I need to say this and you're really only one of my mutuals who I feel kinda safe saying this to, but as a pro Palestine supporter I'm horrified by the way some Pro Palestine supporters (not on here) approach the issue of sexual assault on October 7th which I've been forced to accept happened. From these people I get the undeniable sense that they actually think that if they address it, even show sympathy for any victims, they're endorsing Israel or their IOF or the lives of Palestinian people that were tragically lost in the months after October 7th which is just wild to me. Even if no sexual assault occurred on October 7th it's the way these people were so ready to believe that it didn't because they thought it would invalidate the Palestianian cause when the Palestianian cause is (tm) is about justice, and no context will ever justify or excuse sexual violence. These two issues should be able to co exist, and somehow it fucking doesn't for these people!

I just have immense sympathy for Jewish people particularly women who are feeling alienated/betrayed thanks to this whole matter because I hear genuine nonsense like "Oh you're weaponing SA" if you want to acknowledge what occurred on October 7th. It bothers me to put it lightly that some people are willing to take what was more than likely the worst thing that happened to these people and just basically not hold the perpetrators accountable because these people belong to a cause they support.... that's really fucking dangerous!

Its even more unforgivable when some victims involved were apparently minors and still these people are silent because their too much of a coward to speak about it because they don't see Israelis as human. You're justified in hating Israel but you're not justified in just.... avoiding the horror of what was done to Israelis because it makes YOU uncomfortable, because you're afraid, because whatever. This feels even more urgent to me given its Women's History month but some of the worst perpetrators of this whole issue have been women themselves which makes it even worse.

The whole denialism also reeks of antisemitism from some corners.

Um yeah, I have a lot of feelings about this, one of the biggest of which is that it's beyond disturbing that you feel unsafe saying this publicly, because it is so obviously and undeniably wrong. I understand that people just want there to be an easy villain and hero, but sexual assault and rape are such a telling and important war crime because there is no utility in it. You can make an argument that almost every crime you can imagine, theft, destruction of property, even murder can be "useful" in war, but sexual violence has no purpose or utility beyond humiliation and trauma. It is cruelty for the sake of it, and you can't even create the illusion of some kind of justification.

But the denialism is antisemitic, and not just partially or in some corners. Horrifically, rape of women (and men and children too) has pretty much always been seen as "the spoils of war," so these rapes and sexual abuses are unfortunately not unique in that sense. But denying their existence is antisemitic because A. once again, 10/7 was not some rebellion or resistance against Israel, it was a terrorist attack on civilians that was perpetrated by a directly stated antisemitic terrorist group, and B. because rape has been used as a weapon against Jewish people for millennia as a specific and targeted form of terrorism and abuse. I mean, one of the prevailing theories about why Judaism is matrilineal is because rape of Jewish women was just that common. So to have absolute proof that these things have happened and either act as if it's justified or literally deny the reality right in front of their faces is antisemitic, across the board, zero exceptions.

And I hate to speculate because god knows what will happen, but it's extremely likely that things are going to get worse before they get better. There are still a lot of hostages that haven't been returned or even seen in weeks or months, and Hamas has repeatedly turned down deals to exchange hostages for a ceasefire. There are only a few things that this can mean. One of the most absurd but still likely options is that they just don't know where the hostages are anymore, which also almost certainly doesn't mean anything good anyway. It's highly unlikely that all of these people vanished into thin air and are coincidentally being treated well. And another obvious possibility is that whatever has been done to them is so horrific and/or so undeniable that Hamas doesn't want them to be released, because as of now they're winning the PR war and are literally getting people to agree that either the sexual violence didn't happen or it was somehow deserved.

Clearly I can't know that this is the case and there are other possibilities to explain why Hamas has repeatedly passed on a ceasefire, but there's no benefit to not even showing proof of life for these hostages unless something REAL fucked up happened or is happening to them. But regardless, I feel it really bears repeating, an organization with the stated intention of destroying all Jews then raping and sexually abusing a bunch of Jewish people is SO absurdly antisemitic that it's like the kind of comically outsized example you would try to make to explain bigotry to someone who heard the word for the first time two minutes ago, so the people who are still denying this reality are neo-Nazis in SJW clothing.

