akiva

Aggressively Jewish. Probably nonbinary? Figuring that out. Antisemites and their useful idiots will be blocked. (he/him, they/them) איך לערן ייִדיש. מיר וועלן זיי איבערלעבן. ים ישראל חי.

[jinxpologist]

the term "AI" has absolutely fucking ruined technological literacy

[jinxpologist]

there's no set meaning for what AI actually is. you could be talking about anything from a language generation model to a program that can identify cancer cells and people will treat it like it's the same thing. and it's infuriating.

[spacelazarwolf]

in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:

arts, fashion, and lifestyle:

jeans - levi strauss

modern bras - ida rosenthal

sewing machines - isaac merritt singer

modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers

operetta - jacques offenbach

comic books - stan lee

graphic novels - will eisner

teddy bears - morris and rose michtom

influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen

artists - mark rothko

actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand

comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld

authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley

culture:

esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof

feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg

queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler

international women's day - clara zetkin

principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer

"the new colossus" - emma lazarus

universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin

holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel

workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman

public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald

racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner

political theory - hannah arendt

disability rights - judith heumann

black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza

#metoo movement - jodi kantor

institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld

technology:

word processing computers - evelyn berezin

facebook - mark zuckerberg

console video game system - ralph henry baer

cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper

3d - leonard lipton

telephone - philipp reis

fax machines - arthur korn

microphone - emile berliner

gramophone - emile berliner

television - boris rosing

barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver

secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr

three laws of robotics - isaac asimov

cybernetics - norbert wiener

helicopters - emile berliner

BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny

google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page

VCR - jerome lemelson

fax machine - jerome lemelson

telegraph - samuel finley breese morse

morse code - samuel finley breese morse

bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus

electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi

nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover

the internet - paul baran

icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir

color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes

world's first computer - herman goldstine

modern computer architecture - john von neumann

bittorrent - bram cohen

voip internet telephony - alon cohen

data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv

nemeth code - abraham nemeth

holography - dennis gabor

laser - theodor maiman

instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn

first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus

electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg

drip irrigation - simcha blass

ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro

photo booth - anatol marco josepho

medicine:

pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch

defibrillators - bernard lown

anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin

polio vaccine - jonas salk

test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman

test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal

penicillin - ernst boris chain

pregnancy test - barnhard zondek

antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion

discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter

chemotherapy - paul ehrlich

discovery of prions - stanley prusiner

psychoanalysis - sigmund freud

rubber condoms - julius fromm

birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus

asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein

blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner

acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion

vitamins - caismir funk

technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow

antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg

a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov

homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann

aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun

science:

theory of relativity - albert einstein

theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell

quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz

quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein

microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn

neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria

counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter

genetic engineering - paul berg

discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre

discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias

discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter

discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose

discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez

modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann

stainless steel - hans goldschmidt

gas powered vehicles

interferometer - albert abraham michelson

discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe

proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman

biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof

electron-positron collider - bruno touschek

[brightlotusmoon]

[esf-art-and-design]

Adding @luanna801 ‘s contributions

Plus, Will freakin’ Eisner, like the guy the biggest comic award you could have the honor of getting is named after?!

Like, literally created some of the first modern day graphic novels.

Also his last work “The Plot” literally takes on and deconstructs anti-Semitic propaganda, like he literally wrote in the introduction “I have spent my career in the application of sequential art as a form of narrative language. With the widespread acceptance of the graphic narrative as a vehicle of popular literature, there is now an opportunity to deal head-on with this propaganda in a more accessible language.”

His whole goal was to make the breakdown accessible to the layman.

I mean it seems pretty important to acknowledge the contributions of Will Eisner to the comic and graphic novel world, especially since he is considered by many to have built the foundation.

[strangestructures]

All these things are amazing, but I wonder: do all groups have to prove they have done good things for the world before they're allowed to exist?

[the-library-alcove]

You're forgetting something fairly basic.

