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spacelazarwolf · 2 years

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(tw for antisemitism)

Hey, Sorry to bother, but i wanted to ask something: my dad said that currently the world Is dominated by a group of jewish families, and that one of them funded Hitler. I know this is antisemitism, but my paranoia needs further reassurements. Do you have any articles or sources that disprove my father's "thesis"? /nf

i’ve been thinking all day about how i want to answer this. i wasn’t sure i even wanted to answer it at all, but i think i need to make this both an educational moment and a boundary setting moment.

i’m going to assume that you’re asking these things in good faith, and i want you to know that my answer is also in good faith and not meant to be an attack but a learning opportunity.

i’m first going to get my own personal feelings out of the way, not because i need to vent but because you need to confront the fact i’m a real, living, breathing jewish person whom you just asked to prove that a genocide of millions of my people, which was painstakingly documented by the people who were committing the genocide, actually happened. this is part of deradicalization, acknowledging that we are human beings just like you. if someone killed your entire family then told you that you were the one who killed them, i assume you would be devastated. take that feeling and multiply it by 6 million.

there is no one article that is going to prove to your white supremacist father (or to you) that jews did not fund our own genocide. there are several articles online that talk about how to deradicalize family members (i searched “how to deradicalize white supremacist family” and found several articles as well as at least two irl organizations that helps people deradicalize their family from the alt right) but when it comes to yourself, this is my suggestion:

get offline. i know it seems counterintuitive, but it is incredibly easy to fall down the alt right pipeline on just about any social media website or search engine. so i’m going to suggest you go to your local library and ask the librarian for some books about jewish history and judaism, particularly about the holocaust. books written by jews are preferable, such as night by eli wiesel which is a firsthand account. read as many jewish firsthand accounts of the holocaust as you can, look at the photos, if they have any relevant historical recordings watch those too. confront the horrors that happened to us. look at them. face them. read the names of the millions of jews, roma, disabled, and queer people who were murdered. read about their families, their children, their descendants. confront the numbers. 6 million. two out of every three jews who lived in europe. one third of the entire population of jews in the entire world. we still have not recovered our population from this genocide, and our community is still massively traumatized. do not just read one article and call it quits. put in the effort to take on this burden of knowledge and pain.

so now for the boundary setting time, which is for anyone reading this: do not ask me to deradicalize you. i am a disabled queer trans jew living in poverty. i am confronted with the realities of impending fascism every day and with every life decision i make. don’t talk to me. talk to people who look like you who are progressive and willing to help you deradicalize. because i do truly want you to succeed in escaping that pipeline, but i cannot take that burden on myself.

#ask avishai #holocaust #jewish #jumblr #alt right pipeline

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ihatepeoplesomuchuwu · 9 months

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As a POC, CSA survivor, and both trans & queer - Tom should've educated himself. He had no right to step his foot into racism that /he/ has not experienced. I've had a genuine brick thrown in my face because I spoke Spanish. /Because I spoke Spanish./

GaG is nothing /but/ hate, and it worries me that the "let's agree to disagree" mentality is being spread here. It's dangerous. It's scary to think you guys would still want to support a creator - who's fandom had poc and was mainly LGBT - who looked down upon us. It's common sense, that he did not have. I don't wish death threats upon anyone, and I am so terribly sorry he experienced that. But I am happy he is gone. Let him learn and actually research before he steps his foot into issues he does not belong in.

His fandom that he created felt betrayed, hurt, and as if we were used for money. I still do. I do not support him. The only support he deserves, is therapy and actual learning. Not babying and coddling. People need to realize that just because you have freedom to like something, doesn't free you of consequence and opinion. I hope he stays gone, in all respect. And I hope all of his supporters that "he did nothing wrong" also grow up and get help. Listen to POC, queer, jew, and disabled voices.

I am so so sorry you went through that. I won't pretend by saying I understand how you're feeling, but just know that I'm so sorry you went through/go through all of that. You are very strong, and I hope one day things do get better, not just for you but any and everyone who has gone through that.

