[dragongirlteeth]

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

[dragongirlteeth]

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible

[spookyabuki]

Turning to the Jewish perspective, we might argue that these mechanisms of comparison derive from what Hannah Arendt in 1948 identified as the ahistorical character of Jewish self-perception: the exclusion of Jews from history, which constitutes Jewish victimhood as an immutable essence: "Jewish historians... used to ignore all those trends of the Jewish past which did not point to their own major thesis of Diaspora history, according to which the Jewish people did not have a political history of their own but were invariably the innocent victims of a hostile and sometimes brutal environment... In sharp contrast to all other nations, the Jews were not history-makers but history-sufferers, preserving a kind of eternal identity of goodness whose monotony was disturbed only by the equally monotonous chronicle of persecutions and pogroms." Drawing on Arendt’s observation that an “eternal identity of goodness” fails to recognize the Jews as active agents in history, we arrive at a critical consequence: in addition to elevating the Holocaust to the level of “absolute evil,” owing to its singular impact, this view of Jewish passivity places the Holocaust and the Israeli-Arab conflict on a single continuum, entitled “the persecution of the Jews.” “Such an approach,” wrote the historian Dan Diner, “does not allow one to perceive the significant distinction between Arabs or Palestinians fighting with Israel on a local conflictual basis and anti-Semites who are hostile to Jews as such. The conflict thus becomes transhistorical, like another round in an eternal, insoluble struggle between the world and the Jews.” Idith Zertal has shown how this discourse disconnects both the Holocaust and the Israeli-Arab conflict from their specific historical contexts, blurs their boundaries, and makes them “closed mythical realities, immune from criticism, interlocked and ever enhancing each other.”

—Shira Stav, from "Nakba and Holocaust: Mechanisms of Comparison and Denial in the Israeli Literary Imagination," in Jewish Social Studies

[rodeodeparis]

re holocaust exceptionalism: as someone who's genuinely annoyed by how ashkenazim do not realize that they're "white" in the us, i really don't think ethnic ashkenazim being white by today's standards has anything to do with conclusions that the holocaust was "unique" or that it's worth recognizing, let alone why its memory is used to justify -sraeli atrocities. the us (for example) is perfectly capable of recognizing the danger uyghurs (largely not white) are being put through - the fault of china, the "enemy superpower" - while not recognizing the danger palestinians (largely not white) are being put through - the fault of their vassal state in the middle east and their own blind support for it.

at the end of the day, countries like the us view the holocaust the way they do because it's both "safe" and politically advantageous for them to view it that way. compare that to, like, iran, who doesn't have good relations with the us and its friends, hence that holocaust denial conference ahmadinejad hosted in 2006 where he invited david duke to speak. (yes, really, look it up.) also compare it to how the us has yet to recognize the many genocides it's committed against native americans, let alone making any significant effort at reparations past whatever haphazard thing they drafted up in the 19th century. the "unique" thing could be a way to deny other genocides the us and its allies were involved in as much as it could be a genuine belief that the genocides the us was complicit in were justified, but it doesn't matter.

as for why individuals think that way, i'd say it's more on a case-by-case basis. some understand how political atrocity recognition and having an ethnostate of your own are and are afraid that losing "power" will somehow make the world revert to rampant antisemitism. some think the us is acting out of the kindness of its heart and are just mindlessly swallowing hasbara narratives that people wanting a free palestine also want to kill every jew. either way, you get the sense that jewish people who are z-onists who think this way are placing themselves in some sort of "competition" against palestinians and other oppressed people, like there's only so much love to go around. looking at the world in this way is selfish, even if it comes out of fear, but you don't need me to tell you that.

[spookyabuki]

So while it is crucial to challenge the Israeli state, it must be done in a manner that acknowledges the range of complicit actors. Historically speaking, settler colonialism has a long history of articulating its violence through the protection of serviceable figures such as women and children, and now the homosexual. Pinkwashing is only one more justification for imperial/racial/national violence within this long tradition of intimate rhetorics around "victim" populations. Further, Islamophobia has proliferated since the beginning of the "war on terror," but it also predates 9/11 in various forms (see, for example, Edward Said's periodization of Islamophobia as heralded during the end of the cold war). Pinkwashing works in part by tapping into the discursive and structural circuits produced by U.S. and European crusades against the spectral threat of "radical Islam" or "Islamo-fascism."

