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[todaysdocument]

Women’s Army Corps Cpl. Barbara Fenster (left) and Cpl. Genevieve E. Guethlein secure information from German prisoner of war Pvt. Frederick Bonk, captured in Tunisia. September 7, 1943, at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation.

Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of Transportation

Series: Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation

Image description: Inside a tent, a young man in a German uniform with “AFRIKAKORPS” on his sleeve stands to the side of a desk. Seated at the desk are two women in Women’s Army Corps uniforms, who are writing. In the background are more desks and more German prisoners of war. 

[elierlick]

90 years ago today: On May 6th, 1933, Nazis stormed, looted, and burned Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science, Europe's center of queer and trans culture. I colorized these gruesome photos to point out this wasn't that long ago. People alive today can remember these events. We will not go back.

[madamepestilence]

losing my fucking mind

[venndaai]

Madeleine trying to play it cool but turning to watch her walk away like three times... Claudia's got game

[e350tb]

Photos from the War Memorial, 27 May 2023.

[wolrith]

its very upsetting to me that nazis ruined such an aesthetically pleasing symbol forever. could've been a cool peace symbol but noo

[redd956]

Writing Rhetoric: Paradox of Tolerance

Paradox of Tolerance: A society that is tolerant without limit will eventually fail or be ruined by the intolerant.

 The idea of the paradox of tolerance was started by the philosopher Karl Popper, but never received the term we used today until Michael Walzer wrote On Toleration

CW: Historical Bigotry, Nazis, Modern Bigotry

When Popper first created this term the intolerant of his time were the Nazis. To this day nazism is the still the most infamous embodiment of  the intolerant. 

What the paradox means is if a society that strives to be tolerant of others (accepting to differing demographics, safe for all walks of people, etc.), it will need to be intolerant to the intolerant (bigots, genocidal maniacs, etc.). Otherwise the intolerant will threaten too the tolerance of the society.

It is a difficult concept to grasp, but we see it often in modern times and have seen it throughout history too. Since Popper popularized the concept of the paradox, nazis are most used as an example of what this would look like. 

Even in finding this famous infographic about the paradox I also found propaganda. A steady reminder to do careful research, and keep a keen eye.

 Karl Popper doesn’t suggest we should censor or silence them. Instead he advocates to fight them back with reasonable arguments (or physically fight them if they are nazis) which brings us to RHETORIC and Modern Day Bigotry

Rhetoric

Now I bet you’re wondering what this has to do with writing rhetoric. Well rhetoric itself is complicated to explain, but it also includes the arguments and persuasion in writing. Often times when decoding the rhetoric of others unfortunate deep rooted bigotry may form, sometimes even subconsciously. I know I say things I don’t always mean that come from my subconsciousness towards my environment. 

The paradox of tolerance is in itself a rhetoric argument against bigotry. Of course bigotry is illogical, and most you’d ever find yourself debating in such topics simply will not listen to logic. However it is still nice, especially for writing, to have the paradox of tolerance on your side.

Modern Day

Today we see the need for the knowledge on the paradox of tolerance as bigotry levels waiver all across the world. Whether it be TERFs, Racists, Extremists, Anti-Semitics, and more; there is a lot of intolerance right now. It is best to know when setting up a server, forming an online friend group, creating a club, or maybe even running a society; to maintain tolerance we must be intolerant to the intolerant. Otherwise...they may crush us.

[storm-of-feathers]

I forgot to show you guys something absolutely fucking vile I found.

Under a readmore bc its a swastika and ik not everyone loves seeing that out of the blue

[cuntwrap--supreme]

So um. Content warning? But Kanye's off his shit and I hope people are checking him on this.

This motherfucker is using the Star of David mixed with a swastika as his campaign logo, allegedly. At least, that's how it appears.

So, like, where are we as a society going to draw the line with his shit? He's been dropped from a lot of things already, sure. But who the fuck whose opinion will matter to him is going to bitch slap this shit out of him? This is actively dangerous behavior. He is knowingly spreading hate and it is going to (and likely already has!!!) cause problems for a lot of people. This isn't some lol so random ignorant thing like he'll probably act like it is. He's using his platform to make things actively worse for Jewish people, and I'm just out here trying to do my part to show everyone how much of a scumbag he is. But you can't just ignore him entirely, because then he'll shift even further right and be radicalized even more.

