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Yeah, sex is cool, but has your Rabbi ever told you that you made a really good point he hadn't thought of before
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âYou're not a Nazi, Jojo. You're a ten-year-old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.â
I think about this line from Jojo Rabbit a lot these days.


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people love dead jews đ¤ people love dead palestinians
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you can just call the minneapolis shooter a man. he's a neo nazi sympathizer, you don't need to dance around his delusions
I generally try to call people by the name they introduce themselves as, even if (as in this case) they are absolutely terrible people. Mostly because I want other people to know Iâll extent the same courtesy to them.
Itâs not a political statement; itâs just good manners.
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being jewish talking about antisemitism feels like the wolves episode of long story short
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i cannot emphasize enough that these excerpts were two paragraphs apart


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Palestine could have maintained their government and Jewish people could have lived there as Palestinian Jewish people, but that wasn't good enough. For decades Israel has slaughtered Palestinian Jewish people. Israel has slaughtered Palestinian children, women, and men. Israel has even slaughtered their own citizens for criticizing the violence. Your undermining the genocide, your arguing in favor of the occupation, puts blood on your hands.
It's about maintaining humanity, and the fact is that people are dying, and the bulk isn't the people of Israel. It's the people of Palestine.
The only reason the bulk of the dying aren't Israelis is because they defend themselves, and no matter how much you try to deny and edit history, it still didn't happen the way you wanted it to.
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What the Taliban is doing to Afghan women is not ârestrictions.â Itâs gender apartheid- a total war on half the population.
⢠No school beyond grade 6 for girls.
⢠No university, no jobs, not even nursing or working for the UN.
⢠No public spaces :parks, gyms, beauty salons, even restaurants are forbidden.
⢠No freedom of movement without a male guardian.
⢠No voice in public, sometimes not even at home if men can hear.
⢠No bodily autonomy, contraceptives banned, justice system weaponized, women flogged and stoned.
This isnât âculture.â Itâs the deliberate destruction of female existence in public and private life.
And yet⌠the world shrugs.
Why? Because womenâs rights are always treated as negotiable. Itâs not complex. Itâs patriarchy with guns.
We donât need âawareness.â We need rage that doesnât fade and solidarity that doesnât stop when the headlines do. Afghan women are resisting every single day, often at the risk of prison, torture, or death. The least we can do is refuse to normalize their oppression.
Silence is complicity.
Patriarchy everywhere is patriarchy we must destroy.
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https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/neighbours-of-grieving-atlanta-jewish-politician-try-to-justify-his-daughters-murder-calling-him-a-ke-igrjrrr5
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"Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience
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I feel like a lot of leftists forget that unintentional antisemitism is still antisemitism and still has an affect on jews.
Even if you say something which has common antisemitic tropes without meaning to be antisemitic, it's still antisemitic.
And it's not like some unforgivable act which will forever be a stain on you. Just apologize, learn and don't repeat the mistake again.
Unintentional antisemitism still has an affect on jews.
An example would be my abusive ex, who didn't like me going to synagogue again as it meant I was no longer isolated. We also argued about how we would raise our future kids. My ex wanted them to learn and celebrate sri lankan holidays. When I said I wanted our future children to also grow up with a secular (non religious) celebration of jewish holidays as well, I was met with "that's indoctrination"
Did my ex hate jews? No. My ex's reasoning was me going to synagogue meant I had a community, people to bound their behavior off of and get feedback that said behavior was abuse. Giving that some community to our future children further meant I would be no longer isolated.
If I wasn't jewish but another ethnicity and sought out community in the same way, my ex's thought process would likely still have been the same.
But it still had an effect on me. It made me feel like my ex viewed me as evil for being jewish (because of the word choice of indoctrination) and furthered the feeling of isolation I had felt as a jew all my life.
Much to my ex's dismay, that argument is what made me finally have the courage to leave. That and me realizing how pathetic it was that after a plate was thrown at me, that I cried and begged for an apology which they refused to give. But that argument was the final kick in the ass to leave.
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No guys, you don't get it. Yeah, the past hundred times or so this conspiracy theory was used to justify violence against Jews were fake, but THIS TIME it's REAL!
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A tumblr/tiktok creator recently made a short art film drawing directly on Holocaust imagery, while saying in the notes of reblogs that they âdidnât want to explicitly put anything Jewish, because then no one would think it was about anything other than the holocaust, and thatâs not what I wantedâ because âI made this with the deportations and disappearances in America in mind, this was not about the persecution of Jews so much as it was about the persecution of immigrants todayâ.
