in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:
arts, fashion, and lifestyle:
jeans - levi strauss
modern bras - ida rosenthal
sewing machines - isaac merritt singer
modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers
operetta - jacques offenbach
comic books - stan lee
graphic novels - will eisner
teddy bears - morris and rose michtom
influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen
artists - mark rothko
actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand
comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld
authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley
culture:
esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof
feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg
queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler
international women's day - clara zetkin
principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer
"the new colossus" - emma lazarus
universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin
holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel
workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman
public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald
racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner
political theory - hannah arendt
disability rights - judith heumann
black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza
#metoo movement - jodi kantor
institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld
technology:
word processing computers - evelyn berezin
facebook - mark zuckerberg
console video game system - ralph henry baer
cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper
3d - leonard lipton
telephone - philipp reis
fax machines - arthur korn
microphone - emile berliner
gramophone - emile berliner
television - boris rosing
barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver
secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr
three laws of robotics - isaac asimov
cybernetics - norbert wiener
helicopters - emile berliner
BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny
google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page
VCR - jerome lemelson
fax machine - jerome lemelson
telegraph - samuel finley breese morse
morse code - samuel finley breese morse
bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus
electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi
nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover
the internet - paul baran
icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir
color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes
world's first computer - herman goldstine
modern computer architecture - john von neumann
bittorrent - bram cohen
voip internet telephony - alon cohen
data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv
nemeth code - abraham nemeth
holography - dennis gabor
laser - theodor maiman
instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn
first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus
electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg
drip irrigation - simcha blass
ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro
photo booth - anatol marco josepho
medicine:
pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch
defibrillators - bernard lown
anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin
polio vaccine - jonas salk
test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman
test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal
penicillin - ernst boris chain
pregnancy test - barnhard zondek
antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion
discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter
chemotherapy - paul ehrlich
discovery of prions - stanley prusiner
psychoanalysis - sigmund freud
rubber condoms - julius fromm
birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus
asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein
blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner
acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion
vitamins - caismir funk
technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow
antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg
a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov
homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann
aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun
science:
theory of relativity - albert einstein
theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell
quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz
quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein
microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn
neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria
counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter
genetic engineering - paul berg
discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre
discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias
discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter
discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose
discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez
modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann
stainless steel - hans goldschmidt
gas powered vehicles
interferometer - albert abraham michelson
discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe
proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman
biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof
electron-positron collider - bruno touschek
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by Adam Levick
Mahdawi, whose column is devoted to revealing ‘The Week in Patriarchy’, is, even by Guardian standards, an especially dishonest writer/activist, and she was true to form in her latest hatchet job, falsely accusing Seinfeld of misogyny, while continuing to remain silent about Hamas’s rape, torture and mutilation of Israeli women and girls.
However, even more shamefully, he accuses Seinfeld of “cheerleading…genocidal violence” and “joking about suffering children in Gaza”.
Here’s the relevant part:
But while Seinfeld has never been a bleeding-heart liberal, it feels like he’s never been quite so vocally anti-progressive as he is now. Ever since 7 October, Seinfeld has advocated loudly for Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians, demonized pro-Palestinian protesters, and joked about suffering children in Gaza. “Save the children of Gaza,” he said in a mocking voice after getting heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters at a show. Along with cheerleading what the United Nations human rights council has described as genocidal violence, he has also apparently decided that a great tactic for publicizing his much-panned movie about Pop-Tarts is by complaining about the left.
Let’s unpack this:
First, like most people outside of Mahdawi’s anti-Zionist bubble, Seinfeld’s reaction to the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust was to express support for the Israeli victims and support the war against the genocidal terrorist group responsible for it. The incident involving the ‘pro-Palestinian protesters’ in question involved two Israel haters interrupting a performance of his in Norfolk, Virginia to scream at Seinfeld himself – again, because he supports Israel in their war with Hamas – that he’s a “genocide supporter”, and that everyone in the crowd is a genocide supporter. A second protester interrupted the show, screaming ‘Save the Children of Gaza’.
As you can see in the video published at various media outlets, Seinfeld did not “joke about suffering children of Gaza”. He reacted to the interruption by rightly mocking the protester for evidently believing that harassing a Jewish performer in the US is going to help Palestinians.
Next, in the paragraph cited above, Mahdawi falsely claims that the “United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) described” Israel’s war as “genocidal violence”. If you open the link, it clearly shows that it wasn’t the UNHRC itself which charged Israel with genocide. The accusation was made by the widely discredited UN ‘Special Rappatour’ Francesca Albanese – in a report to the UNHRC.
