#anti-semitism tw

[amielbjacobs]

Manuscript search tag!

Tagged again! I love this one. Courtesy of @talesofsorrowandofruin, my words are bad, deny, monster, endure and capture.

Bad:

He had spent a great deal of his leave reading. When one read a novel, one became - temporarily - someone else, and that was an escape Wallace had badly needed.

Deny:

Mirsky watched him, taking a sip of his tea. “We are not encouraged to speak to our opposite numbers,” he said, after a moment. And then, “And after all, I know you are not a diplomat.”

It would have been foolish to deny it, after Mirsky had seen him in that Stasi cell, furiously insisting on his false, German name. Instead, Wallace said, “Neither are you.”

Capture:

He wondered if the interrogator knew he was Jewish. He had, thus far, been addressed largely as “American,” suggesting that they did not believe at all in the false name on his papers, but that they either didn’t know who he really was or didn’t want to admit that they knew. Wallace, for his part, had been instructed not to give up any extraneous information about himself if captured. Besides that, he had long ago formed a policy of never letting on that he was a Jew among Germans; during the war he had worked with many of them, recruiting covert agents for the OSS, and he had let them believe he was gentile.

I couldn't find 'monster' or 'endure,' which was a surprise to me, since there sure are enough monsters in this story (of the human variety), and 'endure' is one of my favorite words.

[flamingkorybante]

What do you think of Joyofsatan.org? They claim to follow the Sumerian God Enki-Satan, they’re pro-choice, they follow gay Pagan Gods and they’re the largest Satanist group in the world.

uh huh

wow cool

thanks for the ask lol

[animentality]

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

zionist pig

That’s not kosher sweetheart, thank you for the compliment though 🫶☺️

You’re not escaping your anti Semitic hate , this is gonna be pinned lol

[xx-slug-xx]

Hello! It have been a while since i've heard about the controversies of Viv, especially about some of her views

If you want, can you explain about her transphobia, homophobia, racism and antisemitism, pls?

I’m not an expert by any means, but I can explain a little bit. There’s other sources that are more reliable than my word though, especially since I’m not going to go into huge detail lol. I encourage you to do your own research, my word is not law and there’s a good chance I’m misinformed.

I will give a disclaimer that, despite being proship, I do discuss some of the things she depicts in her fictional works on top of things she does irl. Some of which is just my opinions based on observation of the show. But most of this is in regard to stereotypes being portrayed, which is an area of fiction that actively perpetuates bigotry and I don’t really see it as “just fiction”. That’s just me though. There’s some screenshots of how she treats real people too.

Anyway, antisemitism:

The character Mimzy from HH is a blatant Jewish stereotype. Not only is she someone who’s extremely money hungry, small sharp teeth, short, fat, has a nasally voice, but she’s also got the classic hooked nose that’s seen in antisemitic propaganda, (none are bad things on their own. If it wasn’t for all of them combined, then I wouldn’t think twice about it tbh) On top of that, she’s not a well liked character in the show, being portrayed as annoying, selfish, greedy, and even sleazy to some extent. She’s not a character that has many positive aspects to her

But on top of that the character Rosie is based on the Jewish mother stereotype as well. It’s even in her audition notes.

But wait! There more! She was a fan of the I-hate-jewce blog here on tumblr, as she followed them and did an art trade with them that depicted Hitler as a Sausage Party character. The excuse she makes was that she didn’t believe in I-hate-jewce’s opinions, but admired their way they voiced their opinions. And that it was a different time when making jokes and stating harmful opinions like these were “more accepted”. Which, to me, is a piss poor excuse for being a bigot in the past and/or present.