It doesn't matter how much Jews have contributed to the world, we are never allowed to exist.

This is just a rebuttal to the claim that we're solely a negative for the world. Trying to frame it as "we are allowed to exist because we're a net positive" is the wrong tack to take, because it never matters.

[creature-wizard]

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

They talk about a shadowy group of people supposedly manipulating everything behind the scenes. They might refer to them by terms such as globalists, bankers, international bankers, secret rulers of the world, the elite, the cabal, Kabbalists, Talmudists, satanists, satanic pedophiles, pedophiles, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, the Illuminati, the Babylonian Brotherhood, lizard people, Reptilians, Orions, regressives, regressive entities, Khazarians, Marxists, cultural Marxists, or leftists. Sometimes, very rarely, they'll just come right out and say "Jews."

They claim that the conspiracy has been working to conceal historical and spiritual truths from humanity.

They claim that the conspiracy uses stuff like food, entertainment, and medicine to control the masses. For example, "additives in food suppress our psychic abilities" or "Hollywood films contain subliminal messages" or "COVID vaccines were actually created to alter your DNA to make you more docile."

Also, claims that the conspiracy controls people via spiritual or technological implants, 5G, or alter programming, with or without explicit mention of Project Monarch (a conspiracy theory promoted by far right cranks such as Mark Philips and Fritz Springmeier, who used hypnosis to respectively convince Cathy O'Brien and Cisco Wheeler that they'd been put under mind control by a global satanic conspiracy).

They claim that this conspiracy is controlling the media, has fingers in every institution they disagree with, and is generally behind everything they disagree with. (EG, the conspiracy created the Catholic Church; that other New Ager they disagree with is actually controlled opposition, etc.)

They claim that the conspiracy is trying to keep people in fear.

They claim that the conspiracy harvests something from people. Blood and adrenochrome are common ones. Loosh is somewhat less common. Expect to see something else pop up eventually.

They claim that the conspiracy practices genetic engineering; EG, creating animal/human hybrids, using vaccines to genetically sever people's connection to God, etc.

They claim that true spiritual wisdom can be traced back to places like Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu.

They claim that world governments have secretly been in contact with extraterrestrials for years.

They appeal to known frauds and cranks, including but not limited to Erich Von Daniken, Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, David Wilcock, Graham Hancock, Jaime Maussan, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Fritz Springmeier, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Appeals to forged documents, including but not limited to the alleged diary of Admiral Richard Byrd, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and The Urantia Book.

Appeals to channeled information, such as that provided by Edgar Cayce, Carla Rueckert, or George Van Tassel.

"But all of this has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?"

Oh, it all comes from somewhere, all right, but the where isn't what most people imagine.

A lot of the stuff above is just a modern spin on the content of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Russian Jews. The Protocols itself was plagiarized from a political satire and incorporated a lot of the post-French Revolution conspiracy theories about Freemasons and Jews being behind the French Revolution. I wrote a summary of the conspiracy tropes found in The Protocols over here.

The stuff about Satanic sacrifices and the consumption of blood, adrenochrome, loosh, or whatever are simply just variations on blood libel, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews practice ritual cannibalism. Blood libel can be traced back to ancient Greece. (With the Greek version, I really can't help but notice the similarity to modern urban legends of gangsters kidnapping random people for initiation rituals.)

Many of these tropes can also be linked back to the early modern witch hunts. It was believed that witches sacrificed babies to Satan, practiced cannibalism, and put people under mind control by way of diabolical magic. It was also believed that some witches didn't even know they were witches; they'd go off to attend the Devil's Sabbath at night and come back in the morning without remembering a thing. In the late 20th century, this witch hunter's canard would be reinvented as the alter programming conspiracy theory when media such as the 1973 book Sibyl and its 1976 television adaptation put DID (note: the woman who inspired Sibyl did not have DID) into the public consciousness. For a more complete list of witch panic and blood libel tropes, I wrote a list over here.

