perpetual disarray

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[butchtoks]

[deepgreenposts]

eva stratt

ava ironlung

lucretia adventurezone

gertrude robinson

all women in the same category of characters to me

[a-side-of-potatoes]

hey. not sure if anyone will see this but just mostly looking to vent about a complex situation.

my partner (Jewish) and I (supportive goy atheist) have made a new friend (Arab Muslim), and we obviously have some different beliefs and opinions but also a lot of shared values, so the friendship has been strong thus far.

there are some instances where we have to bite our tongues, in regard to the I/P conflict mainly, though we are starting to push back in small ways such as, yes Hamas is an armed terrorist group, most Jews/Israelis don't support the government's actions, etc. this all came to a head last night when we made the *very* controversial statement: Jews are indigenous to the Levant.

I'm shocked at how she was unwilling to accept that, she became stubborn, defaulted to her mother's opinion, and started asserting that all Jewish prophets/architecture/holy sites are actually Islamic, and not Jewish, since they were sent/built/assigned by G-d. this, naturally, extends her opinion to that of modern day Jews being totally genetically unrelated to the ancient Israelites. blatant erasure and rewriting of Jewish history, centring Islam even though the Quran is demonstrably younger than the Tanakh. my partner understandably lashed out as their cultural ancestry was being disrespected. we tried to explain that there's a difference between respecting others' beliefs, vs one's beliefs directly erasing an entire group's existence from history, but she kept falling back on "history is written by the victors, we have no real way of knowing anything given that we didn't live back then".

it is the next day and there has been no hint of an apology, or even an acknowledgment. we left hers on good terms last night, but I know I need to bring this up with her, how the fuck do I even start. I just want to gently but firmly clarify that she is entitled to her beliefs, but her assertion that the Jewish prophets and architecture were simply Islamic all along is disrespectful and quite hurtful to Jews, particularly my partner

[leonoramaymorgenstern]

Okay I'm muslim and I don't know the historical stuff very well. Obviously we believe that the prophets were muslim (and also that the torah was but it got lost in translation and that the Quran was specifically made to not be lost in translation. It's a whole thing) but...there were/are jewish people there? It's a shared culture and history between the abrahamic religions? Especially the architecture, like...

Also what exactly is she saying about Israel/Palestine? Neither of the governments are reflections on all of the people. Hamas are indeed terrorists and took innocent people hostage and did horrible things to them and the Israeli government is trying to eradicate Palestianians in Gaza. Why is that so hard for people to understand?

Also the Quran says that Jews are considered "muslim" in the literal sense vs the general sense. Since muslim can both mean "follower of islam" and "one who submits to God" Jews are technically muslim in the latter sense (what that entails you'll have to ask a scholar becasue I lwk don't know)

[astra-the-dragon]

personally I've never been bothered about peaceful differences of theology and interpretation, not even ones that directly contradict/negate older ones. eg, I don't really care that Christians think Jesus is/was "King of Israel".

but the microsecond they try to push that onto me or anyone outside their group - or when they use a personal interpretation (opinion) in an attempt to deny well-supported history or science, my patience is over.

[persephonesteeth]

hebrew is so beautiful 🫶 (i’m going to die this language is so hard)

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Purple moths

[jewish-hot-takes]

We're Schrödinger's white. If someone sees being white as a BAD thing, then all Jews are always white, no matter the color of their skin. If someone sees being white as a GOOD thing, then no Jew is ever white, no matter the color of their skin.

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[notaplaceofhonour]

the worst part of being “the canary in the coal mine” is you’re dead before anyone starts doing anything

[apocalypseweather]

i want jewish emojis. mezuzah emoji to put at the start of all my posts. menorah emoji. pomegranate GOD i wish there were a pomegranate emoji. !! HAMANTASH EMOJI.

[astra-the-dragon]

🌾🌾🍇🟣🔴🫒🌴

is that close enough

also: 🕎

[apocalypseweather]

i want jewish emojis. mezuzah emoji to put at the start of all my posts. menorah emoji. pomegranate GOD i wish there were a pomegranate emoji. !! HAMANTASH EMOJI.

[dynamicity-keysmash]

Sometimes I try to engage in political discussion on parts of the internet that aren't Jumblr and get violently reminded of the widely-held consensus that there is no antisemitism on the left.

[astra-the-dragon]

or "it's only a few extremists" or "no it's just people mad at the State of Israel"

leftist darling Mayor Mamdani called AIPAC and the wider Israel lobby "monsters" who use "dark money" to "sow political discord" HELLO

[nylarac]

not to be a pedantic hater but i wish tumblr accent wasn't the commonly used term to describe tumblrina typing quirks and phrases bc that is Not an accent it's a dialect!!

[seimsisk]

what's the difference here?

[nylarac]

accents just affect how you pronounce words

dialects also include grammar (like tumblr users' tendency to not captialize except for Emphasis or ending sentences with commas like this,,,,,) and vocabulary (blorbo, devil's sacrament, #mythis, etc)

[ozempicofficial]

[unofficial-autism-post]

Unofficial Autism Post

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[naamahdarling]

slop is in fact nazi slang. it comes from the term goyslop

...Well that's a can of worms, isn't it.

[amaditalks]

At some point you have to stop and ask where the terms you are using came from and if you should be using them at all, whether that's to avoid using actual Nazi slang or to avoid appropriating vernacular that's not yours to use. 

[inatherps]

Yarará Lancehead (Bothrops jararaca)

Observed by wout_dutoit, CC BY-NC

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

On this day in 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified. The text is just as clear and relevant today as it was back then. Donald Trump is trying to erase this.

[catboybiologist]

Angry Gamers (capitol G) will look at a new trailer, invent a way cooler and more epic version of it, and then think that cooler and more epic version is Bad, somehow

[catboybiologist]

New female GTA protagonist is being described as "looking like a tranny and fat"

As in

This character:

She literally is not. Would be way cooler if she was though

[catboybiologist]

Ciri is "too masculine" in the new Witcher trailer.

Ciri.

In this trailer:

This is literally just a cis woman. Would be based as fuck if they fucked with that a bit.

[catboybiologist]

Man imagine a GTA where you play as a trans woman sex worker forced into increasingly dangerous situations, surviving and slowly thriving through crimes and heists of escalating stakes, slowly overcoming and eventually overthrowing those who wronged you in both the justice system and the criminal underworld

[catboybiologist]

Maybe game studios should have one of these Gamers on their team to torture. The angrier this Gamer gets the further the rest of the team pushes. If this Gamer is violent with rage by the end of a brainstorming session it's considered successful.

[catboybiologist]

They could keep him in a little terrarium

[catboybiologist]

Not letting you hide this in the tags