As for the GaG agree to disagree subject. The agree to disagree thing was for the Tom situation in general, not only for the GaG. I have been talking about them because I'm trying to educate myself on who they are as people and only recently learned about their actions. I can't speak for all of us, but some of us are just here to discuss stuff. Not all of us are or will continue to support Tom. You have people who love lurking for love, still do but don't want to buy anything or continuing to follow Tom if he comes back. You have others who will. You have others who don't. We all understand that here, and we shouldn't be telling others what to do in their lives. We can disagree and move on, of course, but yelling and being rude only drives people away faster.

Why drive him away, though? I didn't even agree with everything he said, but why couldn't we have had a conversation with him about it instead of telling him what was wrong with what was said? People mess up all the time. It happens, and we shouldn't be screaming insults at someone who had his own opinions and side of the story. Both sides were handled poorly, and I still stand by that this should have been handled privately like adults.

I understand. A lot of people were hurt, and no one here is looking down on those who were hurt. This is meant to be a place where people can talk from both sides about what happened without getting insulted, It doesn't matter if I or anyone agrees or not. This is a safe place for those who don't know where to go when they can't feel welcomed or safe to say, even ONE opinion. You want to call it babying and coddling, then fine, No one is stopping you. But sometimes, all someone needs to understand is someone to just hold their hand and explain. Especially when Tom even asked for proof of the comic artist being a Nazi and only 1 person helped him. People sometimes just need help to understand or get the whole picture. My dad never understood being trans. He even said transphobic things to my face, but all It took was time and explaining, and now he defends anyone who is trans and even when I came out to him.

I can not add on the racism part because I have never experienced racism. I'm not going to even pretend I do because racism is an awful to see and I can't even imagine how it must feel to experience it first hand. I am so sorry that you have and I'm sorry to anyone who has as well.

With everything being said, I hope you have a wonderful day or night, anon, and please remember to hydrate as well, okay? ^^

#carnivorekitty #lurking for love #lfl #l4l #niwinoodle #anonymous #Please have a wonderful day anon ❤️

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imposterracoonneedsadhdmeds · 2 years

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To all afab American's,

I'm sorry.

I myself, cannot do anything but show my support for you all. I'm sorry that a country said to be one of freedom; a flag that many countries used to look at for a chance of freedom. I'm sorry that you are trapped in a society that not only goes against what it has promised so many young Americans, but against human rights.

Roe v Wade is important. Not only in a litteral sense but it stood as a symbol of unity with afab people about protecting them.

I'm sorry your society is returning to tyranny. To a controlling state authority.

I also extend this to the LGBTQ+ who have been impacted by laws made against their own existence.

Joe Biden addressed trans people in his political speech after winning the election. And yet this pride month, America is isolating their queer communities.

Thinking back to WW2, where america stood to protect those persecuted by the Nazi's. I do not wish to dismiss the mistreatment and genocide of the Jews, but the Nazi's didn't just mistreat Jews alone. The LGBTQ+ and disabled community, as well as many other minorities, were persecuted for their mere existence.

How can the land of the free exclude a person for existing?

I'm sorry America. I am across sea's. I have no position of power. I'm disheartened that I cannot help those whose rights are being taken away before my eyes. I watch the news in horror. I am not only sorry, I'm filled with rage at this obvious mistreatment.

I'm sorry.

As an afab agender person, I'm sorry. I stand with you. I hear you. And I will support your rights, fight for your rights, whether through my words or actions. I will not be idle.

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kosheraspirations · 1 year

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I hope nothing in my ask sounded condescending or anything! (or implied you don't know what you're talking about or something, sorry I'm autistic and struggling a lot of with communication rn) But yeah it's definitely not normal for a rabbi to recommend not doing any learning yourself, ive talked to four rabbis about converting cause I was looking for one that would be best suited to me as a queer trans person in the rural south, and every one of them recommended studying independently and learning/immersing myself in the open aspects of Jewish culture to see if converting would make sense in my life and to go ahead and start the process and I did for basically the whole year I was waiting for the intro to judaism class, I was even attending synagogue for about 4-5 months before the class and most reform synagogues will let you start attending services if you want and are able to so that you can get involved with your local Jewish community and get a feel for the services, anyways I wanted to say sorry for giving a bunch of unsolicited advice I realized when you answered my ask that was more so a vent looking for people whove have similar experiences and not like, a call for advice, sorry for completely misunderstanding it! I just am very passionate about Judaism and my conversion process and love to talk to other people who are trying/thinking about converting and it tends to get a little rambly, the only other thing I really wanna say but you can definitely ignore if you don't feel like it would help is to not put all learning and everything aside completely, the conversion process as a whole is much easier if you go into it with a pretty good base knowledge and my Rabbi told me that it showed I was serious about wanting to convert and truly dedicating myself to a Jewish life even when other people aren't looking (and in my case more meaningful because me and my Rabbi have time to focus on more specific things like queer Jewish history, disabled Jewish history and other like more niche specific things)

