The Deacons for The Defense -”people had gotten tired of all that jim crow mess, that is why the Deacons was born”
The Deacons · Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick · Pete Seeger · Jeanne Humphries Ballads of Black America ℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1972 Folkways Records Released on: 1972-01-01
Paul Robeson speaks to reporters on August 28, 1949, about the riot in Peekskill where he was supposed to sing. The local KKK (yes, there was one) objected to his open admiration for Communism (as well as, no doubt, his color) and tore down the stage on which he was supposed to appear. Busloads of Harlem residents had gone to the concert, a benefit for the Harlem chapter of the Civil Rights Congress. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Lee Hays were also on the bill. The ensuing riot injured eight people, two seriously.
Robeson asked Governor Thomas Dewey to open an investigation of the riot, but he refused.
Antisemitism is an inherent and essential part of Nazi ideology. Nazis target other demographics as well, but the antisemitism is a main, essential component. If someone isn't antisemitic then they're not a Nazi. If an ideology doesn't include antisemitism then it isn't Nazi ideology. There is literally no such thing as Nazi ideology that doesn't revolve around antisemitism. You can not separate antisemitism from Nazism, they go hand in hand. Someone who is queerphobic but not antisemitic is not a Nazi. Someone who is ableist but not antisemitic is not a Nazi. Someone who hates other ethnic or cultural groups but not Jewish people is not a Nazi. There's no such thing as a Nazi that doesn't hate Jewish people. You are helping no one by throwing the word around for any and all forms of fascism or discrimination, and you are harming people by acting like antisemitism isn't an essential part of Nazism.
it's really fucking disorienting being Jewish right now. Like I've always figured that if I'm saying something and the majority is saying the opposite, I should at least be open to their position and give it due consideration before reaching my conclusions about an issue.
Which makes it really confusing watching such a huge percentage of the world literally just want us dead because they believe fucking nonsense conspiracy theories about us.
So no, I'm not wrong this time. The entire world is just Not Normal about Jews.
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)
Unpopular opinion but Proshippers really need to stop calling antis nazis or KKK or totalitarians or whatever. Those are widely different beliefs. Like I just saw a post calling antis nazis and uh….no. Not in the least. Not everyone that disagrees with you, or doesn’t like you, is a nazi.
You can call out shitty behavior without going to extremes.
PIC(S) INFO: Mega-spotlight on Dave Dictor, vocalist/lyricist of American hardcore punk band MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS (MDC), performing live at the Skylite Club in Long Beach, CA, c. 1983. 📸: Linda Aronow.
[CHORUS]
"Dead cops! [4x]
Time for a switch,
Army of the rich,
Macho fuckin' slaves,
We'll piss on your graves!"
-- "Dead Cops/America's So Straight" (1982) by MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS
Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2897546977605040927 (all found on Picuki).