I have been teaching antisemitism 101 to goys for almost four months now for FREE and I am so tired

When you scratch a fatphobe another type of bigot bleeds

god people are disgusting

it's concerning what people are saying and thinking is activism. I've unfollowed someone who unironically reblogged something that said death to israel. how is that going to help? if anything that's just making a more hostile environment. support palestine but maybe cool it about what you say about israel considering why it exists in the first place

There are a few reasons for this, and the first is that the western left is so absolutely goddamn terrible about recognizing its increased and violent radicalization. I can't tell you how many posts I've seen to the effect of "the far right wants to kill everybody but the far left just wants healthcare for everyone uwu." First, by their own extremely warped and constantly biased perception, that would actually make the mainstream Democratic Party "far left." The party might disagree about how exactly the actual mechanism for better/more equitable healthcare should be implemented (etc. etc. if you oppose instant Medicare for All with no other transition period or hybrid options, YOU ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS A FASCIST!), but that's now a central and uncontroversial plank of official Democratic party policy. But since as we know, BOTH SIDES ARE THE SAME!!!, clearly that can't be what the self-defined "far left" actually wants. Witness how we've had several days of intense and valedictory social media approval and worship of a mentally ill person's violent and public suicide, because it was done for the "right reasons." This person should have been given help and support, yes, and we never know what's going on in anyone's head. But if I was someone also contemplating suicide, this whole "it's the right thing to do and you should just burn yourself to death and announce it's for the Right Cause and you will have legions of adoring admirers" would be hella hard to resist. This is going to directly cost more lives.

We point out all the time that the far right has become a fascistic death cult of authoritarian personality, but the online far left is now absolutely just as willing to make "you should die and/or kill yourself and others for Ideology" a central part of their platform. We've had endless rhetoric about how the violent Glorious Revolution is the only answer and society is irretrievably broken. This is casual, constant, inescapable radicalization, and it's presented as the only way to "do" leftism. So of course the rhetoric gets increasingly insane and genocidal (while insisting that all they want is to "stop the genocide"), and it's more and more normalized. We've had people reblogging posts that are almost entirely lies, because they "want to highlight" one sentence or half-truth they agree with (and apparently decided the best way to do this was to uncritically amplify the misinformation, rather than making their own post and trying to push back on it). We've had people admitting they're afraid to lose friends or be attacked on social media because the Groupthink is so pervasive and violently radicalized. This is not normal and this needs to fucking stop.

Secondly, and this is inescapable especially in regard to this particular conflict, the western left is absolutely steeped in antisemitism through and through, and it has no desire either to examine that or even think it should. It has become absolutely mired in the "antisemitism is a Good and Necessary and Correct belief to have and it's not actually a prejudice, it contributes to social justice because all Israelis and/or all Jews are evil settler colonialists constantly genociding innocent Hamas and/or Palestinians." This is why, as I keep saying, it's not that hard to support Palestinian self-determination, statehood, dignity, freedom, and a stop to the indiscriminate slaughter of Gaza, while not actually thinking that the way to do this is just to be wildly antisemitic at all times and calling for the genocide of Israel to be substituted for the genocide of Gaza. That does not actually reduce the net amount of genocide in this world!!! I thought you wanted to stop it, not turn it loose on another group of people who "deserve it more!" JESUS CHRIST!!!

On that note, even if you don't agree with every single premise or point it makes, a lot of people on this website (and on Twitter, but yeah, uh, good luck with that) need to read the following article in order to understand, as I keep saying, how deeply virulent antisemitism has become an unquestioned tenet of virtuous faith among the western left. Content warnings for some very graphic depictions/discussions of violence, including sexual violence, but that's not an excuse. If you've found yourself posting or agreeing with any version of the "Jews/Zionists/Israelis are all collectively responsible for this while evilly torturing innocent non-Jews" thesis statement, READ IT. Y'know, read it anyway. Try to get the first and most basic grip on the fraught and violent history of antisemitism, which is quite literally the oldest prejudice in the world, and how that interacts with and negatively informs the way in which supposedly well-intentioned western leftists are reacting to the current situation. As I said in an earlier post, I don't care if your "good intentions" (the road to hell is paved with, etc. etc.) are solely about stopping the current slaughter directed against Palestinians. That does not excuse you from the consequences of the lies you spread and the genocidal violence that you advocate as a "better" or "more correct" kind of genocidal violence then that already taking place. So. Yeah.

