. We see what we saw when students protested the Vietnam War. We have faith you will prevail

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Tell me you've forgotten about Syria and Ukraine and Libya and Yemen without telling me you've forgotten about Syria and Ukraine and Libya and Yemen.

israel wants people to think that the amount of innocent people who have been killed in gaza is normal, is just what happens in war, but every other article that comes out says that the deaths of civilians, journalists, aid workers, children... theyr all the highest theyv been around the world in decades. you cant just wave it away with a "shit happens in war", only apologize when other countries' citizens get killed, and still claim youre doing everything you can to not kill civilians