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when people put "trigger warning" on their content without specifying what the trigger warning is for
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american thing happens in america: what are we some sort of asians
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“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine”
Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University
https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024
In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.
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he's in your DMs but he's posting about me on r/BPDlovedones, we are not the same
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If your standard for antisemitism is "too extreme in yr criticisms of israel", then the fact you find the antizionist movt insufficiently eager to distance itself from antisemites among its ranks should be completely uninteresting. Of course for the average onlooker any sufficiently large protest or rally or whatever will have several members whose hatred of israel goes beyond yr preferred limits: the protest is specially selecting for israel hatred! This is totally unsurprising. And then ofc, if you conclude from this "excess" of anti israel sentiment in the "israel is bad" movt that you should move further to the right on the issue, this inevitably means (since antisemitism = going beyond yr preferred limits for israel criticism) you will be lowering yr standards for what counts as antisemitism again, meaning yet another rightward hop. Let us pray this sequence at least converges
The whole bite behind "antizionism harbours antisemitism" is that antisemitism is smth at least notionally qualitatively distinct from anti israel sentiment, smth for which antizionism serves as perfidious cover. Otherwise its just a banal statement of the obvious and an indefinite excuse for a prozionist trajectory
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this is among one of the funniest ask i have ever seen someone get sorry
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HAPPENING NOW: passover seder from our comrades in columbia's liberated zone/gaza solidarity encampment. this encampment is a profoundly religious space. we've seen muslim protesters praying multiple times a day, a christian communion was held, and multiple jewish prayers/celebrations have taken place. solidarity is a beautiful thing, palestine will be free.🖤🇵🇸
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The fact that maia "literally leaked the no-fly list" crimew keeps getting wrapped into this insane callout post bullshit over fandom fuckery and imaginary pedo ring conspiracy theory bullshit by Tumblr's most radical genderfag kweers is insane. Fucking joke of a website.
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when a seder is overloading
thelimpingdoctor replied to your post: Passover asks?
How do you deal with sensory overload in a situation where you can’t leave?
realsocialskills said:
Based on context, I think you’re probably asking about being overloaded at a large noisy seder.
There might be more options for leaving and taking a break than you might realize. I’m going to discuss those, then some thoughts on how to deal with it if leaving isn’t an option.
Some options for taking breaks:
Helping in the kitchen
At seders, there are often (not always) things going on in the kitchen that people would welcome help with
If you find doing stuff in the kitchen less overloading than being at the table, excusing yourself to go help might be a socially acceptable way to take a break
Some examples of things people might welcome help with:
Cutting vegetables
Serving soup
Bringing out other things
Washing dishes
Playing with the kids:
At a lot of seders, there are little kids who kind of run in and out
If these are kids you know, or they’re related to you, it may be socially acceptable for you to take breaks and play with the kids
This depends on the culture of your family or community; it’s fairly common for it to be socially acceptable, but it’s not universal
Pretending you have to go to the bathroom:
At a long seder, most people will excuse themselves to use the bathroom at least once
If you take a break for about that amount of time, that’s what people will assume you were doing
(You can also actually go to the bathroom even if you don’t need to use it - bathrooms can sometimes be a good place to take a break from sensory overload since people will usually leave you alone for a few minutes if you’re in the bathroom)
Options if you can’t take breaks or taking breaks doesn’t help enough:
Get oriented:
Sometimes sensory overload is caused as much by disorientation as by sensations
One way to become more oriented is to think through in advance what’s likely to happen
If you feel like stuff is more predictable, it’s likely to be less overwhelming and sensory stuff might be easier to manage
If this is a seder you’ve been to before, it might help think about what usually happens. Who will be there? How do they usually act? Who will ask the four questions?
It also might be a good idea to look through the hagaddah. Here’s one online.
If you’re feeling overloaded during the seder, it’s worth considering the possibility that you have become disoriented
If you look through the haggadah, figure out where you are in the seder, and how much is left, it might help you to become more oriented and less overloaded
It may also help to use a visual schedule, which shows you at a glance what to expect and in what order. Here’s one you can print, organized by cup.