Onto transphobia:

This screenshot may be faked, but it also lines up with her pfp at the time the screenshots were taken, as well as other viewpoints she’s lauded to. They are from discord, formatting is wierd bc they were taken in compact mode

However, she does misgender her trans associates. There’s been an ongoing (to my knowledge) situation and dispute between someone named Ken and Vivzie. Ken uses they/them pronouns. Vivzie has been seen many times referring to Ken using she/her, despite knowing Ken’s identity quite well. Here’s some screenshots from some times they’ve talked together, Vivzie talking about Ken to others, and Ken voicing their concern twards Vivsies views on their gender. (Sorry for bad quality btw)

In addition to this, Vivzie in the past (when zoophobia was being worked on), has created a character by the name of Jojo who was a direct caricature of a past friend that she clearly didn’t like.

Here’s the character

Plus, folks who have worked with Spindlehorse have discussed that transphobia is an issue in the work place. Not really Vivzie’s fault, she can’t control everything. But still, it’s odd and not cool that this continued to be an issue.

Millie’s trans brother in HB doesn’t have any speaking roles, or even a name. And there was an error in one of the episodes he appears in where his horns indicate that’s he’s cis male instead of being trans (not a huge concern, animation errors happen. I just find it not cool that rep for trans men was overlooked) She also doesn’t credit people who voice the only trans masc character with a speaking part, plus he’s also unnamed. But from the looks of it, his VA is a cis male. Keep in mind the contrast for Sallie Mae being that her VA is a trans woman.

Vivzie has shown a pattern of not respecting trans men as real men. Or any afab person as their gender if it’s something other than cis. It’s a pattern that’s come up that can’t be denied imo. It’s especially obvious when it’s towards people she has some sort of beef with.

Would also like to bring up how her merch sexualizes Sallie Mae. Like, to the same degree that the main characters of HB are. She’s a side character who has minimal speaking parts and appearances. Yet, she’s sexualized to hell and back. I’m all for making trans women feel desirable and beautiful, because they are! I think it’s great! But imo, I find it kinda weird that her trans fem rep is treated like this when she’s not a main character. Plus, her merch doesn’t do that to her trans masc characters. Why do it to one but not the others? But hey, that’s just me and it’s not a rule that everyone has to agree with me on that lmao

Racism:

Valentino is black coded, and is a blatant black stereotype (violent, black, drug addicted pimp archetype who sexually abuses people). I don’t feel like I need to explain why that’s not a great look.

Alastor is “black coded” (ashy skin and he’s white washed to hell). He uses voodoo, which is a closed practice that black slaves created to empower themselves and have a connection to their roots despite their horrible circumstances. He’s “mixed” Creole from some older depicting of him in notes if I recall.

She has supported Blaire White (she did black face and mocked blm) (look up that whole issue lol, too much there to talk about but I’m putting it here anyway) before back tracking when people realized what was going on. Vivzie back peddles a lot on her past though, never making a true apology or owning up to her past actions.

Any characters that DONT look white washed in the shows are not designed by her. Every poc character that she designs herself is white washed to hell and back. I know they are demons, they don’t look human, that’s a given. But Grim from TGAOBAM is a literal skeleton, but you still know he’s black. There’s better ways to depict bipoc coded characters though, that’s my point. She prides herself on her bipoc representation, when it’s shit representation when she’s the one soully behind it imo. There are really good character designs that depict people of color, but they aren’t Vivzie’s ideas and that credit goes to the character design team!

Sir Pentious is based on another ex friend of hers who she used to mock. She didn’t like him, saw him as a joke, etc. He was indigenous American, his hood is ment to look like his hair (which Vivzie mocked extensively). The whole “inventor” aspect of his character is ment to mock the steampunk aesthetic that her ex friend liked. He’s also the butt of a lot of jokes. Overall, I don’t think it’s very cool that Vivzie has repeatedly shown to make caricatures of real like people who belonged to minority groups.

Nifty’s pilot design depicted her skin as yellow. She’s Japanese. This is on top of being a maid and being boy crazy. That’s not a stereotype at all /sar. (She’s one of my favorites and she did get a redesign in the premier. And she got the best jokes in the show so far imo. She’s silly lol but I still wanted to bring it up, despite how much I like her)

She has ignored bipoc fans when they express being uncomfortable with anything relating to how she depicts poc characters. And it’s blatant that she doesn’t care about the voices of concern from her bipoc fans. If you are going to depict bipoc characters in your show, especially cultural depictions, listen to people who are bipoc and who come from those cultures you are depicting! She as a white person needs to listen to bipoc people when they voice their concerns to her about characters that are supposed to represent them!

