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Look obviously the “goyslop” thing is stupid fucking racist bullshit, but to me the craziest part is that literally no one is gatekeeping kosher food from you. Kosher food is clearly labeled as such and all the laws are available online, in English, for free. If “goyslop” makes you so angry then stop being a little bitch and throw away your cheeseburger
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“Can you imagine yourself being being Clark Kent on the day he found out he was once a part of a culture that is now no longer here? God, I can’t even think how anyone could function after that.”
My dude, my brethren, my fellow comrade
This is just literally what being Jewish feels like
My grandparents were holocaust survivors that could barely talk about their birth country when they were alive. My great grandmother lost her entire family when nazis gunned down Jewish Latvian villages and left no survivors. My great great great grandfather lived in a desert with barely any water resources because that was safer than staying in Poland next to his christian neighbors. And then there’s also my ancestral grandmother that lost everything when her family barely escaped the spanish inquisition.
My family has more lost history than the library of Alexandria
And you know what’s the worst part is?
My family is considered one of the lucky ones.
@blackgoliath I just wanna say the biggest fuck you to you and every single heartless person that agrees with this statement.
First of all, what part of “my entire great grandma’s village was murdered by nazis” did you not fucking get? Her culture is gone, her is home gone and her entire legacy is in the hands of people who barely know anything about Latvian culture because we had to leave it behind for our own survival. That little part of Latvian Jewish culture is dead for good. How the fuck is that not extinct?
Secondly, what the actual fuck is your problem? I poured my heart out about my struggles with my identity that I didn’t even confess to my own fucking family and your response is “yes, but don’t forget about the evil Zionists who are murdering Palestinian as we speak uwu”?
Go to hell. Go to actual hell. My family is forced to live here. My brother visited the US just last month and he was told not to use his Hebrew name or he’ll get assaulted on the street. I was told the same thing about Europe when I was fucking twelve. Most Jews don’t live in Israel because we want to. It’s because goys made it fucking impossible for us to live anywhere else.
And here’s a note for everyone else; if you’re reading a post about Jewish struggles and your first response is “but what about the poor Palestinians?”
Guess what! You don’t care about Palestine. You just care about hurting other jews who knew five ways to survive a missile bombing before they knew how to swim without fucking floaters.
“Israeli appropriation of Palestinian culture” sorry, did you mean “Jews who lived in the Middle East for ages continuing to live in the Middle East?” Jews eating hummus isn’t cultural appropriation. Jews wearing sudras isn’t cultural appropriation. Jews existing in Israel, where we’re from, isn’t cultural appropriation. You can’t appropriate a culture that was forced on you.
Also, to reiterate what @magical-girl-coral said, yes, there are dialects of Yiddish that are extinct. My great grandparents came to the US from Czechoslovakia (I genuinely don’t know if they were Czech or Slovak) from a village that no longer exists. They couldn’t relate to their fellow Jews because they couldn’t understand the Yiddish of other immigrants. That particular offshoot is gone. The people who spoke it are dead, and their writings (if they still exist) are largely unintelligible. That’s not even accounting for the fact that they arrived in the United States and had to assimilate and had to stop speaking Yiddish. They didn’t teach their children Yiddish to help them assimilate. Yes, that is extinction.
Yiddish is hardly alive and well when it’s classified as an endangered language. The number of speakers continues to dwindle and that’s because of the Nazis murdering 90% of its speakers. Not because of Israel or Zionists.
“Can you imagine yourself being being Clark Kent on the day he found out he was once a part of a culture that is now no longer here? God, I can’t even think how anyone could function after that.”
My dude, my brethren, my fellow comrade
This is just literally what being Jewish feels like
My grandparents were holocaust survivors that could barely talk about their birth country when they were alive. My great grandmother lost her entire family when nazis gunned down Jewish Latvian villages and left no survivors. My great great great grandfather lived in a desert with barely any water resources because that was safer than staying in Poland next to his christian neighbors. And then there’s also my ancestral grandmother that lost everything when her family barely escaped the spanish inquisition.
My family has more lost history than the library of Alexandria
And you know what’s the worst part is?
My family is considered one of the lucky ones.
Friendly reminder that Superman was created by Jews as a Jewish allegory. Our history has always been there.v
And the truth is, there is no day you find out.
You learn it in bits and pieces, scattered across your lifetime.
The first time you hear about places we can no longer visit or ceremonies we can no longer perform, you’re too young to remember. It is always part of you. It feels more like a fantasy world then a piece of history you’ve lost.