If you run into a paywall, you can remove it by disabling JavaScript on the page (this can be done with most ad-blockers), or someone has also helpfully provided the full text as a pdf in this link. Read it.

all the bitches who refused to hold taylor fucking swift accountable for dating a man who might as well just call himself a nazi are now pretending to care about nazis now that a black woman wore one on a t shirt. istfg you people are insufferable. we know why you suddenly care. and it’s not because the safety of jews magically means anything to you.

no name...the superficiality of it all...the violence of it all...Jay Electronica being an antisemitic hateful motherfucker is as surprising to me to as a corpse eventually rotting. What's "interesting" to me is a person that claims to be a communist and has led and created a "radical" book club listening to that verse and still putting it on her album, and then having the audacity to turn off her Instagram comments. Which, as soon as an artist (in any field) shows up with all the right bits of theories and can name all the right thinkers, and can actually define intersectionality, this is when trouble starts. As demonstrated by no name. Also *mimes slicing throat* that dude over there.

Anon I literally needed to be escorted to and from the train-station by work colleagues because someone in the area found out I was Jewish and waited until the office closed to follow me while shouting abuse. Please don't question my understanding of antisemitism.

anyway the goblin antagonist of hogwarts legacy is, yes, the ultimate antagonist, works with dark wizards to harvest (or steal previously harvested? unclear in the summary i read) magical energy from wizards including children — there's, allegedly, a scene where they explicitly discuss abducting a child. the antagonism is first framed as the goblin wanting to reclaim goblin-made artifacts and magic but is later revealed as an enterprise of personal greed for the goblin, who steals all the power for himself at the end of the game and turns into a dragon (you know, a giant lizard). this is the big plot of the game, is the goblin and his associated evil characters stealing an essence from children for their personal evil magical use, and then at the end of the game, the goblin turns into a big lizard. hogwarts legacy really is antisemitic tropes: the video game.

“god protects america because we support isreal!! because god loves the jews!!” yes he loved them so much he let the holocaust happen 😍 and also the overwhelming majority of zionists are NOT jewish btw ❤️ revelation was a metaphor jesus left for milk 2000 years ago he’s not coming back

I just wanted to thank you so, so much for standing up for Jews right now. I can't express how much it means to me and the rest of the Jewish community that you're one of the few people who've actually gone to bat for us when everyone else went mask off ❤️

<3 honestly you shouldn't be thanking me because it's just the right thing to do, but the amount of antisemitism I have seen since 10/7 has been APPALLING and it's extremely scary. The people who went mask off REALLY went mask off, but there has also been so much stealth antisemitism in so much of the reaction and reporting that I've seen about the situation that it really threw me off and made me realize that I vastly underestimated how popular antisemitism still is.

Clearly, discussing Zionism in the past has REALLY not gone well for me, but the reaction toward it for me specifically and in general has always set off alarm bells that there was antisemitism baked in there which was trying to be passed off as anti-Zionism or anti-Israeli sentiment. But I feel like 10/7 was such a horrific revelation for Jewish people and allies because, at least for me, it was a revelation that for certain people, basically there is no limit to what you could do to an Israeli. There is no limit to what crimes or atrocities could be committed against someone because of where they lived or where they were born, and there is a really scary number of people who would paint that kind of atrocity as some kind of rebellious act of freedom. If you are calling literal babies colonizers and you are saying that the gang rape and mutilation of people's genitals is somehow an act of decolonization, you are trying to dress up your genocidal antisemitic POV with the veneer of some kind of social justice or moral righteousness.

But there are bigger fish to fry here that I think a lot of people are missing, which again further disturbs and upsets me. Because Jewish people should be able to just exist in the world, but the ebb and flow of antisemitism is also an exceptionally good indicator of when social and political upheaval is about to REALLY start fucking everyone's lives up. So again, people should be concerned about this because it's morally wrong, but they should also be concerned about it because Jewish people are also almost always just the first up to bat. Once we pass that critical point where antisemitism becomes socially acceptable again, it's almost always because we are at the beginning of a really hard downturn that is going to destroy a TON of people's lives. So the fact that so many people on the left and right are now united in the whole "oh wouldn't our lives be so much better if we could just take power away from the Jews" is a REALLY REALLY REALLY scary sign that should not be ignored.