Also! During her recent trip to Japan, she ate at McDonald’s and KFC despite there being a boycott due to the companies both supporting Israel. Idk how you feel about it, anon, and it’s not something I’ll go into too much detail over since I’m not super knowledgeable on it. But it’s a really important detail about Vivzie to a lot of people out there, and I wanted to bring it up because of that. (I hate all wars and genocides before anyone makes assumptions about my stances)

Homophobia:

Not much to say reguarding this other than I found that she favors mlm relationships heavily over wlw relationships. HB isn’t a show that focuses on lesbian relationships because that’s just not the way the show is written, and that’s fine. However, she prides herself on the wlw rep she created due to HH being female focused. The main relationship between Charlie and Vaggie feels pushed away in favor of more mlm relationships. They clearly have been dating for a while, and so, their relationship doesn’t need to be explored as much as some others imo. However, to me the show doesn’t do too much with them and there’s a large focus on the male characters and their relationships as opposed to the female lead and her girlfriend.

I will give her credit on her depictions of gay and bi men, I do like a lot of those and I can’t really find anything terrible to say about that or find evidence of how she treats real gay people. Everyone is free to think whatever they want though. However, queer people are the only minority group that Vivzie actively is in support of from what I’ve seen, which is sad imo.

You could say that Angel Dust is a homophobic stereotype (sex loving, drug addicted, drag queen, sex worker, feminine), but there’s real people in the world who share his experiences and it makes me feel like the people who claim such just don’t take into account of the real people in the queer community who share similarities to him. Like, there’s a lot of queer men who do sex work and are addicted to various substances. It’s a struggle and his character is a testament to that.

Anyway, do your own research, come up with your own conclusions, you can still like her work and characters, and all that! This is stuff off the top of my head that I could think of.

(Any Vivzie stans who try to tell me that this is either all faked or rumors will be ignored btw. I’m tired of dealing with y’all every time I say anything about her that’s even remotely negative. You guys can like what you like, even if your attachment to Vivzie is unhealthy imo and you shouldn’t place anyone on a pedestal. She’s not perfect, nobody is. This is my opinion, and it won’t change. I don’t hate her shows or her work. I just dislike her as a person.)

[thisis-an-original-name]

JVP pissed me off today by making a post about how Jews should cancel their Seders in “solidarity” with the people of Gaza.

Yes, people in Gaza are being starved and yes we should be talking and thinking about that every single second of every single day and YES I’m thinking about it even more on Passover considering that this is literally the « forced immigration and starvation » holiday but you think everyday Jewish folks should quit practicing their Judaism because of the Gaza genocide? Advocating for us to stop observing our most important Jewish holidays for any reason is antisemitism. Plain and simple.

[yourdailyqueer]

Susan Sarandon belongs on the Nope list, as she has recently done and said a number of truly horrible things. She stated, regarding the increasing number of antisemetic hate crimes across the globe, that, “There are a lot of people that are afraid of being Jewish at this time and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence”, implying that we deserve what’s happening, that religous based hate is unique to Musims and that we’ve never (or rarely) faced any violence, like the f*cking Holocaust wasn’t a thing!!!

Not long after that, she rallied alongside CODEPINK, that claims to be a feminist org but are actually a CCP funded propaganda group that also shills for Russia.

And then she started retweeting posts from Anastasia Maria Lupus, censoredmen and Jake Shields, who are literal Nazis, and a video statement from convicted pedophile Scott Ritter.

This all happened over the course of the past 4 and a half months.

I've just had to do some research regarding all of what you just said because that is A LOT.

Now I don't know how much knowledge of CodePink and links to CCP she has are, so that I can't verify other than what I read about the group on Wiki.