also sorry this is really the last thing but I'm pretty sure I have a lot of the same feelings about choosing a Jewish life (correct me if I'm wrong), I felt personally like it was really heavily aimed at people converting just for marriage and kinda implied that most people wouldn't convert just for the love of it on their own which, kinda felt a little bad to me personally, and I really didn't like the assumption that everyone converting is already involved in the Jewish community in some way or connected to it through family or their partners family, it definitely presents some things in a way that I didn't enjoy reading very much, living a Jewish life by Anita Diamont is completely different in vibe and it's more about the customs, history, prayers, holidays, mitzvot, and minhag of the Jewish community and in my opinion it was much kinder and friendlier than choosing a Jewish life, it was basically all informative and not anecdotal

anyways sorry again! I hope nothing in this ask was rude/condescending either but if it was please feel free to correct me cause I certainly didn't mean for it to be I just really enjoy talking about these things and have a bad gauge of tone

hi!!! i'm sorry if i replied in a way that made it out to seem i thought your ask was unwelcome or condescending, it wasn't at all!! im also autistic so we're just 🤝 . i wasn't looking for advice but it's natural to want to offer it to other people and i'm not upset about it so it's totally fine

and yes i heavily agree about the book!! i've ended up skipping some chapters entirely since i'm not wanting to convert 1. for a fiancé, nor 2. as a christian or soon to be ex-christian. the entire segments about giving up christmas were so weird to me since she didn't clarify in the introduction that the book was primarily for christians, although i don't remember if she said anything about the book being for partners of jews. but i do like her writing style so maybe i'll have to check out her other book as well

#asks

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evilelitest2 · 3 years

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What is the dirtbag left? People keep talking about it but I have no clue what it is

Oh this answer is gonna suck. Good question as always though.

Ok before we can get into the dirtbag left, I want to talk about the major factions of leftist in the United States, and I am discounting Moderates/Centrist/Blue Dog Democrat's, I am specifically focused on people who support actual left wing policies. Roughly speaking they can be broken up into the following groups though each group is a lot more complicated than I am implying here

The first and most dynamic faction are the progressives, people who are focused on the rights of marginalized people. Sometimes they are called “identity Politics” They are further subdivided into a bunch of specific interest groups, but their main unifying argument is “society is specifically persecuting towards certain groups and we need to address that”

Civil Rights, who focus on the rights of African Americans

Feminists who focus on the rights of women

The Queer Community, who are focused on the rights of Gender and Sexual Minorities (Gay people, Trans people, Non Binary people, Bi people, intersex, asexual ect

This group is really divided within itself but lets not get sidetracked

Groups focusing on the rights of Latin Americans, both citizens and immigrants

Groups focusing on the rights of Muslims/Middle Easterners

Groups focusing on the rights of Jews/Combating antisemitism

Groups focusing on the rights of Asian Americans

And finally groups focusing on the rights of the disabled

The next major group is the labor movement, who focus on the rights of workers, focusing on things like Unions, increasing the minimum wage, addressing the wealth gap and very New Deal FDR policies, and tend to be anticapitalistic or at least Social Democrat.

Environmentalists, who want the world to not die

Anti War advocates

Pro Education/Pro Science anti Fundamentalists' people who just want good goverment.

And some post modernists thrown in because why not?

The two main groups that make up the left are the first two, the issues of Identity Politics and Class, and there is a LONG history of these two groups having trouble le working together. One of the major issue is that a lot of poor whites would happily welcome a lot of leftist social policies, but vote conservative if they believes those policies will help black people, even if it hurts their own best interest. I mean take the New Deal, which was among the greatest economic period of US history and was popularly supported by most Americans. However a lot of poor whites supported it because Latinos and Blacks were not allowed access to most of its benefits. ANd once the Democratic Party started to pursue desegregation and women’s rights, these poor whites abandoned the party which gave them a future and voted for policies that hurt their own best interest because of their extreme bigotry. Which is the most frustrating part of American History.