And of course, the fact that the Israeli government actually does horrible shit makes this a much easier sell. There are a ton of very legitimate problems that need to be fixed and should absolutely be called out. But again, it's a very scary mindset to get drawn into, because yes you think you're a leftist and completely unaffected by the antisemitism that has been baked into our culture for literally thousands of years and you're on the right side because WELL THE JEWS ARE ACTUALLY BAD NOW. But what the hell do you think people thought in 1930s Europe? Do you think that they hated Jewish people just to hate them? Or do you think that they also genuinely believed that Jewish people were actually the problem then too?

It's heinous because 10/7 and the invasion of Gaza afterward is a perfect vector to hide antisemitism in, and it really seems to be working well. The overt antisemitism I've seen as well as the way more covert that I've seen has shocked me, and even though I'm not Jewish, I considered myself to be more aware than most that antisemitism is not even remotely a problem that's been relegated to the past.

But I'm sorry that you've had to deal with this because I am just a person who is capable of empathy and understands how fucked up it must be to experience this, while Jewish people actually have to experience it. The lack of pushback against pretty obvious antisemitism is really frightening, and again, the whole progression of what has happened is exceptionally cruel and offensive. You can support a free and democratic Palestine while condemning 10/7 (in fact I'd argue given that Hamas hasn't held elections in decades, it's a REQUIREMENT to condemn 10/7 if you genuinely support a free Palestine). You can acknowledge that Hamas is an outwardly stated and admitted antisemitic terrorist organization and 10/7 was an expressly antisemitic attack and fight for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

But the amount of pressure I've seen put on Jewish people specifically to go along with the complete reframing and minimization of 10/7, because actually if you live in Israel then you had it coming, and because the Palestinians have it worse you can't even take a moment to react emotionally to something truly horrific and traumatizing, and if you don't think exactly what we think you're one of the "bad ones," has been disturbing to watch. Your pain is incredibly valid and I know everything that has happened must be so difficult and isolating, but just know that you do have supporters out there, even if you deserve to have a lot more.

Me after seeing all the weird shit dc did with apparently "biblical" "angels" and carter/katar and shayera the past like 5 years: yeah even looking at this is treyf actually i called the big guy and he said "who is this" so it was probably the wrong number but like. Unfortunately in my religion i can't recognize this part of comics canon. But good luck to you

Non so se segui quello che succede con K*nye W*st, però bazzicando su Twitter ho notato che c'è un numero assurdo di afroamericani che lo difendono, hanno posizioni antisemitiche e che sostengono che gli afroamericani non possono essere antisemiti perché non hanno potere istituzionale, oltre che una buona parte di loro che crede nella teoria dei "Black Hebrew Israelites". La cosa (o più che altro la sua proporzione) mi ha lasciato basita. Secondo te da cosa deriva questo pensiero?

con la premessa che non ho pretese di essere un'autorità sull'argomento ma ho visto abbastanza cazzate negli anni per avere un'idea dei motivi, in ordine (ho seguito molto alla buona ma tbh non ho mai sentito una canzone di KW che mi ricordi e non me ne è mai fregato un cazzo cioè già sento poco rap e quello che sento sicuro non è lui quindi cioè sia chiaro che non sono addentro e neanche intendo avventurarmici), metto sotto il cut perché non c'ho voglia di litigare con nessuno:

la scuola americana fa schifo sia pubblica che privata cioè quella pvt può costare un rene comunque farà schifo rispetto al professionale con la peggio reputazione italiano e lo dico con concezione di causa (voglio di alla pubblica fanno diplomare gente che non sa leggere ma di che stiamo a parlare) e specialmente quando si tratta di storia la insegnano male quando la insegnano di base (per dire qualsiasi roba concernente socialisti/comunisti dove escano in buona luce la saltano a pie pari)