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i recently reread openbound's transcripts for fun and have been left with a lingering question. *jerry seinfeld voice* what's the deal with beforus?
if alternia is meant to be a race-mixing tranny nightmare hellscape then what does that make beforus? it's told to us as the antithesis of all things alternia but hasn't actually solved all of its complex caste hierarchy problems, just painted them in a new but still bad light. we know little about its government or if it has clown police too but we do know that as empress feferi overcorrected hard, trading out violence for infantilization. feferi is the least overtly black-coded of the peixeses (i'd even argue that she isn't black-coded at all when you consider the way hussie writes the rest of his "black" characters), so does this mean that beforus = nonviolent = white? purging a society of blackness makes a utopia? and considering that alternia's black ruling class makes up a small percentage of the population anyway does this mean homestuck secretly reinforces the 13/50 stereotype???
not that it worked i guess because a lot of the alpha trolls still committed horrific acts of violence against one other and then all died anyway. something something one drop rule.
and then there's kankri, who complicates things, as he is best at. he talks at length about non-cis blood colors. he drops terms such as polyblooded, transblooded, cool-identifying physically-warmer hues, and so on that imply a much more complex relationship with race than alternia has. so is that the end goal? beforus is actually pro-miscegenation, and the only way to achieve true harmony is actually to subscribe to white replacement theory? (granted the way he talks about these things was brief and likely not widely accepted, but the fact that there are words for transblooded trolls at all means that, at least, the idea is out there.) the alpha trolls glaringly don't have a limeblooded friend after all. were they similarly eradicated like they were on alternia or are kankri and co. reverse racist?
I don't believe there are meaningful differences between Alternia and Beforus, as far as references to irl racism goes. To me it's the difference between Horrorterrors and Squiddles: the latter is a defanged abstraction of the former, but both still represent an insidious Other laying siege to the Plumbthroat > Redneck > White. The Duttle illustrates their shared roots in the black tanglebuddy.
Your equation of "nonviolent = white" is one pathway into the gendering of races: blackness is the categorically masculinized sexual aggressor, whiteness the categorically feminized victim. Hence in Sburb's grand chess game, white is doomed to be "mated" (and thereby annihilated) by black, a sexual subtext made text by red/black Caliborn's Freudian slip wrt lime/white Calliope. On Alternia, themes of miscegenation are woven into troll sexuality. In Openbound, you can see that Porrim's feminism is implicitly anti-black, vilifying as it does Latula's black-coded speech affectations. Both can be regarded as manifestations of sexualized racial anxieties that the narrative adopts as a structuring device at various levels. I find the in-story depiction of Alternia as a corruption of utopian Beforus to be an act of misdirection -- as you note, neither planet has lime bloods.
Regarding Kankri's talk of... transhemicism? first I should say be wary of mapping blood strictly to race. That's definitely part of it, but it can also refer to transsexuality by way of Alternia/Beforus's gendering of race, or identification along an adult/child paradigm by way of Kankri's emphasis on age disparities between castes. This age paradigm CAN also feed back into gendered racism, since motherhood's been rendered categorically white, making childhood black by contrast -- GIRLS RULE AND BOYS DROOL, and all that. But it's good to maintain awareness of the distinct facets.
Regarding Feferi, her and Meenah's status as world matriarchs is inflected by the above. Following our first iteration of BLACK MATES WHITE with WV, we're treated to an exploding can of TAB, BROWN liquid erupting from the PINK can being an early seeding of the black-childhood and white-motherhood dichotomy, the fatal violence of the birth again underscoring anxieties of white genocide. The Peixies, being matriarchs, share their fuchsia blood color with TAB packaging... I suspect the carbonation burst of TAB turns their constant glubbing (bubble noises) into a threat of explosion, especially since GLUBGLUB the Horrorterror represents a constant threat of genocide. At any rate, even if Feferi doesn't appear black-inflected in the manner of Meenah, she's still seems to be playing a role in the story's broader racial framework.
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That's 84 more posts than 2021!
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I tagged 73 of my posts in 2022
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My Top Posts in 2022:
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this is not even news but genshin hates dark skinned people and diluc skin outfit looks........
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babe wake up new fate quote dropped
[ID: screenshot from my liberation notes where yeom kijung is fixing her hair in the mirror while her mum says off screen „Fate is nothing more than a person‘s outlook on life.“/end ID]
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have these two memes cause i’m emotional about prehistoric planet alright
[ID: two memes edited by me.
1. A two-panel meme from Seinfeld. Jerry looks down with a bemused expression and asks: "You're crying from Prehistoric Planet?" George looks down with a teary expression and says: "Alcione hatchlings being clumsy in taking their first flight across the ocean to a forest that guarantees safety got to me." Jerry says: "All right."
2. The Brooklyn Nine-Nine meme of Rosa Diaz holding a white puppy, replaced by two T. Rex babies from the tv show Prehistoric Planet. The caption reads: "I've only had Baby T. Rex for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself."
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