One day, you are researching family history. So many of the branches of your family tree get suddenly cut off. You start to understand what that means.
One day, you are reading your great-great-grandmother’s story’s. You read about her sister who moved east when your great-great-grandmother moved west, and the day that the letters stopped coming. You know what it means, even before you look up the name of the city she moved to, and what happened to it.
(You are one of the lucky ones. The trauma is far enough back that you weren’t raised in its immediate shadow.)
One day, you learn about the Yizkor book, the collected memories about the inhabitants of a village that no longer exists, which talks about your family.
(You are one of the lucky ones. So many villages don’t have Yizkor books, because there was no one left alive who remembered them.)
One day, you visit what used to be one of the cultural centers of your people. Now, it’s a museum to what was destroyed.
(It’s one of the lucky places. So many of the memories have been paved over and erased.)
One day, “the last Jew alive in [country where hundreds of thousands of Jews once lived]” stops being a shocking statement, and becomes a genre.
(You are one of the lucky ones. You’ve never been the last.)
There is no one time your culture was violently destroyed. It happened over and over again, across continents and millenia. The survivors flee, and hope they will have a few generations before the place they flee to is also destroyed.
(You are one of the lucky ones. You’ve never had to flee.)
Your culture is still here, because you are still here. What you have is the fragments of a thousand burned texts and demolished buildings and extinct dialects, but it is real. It is alive. Multiple militaries and paramilitary organizations are actively trying to kill it.
(You are one of the lucky ones. You don’t live in their direct line of fire.)
You grow up being told it’s better now. People don’t hate you for being different; not like they used to. One day, you realize their acceptance is dependent on them not having to think about how different you are.
(You are one of the lucky ones. It is possible for you to pretend.)
You speak your language, and you are speaking for everyone who was murdered for speaking it. You study your texts, and your are studying for everyone who was murdered for studying them. You celebrate your holidays, and you are celebrating for everyone who was murdered for celebrating them. You live your life, and you are living for everyone who was murdered.
(You are one of the lucky ones. You are able to speak, and study, and celebrate, and live.)
Nothing you do will ever be fully for yourself. You are a memorial to everything that was lost. You are everything that has been salvaged. You are the hope that something can be rebuilt.
(You are one of the lucky ones. You can only begin to understand how much luck was required for you to exist.)
I don't know if this is intentional but i really like that the halo effect around Vesna's covetous eye from Covetous Eye is also sorta there in Bestiary Lesson when she's Coveting Snježa.
Beaming so hard at the sight of gorgeous women that her eyes are producing their own light.
vesnas eyes are radioluminescent and swarcztannberg was built on an ancient uranium storage site. when vesnas brain activity increases above "barely sentient" it causes her eyes to glow a sickly yellow-green. sad but true
y'all ever think about how insane the sauropods were
this is a leg off of Argentinosaurus and its already the size of a two story house like LOOK at the size of these fuckers
the fact that any land animal ever got to be as large as this is insane. this shit is only beat by fucking whales, creatures that dont have to support their weight on legs
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One example of the type of shit I have had to walk past every damn day on every single block in NYC for the past 2.5 years. Someone covered the word Jew on all the stickers. Make hate shameful again. Except if it's against Jews.
If I produced a piece of musical theater about how Hitler was gay, do you think Tumblr would cancel me for being homophobic? Investors are asking
unfortunately i think “gay hitler” has bipartisan four quadrant appeal these days. but can i interest you in a show called slam frank
A musical about hitler would be a total flop! Especially if we hire the worst director to lead the project. We just need one million dollars to produce it...the elderly might be a good market.
So many things going wrong, where can we possibly go right?
if i had a nickel for every time Jews were told not to use a word coined to describe a specific thing that happened to Jews, i'd have at least two nickels
which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened at least twice
"ghetto" and "diaspora" are the words i'm thinking of. i'm sure others will be able to think of even more.
Imagine if your mom, whom you have a very loving relationship with, handed you and your siblings a book of poetry she wrote specifically for her children before she passed. So you and your siblings, who love and miss your mom and desire to be closer to her, spend hours every day reading the poems and discussing them and annotating them and making notes in the margins. Eventually, you collectively start another notebook just to write down thoughts and interpretations and disagreements you have about what your mom meant by this one line that you and your sister can't agree on. And then there's another notebook of stories that you and your siblings wrote based on the lessons you've learned from the poems. You find meaning in the meanings and you live by the poems and notebooks and still you and your family continue to read them and notate them and expand on them years and years later because your mom wrote these for you, damnit, and you never want to stop actively engaging with them lest you lose her forever.