I hope everyone out there is safe. Feel free to chime in because my goy ass can't possibly ever feel the pain that the Jewish community must be going through right now. I just want to get this out there for everyone.

[arconinternet]

Infinity Quest II (Classic Mac, Yves Meynard, 1996)

An epic turn-based Gauntlet with puzzle elements. It was lost media until just under two months ago; I only discovered that fact today and have made it playable in your web browser here. Full documentation is included in the Manuals folder, but here's some tips: after opening the program, File -> Open a game file, then Game -> New Game. Click to move around. Content warning: one of the wall tiles is inexplicably a swastika.

[elierlick]

This weekend, neo-Nazis threw flyers featuring some of my colleagues and me onto doorsteps around San Jose. As much as I hate giving them more attention, we must stay vigilant of the growing antisemitic and anti-queer movement in the U.S. These flyers truly show that our struggles have always been connected.

[brunito812]

Quilmes Nazi?

Revista Billiken N°463 - 1 de Octubre de 1928

Revista Billiken N°517 - 14 de Octubre de 1929

[theosophy-expat]

Heads up, there may occasionally be images of swastikas on this blog, as they are extremely common in the iconography of Theosophy. The association of Theosophy with swastikas predates it's use by Nazi Germany, but the use of the swastika by Nazi's has fairly direct Theosophical roots.

The owner of this blog is Theosophy & Occult critical as well as anti-nazi and anti-facist

Feel free to block the "swastika cw" tag

[fractalcabbage]

[eternityservedcold]

an extremely thorough list of content warnings for jojos bizarre adventure

because the old one was made by a deleted blog so it isnt easily accessible any more (and i dont think it was good enough to begin with)

btw if you say anything to the effect of "why do people like jojo when it has x" or "you guys really excuse y?" on this post im just gonna block you. people who get angry about me saying to skip parts/episodes will also get blocked.

feel free to reply/send an ask with anything i missed, preferably with a chapter or episode number. parts 7 and 8 wont be on here in full until i finish reading them but feel free to send me cws for them and ill add them. also the warnings are just in the order they appear, and more specifically when they appear in the anime, so as to not have weird "x is more important than y" nonsense

general warnings

these are things that…. basically if youre triggered by these i think you should just sit this out tbh. its an amazing series but its not worth repeatedly triggering yourself. this ones just ordered alphabetically bc its throughout (read: in at least 3 parts)

blood, violence, body horror, gore, and death -amputation -animal abuse and death (especially of dogs) -decapitation -eye, nail, and mouth horror -impalement -parental and sibling death -police brutality -suicide and self harm

child abuse -child abandonment -corporal punishment -leering shots of minors bodies -pedophilia (still gets a warning every time) -physical abuse

christian themes and symbolism

drug use -alcohol -tobacco -underage drug use -unspecified white powder

fire and explosions

gambling

misogyny, both in-universe and on the part of the author

racism (gets specific warnings every time)

sexual misconduct -catcalling -rape (still gets a warning every time) -sexual assault -sexual harassment

unsanitary -eating/drinking gross things —being forced to eat/drink gross things -pee -poop -snot -vomit

vehicle accidents -car accidents -plane crashes

part 1: phantom blood

(manga only) ritual sacrifice

restricted eating

non-consensual kissing

(manga only) a dog is shown on fire

poisoning

chinese ethnic stereotypes

a baby gets eaten

part 2: battle tendency

okay im gonna rip the bandaid off now. there are nazis in this one, and its significantly worse than youd expect just reading that. im gonna quote the old list here: "there are so many nazis in this part and they’re not condemned like at all tbh". i would almost say its glorified, one of the main allies is a nazi and another main ally directly praises a different nazi. in the manga, hitler and swastikas are explicitly shown as well as nazis being called by name, but in the anime, they are removed and simply called german soldiers.

almost nothing from this part comes back in the future and what does come back is explained as it comes up or is understandable from context. so please. if you need to skip this part, just do it. i even understand if you skip the whole series because of this.

