Give me my $$$ back

one of the important cornerstones of fandom is understanding that your headcanon is not everyone else's headcanon, and i'm not sure when people stopped understanding this

the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right

i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

looks familiar huh?

wistfully remembering how people (pretended they) cared about antisemitism when it was primarily coming from the right. like there are pre-2023 posts with tens of thousands of notes about antisemitism. now any mention of the existence of antisemitism (when its worse than it ever was) doesn’t breach containment outside of jewish circles. its almost funny how quickly people stopped caring when it was inconvenient.

I wish y'all were as outraged over China committing genocide against Uhyghurs as you are over Israel fighting an terrorist group who rapes women and burns babies alive

Growing up, I was taught that when someone tells you who they are, believe them.

They don’t care about Palestine. They don’t care about Gaza. They care about going mask off.

Fucking believe them.

tumblr is great because no matter how many followers i get it doesn't stop me from being really fucking annoying. other places i will perhaps think before i post. Not here. not here

I seem to remember back during the Trump era there was this phenomenon wherein openly Nazi folks and people looking for a punch-up would show up at alt-right protests, only for the alt-righters to insist that they couldn’t be held to account for the views of everyone who showed up at their rallies, and how this idea was met with derision in any space left of center. But now that leftist pro-Palestinian activists are finding themselves attracting antisemitic folks, now they can’t be held accountable for the speech of people who clearly view them as allies? Unserious behavior.

You’re thoughts on what’s taking place on college campuses and the anti semitism being blatantly displayed

There has been a major shift in the culture. In years past, whenever the Palestinian/Israeli conflict flared up, anti-Israeli sentiment in America was limited to the fringe of the Left; with both the political Right, and the mainstream political Left standing behind the only liberal democracy in the region, and both sides recognizing the cynical, self destructive tactics of Israel's extremist enemies which stalemate the situation (Hamas, The PLO and the PLJ).

But Gen Z goes into the evaluation of this long enduring conflict with a completely different mentality. That is because it has been significantly shaped by a radical cultural ideology according to which virtue comes from victimhood and suffering rather than from right conduct. People are entirely a product of their social circumstances (says Critical Theory) and the conduct of the oppressed is simply an expression of their desperation and suffering at the hands of powerful systems. Those systems are themselves the only truly “unethical” force that is in play, and they must be reformed in order to reform the individual. In the 2020 riots, violence (including against the livelihood of civilians) was justified by the cause: the alleviation of alleged suffering and oppression at the hands of law enforcement.

The Palestinian Israeli conflict plays into this Oppresser/Oppressed (stronger/weaker) narrative where there is no “morality” there is only “justice” (which means “equity”). It leads to a justification of a “By Any Means Necessary” ideology , just as long as the means is not sufficient enough to turn the stronger party into the weaker party. Israel is the powerful more militarily dominant liberal democratic nation so it must be wrong in this clash between itself and a poorer, chaotic struggling society. The advocate of traditional Western morality however judges each party whether small or great according to the morality of its intentional actions. According to that calculus Israel is, for the most part, a free nation attempting to defend its citizens, Hamas, The PLO and The PIJ are obscenely immoral terrorist organizations that intentionally target the innocent, and the Palestinian people are victims caught in the middle.

The truly unfortunate thing is that this debate is spilling over in the form of anti-semitic language and behavior toward normal American citizens who happen to be Jewish. And of course the rhetoric of this classical anti-Semitism uses the exact same language of the oppressor/oppressed, "the Jews run the world, they own and control everything and we are their hapless victims." This was of course the rhetoric of the Nazis.

And as with the other paradigms of oppressor v.s. oppressed it doesn't actually matter if it's accurate or not.

Reminder: Israel is not and has not been commiting a genocide nor an ethnic cleansing

You using these terms for actions that happen during wartime - which are horrific enough by themselves - taints not only the meaning of these words but the memory of the people who actually have lived through such things.

https://www.ajc.org/news/5-reasons-why-the-events-in-gaza-are-not-genocide

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/01/16/israel-genocide-charges-gaza-united-nations-unfounded/72202529007/

These two tweets capture how "Zionist" is being used by some people.

Fandom Problem #4818:

I think one of the things that fandoms need to come to accept that a piece of media isn't always necessarily 'garbage' or just 'written bad'. Sometimes, a piece of media just isn't for you and that's fine. Just because something wasn't to your liking doesn't mean it's not good. This doesn't mean it shouldn't be criticized and given your honest opinion but sometimes you should have more of an open mind than just "I didn't enjoy this so it must be bad!!!"

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