I did find a whole Reddit thread of receipts about Susan and who she retweets etc. Just a quick overview of this means that I will delete her post and put her in nope list.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[kittymeow180]

and where is that same energy towards the men who are actually the ones killing them? passing the laws against them? the ones who are actually in power and not just women forming opinions on the internet? they never hate transphobic men because its not about that, its about hating women and i swear i get reminded it every fucking day. right side of history!!!

the entire game also paints all gender critical feminist women as nazis because everyone they dislike is quite literally hitler of course

because the big bad scary women on the internet who want to end misogyny by critiquing the very things that uphold it are obviously what hitler was all about when he killed 11 million people and traumatized generations of jewish people even after the events of world war 2.

terf is the new feminazi, same shit different coat of paint

[missegyptiana]

idc if “taylor knows what she’s doing”. she’s hanging out with and being friends with someone who makes money off of racist, homophobic, anti semitic, xenophobic, islamophobic “jokes” and never apologizing for it. and if he does, he doesn’t mean it. she’s allowed to do what she wants but plz

[flamingkorybante]

I need my american anti-zionist comrades who aren’t Jewish to be very, VERY careful right now.

Jewish anti-zionists are seeing the rhetoric around us escalating. Language like “wiping israel off the face of the map” and “every dead zionist is a victory” coming from leftists who are fighting with their whole heart – as we are – for a liberated Palestine and a liberated world.

If you haven’t been navigating the landscape of how nationalism, white supremacy, anti-semitism, and conspiracy theories are entangled in the US and have been getting increasingly meme-ified in the last few years, you might not know that that is the same rhetoric that american white nationalists have been using this whole time to say that the global cabal of (((elites))) need to be violently overthrown, which is to say that all Jews across the world must be killed.

I need you to know this because when the stuff you as a leftist are saying looks a lot like the stuff that white nationalists are saying, it’s going to make it look like they agree with you, which is going to make it seem like maybe the other stuff they’re saying isn’t so out there. This is how people get radicalized and I’ve already seen people transform with frightening speed from anarchist to Marxist-leninist to tankie to nationalist without realizing that’s what’s happening. Your anti-state and anti-violence anti-zionism and their anti-Jew “anti-zionism” are absolutely crucial to distinguish as you are constantly consuming traumatic propaganda that is designed to turn off the critical analysis functions of your brain.

Please be careful. Please read up on how anti-semitic conspiracy theories have historically functioned and how they’re functioning on the american right wing today so that you can spot when right-wing grifters are trying to craft false equivalencies to lure you in. Please carefully evaluate the information you’re consuming, not just for how it makes you feel but for who might benefit from you believing it and acting accordingly. Please do what you need to do to keep your nervous system regulated and boundaried so that you can’t be manipulated. The creation of a liberated world is going to take all of us and we can’t afford to lose people to this. I don’t want to lose any more people to this. Please, please, please keep your eyes open and your hand in mine.

[animentality]

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

February 1941: The Communist Party of the Netherlands (made illegal by the occupying Nazis) organizes a general strike in Amsterdam to protest Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.

The February Strike consisted of 300,000 people and was harshly suppressed after just three days. It was the first public protest against Nazis in occupied Europe, and the only mass protest against the deportation of Jews to be organized by non-Jews.

[the-sayuri-rin]

EVIL is one word that comes to mind seeing shit like this, wish this on ANYONE

[antiqua-lugar]

great ace attorney AKA the most realistic victorian england simulator

[djsherriff-responses]

No actually, was anyone gonna say that Zionism is a primarily Jewish movement that started because of how deeply hated Jewish people have been throughout history or was I , a white British woman, meant to just not raise eyebrows at everyone comparing it to Nazism?

(I’m talking about non Jewish people making that comparison to Jewish people and the Zionist movement, not how Israel’s treatment of Palestine is so horrific that holocaust survivors are calling it out to be clear)

[hangkennyy]

Honestly that one anti semitism segment absolutely ruined my entire mood towards AEW. Considering taking a break from watching AEW if another segment like that ever happens.