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former-leftist-jew · 9 months

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"Christa... I felt the same. That it would have been better if I was never born at all. The world hated me just for existing. To give countless joy to many people, I gave up my life. But - when I did, I wished from the bottom of my heart. If someday I was given a second chance at life... This time. I would live for no one but myself!"

Ymir (left), convincing her beloved Cyrsta (right) to stop lowkey throwing herself into suicide missions to please the society that openly wish she'd never been born... because Ymir has spent her whole life hating herself for being Jewish "Aldean."

I'll admit, when I first saw this scene in Attack on Titan, I cried for like an hour, and had to process it for like a day. This show understands what it's like to go from a self-hating Jew trying to "pass" as goy, to learning to love yourself and live for those you love, despite the people who want you dead, better than most media I could name.

#attack on titan #ymir x christa #ymir x historia #ymir #i avoided attack on titan for YEARS #because i'd heard it was antisemetic #then the same leftists who called it antisemetic #cheered on the people yelling 'gas the jews' 'fuck the jews'#so i decided “fuck it”#“I'll watch this series myself and make up my own mind”#i will say this #watching this series after oct 7 #hit much different than if i'd watched it before #so much of the historic fantasy antisemitism and racism it discusses is what irl jews are going through RIGHT NOW #the world openly hating and reviling us #blaming us for the sins of our ancestors #blaming us for the actions of a gov't we're not part of and can't control #holding us responsible for the actions of random jews we've NEVER MET and whom we have no control over #holding us all personally responsible for every bad thing one of our people has ever done #meanwhile excusing every act of aggression against us as justified #and condemning every act of self-defense for ourselves as inexcuseable

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