probably part of the current method of JUST SIC THE COPS OV EVERYONE it’s much easier for the university to send in feh fighting dogs who are often run by a whole different organization on a group that’s getting unruly rather than find out who the actual problem causer was (or hundred problem causes were) for disciplinary action. Which means again that like, idk if mr go back to Poland or the many one solution changers ever got comeuppance so much as the police just chose a couple appropriately terrorist-like (read: brown and/or middle eastern) suspicious actors. Again the really terrible ways universities have failed to handle everything aren’t mutually exclusive

one really uncomfortable realization I had re: protest discourse is that I DO think a) pretty big groups of people are engaging at some level in antisemitic actions and chanting and b) I ALSO think Muslims and Palestinian and Arab students are all being unfairly targeted and made examples of, and the thing is that these two realities aren’t inherently contradictory. I think a lot of universities don’t want to face the simple truth that a lot of their students are antisemitic - or at least, willing to turn a blind eye to a lot of the antisemitism going on around them. That would make the universities look Bad and it would also require them to lash out at far more students than they would probably like to - after all, students pay fees. So instead there’s a push towards emblematic responses - scapegoating in its truest form. Picking and choosing one or two *bad actor* students - many of whom have been Palestinian or Muslim or antizionst Jews - allows them to have symbolic action and punish a target who is already being punished by the structural racism and oppressions of society. There’s an expected target and an expected script and they’re playing the game to fed the lion, because it’s so much easier to punish one student with a River to the sea comment than the hundred shouting “there is only one solution.” Obviously this is all unbelievably horrific and I don’t condone any of it but I’ve been puzzling over the strangeness of the genuinely structurally antisemitic issues that have been the case for months now and the fact that universities are clearly targeting people who have not outright supported antisemitism and terror or whatnot and how unmatched those two facts seem to be, and i just want to encourage people to not think of a) and b) as contradictory but in fact Deeply Interrelated Facts that both have bearing on the situation.

one really uncomfortable realization I had re: protest discourse is that I DO think a) pretty big groups of people are engaging at some level in antisemitic actions and chanting and b) I ALSO think Muslims and Palestinian and Arab students are all being unfairly targeted and made examples of, and the thing is that these two realities aren’t inherently contradictory. I think a lot of universities don’t want to face the simple truth that a lot of their students are antisemitic - or at least, willing to turn a blind eye to a lot of the antisemitism going on around them. That would make the universities look Bad and it would also require them to lash out at far more students than they would probably like to - after all, students pay fees. So instead there’s a push towards emblematic responses - scapegoating in its truest form. Picking and choosing one or two *bad actor* students - many of whom have been Palestinian or Muslim or antizionst Jews - allows them to have symbolic action and punish a target who is already being punished by the structural racism and oppressions of society. There’s an expected target and an expected script and they’re playing the game to fed the lion, because it’s so much easier to punish one student with a River to the sea comment than the hundred shouting “there is only one solution.” Obviously this is all unbelievably horrific and I don’t condone any of it but I’ve been puzzling over the strangeness of the genuinely structurally antisemitic issues that have been the case for months now and the fact that universities are clearly targeting people who have not outright supported antisemitism and terror or whatnot and how unmatched those two facts seem to be, and i just want to encourage people to not think of a) and b) as contradictory but in fact Deeply Interrelated Facts that both have bearing on the situation.

the essential issue is that doordash isn’t a solution to any of the Discourse the responses brought back a really mean side in the *leftists who all wanted to make comments about how “[MY disabled relative] cooks their own meals from delivered groceries” and “anyone can just microwave frozen food and eat it it’s easy!” Like first off ok that’s assuming there’s a grocery store that will pick out and then deliver food from a list. That’s assuming that people have access to a freezer and microwave. Both these things are assuming rather a lot actually. Doordash won’t solve these problems but to see heaps of *progressives dogpiling with pull yourself up by the bootstraps!!’ Thinking about Problems that do exist for Many people?

I love when you see a Twitter thread that is removed from reality and wild and unhinged but then the response to it is equally so in the complete equal and opposite way

So I binged the entirety of How To Build a Sex Room last night and this one scene just cracked me up

The designer's at a western leather/tack store looking for supplies to make a rustic-style sex swing and turns to one of the store employees for advice, which initially goes about as amusingly as you would expect

So then she pulls up some pictures to give him an idea of what she needs

And he's Immediately like

The professional disgust, I'm living

”healthy food is a luxury that isn’t necessary for survival” and “you can just get your groceries delivered! (Unless you’re living in one of *those inhospitable food deserts)” was just a double whammy I can’t believe someone just had in sequence

I love when you see a Twitter thread that is removed from reality and wild and unhinged but then the response to it is equally so in the complete equal and opposite way

Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor in Yentl (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand

like I got hit by a car and I don’t think I’ve ever felt cruelty like the two different Middle Aged women who framed me as a thief for months on end in order to get something like $30 extra bucks a week I’ll never get over how much I hate both of them and the system that put them there

I hope no one alive has to feel the pure cruelty and rage exerted by waitresses in their mid fifties with two divorces and a son who overdosed upon the twenty something waitstaff who make fifty cents less per hour than they do and might finish an electrical degree at the local community college

real

Happy Pesach wherever you are and however you sat it! Our unique cultural traditions are beautiful and worth celebrating!

the go back to Poland one was obviously bad but the one I keep seeing that’s been going on for a while and is even more chilling imho is the “there is only one solution” thing. Idk how people don’t get that one can be really chilling to Jews no matter their political opinions

ok jumblr yiddn let’s collectively stop reblogging g1rlactionfigure, the blog who has quite literally put Likud UK stuff on their blog

a course I would legitimately love to design for my university and teach is “ *American* literature in translation” where we read only stuff published in or about the US in other languages

you can tell that the protocols of the elders of zion is a fake story because it’s a book where a bunch of old jews gather in a room and agree on something

IT WAS ONE GIANT FROG

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