And among a lot of Democrats (mostly centrist) there is this idea that the best way to win elections is to stab marginalized communities in the back in order to win Republican voters. When Bill Clinton won in 1992, he did so in large part by abandoning a lot of leftist principles, he embraced Third Way style Liberalism and deregulation (which led to the 2008 crash thanks Clinton) but he also happily supported Right wing ideas about trying to keep crazy radicals minorities from advancing too far in politics. Basically try to rebrand the Democrats as “we aren’t as crazy as the Republicans, but we ditched all of that lame uncool parts of politics that makes your family uncomfortable”.

So the Dirtbag Left (there term not mine) was like “Hey could we do this...but for communism?” And like most bad things, its origin is with Nazis.

The Dirtbag Leftist are Marxists who think the best way to win Trump voters over to the left is to combine Socialist style economic/welfare policies with conservative styles attacks on “Free Speech” and “Identity Politics.” The “nicer” version of these guys basically say “ok we win them in with the economic policies and once we implement that, we can work on the other issues”. The cruelr version of that basically want a socialist state...for white straight men and nobody else.

This happened because some communists were looking at how the Alt-Right was radicalizing apolitical young men and were like “wait we can do that too”

See if you have ever had the misfortune of being in Nazi/Red Pill/Gamergate style spaces you will notice that they actually share a lot of the left’s complains about the status que. They dislike both parties, they don’t like capitalism, and they think our current consumerist way of life is souless drudgery. So some communists were like “What if we found the exact same demographic as these guys but tried to turn them to communism instead of Fascism?” Which sounds like a good idea but here is the problem

The type of people who become Nazis had to already be bigoted anti intellectuals in the first place. All you have done is given some of them Marxist Rhetoric rather than Nazi Rhetoric, they are the exact same toxic people. And in trying to cater to them, you have allowed them to infiltrate's your movement.

The other quality of the Dirtbag Left is that they think that the Centrist Democrats (Clinton, Obama, Biden ect) are a greater threat than the conservatives, and that if the Far Right and the Far Left can team up to destroy the center, the radicals can work out their issues. Which has never worked ever in human history but they keep trying.

Initially the DIrtbag Left was basically vulgar leftists who wanted to down play the issues that trigger conservatives (Abortion, minority rights, feminism, being nice to people) in order to get them to support their social/economic policies, but it quickly became co-opted by the Alt Right themselves, and now they are basically just advocates of a Herrenvolk style social state. Or really...they are what would happen if the Nazis actually tried to combine Nationalism with Socialism.

And while they aren’t a large group, like the Alt-Right they are really really prominent online and are constantly engaged in wide spread harassments campaigns that are basically find/replace Gamergate harassments campaigns. They attached themselves pretty hard to Bernie's Sanders campaign and did a really good job in ruining his chances in both primaries, and then attached themselves to Tulsi Gabbard’s fucking toxic campaign after that. At this point they are basically just Alt Rightists with a socialist brand reskin. Sometimes called the Red Brown Alliance

#ask EvilElitest #dirtbag left #Leftism #Marxism #Communism #Alt RIght #Gamergate #chapo trap house #Herrenvolk #National Socialism #The Red Brown Alliance

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himbo-the-clown · 4 years

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I know you didnt write the post and while I agree that Anne Frank shouldnt have been talked in the way she is now, how can saying “Gay people were just as much victims as Jews” be antisemitic? LGBT people were rounded up and placed in concentration camps as well. For example, look up the meaning for the pink triangle, it was reserved ranking for gay men in these camps. Even when gay/trans people were liberated, they were placed in jail soon after because it was illegal in those times.

I’m going to try so very very hard to come at this response in a calm way under the assumption that you are trying to learn and aren’t intentionally being rude. It’s a very touchy subject for me given how often Jewish experiences with oppression are erased, so I’m sorry if anything I say comes off as angry or rude. I’m mad at the culture that taught you this misinformation, not at you for asking about it.