a questo punto ci sono tre problemi

problema uno: per quanto riguarda la storia afroamericana fino a relativamente recentemente (a seconda dei posti ovviamente) si faceva sugarcoating/downplaying di quanto le cose fossero pessime wrt tratta degli schiavi e non parliamo di che fossero le pantere nere e varie ed eventuali e voglio dì il black h*story month per quello esiste, adesso credo le cose siano vagamente migliorate (ma ancora litigano se si debba insegna a scuola la critical race theory quindi insomma) ma cioè tendenzialmente le scuole americane so razziste quanto le loro istituzioni quindi c'è comprensibilmente risentimento da parte della comunità afroamericana su questa situazione (la faccio breve e grossolana la discussione che senno finiamo dopodomani)

problema due: per quanto riguarda la wwii non la sanno insegnare punto perché a parte che sorvolano sul fatto che ci fosse simpatia per hitler in buona parte della popolazione, non insegnano un cazzo di contesto di storia europea e antisemitismo in generale perché cioè ce stava un motivo per cui hitler aveva mirato gli ebrei ma questi non ne hanno la minima idea perchè non gli insegnano il contesto di niente quindi non è che se rendono conto di 90% dei motivi per cui la wwii/la shoah sono andate come sono andate, aggiungendo che la inquadrano come NOI VALOROSI AMERICANI SIAMO ANDATI A MENARE I TEDESCHI E GIAPPONESI CATTIVI MA SUI GIAPPONESI PARLIAMO SOLO DELLE BOMBE ATOMICHE E NON DICIAMO NIENTE DEL RESTO E FACCIAMO FINTA CHE I RUSSI NON ESISTESSERO (e sia chiaro che io sono estremamente critica di qualsiasi visione pro-staliniana che oMG SENZA STALIN NON SI VINCEVA LA GUERRA stalin s'è mosso come se è mosso solo perché hitler era cretino e gli ha invaso il paese senno col cazzo ma non puoi dire che non l'hanno fatta pure loro la guerra) e glissano completamente su qualsiasi conseguenza posteriore/sul contesto e parlo solo del fronte europeo i giapponesi manco li tocco quindi tendenzialmente se escludiamo il 5-10% di ammericani che sono addentro storia militare/STUDIANO QUELLO/hanno fatto studi in europa/hanno avuto culo trovando una scuola decente il 90-5% degli altri non ha la minima idea del contesto della guerra, dell'antisemitismo europeo e di come funziona la discriminazione in europa punto, e in quel 90-5% includo tutti gli americani di qualsiasi etnia e provenienza perché la loro istruzione fa schifo fine del discorso

problema tre: gli americani hanno la tendenza ad appiccicare le loro categorie di discriminazione su tutti gli altri e non sono privi di antisemitismo generale cosa che non capiscono, e con questo intendo: tutte le stronzate antisemite europee tipo che si sono create nei secoli di persecuzione (ah gli ebrei hanno i soldi e controllano tutto/sono avidi etc etc etc) sono state portate in usa con le migrazioni papali papali quindi esistono nella società loro che lo vogliano o meno nonostante si vendano come DURANTE LA WWII LA GENTE SCAPPAVA DA NOI - si, ma non è che li prendevano tutti anzi -, quindi tutte le cazzate cospiratorie antisemite esistono uguali solo che noi un minimo ce ne siamo resi conto dopo avere avuto il massacro a casa, loro no, e aggiungiamo che non avendo neanche loro ben chiaro cosa intendono per persone bianche o meno (o almeno, accademicamente una persona bianca = wasp, ma nel discourse normale di base non se ne rendono conto), quindi essendo la maggioranza di ebrei americani immigrati dall'europa ed essendo **bianchi** (ci siamo capiti) ed essendo **ricchi** o almeno percepiti come tali questi non si rendono minimamente conto che si tratta di una categoria discriminata al livello a cui lo era all'epoca, e da qui uscivano cose splendide anni fa tipo l'olocausto lo insegnano a scuola solo perché ci morivano cosiddetti white people (che non mi esprimo) o 'anne frank is overrated' post che ancora mi fa accapponare la pelle perché secondo op era unfair che anna frank si insegnasse a scuola (in quanto bianca) mentre la tratta degli schiavi no che dici dovresti fa entrambi ma vabbe tldr gli ebrei vengono generalmente percepiti come bianchi per quanto non siano wasp (poi non me addentro nel discorso se gli ebrei americani si considerino poc o meno perché non è una cosa su cui posso legiferare e l'ultima volta che ho detto che in italia sei ebreo poc solo se sei anche nero mi hanno mandato anon hate per una settimana quindi evito) e visto che non sanno riconoscere le teorie complottare antisemite di sto gran cazzo non percepiscono l'antisemitismo in generale come lo percepiamo noi ovvero come la peggiore discriminazione generale della storia o almeno di quella europea perché non esiste una categoria più discriminata nella storia europea punto