Lemuria was a hypothetical landmass proposed to explain the presence of lemur fossils in Madagascar and India while being absent in continental Africa and the rest of Asia, because if lemurs evolved naturally, they wouldn't be in two separate places with no connection to each other. The discovery that India and Madagascar were once connected not only made the hypothesis obsolete, it precludes the existence of Lemuria.

The whole notion of Mu began with a horrendous mistranslation of the Troano manuscript. A man named Augustus Le Plongeon would link the mistranslation with the story of Atlantis, and use it to claim that Atlantis actually existed in the Americas. (For Plongeon, Mu and Atlantis were one and the same.) And then other people (like James Churchward) got their hands on the whole Mu thing, and put their own spins on it, and the rest is history.

Le Plongeon's ideas influence modern Atlantis mythology today; EG, the idea that it was in the Americas. Another guy who helped shape the modern Atlantis myth was Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American politician. Dude claimed that Atlanteans spread their oh-so-superior culture far and wide. He also claimed that Atlantis was the home of the Aryan people, because of course he did.

The idea that all of the world's wisdom can be traced back to Thoth/Hermes goes back to Hermeticism, a product of Greco-Egyptian syncretism. Hermeticism produced a fascinating body of mythology and an interesting way to consider the divine and its role in shaping human history, but that doesn't mean it was right. And the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a modern text that has fuck-all to do with ancient Hermeticism and more to do with HP Lovecraft.

This idea that the conspiracy uses pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for evil also has roots in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government, wanting to reserve real medicine for their soldiers, told the general populace that said medicine was the product of evil Jewish science and prescribed alternative healing modalities instead. (Said alternative healing modalities did not particularly work.) It also echoes the old conspiracy theories about Jews spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.

The idea that the conspiracy uses genetic manipulation to create subhuman beings or sever humanity from the divine is a permutation of the Nazi conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through race mixing. The idea of evil reptilian DNA goes back to the ancient serpent seed doctrine, which is indeed old, but no less pure hateful nonsense for it.

"But there's got to be somebody up to something rotten out there!"

Oh sure. But these people aren't skulking around in the shadows. They're acting pretty openly.

The Heritage Foundation has been working to push this country into Christofascism since the early 1970's. They're the ones responsible for the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Ronald Reagan. They're also the ones behind Project 2025, which intends to bring us deeper into Christofascism. (Among many other horrible things, they intend to outlaw trans people as "pornographic.")

The Seven Mountains Mandate is another movement pushing for Christofascism. They intend to seize the "seven spheres" of society, which include education, religion, family, business, government/military, arts/entertainment, and media.

There's also the ghoulish American Evangelicals who support Israel because they think that current events are going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus and cement the formation of a global Christofascist empire. Don't let their apparent support of Jews fool you - they believe that the good Jews will become Christians and the bad ones will go to hell.

All of these people are working toward monstrously horrific goals, but none of them are part of an ancient megaconspiracy. In fact, these are the kinds of people pushing the myth of the ancient megaconspiracy. From the witch hunts to Nazi Germany to the American Evangelical movement, if history has taught us anything, the people pushing the conspiracy theories are always the bad guys.

[anshelsgendercrisis]

sorry i accidentally used antisemitic language while making my list of evil jews to harass!

[anshelsgendercrisis]

in all seriousness though this is how antisemitism works. when ppl realize that some wording is becoming too obvious or recognizable, they adjust their language but keep their biases. most of the time it’s not even a conscious thing. but this is why it’s imperative to actually unlearn antisemitism and not just memorize Words Ur Not Supposed To Use, bc that’s how you end up falling head over heels for and actively perpetuating one of the oldest antisemitic tropes in the book (dual loyalty) while handwringing over using a word.

[the-library-alcove]

So a while back, a fairly left-wing friend of mine was shocked at the thought of Left-Wing Holocaust Denial, asking how it could even be possible, how can the Left even deny the Holocaust given everything (quote: “why would the LEFT be in denial? After you read Elie Wiesel, you can’t deny any of it. Same with Maus, Frieda Appleman-Jurman’s memoirs, and all that. Also, Lois Lowry won a Newberry medal for Number the Stars”). So I’ve been chewing on this for a while now.