—Jasbir Puar, from "Rethinking Homonationalism," in the International Journal of Middle East Studies

[baradragon]

this picture is so funny to me like the faggot radiating off this image is so warm i could heat my home… he literally went to home depot and bought the finest grade finnish wood 1x12 that cost at least $15 and then put it in a tiny plastic bag…. camp

[baradragon]

the tight $3 fruit of the loom shirt tucked into those straight leg denim jeans, he may as well be in drag

[baradragon]

[baradragon]

merry christmas and happy 2 years to this post

[aidashakur]

[velvetvexations]

[kosmocrator]

“The ad was in a women’s magazine and if I remember correctly, was for a perfume. It featured a white woman lying in bed with a black man. The man’s shirtless back was to the viewer, making only his taut, muscular form and powerful-looking arms and shoulders visible. He was faceless, unidentified. The woman looked sultrily at us from over his mysterious form, satisfaction writ large over her features. She had partaken of whatever delights this man had to offer and was smugly, luxuriantly basking in the afterglow. The ad copy was, “Take a walk on the wild side.” My teacher used the ad as an example of how marketers can use certain words and images to convey large amounts of information subtly and effectively. A white woman having sex with a black man? How risqué. The implication: be a little like that woman. Spray on that perfume and feel like the kind of girl who has sex with faceless, muscular black men in ritzy hotel rooms because it’s an adventure, a thrill, a risk, something illicitly pleasurable. These are the semiotics of race. This is why columnists will trip over themselves not to call Lupita Nyong’o or Angela Basset “beautiful”, choosing instead to use terms that call to mind a kind of savage, animalistic magnetism: fierce, striking, edgy, eye-catching. Words like “pretty” and “beautiful” and “cute” are for white women whose bodies and sexualities are not seen as wild, animal, or untamed. Black men are hulking, threatening, thuggish; white men are charming, sexy heartthrobs with hearts of gold. Brown women are exotic, with their “honey-coloured” skin and their “mystical”, “enchanting” beauty, unlike their white counterparts, who are held up as not only ideal, but knowable and safe. White people are beautiful; non-white people are dangerous.”

—

“The Semiotics of Race, or: Walks on the Wild Side”

by Aaminah Khan

(via haramdaddy)

[scorpionlafemme]

[demareth]

but it isnt too late to start tho! if you suddenly wake up and realize the years have slipped by you can start actively living again!

[demareth]

and you know what im not done i think that its actually a very normal and healthy ebb and flow of life

its okay to have stagnant periods, all life has periods of time in its life cycle just to exist and conserve energy and its okay for people to do that too.

but its also very important not to stay in that stagnant period forever!

[mevil]

so many of you sound like hitler youths in the making, crazy to say with your whole chest on a post where I talk about the racism I see in the artistic community

[ot3]

we should all be deeply deeply ashamed that the staff and users of this website have succeeded in making a social media environment that is more hostile to black people than that of a website currently owned and operated by an unabashed white supremacist

[crazyintheeast]

girl this site is an archipelago of self absorbed blogs that know nothing beyond their favourite fandoms .if you want to do a callout post for the staff behind their usual bs you need to elaborate and give the entire story

[ot3]

the entire story is that i am talking about a site-wide culture problem beyond any individual incidents. and it is a culture problem that you are participating in with this exact response by implying it's somehow unreasonable to expect the average tumblr user to notice or care about the ways in which this site has alienated its black userbase. and by completely tunnel visioning onto the idea of staff having done something "callout post" worthy instead of taking the time to sit back and actually think about this situation long enough to connect the dots between what i said about the users of this site and your characterization of those exact same people as "self absorbed blogs that know nothing beyond their favourite fandoms". the self absorption is not what stops fandom bloggers from realizing there is racism on this site, the self absorption is the source of the racism.

[kibumkim]

[siraj0]

The war in Gaza hasn’t stopped it has only changed its face.

Now, it’s a battle to survive.

As winter sets in, my family faces a new kind of hardship:

freezing cold, a tent that protects neither from wind nor rain, and children without blankets or clothes to keep them warm.

Tow years of war and displacement, and we are still without shelter, without warmth, without help.

For days, I’ve been knocking on every door, asking for blankets and winter clothes for my children

But support has been very limited, and the helplessness is unbearable as I watch them shiver.

Surviving Genocide: Siraj Family

My name is Osama Radwan and I raise money for my friend Siraj, a former journalist from Gaza who lost his job at the beginning of the war, h

I humbly ask for your urgent help before we reach a point where regret can no longer fix what’s lost.

[chilewithcarnage]

[donjuaninhell]

I swear, some of you people somehow manage to possess all of the three most unfortunate character traits someone can have: a) kinda stupid, b) obnoxiously contrarian, c) deeply annoying.

[tockthewatchdog]

stuff you say when you don’t give a fuck about women quite frankly

[cardassiangoodreads]

Hence the not-uncommon adage that the washing machine did even more for women's liberation than the birth control pill

[loveridden1999]

bring back shame

[loveridden1999]

peer reviewed tags

[venonomnomicon]

tumblrs version of havana syndrome is the unique form of auditory processing issue that like 1000 fandom posters will claim to have that happens to manifest exclusively when they listen to rap

[jeanritchie]

white heathcliff… it’s me i’m instagram face cathy ive come home