Using solid objects to ground yourself:
If you’ve become really overloaded or disoriented, sometimes grabbing hold of something solid can help a lot
If you’re at a seder, the most readily available solid thing is likely to be the table
If there’s someone present you trust who is ok with it, holding someone’s hand can help a lot too in ramping down overload
Sit in a less overloading place in the room:
Sitting on the edge of the room is likely to be less overloading than sitting in the middle
Sitting on the end or near the end of a table is likely to be less overloading than sitting between several people
Sitting near the door is likely to be less overloading (especially if you get overloaded from feeling trapped)
If there are florescent lights in the room, it helps to pay attention to whether one of them is flickering
If you’re already overwhelmed going into the room, you might not notice right away, even though it will bother you later. If flickering lights bother you, it’s worth making a point of checking to see if the light is flickering when you decide where to sit
If the room is likely to be very loud, you might be more comfortable if you use ear plugs. You can get disposable ones for cheap at a pharmacy
Stimming:
Some people can stop overload by moving in certain ways
Most people can at least mitigate it a little
Rocking back and forth can help a lot (and it’s not that weird in a lot of Jewish settings, particularly if there are a lot of religious people present.)
If you have stim toys that usually work for you, it might be a good idea to bring them
If you’re worried about stigma, it might work better to use different things
(That said, if a room is crowded and noisy and overloading, it’s very likely that no one is actually looking at you)
If you wear rings or bracelets, you can play with them
You can also play with the silverware if the seder isn’t extremely formal. You probably won’t be the only one.
You can also stim with the haggadah. (by holding it in your hands, flipping the pages, looking through it, or even reading it.)
If you have a water bottle with a stem you can chew the stem
(You can also eat stuff as a way of getting to chew to reduce overload. If you do that with stuff like celery rather than stuff like chicken it’s less likely to make you uncomfortably full)
You might be able to bring seder-themed stim toys to use, particularly if you bring enough to share. (For instance, if you bring out plastic frogs for the ten plagues, probably no one will think twice about you continuing to play with them)
Participating actively also might help to handle overload:
Sometimes it can be less overloading to participate in something than to be passively present while something is happening
This isn’t true for everyone, but it’s true for a lot of people
For instance, if people are singing loud songs and it’s overloading, you might be more physically comfortable if you sing the songs too
(This doesn’t work for everyone, but it works for some people)
If it’s a big seder and people are going on and on and you’re overloaded, ignoring what’s going on and reading the haggadah might work. (In that setting, you’re probably not going to be the only one doing that.)
Asking questions and arguing might be less overloading than being in the room while other people are doing that
Talking to people might also be an option:
If social anxiety is contributing to overload, having successful conversations might help
Here’s a post about how to have conversations at family gatherings (which is broadly applicable for other settings too)
Here’s a post about how to deal with people who pick fights (post was written for someone who asked about Christmas; it’s also applicable to any holiday gathering)
If you’re a student and you’re going to a communal seder at a college, this post on identifying common interests among students might help
tl;dr Passover seders can be really overloading. Scroll up for some ideas about how to deal with that.
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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible
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what an artful form of apartheid apologia. people are lapping this shit up in the notes. Even if we set aside the titanic amount of weaponry and equipment created and built by engineers and chemists, all the mapping software that guides missiles and drones and planes created by computer scientists and geographers for a second (science that the state is very much interested in!), zionist apartheid policy, administrative policies, planning and logistics, urban planning documents, you name it - that all apparently just popped into existence one day. for someone claiming to be concerned about social science academics you sure are dismissing all of their hard work! but if you just frame every academic in Israel as a poor little individual victim being randomly attacked for no reason then it’s easy to hide what’s actually going on, which is academics as a group experiencing the harsh end of a boycott. they are being targeted specifically because they are an intellectual class of a colonial state whose genocide is being live-streamed to the world, but if you obfuscate the academy’s role in training, educating, and providing intellectual architecture for the bureaucratic class and institutions that make up state governments, then you can frame a principled pro-Palestinian position (boycotting Israel) as misguided, stupid, overzealous, ineffectual, and most importantly, detrimental to the cause of freeing Palestine, all of which is of course so obvious to everyone but Palestinian activists. this is naked concern-trolling for the zionist project of annihilating Palestine and it is no less disgusting than any other zionist cheering on the mass murder of children
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