First, Right-Wing Holocaust Denial is straight up “denial that the Holocaust happened”–often with an undertone of “But we wish that it had and it was a great idea”. They deny the number of deaths, or excuse the Nazis, or say that the Jews had it coming, or say that it didn’t happen at all, that sort of thing. It’s a very blunt, straightforward form of denial.

Comparatively, Left-Wing Holocaust Denial takes a different, more sophisticated form that functions on multiple levels–with an undertone of its own along the lines of “the Jews are exaggerating to try to portray themselves as victims”–and to talk about this form of denial, I have to explain what the Holocaust was.

So this gets a bit long, because what is being denied is long, but I will ask you to bear with me.

But, TL:DR:

Right Wing Holocaust Denial denies the body count and the atrocities…

Left Wing Holocaust Denial denies everything that built up to it, the centuries of Othering and murders, and the aftereffects.

Keep reading

[magnetothemagnificent]

And Left Wing Holocaust Denial is more insidious.

Because when Right-wingers say outlandish things like “the Holocaust never happened”, most reasonable people with laugh and see the obvious ridiculousness in the statement.

Left Wing Holocaust Denial, however, takes antisemitism and wraps it in a disguise of “progressive” language.

They call Judaism “just a religion.”

They say “well the Nazis persecuted gay people too!”

They say that the Holocaust “wasn’t about race.”

They spread the myth that Hitler had Jewish ancestry.

They call Jews “white Europeans.”

They say it was “a long time ago.”

They spread the propaganda that the Soviets “freed” the Jews when in reality it was “out of the frying pan and into the fire”. Holocaust survivors who ended up in Soviet territory suffered terribly, forced to denounce their Judaism if they wanted any chance at human rights. Soviets committed massive atrocities against Jews, and to deny that is an extension of Holocaust Denial.

The refuse to acknowledge that antisemitism still continues to this day, and that liberating Auschwitz wasn’t the end of it. Jews freed from concentration camps ended up in displaced persons camps, and many suffered and died from disease there. Some Jews tried to return to their former homes, but found their neighbours turned against them, and some even committed pogroms against Holocaust survivors who dared try to return home.

Even Jews who hadn’t directly suffered at the hands of the Nazis were traumatized. Jews outside of Europe had known about the Holocaust for a long time, many had gotten frantic letters from relatives in Europe. Jews outside of Europe begged for their countries to do something, but they refused.

After the atrocities of the Holocaust became known to the general public, the Allies spread the propaganda that they “just didn’t know”. But they *did* know. They turned away ships of refugees because they didn’t want more Jews on their soil. Then the Allies had the audacity to paint themselves as the heroes - freeing the poor helpless, weak Jews. That’s how the myth that the Jews were “like sheep to the slaughter” spread.

But we weren’t helpless. The Jewish people fought back, they organized resistance networks both inside and outside Europe. Mizrachi Jews in North Africa sabotaged German and Italian supply chains. American, British, and Canadian Jews raised money for refugees, and many joined the military knowing how dangerous it would be for them as Jews, because they would fight to the death if it meant saving their people. Jews bombed train tracks to concentration camps and parachuted behind enemy lines.

And we suffered. Six million of us were killed, and our global population still hasn’t recovered. We are still traumatized today from the Holocaust, and many of us not from the atrocities themselves but from the global inaction in response to it. I would have nightmares as a child about the Holocaust, I was terrified. I taught myself German and in every house we lived in, thought about where I could hide. I am not descended of Holocaust survivors, but the Jewish people are a family, and when some of us suffer, we all suffer. That’s what Leftist Holocaust Deniers deny.

They deny everything about the Holocaust. They’ll say “it happened, but- ”. And that’s the worst part.

