Amadi Talks

Yes, I’m the same Amadi from all the other places. These are the things I'm talking about today. All content is queued. I do not post strangers’ donation links. Fluffy and fannish posts @amadiwhispers. עם ישראל חי

[amaditalks]

All of the major (and many of the minor) Jewish creators across TikTok and Instagram are sharing and doing side by side reactions with _itsmemorgan singing Yerushalayim, and I'm not saying that her video isn't gorgeous, it is. Her enthusiasm is so lovely.

But the reaction is revealing.

When one single instance of public approval of one Jewish thing by a non-Jew (whose entire shtick is singing in her car) has created so much response, it really shows just how bad it's been for us.

The Jews yearn for basic kindness.

[amaditalks]

"Hobbyless behavior" is an excellent way to describe people who really need to find an outlet for all of their energy and big feelings, but I think we also need "overly hobbied behavior" as a descriptor for people who have an outlet for their energy and big feelings that is just a little too much. 

[hornymotionalcookie]

They just keep taking our babies

And nothing is done other than the suffering of their families as they watch on as their child's negligent at best "friends" are defended and folks plead fer forgiveness and understanding.

Fuck that. Another Black baby found dead after going out with supposed friends and yall wanna stick up fer the potential killers that will lawyer up and cry on camera and melt the hearts of supremacists everywhere. Meanwhile, they wouldn't be able to hold 30s of silence fer poor Nolan.

[afurioushawk]

The fact that 150K Mainers enthusiastically voted for a man they knew had a Nazi tattoo should haunt them like the legacy of voting for Klansmen haunts the South. Maybe the crackers up in New England are overdue for some national shaming.

[amaditalks]

Respect what they voted for?

Respect is for respectable people and actions.

[amaditalks]

Of course Nazi Tits used dog whistles to blame his downfall on Jews because what else would a Nazi Titted rapist asshole do?

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I’ve noticed a thing recently (well, I’m sure people have been doing it for a while, but it only occurred to me recently) wherein people will deny the antisemitism of the committing a crime against Jews in the diaspora as a way of expressing anger at Israel, then when they’re called on it they’ll go “hey, I never said it wasn’t a crime, I just said it wasn’t *antisemitic*” and bitch, you’re not as cute as you think you are.

[amaditalks]

It's worth noting that this particular gambit has been attempted by the Democratic nominee for the US House race in Colorado 1, Melat Kiros, who refuses to use the word antisemitism in connection with last year's firebombing attack on a group of Jews at a Jewish event in Boulder, which is in the district she will almost certainly be elected to represent.

[majestic-deers]

According to Wikipedia the motive for that attack was “anti-Zionism”

[spot-the-antisemitism]

you heard it here first folks a person was killed in the name of antizionism

[amaditalks]

And it just happened to be an 82 year old Jewish woman at a Jewish event even though the number of Christian people who claim to be Zionist in the United States alone outnumbers all the Jews on the planet. Somehow that antizionism honed right in on the smallest possible target in Boulder.

Tell us all so much more about that antizionism.

[shifgrethors]

wikipedia:

-XYZ is Catholic

-XYZ is bisexual.

-XYZ is Muslim.

also wikipedia:

-XYZ is of Jewish descent.

-XYZ has Jewish parents.

-XYZ’s grandparents escaped Auschwitz and immigrated to America and became Chabad shlichim. They were born at 770. Their parents are a rabbi and rebbetzin in a large Jewish community in Lakewood……….they’re of Jewish descent.

[amaditalks]

On one hand, Wikipedia current policy with regard to Jews acknowledges Jewish ethnicity. They would never say that someone is of Methodist descent or had Southern Baptist parents.

On the other hand the policy simultaneously treats Judaism as strictly a religion that no one can be said to hold unless there is a source that meets citation standards in which they speak about being a Jew, as if it is something requiring personal profession the way that Christianity does.

And with the ongoing antisemitic edit wars happening, where every Jewish person and topic is being changed on purpose in the worst faith manner, there is no way that even a large and very well organized group of Jews can fix this problem.

Wikipedia is inherently untrustworthy on any topic related to Jews or Judaism.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I’ve noticed a thing recently (well, I’m sure people have been doing it for a while, but it only occurred to me recently) wherein people will deny the antisemitism of the committing a crime against Jews in the diaspora as a way of expressing anger at Israel, then when they’re called on it they’ll go “hey, I never said it wasn’t a crime, I just said it wasn’t *antisemitic*” and bitch, you’re not as cute as you think you are.