I have a few basic points to respond to this with, but first I need you to know that the perspective I’m coming at this from is as a queer Jew with a degree in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I’m gay, I’m Jewish, and I can tell you with 100% certainty that goyische gay people are not allowed to claim the holocaust the way Jewish people are.

1. During the Holocaust

Queer people were killed in the holocaust. They were sent to camps. They were arrested. However... the scale of deaths is incomparable. Here are some of the rough numbers we have for victims of the holocaust:

5,000,000 - 6,000,000 Jews

130,000 - 500,000 Romani

270,000 disabled people

80,000 - 200,000 Freemasons

5,000 - 15,000 gay people

Do you know who the Freemasons are? They’re a fratenal organisation. They’re a fraternity. They were killed because the Nazis claimed they were part of “the Jewish Conspiracy”. Many more Freemasons were killed than gay people, so where’s all your hype for including Freemasons in holocaust history and letting Freemasons claim victimhood in the holocaust? Or, perhaps, do you understand that 15,000 is a very different number than 6,000,000 or 500,000?

2. Intergenerational Trauma

Intergenerational trauma was specifically coined in response to Jewish trauma after the holocaust. Goyische gay people just don’t have that trauma. I have nightmares about digging my own grave, being forced into gas chambers, hiding in attics. The holocaust traumatised me. It’s traumatised my family, my friends, my community. Goyische gay people just don’t fucking have that. If you want a fraction of a glimpse of what that trauma is like, I wrote a poem about it on my writing blog. The holocaust is deeply ingrained in us in a way it just isn’t for goyische gays.

Jews have family we know people personally who were affected by it. Whose grandparents were refugees, whose families died, who were torn apart by it. This is our family history. We are all, in some way or another, related to a survivor or a victim. This isn’t some hypothetical history, this follows us. It defines us.

3. The Present Effects

Here’s the thing that rubbed me the wrong way about your message. The assumption that I don’t know holocaust history. That I don’t know about the pink triangle or any other part of the holocaust. Because you’re coming from a point of immense privilege as a goy. Do you know how young I was when I started learning about the holocaust? So young I don’t even remember it. I’ve known about it for my whole memorable life. As a Jew I’ve had to learn about it inside out, because it’s an ingrained part of my culture and my people now, as sad as that is. We don’t have the privilege of not knowing about the holocaust, of not learning about every single detail of the horrors committed then. Antisemitism has been around for as long as Jews have and if we don’t learn about it all, we’re not safe from the next time goyim decide to try genociding us again. And they always try again.

While Christian kids are off learning about how Santa comes to bring presents to good little children, Jewish kids are taught about how grandma and grandpa had to leave all their things behind and run through the woods of Poland for weeks only to get caught by the Nazis and made to work. And how they were the lucky ones because they lived. We have to learn about Great Aunt Golda starving to death in Gross-Rosen, about Great Uncle Joseph’s body being burned in Bergen-Belsen. Long before most queer people even know what gay means, we’re learning about our families dying. Can you see how that’s different? Can you see how differently it affects us?

The first time I realised being Jewish wasn’t the norm was when a kid told me the holocaust was our punishment for killing Jesus. I was in kindergarten. My first experience of a goy was being told my family deserved to die in the holocaust. I’ve been called Anne Frank, I’ve had people joke about gassing me, I’ve had people try to carve swastikas into me with a knife. And all of that happened long before I even knew what a gay person was let alone that I am one. Jewish and goyische gay experiences of the holocaust are not the same, not even close.

So yes, a gay goy saying that gay people were just as much victims as my people were is antisemitic. Because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the Jewish experience of the holocaust, an unwillingness to learn about Jewish oppression, and a complete and utter disregard for the Jewish people and our struggles. Because if you’d spent even a fraction of the time it took you to learn about gay oppression during the holocaust to look into Jewish oppression anywhere and at any time, you would already know that it’s not the same and you wouldn’t have had to put a Jewish person through the emotional labour of having to explain Jewish trauma to you.

Also, minimizing the harm to Jews and Romani people in the holocaust is explicitly an alt-right tactic that goes hand in hand with holocaust denial, so when you try to put us on par with people who were significantly less affected by it than we were, just know that those are the people you’re keeping company with. I don’t think that’s what you’re trying to do, but just be careful because that’s where this line of thinking heads.