[neophyte-no1]

I read an opinion piece somewhere. It read, ‘In every era, the Jews will be condemned by the major moral authority of the times in order to make us into a scapegoat. In the time when the Church ruled, we were branded Christ Killers. In the time when Science ruled, we were branded genetically subhuman monsters. And now in the era of Social Justice, we are branded fascists and oppressors. And it is never about what we are actually doing or have done, because when they come for us, they always come for all of us, down to the smallest child.‘ This is why I have never, never, never, never been okay with branding people as ‘oppressors’ for how they were born. When you say someone is evil based on how they are born, it will always end up used as a scapegoat for evil to sacrifice to protect itself, no matter how insightful the ideas around it may be. And with shoddy, fabricated ‘proof’ in hand, they’ll say, “But it’s how you all act,” and they confidently mark down kindergartens as centers of evil that must be destroyed. This is not a hypothetical.

[the-library-alcove]

@realphilosophytube did a video on Antisemitism a few years back, and there’s one quote in there that really struck me, and you just echoed it:

The specific bit is at 39:43 in the video:

So what we’re seeing here is lots of different groups of people using Jews and Judaism as a kind of intellectual tool. They want Jews to occupy a particular place in society so that it fits their overall picture of what society should be, whether that’s a Catholic picture or a socialist one or a fascist one or whatever.

And according to historian David Nirenberg and his book Anti-Judaism, this is what we see right throughout history. The idea of Judaism, as opposed to actual Jewish people, is a basic concept in Western thought. Different people pick it up and use it to define themselves by showing what they’re against.

And that’s exactly what you’re outlining here–the concept of “The Jew” as Immoral Opposition is just too useful to be abandoned… even by people who claim to be above such things.

[oopseydazey]

“you’re an art model does that mean you’re NAKED?” “yeah” “whoa….those lucky artists ;)”

…buddy.

[oopseydazey]

idk who started the idea that life drawing classes have anything sexy going on like. there’s at least ten people in the room and we’re all tired and covered in charcoal.

the dude in front who’s staring at my boobs has been trying to get the shading right for 10 minutes. he’s almost out of paint. he is crying.

[askfordoodles]

#this ain’t some avant-garde titanic poly romance it’s a bunch of individual sinking ships and one uncaring human-shaped ice burg

[branch-and-root]

The ice burg being frozen solid because there are NEVER ENOUGH SPACE HEATERS.

[afishtrap]

I was an artist’s model in uni since it paid better than any other student work position. Did a life drawing class one semester, despite it being an unheated old building in the winter evenings, because the instructor was a decent fellow who always had extra space heaters. So there I am one evening, exhausted from my team’s afternoon practice, but I’m in a comfortable position on a padded stool, ready to hold the position for like fifteen minutes. Space heaters all around me, spotlights on me to get shadows in interesting places.

Beyond the red glow of the heaters and the hot-white of the spotlights, the massive drafty room is dark and quiet, broken only by the instructor’s whispers and the scratch of charcoal on paper. Me, I’m just dozing, ‘cause my ancient dorm was heated with creaky old steampipes that never really got warm, and with the new extra-powered space heater alongside the others, that night was the warmest I’d been in a month. I dozed, basking in the glorious warmth.

And then I fell asleep.

And then I fell off the stool.

I woke up rather abruptly on the cold wooden platform, and looked up to see an entire ring of terrified and worried faces around me. Everyone had their hands up, ready to help me up, except no one had touched me. Naked chick laid out face-down on the floor, and all the men and women were suddenly acutely aware they couldn’t just grab a half-asleep dazed naked chick.

Fortunately someone had the bright idea to tear the sheet down from the backdrop, lay it over me as a wrap, and then everyone was quick to help me up.

After that, the instructor and students got used to taking turns talking to me, just to make sure I wasn’t dozing off. Which was weird, at first, because I’d done two semesters just being a silent prop, and now I was interacting. It gave the class a vibe completely unlike any other I’d modeled for, and it ended up one of my favorite modeling experiences. 

postscript: months later, walking on campus with someone who’d eventually become my spouse, we passed some guys on the main path. One of them stopped, peered at me, and then said hello, excitedly, saying, “sorry, I didn’t recognize you, I’ve never seen you with your clothes on!”

[whitebear-ofthe-watertribe]

This is honestly so delightful and accurate 

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I’ve seen this post since it first crossed my dash 7-ish years ago. But I don’t think I’ve ever reblogged it.