[amaditalks]

It's worth noting that this particular gambit has been attempted by the Democratic nominee for the US House race in Colorado 1, Melat Kiros, who refuses to use the word antisemitism in connection with last year's firebombing attack on a group of Jews at a Jewish event in Boulder, which is in the district she will almost certainly be elected to represent.

[hillsofspices]

just once it’d be nice if those antizionist jews who say they’re guided by jewish values were referring to ahavat yisrael instead of just tikkun olam

[leg3ndarycatlover]

and then you look at what they're saying and the kabbalists would hardly recognise a word of it as tikkun olam, just secular western leftism being referred to as tikkun olam

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

The concept of Reform was amazing. Allowing it to morph into Bourgeois Protestant Cosmopolitanism (with Latkes!)™ was a historic error.

[amaditalks]

Why are you bringing Reform Judaism into this? Especially when Ahavat Israel is a central value within it, and the leftist movement Jews are largely unaffiliated, at least as adults, many because Reform does not shy away from embracing both Am Yisrael and Medinat Israel and many can't stand the latter?

Are you really wanting to turn this conversation into yet another "your practice of Judaism is invalid" argument? Who does that serve? What does that serve?

[amaditalks]

I will never tolerate another word about how generous and honorable that vapid ass pop star and her meathead husband are when they shut down midtown Manhattan on a holiday to hold a vanity wedding in the surveillance terrordome of a Trump crony billionaire and then made a joke of the whole thing by having it officiated by Adam fucking Sandler. No. Not another single word.

[oneheadtoanother]

[amaditalks]

I refuse to believe that this isn't satire.

[melodies-stereo]

i wanna live in a world where trans women aren't terrified of wronging someone and being socially murdered, isolated, and cast out for it

[melodies-stereo]

i wanna live in a world where trans women can make mistakes. i wanna live in a world where trans women are given grace.

[melodies-stereo]

i wanna live in a world that trans women like me wouldn't be afraid of living in.

[telumendils]

I thought I could never care for anyone again, until I met you.

The Golden Girls, S2E5: “Isn't It Romantic”

[telumendils]

#happy pride to this episode of a sitcom from the 1980s!!!!

[amaditalks]

The Golden Girls was an incredibly progressive show on LGBTQ matters, especially for the time in which it was produced. We had this episode where Dorothy's lesbian friend falls for Rose. There were multiple episodes with Blanche's brother Clayton, who was gay, including an episode where he and his partner married, nearly three decades before that would be legal. Dorothy's brother Phil was described with the language of the time as a cross dresser, but we would certainly understand him now as gender nonconforming or gender fluid. And there was a really important episode that broke a lot of stigma around HIV. And in each instance, the story always ended with love and acceptance and a key takeaway that our LGBTQ friends and family weren't any different just because they were different. It was - and is - absolutely gorgeous stuff.

[jewish-hot-takes]

while I agree that whiteness and Judaism is more complex than just "white Jews" I think a lot of jumblr exhibits the same kind of "foisting whiteness on others to avoid guilt" that they accuse goyim of doing. you can't just post "Jews aren't white" and wipe your hands clean of any racism in Jewish spaces

.

[amaditalks]

As a Black Jew who has alluded to my experiences of racism from other Jews on more than a few occasions, all I can say is that this is a conversation that needs to be had in community and in our own spaces, not in public. Not right now. Some things are intracommunity and need to stay that way for the sake of both the problem and for our safety.

[afurioushawk]

Scott Wiener did literally every single thing the Free Palestine movement said was necessary to be a Good Antizionist and it still wasn't good enough.

It's a Nazi movement.

[amaditalks]

The man who began haranguing Scott Weiner this weekend has accosted him several times in the past, one time screaming that Weiner has a "tainted bloodline."

But you all can go on lying about what this is. Just know that your disconnection from integrity and honesty will ultimately come to a cost.

[afurioushawk]

[amaditalks]

Don't turn away from this, and don't for a minute think that your behavior doesn't imply your agreement with that last guy, because as Palestine has become the omnicause of the American left to the point of ceding to fascism in our own country, the number of people I've seen mention Congo or Sudan or Haiti is minuscule. I no longer talk about the situation in those places on social media because the silence when I have posted was deafening.

The word genocide stays in your daily vocabulary but you didn't apply it to el-Fasher. As the aid community has begged for help for years, years,and now today has sent an open letter pleading with the United Nations for international intervention to prevent a repeat of el-Fasher in el-Obeid which is under threat of imminent RSF siege, you probably don't even know what country I'm talking about.

Don't look away. Look inside. 

[goldensunset]

[amaditalks]

Doubly so for the folks who aren't getting any notice in western media. South Asia, we see you. We love you. Drink some water right now, please.