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I'm in love with elf chilchuck

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WHEN IT'S TOTALLY DISCONNECTED FROM ANTISEMITISM. Like oh yeah, the first place my mind goes to when I think of the Holocaust is trans women. What the FUCK.

Found this along the way, but Queer people (since trans wasn't really a unique and distinct cultural concept at the time) was explicitly connected to Nazi Antisemitism.

Firstly,

Referencing another post I made:

Homophobia and Transphobia weren't divorced from Nazi antisemitism, either. They were a part of the Nazi conspiracy theory about Jews "perverting the youth." Yes, there were anti-homosexuality laws before the Nazis took over, and Rohm existed (before being killed) but it was a very specific part of Nazi ideology, especially after he died. Queer people were ways of destroying "Masculinism" and German Society. To get the fuller picture you might need to look at several pieces, or broader works, but I did find that Gabriel Klapholz does a decent job of synthesizing the point in a few pages. There's more to be read at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia. "Many people saw these discussions as part of the decadent, overly permissive, and immoral tendencies that they believed characterized Weimar culture. They were disturbed by the increased visibility of sex in advertising, film, and other aspects of daily life. Various right-wing and centrist political groups, as well as mainstream religious organizations, sought to promote their own version of German culture. This version was rooted in traditional music and literature, religion, and the family. In some cases, these groups blamed Jews and Communists for corrupting German culture. For example, Hirschfeld came under attack from many of these groups because of his open discussions of sexuality, his Jewish background, and his leftist political opinions."

Antisemitism was baked into just about every single thing Nazis proposed or their bigotries. It's part of why "Nazi" is synonymous with "antisemite", whereas "fascist" isn't in the same way. Borrowing Nazi talking points, or minimizing Nazi atrocities, in a way that splits it off from or distracts from the literal, textual, explicit way that Nazis weaponized conservative backlash towards queer people as part of their antisemitism, is fucked in a whole host of ways. Including lying/misleading about things that fuel(ed) antisemitism.

Secondly, there is a wide world of difference between calling the State of Israel fascistic, or saying it is enacting policies that look damn similar to what Nazis did (the example I always use is Lebensraum, which refers to an expansionist mystical/"natural"/"god-given right" to someone else's land, partially justified by the racist belief that the people living there stole it/are subhuman and don't deserve it) and taking the stance that Jews (as a class) are Nazis.

I could go into how numerous thought and public leaders of the anti-zionist movement are Jewish people, or that frequently there are arrests of large numbers of Jewish anti-zionist protestors (like the 300 arrested yesterday in Brooklyn), but that's separate from the above fact.

Israel doesn't govern majority of Jewish people in the world; it isn't even the country with the most Jewish people in the world. It is not the voice of all Jewish people, and that remains the case even after documented decades of work the State of Israel has done to try to conflate itself with all Jewish people everywhere.

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girl what the fuck is happening to Drew Carey ?

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SENSHI would want you to get enough sleep and have nice nutritious meals

CHILCHUCK would want you to know your worker rights and what your labor is worth

LAIOS would want you to embrace your passions and try new things

FALIN would want you to take care of your health and treat others with kindness

MARCILLE would want you to practice necromancy and have gay sex

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I mean, Bangladesh is still a country of 171 million people and is either the 25th or 35th largest economy, depending on how you look at it.

Bangladesh seems to be just fine relevant to Israel's recognition (or rejecting it)

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god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

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Twitter users will not survive the winter

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I just think it would be funny to switch things up and lead with "popular far-right online blogger, Joan Rowling" once in awhile.

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In the ruins of what had been Nasser hospital, the biggest in southern Gaza, Reuters saw emergency workers in white hazmat suits digging corpses out of the ground with hand tools and a digger truck. The emergency services said 73 more bodies had been found at the site in the past day, raising the number found over the week to 283.

Gaza authorities say the bodies recovered so far are from just one of at least three mass graves they have found at the site. "We expect to find another 200 bodies at the same mass grave in the coming two days before we will begin working at the two other cemeteries," Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run government media office, told Reuters. He accused Israel of carrying out "executions" at the hospital and covering up the crimes by burying bodies with a bulldozer. Israel strongly denies having carried out executions.

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Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

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absolutely stellar