[benito-cereno]

Strange Rules In The Bible Most People Haven't Heard About - Grunge

Across the first five books of the Bible there are a lot more than just 10 Commandments. Here are some biblical commandments that you might

New from me

[vaspider]

*stares wearily in Jewish*

[abirbable]

To the people who find it impossible to believe that Hamas invaded Israel just to kill Jews or people allied with Jews, I must ask: When was the last time you read Jewish history? When was the last time you learned about how half of our holidays have to do with attempted or near-successful genocides against us? When was the last time you learned about how we’ve been kicked out of almost every land we’ve settled in during the diaspora? When was the last time you thought that maybe, just maybe… history is repeating itself for the umpteenth time.

[musclesmarinara88]

Your people are trying to start a world war again so yeah history is repeating itself

[abirbable]

“My people” you mean all 15 million Jews, huh? That’s a new one.

And Hamas are the instigators here; try again.

[multifander-is-writing]

😀 I’m in literal hell. “Your people are trying to start a world war-“ BITCH!!!! I don’t want another world war, I just wanna live in peace. For the past 100 days, we’ve been living in hyper vigilance because we’re fucking scared… of people like you!

I’m exhausted and I don’t think I’m the only one! Literally, shut up!!

[beta-lactam-allergic]

Why do people like @dykryena88 decide to blame Jewish people for their suffering. Israel did not start this war with Hamas, or any previous war with Hamas or any of the wars they have ever fought. Jewish people did not start WW2, the Axis powers started it, in Nazi Germany's case one of the explicit purposes was to kill more Jews. Why are you victim blaming @dykryena88? Please learn history & stop victim blaming.

Just in case you want to blame Jews for WW1 (I don't know how, but people blame anything on Jewish people) we know it was started by the Serbs assassinating an Austrian Archduke. Not a single Jewish person in the entire starting sequence of that war.

[prismatic-bell]

Peep the profile.

That’s a fuckin’ Nazi. 88, double lightning bolts, “nationalist.”

I’m surprised you didn’t spot it, tbh. It ain’t even subtle.

[beta-lactam-allergic]

I admit, I didn't actually look at his profile page. I tend to only do that for posts unrelated to the war to make sure I don't reblog an antisemite by mistake. I should expand so that I know which responders are worth arguing with & which are lost causes.

Yeah, the double lightning bolts & the use of nationalist is actually kind of obvious. I guess I should have checked the profile page.

I don't know what "88" means in this context, so I wouldn't have picked that one up in isolation but for the rest, I really should have looked at the profile page. Well that was a waste of time wasn't it. Can't exactly guilt a Nazi into learning true history. Even if he did, he would probably approve of even the worse of it.

Thank for pointing out my error @prismatic-bell. I will in future try to do better in picking who I argue with & who to just ignore.

[prismatic-bell]

So I just checked your profile and apparently you’re not Jewish, which surprises me. I could have sworn you were. That explains you not catching the 88 (which is what clued me in and made me check the profile in the first place).

So “88” is alphanumeric for “HH,” which stands for, you guessed it, heil hitler. You’ll very occasionally see it used by people born in 1988, but as we get older that happens less and less. Consider it an automatic yellow flag and check the profile.

If it’s “1488,” don’t even bother. Just go straight to block. The “14 words” are a white supremacist manifesto. I don’t remember it exactly but it’s something like “we must secure a future for the white race and our children.” Very unsubtle.

Hey Jumblr, does anyone have the dogwhistle graphic to hand? It’d be useful to get back into circulation.

[miscmangos-wonderland]

hey also fair watning, op has "unapologetic zionist" in their bio and has been arguing w people in the notes about the damage being done in gaza btw. theyre arguing that the nakba was fair which is. a bit yikes. granged im not jewish, but the ideas that "isreal should be held accountable for what its doing to palestinians" and "jewish people as a ehole do get generally persecutedbunfairly and neonazis should not exist" can coexist. dont mean to derail the convo but i wanted to make yall aware of that

[the-library-alcove]

I find it so informative that you take greater issue with the Jew than with the Nazi.