#judaism #jewish #shoah #the holocaust #antisemitism #Anonymous #sorry this anger isn't specifically supposed to be directed at anon #it's just a very touchy subject that hurts a lot of Jewish people #and I've had this argument with too many gay goyim who were antisemitic #feel free to reblog this #דיברתי

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writingwithcolor · 6 years

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Hey guys! First of all, I've found your blog super duper helpful in the past, so thanks! I have a quick question-in my story, all of my main characters (my protagonist, her friends, her family, the bully, etc) are Jewish, except for one MC who is Irish/Dutch. My question is, is this "diverse"? Or completely lacking in diversity? It's supposed to take place in a Jewish town, which is why they're all Jews. I was thinking bout making her BFF half Chinese half Jewish-would that help? xo

Help, everyone in my story is the same marginalized group and that’s not “diverse” – (Oh, but it is)

First of all, there’s nothing wrong with a story that’s completely dominated by members of one specific marginalized group. The goal, after all, is not chasing a meaningless “diversity” label, but uplifting marginalized groups. The diversity we’re aiming for is a diversity of stories. One story doesn’t have to be everything to all people as long as there are many stories together making up a library.

Second of all, in your Jewish community there will most likely be other forms of internal diversity. Depending on where this takes place, the ethnic makeup might be dominated by various sub-groups within Jewish ethnicity, like Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Bukharan (who are apparently hanging out in Forest Hills, NY), etc. There may also be Black Jews, Jewish Latinxs, Jewish East Asians, etc. depending on the general population in the region you chose.

Third of all, don’t forget that even in a community of mostly Ashkies or mostly Sephardim or whatever, it would be unrealistic for everyone to be cis/straight/allo, able-bodied, neurotypical, etc. To throw out some random numbers, on a given random Friday night at our tiny temple, there might be only thirty people there that night, but four of us are queer women, two of us have mobility disabilities including one person in a motorized wheelchair, and half of a dozen are neurodivergent.

Anyway, yeah, it’s okay to have a cast of mostly Jewish people (or mostly trans people, or mostly people with mobility issues, etc.) because in real life, it’s very realistic for marginalized people to cling together for community, fellowship, and protection. It doesn’t need “help.”

Also, a note on your BFF character: with that parentage, if she identifies as Jewish, she’s Jewish, not half Jewish. In fact, if her mom’s the Jewish one, even the strict traditionalists among us will agree with me. (Reform rules say that having either parent be Jewish is ok as long as you were raised in a practicing household, I think. Orthodox recognizes the maternal line.)

I mean one thing you could do is if there’s any reason for there to be gentile characters in the story at all, you could make sure they have a realistic amount of racial representation for your area of choice rather than making them all white. But yeah, Jews of Color exist (may want to do some Wikipedia research quickly to see which groups are realistic for your area - it may not be what you think. For example the last time I looked up where most of the Latinx Jews in South Florida were from it wasn’t Cuba, it was Venezuela.)

-Shira

#meanforavegan #Jewish #diversity #culture #general #Judaism #asks

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your-dietician · 3 years

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Is Germany nailing diverse and inclusive entertainment? | Film | DW

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Is Germany nailing diverse and inclusive entertainment? | Film | DW

“Why kiss a frog when you could kiss a princess,” goes the tagline for “Princess Charming,” the self-proclaimed first lesbian reality dating show in the world that is being aired on the German streaming platform TVNOW. Modeled after The Bachelor, the show has several lesbian women vying for the affections of one woman. And for gay men, there’s the show Take Me Out: Boys, Boys, Boys to the same effect.

And then we also have the Heidi Klum-produced-and-hosted show Germany’s Next Topmodel 2021, which features trans model Alex Mariah Peter as its latest winner and Druck, a YouTube series on teenagers in Berlin that aims to represent different ethnic groups in the German capital. It would appear that German TV reflects the kind of pluralism that the country is known for around the world.

Even in the less agile world of cinema, there’s been a steady trend toward greater representation: In recent years, films like Türkisch für Anfänger (2012) — which was spun off from a TV series — and Fack ju Göhte (2013) have also tried to reflect Germany’s changing social structures. But is all this enough?