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31. She/Her. Jewish. Ace.

[cartoonverisimilitude]

I honestly think a huge issue culturally-Christian people have when it comes to understanding Judaism is that they don’t understand the concept of an “ethnoreligion.”

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people ask a question about Judaism and I or somebody else says “Well, Judaism is an ethnoreligion” and they’re like “How can a religion be ethnic?”

If we taught at minimum that evangelizing religions like Islam and Christianity are actually the exceptions rather than the rule - I think we’d come to a better understanding of each other

[edithsweetithh]

too many people are under the impression that the holocaust is well known because they think it was white on white violence and not because the nazis fucking invented murder factories

[pusheenthenerdcat]

for clarity's sake i feel the need to point out op doesn't mean "murder factories" metaphorically, the holocaust is notable for the industrialised methods of killing people. like, the nazis strategised about how to kill as cheaply and quickly as possible at scale

[edithsweetithh]

too many people are under the impression that the holocaust is well known because they think it was white on white violence and not because the nazis fucking invented murder factories

[king-shit-thembo]

people think "nazi" means "mean person I disagree with politically" instead of "person whose ENTIRE WORLDVIEW is based on MURDERING ALL THE JEWS"

[edithsweetithh]

too many people are under the impression that the holocaust is well known because they think it was white on white violence and not because the nazis fucking invented murder factories

[cartoonverisimilitude]

I literally just saw somebody claim that part of the reason why slavery was worse than the Holocaust was because the Nazis believed that the gas chambers were a humane execution method.

Bitch what the fuck ?

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you were almost turned into a vampire, but before you could be fully turned, the vampire was staked. This left you with a vampire weakness, while still being human.

Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!

How much does this effect you?

Nothing changes

It's inconvenient but I can deal with jty

It will be hard to adjust but I'll figure it out

I don't know if I'll be able to live like this

Maybe I can find another vampire to finish the turning?

I might just kill myself

Results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 13 hours

thanks @theemmjay for submitting this poll idea!! Seriously it's such a cool concept I love it so much

[cartoonverisimilitude]

I can’t cross running water…Uh. Sounds a bit difficult in terms of travel (Can I still cross a bridge if I’m in a car or train?) but I may be able to figure it out?

[cartoonverisimilitude]

Oh I wonder why a Jewish person would be part of a Zionist organization in 1945. /sarcasm

Are these people really that fucking stupid ?!

[pagecommando]

"It wasn't full zionist" The show that couldn't cast a Jew to play a Jew in the lead role (or several Jews TBQH, I see you Shaloub and Levi although Shaloub honestly gets a little bit of a pass) and which blew a mad-men tier potential and decentish first season to do out-awkward bullshit and never actually reckoned with what Joan Rivers or Gilda Radner or Madelaine Kahn actually had to deal with and REALLY had issues reckoning with its own ostensible Jewishness... Is "Too zionist with too much propaganda" The tiny amount of Jewieness allowed where the ethno religious end is constantly made into jokes "Yes I put shrimp in the egrolls" is too "Zionist" Yeah ok.

[judea-forever]

Okay. Fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community... what the hell is going on

Y'all will take a character who is meant to be a very obvious allegory for the Jewish Experience and Antisemitism and somehow make it about queerness???? Y'all just can't stand Jews being Jews can you

[icantthinkofausername]

As a bisexual, I’m tired they do this with everything, a story can be about a woman dealing with sexism and they’ll make her trans, a story will be about racial minorities and or mixed race people and they’ll find a way to make it about gay people, is a character’s story about disability? Nah, can’t have that. I’m all for people seeing themselves in different characters but that doesn’t mean the characters or story needs to change, we should be able to see ourselves in characters different from ourselves and still enjoy them without having to change important aspects of their character.

[fittingoutjane]

The problem isn't seeing yourself in a different type of character. It's claiming that the character IS about your own experience when it was clearly written to be about a different type of oppression.

"Hey, this was written about being Black, but I see in it my own experiences as a visibly disabled person." That's not wrong! And ideally it will help you understand other people better.

"I identify with this therefore the author MUST have been thinking of people like me." No. Others are people in the same way that you are a person.

And, folks? If it really, really bothers you to identify with a story about a different minoritized group? Maybe you need to consider your own biases.

[cartoonverisimilitude]

On a slightly different note: people are hating on the original Zuko and Azula voice actors because they aren’t supporting canon ships.