And then someone who read a totally different version of your moms poems that were heavily edited by a bunch of people who never even knew your mom or her relationship with her children comes along and says you're wrong about the poems. They say you're trying to avoid doing what your mom wanted you to do because one poem says to "go down the river" but you and your siblings didn't grab a raft and go floating down the nearest creek. But your version says "flow like the river," not "go down," and you and your siblings agreed she meant to be flexible in life. Then another person who read a different heavily-edited version of the poems comes along and gets mad that you don't walk around with your arms up above your head all the time since one poem says "reach for the sky." But you know your mom really loved Toy Story and was making an allusion to Woody's voice box, you and your siblings have like 10 pages in the notebook where you already talked about this, and it makes sense given the same poem says "to infinity and beyond" a few lines later (but the stranger's version took that line out). Eventually, the heavily edited versions of your mom's poems are everywhere, nearly everyone has read them, and now you and your whole family are treated like naughty, malicious children who are trying to avoid doing the chores your mom left for you.
When you, as gentiles, tell Jews we're "tricking" G-d, you're the person insisting we go down the river on a raft or literally reach our hands up towards the sky. We are not trying to trick G-d or get out of doing what we're supposed to do. We're working with the text G-d gave us, gave us as in a gift that is ours to do with as we wish now. The Torah is not in heaven, it is here on Earth and we love and cherish it enough to spend millennia pouring over it and learning all of the ins and outs and applicabilities and options and interpretations. We've turned over every phrase, every word, every letter, and continue to do so every day because that is how we connect with G-d, our history, and our people.
Thinking Jews are inherently tricksy/are trying to trick G-d and/or other humans is antisemitic, full stop. Just because you don't understand why we do what we do doesn't mean we're acting in bad faith and assuming we're acting in bad faith is antisemitic. If you don't get it, just ask us or look it up on myjewishlearning instead of falling back on and perpetuating age-old antisemitic tropes.
Like most Jewish people in America, I know more than the average number of people named Epstein, going back to my friend Becky from 3rd grade to my now retired dermatologist.
None of them are billionaires. None of them own islands. None of them run sex trafficking rings. I would be shocked if any of them ever raped anyone.
The use of the label “Epstein class“ doesn’t actually decry corruption or sexual violence, it’s not a witty rejoinder against billionaires generally, or even used to describe those involved in the Epstein conspiracy specifically.
In use, it serves to only replace the perfectly serviceable and understood word oligarchy with a Jewish name.
It does so at a time when antisemitism is becoming more bold, more intentional and more dangerous, from every part of the sociopolitical spectrum.
And that’s not by accident.
Think before you label. And expect to be judged accordingly.
some resources re: our sephardi shoah survivors and victims:
Are Sephardic and Mideastern Holocaust victims being forgotten?
Jews are gathering this summer in tribute to a solemn anniversary on the island of Rhodes. A reflection on searching for Sephardic family hi
German Occupation – Holocaust - Jewish Community of Rhodes - Official Website
Sephardic Horizons
People will really say with their full chest: How could this person be a Nazi didnt you hear them say generic leftist populism
There was famously a name for this with the OG Nazis! "Beefsteak Nazi" Brown on the outside, red on the inside!
Are you sure that's not backwards? Surely the creature in question is more like a Hitlerite infiltrating socialist circles.
The historical term refers to KPD members (Red) who later joined the Nazi Party (Brown) to 'subvert it from within' (but really went along with most of it) Really more common in the era of Rohm before he got long knived but there was plenty of room for like... Street level commies/people who went back and forth depending on who looked like winners at the time to have a 'come to adolf' moment. The leadership like Thalmann in leadership got sent to camps, it was absolutely repressive. IIRC there was a lot of recruitment back and forth in the lead up to Hitler's seizure of power. I use beefsteak here because a goodly proportion of them seemed to buy into the stated 'socialist flavored' talking points of 30s naziism. (Again, not all KPD, but like. Enough to justify the term)
I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.
Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.
At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.
One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.
That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days
you know you could’ve just said “no they don’t have wifi” and that would’ve answered the question
But then you wouldnt have known about the moose
i can't anymore
The report from Combat Antisemitism Movement found the platform has actively recommended this content to millions of users
sorry, i can't seem to pull up the substack article linked in the post comment, but i found this.
These chat bots may be a bit less advanced than simulcra (ai trained on historical figure data sets) but I've already seen Sun Tzu simulcra writing antisemitic novels. I've been worried the rabbinical ones might start...