I watched the film while scrolling on my phone (my mistake, all my filters are on desktop) and at first thought it was some absurdist or horror piece as the narrator incinerates things made of paper. By the time it got to the end in which the narrator murders a pleading human, I had already gone from "Oh, it's not absurdist, it's political commentary, maybe on censorship? A Fahrenheit 451 pastiche?" to "Ah, this is just another reminder of the Holocaust" followed by "Man, I hope I'm not gonna scroll down and see a caption and find out this was Holocaust inversion."
(There's been a lot of Holocaust inversion thrown around lately.)
I hadn't finished thinking of the odds about whether it was going to be universalization or not by the time I scrolled down to a reblogger pointing out the erasure of of Jews. Pointing out that we see no Jewish titles on the books, music, and so on being destroyed. Pointing out that the creator made sure titles indicating other minorities were visible.
I hadn't even noticed the titles of anything. The screen was small and I was busy reading the narration.
A lack of Jewish (and Roma) titles in no way, at all, stopped me from immediately thinking of the Holocaust. Why would it? While people have been burned to death in other circumstances, the use of industrial equipment run by government officials with complicity or outright involvement of majority civilians is, very firmly, the territory of the Holocaust.
Most people know that. While I can't speak for other education systems, anyone in the Western world (of which the creator and intended audience are a part) who doesn't know that is either very young, or was utterly failed by the teachers and somehow missed all the other places its discussed.
The creator clearly knew that, or why see a need to deliberately erase us?
Art pieces like this always make me think of the branch of my family that vanished. They always do. Honestly this short film said nothing new. Art doesn't have to say new things, saying the old things in a new voice can important art too, but fuck is it exhausting to get my people's trauma slapped in my face and have it be same-old-same-old.
Can't you say anything new?
I don't understand how the creator could think erasing Jewish texts would stop any audience member from thinking of the Holocaust.
Are people who didn't lose their families and communities, who don't have that grieving ache, able to see art of a human being in an incinerator and not automatically think of it?
Frankly, I don't understand why the creator chose that piece of the Holocaust when trying to comment on what's being done to immigrants and refugees in America.
Maybe it's a lack of knowledge outside the gas chambers and incinerators?
My godmother's mother fled Germany with her parents in the 1930's and came back after the war as a teenager to serve as a translator at the Nuremberg trials. I honestly don't know how many details my mother told me came from her recounts versus history texts.
During the first Trump administration my mother panicked when the news came out that the border prisons were separating families with lies about hygiene. Because the gas chamber victims didn't walk knowingly to their deaths, they were lied to that this was a delousing treatment.
While we were fighting for family reunification, to end the border separations, word came out that many released parents were struggling to find their children, because they'd been put in the foster system and their records sealed.
Their children were stolen, under a claim of "child welfare".
After the Holocaust, Catholic orphanages and some other groups who'd hidden children refused to give them back to their surviving families. Refused to let them go back to the fractured Jewish communities.
Claimed it was for the good of the child's soul.
Why don't you use those real, horrifying parallels? There are more. I could go on. I'm not going to. I already feel sick.
Then there's the fact that...the murder of Jewish people via burning has recently been in the news. While the government-run incinerators are relegated to museums, the murders are still happening.
The massacres on October 7th 2023, when Hamas trapped people in houses, shelters, and vehicles, set them on fire, and incinerated everyone inside so thoroughly that their remains had to be identified, not by normal body reclamation or crime scene investigators, but by ARCHEOLOGISTS.
Before and since then, steady streams of arson attacks against synagogues. Not all fatal, but all intended to be.
In Denver, Colorado, 82-year-old Karen Diamond was lit on fire, struggled to survive for weeks in the hospital, ultimately succumbing to the burn wounds.
The persecution of immigrants in America is very bad. It needs to be addressed. We all need to fight it.
The murder of Jews in America also needs to be fought.
This was a bad artistic choice.
The image of fiery censorship leading to human incineration is a powerful one. It is also one we have due to the Holocaust. Not even the Inquisition tied that path so tightly in everyone's minds.
It was an artistic choice that utterly failed to get the piece's intent across, and hurt the communities that survived the Holocaust.
Maybe if you didn't consider Jewish pain a distraction, you could have made a better piece.
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Dandelion Matzoh Cover / Tapestry
(June 2021)
By Sam / @wax_and_bones on IG
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People just seem absolutely unable to comprehend whatâs happening in Ukraine. You tell them everything that is happening including tens of thousands of kids possibly hundreds but that number hasnât been fully considered have been kidnapped and being trafficked and they canât comprehend how bad it is because it doesnât fit their narrative of the world. Itâs just a white country fighting a white country how can any side oppress the other. Itâs like their brains literally cannot comprehend it because it doesnât fit the only framework they know for comprehending the world. I donât understand how they hear this and then arenât horrified
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is antisemitism watered down and meaningless or is it, perhaps, that antisemitism is far more pervasive than you realized and you are very bad at recognizing it
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