[spacelazarwolf]

i think now is a great time to remind white gentiles to stay the fuck out of synagogue security discourse. i do not want to see one single snarky “acab lmao” on any jews posts abt the current active terror threat the american jewish community is facing tomorrow.

[spacelazarwolf]

this is from february but i’m bringing it back bc synagogues across the world have been experiencing a horrific increase in harassment, bomb threats, vandalism, arson, and destruction. so unless y’all are planning to form your own security teams to keep us safe or like even better maybe actively fight for the eradication of antisemitism globally, i so astronomically do not want to fucking hear it.

[indigostudies]

cool new language resource i just discovered: lingotrack! it functions somewhat like polylogger, allowing you to log your activity for languages, but, more than that, it has an explore section where you can find media that's in a particular language, such as books, tv shows, films, etc! one of the hardest things when you reach a more proficient level of a language is finding media in that language to engage with, so i think this is probably a good resource, or at least a place to get started. besides the explore function, there's also collections of media/resources, and a library function where you can add your own resources. it does require you to have a paid account to log study time for multiple languages (the free version allows you one primary language), but the other aspects seem to be available to free users in their entirety!

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

The problem is that there aren’t many apps that have Jewish languages that… work

If you can find an app with Yiddish or Hebrew (or, dare I say, Ladino), then maybe we can talk…

Gah

Im so tired

[mylight-png]

I cannot even begin to express how horrifying the lack of outrage about this is.

May anyone who ever claimed "the hostages were treated well" be cursed. Such lies are absolutely disgusting and despicable.

This is not what being treated well looks like. This is psychological torture, abuse, and warfare. This is pure evil.

[daughterofstories]

This is who Hamas is. If you have ever defended Hamas, then stare at this. Take it in. Don’t look away.

Confront who Hamas is, or shut the fuck up about Israel and Palestine, because you know less than nothing.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Update from my earlier post.

ברור דין האמת והשם יקום דמם.

[mylight-png]

I cannot even begin to express how horrifying the lack of outrage about this is.

May anyone who ever claimed "the hostages were treated well" be cursed. Such lies are absolutely disgusting and despicable.

This is not what being treated well looks like. This is psychological torture, abuse, and warfare. This is pure evil.

[jewreallythinkthat]

This is one of the most vile things I've ever read. I've seen no one except Jews calling out this absolutely heinous event. They've turned Jewish murder into a game and everyone has been silent.

Silence is complicity, again.

[tributary]

many bad takes on the holocaust that come from the left stem from a lot of leftists seeing antisemitism as incidental to nazism as opposed to a core feature

[jessicalprice]

The Nazis literally made bad strategic decisions, sacrificing important objectives in favor of killing more Jews.

Oh, and white gentiles queers claiming Jews are somehow “appropriating” the Shoah?

The reason the Nazis gave a shit about you was because they believed queerness was a Jewish plot to weaken the “Aryan race.”

[the-library-alcove]

My grandfather witnessed a truck full of Jewish kids accidentally make the wrong turn into his concentration camp, instead of the extermination camp up the road, and managed to rescue one kid in the ensuing chaos as they loaded and unloaded the truck.

Why am I bringing this up?

Because the reason he took that risk to rescue the kid is that they could hear the Soviet artillery in the distance.

They were literally in range of the front lines against the Red Army, and what are the Nazis doing with their limited supplies of food, fuel, vehicles, and people? Are they throwing everything they can at the Soviets?

No, they were desperately trying to kill as many Jewish pre-teens as possible, even as they were in the process of losing. That was their priority.