a questo aggiungiamo che in usa è popolare la totale idiotissima definizione di razzismo per cui non c'è razzismo se non si ha potere istituzionale che è una stronzata - il razzismo istituzionale è una cosa e ovviamente esiste, ma una persona latinoamericana può essere razzista coi neri che possono dire che odiano gli asiatici o i latini e quello razzismo è e razzismo rimane cioè signori miei quando insegnavo italiano l2 all'associazione di volontariato ce stava gente **bianca** che diceva che gli piaceva salvini (sto tizio era marocchino ma della tipologia pallida/pelle chiara) e la gente nera che gli sedeva vicino che era tipo ???? wtf, e di immigrati non bianchi non africani locali che erano tipo EW MO STI AFRICANI BRUTTI E CATTIVI VENGONO A ROVINARCI LA REPUTAZIONE ne ho visti a palate, e non parliamo dei poc vari che odiano i cinesi cioè uno nero in usa non può esercitare razzismo istituzionale a meno che non sia kan*e west o gente simile che sono lo 0,00000000001% della popolazione comunque ma chiunque può essere razzista fine

aggiungi pure che non avendo gli americani chiara la questione antisemitica non sanno neanche che l'antisemitismo è una roba trasversale cioè qualunque categoria può essere antisemita in virtù del fatto che gli ebrei so stati perseguitati ovunque, quindi se dicono 'x non può essere antisemita' per quei motivi dicono cazzate ma è perché non hanno proprio chiaro il quadro

mo questo secondo me è il background ma a questo punto possiamo concludere anche che

dal momento che in usa non esiste solidarietà di classe perché l'hanno uccisa con i sindacati negli anni 20 e il maccartismo negli anni 50 per quanto ci siano valorosi poveracci che provano a tirare avanti i sindacati a livelli che qui ci farebbe ridere (cioè stanno a litiga su dare una settimana di malattia ai ferrovieri e qui il peggio lavoro della pa te ne da due automatiche all'anno di malattia e se è grave prendi il permesso pagato di mesi lì proprio nei loro sogni), quindi mo uso kan*e west come cartina di tornasole ma il concetto è che nel momento che KW, che ok è nero quindi in teoria minoranza discriminata ma è a) pieno di soldi b) ha pubblicamente ammesso che è nella posizione del cishet white male coi soldi c) gira in compagnia di gente white supremacist, mentre razionalmente un* ner* dovrebbe dire ok questo è uno stronzo che si è scordato da dove viene e sta facendo anche lui il white supremacist e tra l'altro è un milionario/miliardario da cui mi separano abissi e che non gliene frega un cazzo di ridare alla sua comunità sai che c'è vaffanculo (lasciando stare l'antisemitismo), un sacco di gente che lo vede come uno che ce l'ha fatta/un modello si attacca a difenderlo perché sia mai che dici che è uno stronzo per quello, ma cioè lo stesso discorso vale per la gente normale che difende el0n musk quando licenzia la gente da twitter a cazzo perché LUI E' UN GENIO SE LA GENTE NON VUOLE LAVORARE PER LUI ALLORA NON LI OBBLIGANO o che è antisindacato a favore di jeff bezos o amazon perché EW SE UNO SI FA IL CULO POI FA I SOLDI quando non capisce che hanno infinitamente più in comune coi wannabe sindacalisti di starbucks che con el0n musk o col ceo di starbucks, ma again la solidarietà di classe in usa è morta e se provi a dirgli che sono un paese classista oltre che razzista e il classismo pesa se non uguale solo poco di meno sull'ineguaglianza sociale se la prendono quindi se ne discuterà appena inevitabilmente gli collassa il sistema

quindi tldr la gente lo difende perché non se rende conto di niente di tutto ciò e non può ammettere che chiunque può essere nammerda minoranze etniche incluse specialmente quando arrivano in posizioni di potere che com'è noto fanno passare gli ideali in decimo piano 99% del tempo