its possible some may find the mesoamerican aesthetic of the villains in this part to be insensitive or offensive. im mexican and i personally dont, but i could see why someone would

racism toward: -black people -mexican people —slavery and degradation of mexican women is explicitly shown -japanese people

hostage situation

kidnapping

human experimentation

ritual sacrifice

"man in a dress" gag and subsequent transmisogyny

unintentional incest. there are only two scenes of this, which are: -a character spying on someone (later revealed to be their mother) in the bath -going through said mothers belongings and talking about her panties

animal cannibalism

part 3: stardust crusaders

since fights in this part are much more self-contained than the other parts, its possible to skip some of these if youre triggered by them. those will be marked with chapter and episode numbers

a woman gets spontaneously undressed in the middle of a fight (only her bra shows but it happens against her will)

jotaro, a 17 year old, kisses an adult woman to save her from possession. i wouldnt really say this is pedophilia and it lasts for 1 panel/less than 10 seconds but i found it uncomfortable

while incapacitated from sickness, holly will randomly be shown naked with weird leering camera angles. this happens many more times in the anime than the manga

pedophilia (depicted as a bad thing and the victim is saved before anything happens) (skip chapters 17-19/episode 7)

native american stereotypes (skip chapters 20-22/episode 8)

"person gets replaced" trope (skip chapters 23-6/episode 9; chapters 76-79/episode 27)

infection

suffocation

drowning

"child acting like a pervert" trope (skip chapters 92-96/episodes 32-33) -in the same episodes, the child spends the entire fight naked which might be uncomfortable for some

stardust crusaders ova

this gets its own subsection due to being so different that i was having to say "this doesnt apply to the ova" for a lot of the warnings. unlike the main sdc section, since this ova is extremely pared down, there wont be skippable warnings. also note that this is in "manga order", so its 2000 ova then 1993 ova

the english voice actor for avdol (a black/egyptian character) is a white guy doing a vaguely "ethnic" accent

the non-consensual kissing thing above, here its with a girl jotaros age though

infection

suffocation

ritual sacrifice (used as the intro animation for the 1993 portion)

drowning

part 4: diamond is unbreakable

rape, pedophilia, and kidnapping mentions

physical abuse

electrocution

blackmail

yandere trope -emotional abuse -isolation -stalking -kidnapping

restricted eating

skin picking

(anime only) jumpscare

invasion of privacy (skip this part if this bothers you because one of the main allies power is just, doing this, and its constant)

"child acting like a pervert" trope

bodysnatching/"person gets replaced" trope

theres an uncomfortable scene where a child gets attacked in the bath (non-sexually). both the child and the attacker are naked for the duration of the scene

part 5: vento aureo/golden wind

gang violence/the mafia (main crux of the plot)

bullying

(anime only) racism toward japanese people

reckless driving

torture

rape (not shown just heavily implied)

terminal illness/infection/disease

(anime only) pedophilia

forced childbirth (its like, magical childbirth and the mother doesnt register it)

possibly offensive depiction of systems (systems, feel free to correct me on this)

medical malpractice

a guy gets swapped into a girls body and gropes it

part 6: stone ocean

(anime only) heavy use of chromatic aberration, which may be eye straining for some

this part is really horny, comparatively speaking. this isnt really a bad thing but depending on your level of comfort with that you may want to skip

(manga only) misgendering a trans man

hallucinations

memory loss

abuse of religious authority

(manga only, only in some translations) homophobic slur

grooming

gang violence

"disposable sex worker" trope

creepy stalker-ish behavior (the person who does it becomes a main ally & never stops or eases up)

cult

drowning

electrocution

unintentional incest

the kkk (in the anime its a generic racist mob) -lynching

part 7: steel ball run

possibly offensive depiction of native americans (feel free to correct me if youre native)

a 14 year old girl: -is a child bride and im pretty sure this isnt condemned at all -gets hit on by adults -experiences a rape attempt? -gets pregnant?

the entire plot is about curing a disability

medical malpractice

capital punishment

(only in some translations) r slur variant

homophobic slur

attempted pedophilia/rape?

"bisexual sex pest" trope (grown woman making advances toward a minor/trying to rape her)?

part 8: jojolion

ableism?

rape?

part 9: the jojolands

"unsettling gender reveal" trope

pedophilia