[tredlocity]

[slyandthefamilybook]

since we now know that all those "my blog is safe for Jewish people" posts are bullshit, here are some Jewish organizations you can donate to if you actually want to prove you support Jews. put up or shut up

FIGHTING HUNGER

Masbia - Kosher soup kitchens in New York

MAZON - Practices and promotes a multifaceted approach to hunger relief, recognizing the importance of responding to hungry peoples' immediate need for nutrition and sustenance while also working to advance long-term solutions

Tomchei Shabbos - Provides food and other supplies so that poor Jews can celebrate the Sabbath and the Jewish holidays

FINANCIAL AID

Ahavas Yisrael - Providing aid for low-income Jews in Baltimore

Hebrew Free Loan Society - Provides interest-free loans to low-income Jews in New York and more

GLOBAL AID

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - Offers aid to Jewish populations in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in the Middle East through a network of social and community assistance programs. In addition, the JDC contributes millions of dollars in disaster relief and development assistance to non-Jewish communities

American Jewish World Service - Fighting poverty and advancing human rights around the world

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society - Providing aid to immigrants and refugees around the world

Jewish World Watch - Dedicated to fighting genocides around the world

MEDICAL AID

Sharsheret - Support for cancer patients, especially breast cancer

SOCIAL SERVICES

The Aleph Institute - Provides support and supplies for Jews in prison and their families, and helps Jewish convicts reintegrate into society

Bet Tzedek - Free legal services in LA

Bikur Cholim - Providing support including kosher food for Jews who have been hospitalized in the US, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Israel

Blue Card Fund - Critical aid for holocaust survivors

Chai Lifeline - An org that's very close to my heart. They help families with members with disabilities in Baltimore

Chana - Support network for Jews in Baltimore facing domestic violence, sexual abuse, and elder abuse

Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Cemetaries - Care of abandoned and at-risk Jewish cemetaries

Crown Heights Central Jewish Community Council - Provides services to community residents including assistance to the elderly, housing, employment and job training, youth services, and a food bank

Hands On Tzedakah - Supports essential safety-net programs addressing hunger, poverty, health care and disaster relief, as well as scholarship support to students in need

Hebrew Free Burial Association

Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services - Programs include early childhood and learning, children and adolescent services, mental health outpatient clinics for teenagers, people living with developmental disabilities, adults living with mental illness, domestic violence and preventive services, housing, Jewish community services, counseling, volunteering, and professional and leadership development

Jewish Caring Network - Providing aid for families facing serious illnesses

Jewish Family Service - Food security, housing stability, mental health counseling, aging care, employment support, refugee resettlement, chaplaincy, and disability services

Jewish Relief Agency - Serving low-income families in Philadelphia

Jewish Social Services Agency - Supporting people’s mental health, helping people with disabilities find meaningful jobs, caring for older adults so they can safely age at home, and offering dignity and comfort to hospice patients

Jewish Women's Foundation Metropolitan Chicago - Aiding Jewish women in Chicago

Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty - Crisis intervention and family violence services, housing development funds, food programs, career services, and home services

Misaskim - Jewish death and burial services

Our Place - Mentoring troubled Jewish adolescents and to bring awareness of substance abuse to teens and children

Tiferes Golda - Special education for Jewish girls in Baltimore

Yachad - Support for Jews with disabilities

[afrenomes]

Great list! I’d also add Keshet, a US-based LGBTQ Jewish organization that “works for full equality of LGBTQ Jews and our families in Jewish life” by training Jewish communities to be more queer-inclusive, providing resources and events for queer Jews, as well as advocating for queer rights on both a state-by-state and national level.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Fun Fact: Amtrak legally has priority over freight trains, the issue is there is no governing body to enforce this and because freight trains have gotten so long, they can't fit on the sidings made for Amtrak trains to pass them, leading to many delays on train travel

[leaf-me-in-the-woods]

this is not a fun fact

[queer-as-city-folk]

Fun Fact: Amtrak can not legally charge freight companies a tax for delays as it is technically a private company despite being government owned

[katsdom]

And, if you want to do something useful about these sorts of issues, there is a good advocacy group that works to better train service and for things like enforcing the rules on the freight companies:

Stand Up for A Connected America! | Rail Passengers Association | Washington, DC

The Rail Passengers Association is the largest national organization that serves as a voice for the more than 40 million rail passengers in

[queer-as-city-folk]

Seriously, joining advocacy groups is so important, it's how we fight for a better future