poi cercano di giustificarlo perché palesemente ha problemi di salute mentale ma cioè quando sei KW e hai quelle issues magari puoi pagarti fior fiore di psichiatri quindi onestamente non mi pare una scusante

sia chiaro che imvho manco KW ha minimamente la vaga idea di cosa succedesse durante la wwii, di cosa sia l'antisemitismo europeo e di cosa implichi dire mi piace hitler seriamente perché è ignorante uguale alla media locale e sta solo dicendo che è antisemita on main cosa che è un sacco di gente lì e che ha sicuramente problemi pesi di salute mentale che non aiutano ma la situazione quella è e onestamente dopo avere visto il discourse su anna frank e su insegnano l'olocausto solo perché la gente bianca non sono sconvolta di niente di tutto ciò ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ps: italiani che pensano che l'antisemitismo non esiste tipo la cretina su twitter anni fa che i nazisti non erano razzisti perché gli ebrei sono bianchi che pensino eventualmente di commentare su questo post verranno ignorati di routine grazie X°D

mahonia and edelweiss!

Mahonia - a place/thing/activity that inspires me most and how I express myself when it does? Yeeeesh I have not been feeling very inspired as of late. Um but recently I got to visit an intensive English centre as part of my masters degree for teaching and I have to say it really inspired me to get my focus back with studying. This degree is so hard and lately I’ve reaaally been feeling like I’m not cut out for it, but that visit really reminded me how passionate I am about teaching and that this is the right path for me. So anyway that’s my answer!

Edelweiss - how’d I choose my url? Ooh good question! So it’s actually from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. This is just the part where it’s mentioned:

You gave me hyacinths first a year ago / They called me the hyacinth girl. / Yet when we came back, late, from the hyacinth garden. / Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not / Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither / Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, / Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

Asks

https://www.tumblr.com/qqueenofhades/741612605875027968/as-someone-whose-country-went-through-a-brutal

I frankly think the problem is that people who post about the "worthlessness" of the vote are a combination of people who've lived with the privilege their entire lives and thus don't recognize its value, and of people who think that doing ANYTHING that is part of the establishment is inherently dirty and needs to be avoided to maintain their ideological purity. And mixed together with an unhealthy dose of capitalistic undertones of instant gratification that they've never truly reckoned with.

Because that's what this is really all about; keeping their own hands unsullied of what they see as a poisonous system, where the establishment is inherently bad no matter what good elements are still left trying to be fixed and improved, and they want the results immediately regardless of the consequences.

As it's been said before, as horrid and evil as the fascist right are, they did their due diligence for over 50 years, putting their zealots into various positions of power year after year, decade after decade. because they were willing to go through their own hell in order to ensure that the poison trees they were planting would bear fruit, even as they have their clowns and assholes to distract the rest of us. I have never seen that kind of single-minded long term thinking in a very large majority of online types.

I mean, last night I received an anon scolding me about how I was "driving away young leftists and liberals" by whatever I was saying on Tunglr dot hell (which has consisted almost in its entirety of forcefully telling them to vote, to not be antisemites, and that yelling at a cancer hospital wasn't going to magically awaken more people to the Rightness of your Cause and actually backfires on the cause you're claiming to help). And while the urge to do a forensic and deeply salty response was Strong, I reminded myself to do the smart thing and block it. Which I did, but also I'm still wondering how, if these precious snowflakes are indeed "driven away" by someone telling them to vote and not be antisemites, then yeah, we're doomed. It was also entirely likely that this was the usual version of "not a threat-threat" wherein if I don't stop telling people to vote on Tunglr dot hell, apparently this might cause the entire moral continuum of the universe to collapse and it will be my fault. Sorry if I haven't been always totally nice about it, but after eight years of dealing with this bullshit nonstop, my patience is now deeply limited.

Anyway, my point here is that if this is actually what we're dealing with, wherein they will blow right past the most basic of advice about how to actually do something and not just get short-term Moral Good Person Cookies out of it, coming from someone who actually agrees with what they want to do and the changes they want to see in the world, in order to focus on This Personally Made Me Feel Bad :(, then yeah. We're doomed. On the other hand, as scolding anons on Tunglr dot hell are again, hardly representative of the actual state of things, it likewise should be taken with a healthy grain of salt.