Dante Basco is apparently a hardcore Zutara shipper (love him for that) and Grey de lisle has shipped Azula with Zuko and Aang at different points, and has said she doesnt think Azula needed a redemption arc…which, you know what? I’m not a fan of her ships but like - she’s obviously not that serious about the first. And if ATLA was R rated there would definitely be some incest-y shit there. Like not my cup of tea but yeah, the insane genocidal rulers who believe they’re superior to everyone else would probably try to keep the bloodline pure.

And also regarding redemption arcs? She’s right. Her not getting a redemption arc and related issues being due to the creators’ sexism is a whole other issue entirely.

Let my girl be totally fucking evil.

[cartoonverisimilitude]

Oh I wonder why a Jewish person would be part of a Zionist organization in 1945. /sarcasm

Are these people really that fucking stupid ?!

[himbodiaz]

would y’all ever date someone with the same name as you?

[hmslusitania]

I’m sorry for adding directly to a post but I went to a wedding once where the groom’s name was Loren and the bride’s name was Lauren and at the end the officiant was all “introducing Loren [surname] and Lauren [surname], husband and wife” and the entire assembled lost it

[tevankinkley]

also sorry for adding on but at my high school there was a Dominic and a Dominique who were dating and everyone just called them “Dom and Dommer” which is honestly the funniest shit ever

[faerytale-wings]

My parents are both named Terry (spelled differently) but I’m pretty sure that’s one of the reasons my mom never changed her last name.

People would call and ask for Terry and child me would be like “boy or girl?” And they’d panic and hang up. My mom found this endlessly amusing.

[tungledotfuck]

Why would you leave this GOLD in the tags??

[faerytale-wings]

Had to submit it to the tags for peer review

[prismatic-bell]

When I was in college my LGBTQIA group had Chris and Kris.

They were the same height.

They were the same build.

They often wore each other’s clothing, although it was hard to tell because they dressed so alike already.

They wore (nearly) the same glasses.

They had the same hair and eye color.

They were in the same major and worked for the same company part time.

I think it is a very good thing that the jokes about fucking your clone weren’t around then, or I might have gotten myself in a lot of trouble.

[cartoonverisimilitude]

I have a cousin, let’s call her “Sammie.” She’s engaged to a guy named “Sam.”

[femalegothic]

she would have been the best president of the modern era and I stand ten does down on that

[cartoonverisimilitude]

She would have gotten so much done and we'd be living in a world where Elon Musk never would have had a voice in American politics. I wish we were in that timeline...

[jewish-sideblog]

I need more people to understand that Jews Are Evil (anti-religious) is not meaningfully different from Jews Are Evil (white supremacist) or Jews Are Evil (mediaeval catholic) or Jews Are Evil (conspiracy theorist). The parentheses don’t matter. They never have. If you think Jews Are Evil, you’re a fool and a bigot.

[prof-grace-aspen]

AI cannot help you find sources. It is not a search engine. It is not searching the current web. It does not know what “peer reviewed” means. It doesn’t know anything.

Use a reputable database. Even Google Scholar is better than AI.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You have just lost use of this random kitchen item/ implement how screwed are you in terms of cooking?

https://wheelofnames.com/ry4-3s4

The wheel is completed but if you the mod want to change it at all feel free and I couldn't figure out how to get the link to work properly even un-anoned.

Thanks, have a nice day and drink some water

You have just lost use of this random kitchen item/implement!

how screwed are you in terms of cooking?

I'm not screwed at all surprisingly!

I'm fine because I never use this

It'll be annoying but I'm fine

I'M SO SCREWED. SO SCREWED.

results/other

Remaining time: 18 hours 24 minutes

[basuralindo]

Man fuck you

[cartoonverisimilitude]

Kettle.

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[mrskayathefrog]

One is with the other for money, the other is with the one for sex. They know what they're doing. 34 is old enough to make a damn decision.

[cartoonverisimilitude]

If I were a gay man who is literally the name of the most famous men’s underwear company in the world - I’d probably date somebody who is ridiculously good looking and young too. I think that’s just kind of how the world works.

And Kevin is 34. That’s a grown ass man with fully developed frontal lobe according to popular science. He knows what he’s doing.

[anexperimentallife]

[labelleizzy]

Everyone reblog this. Mandatory.

[therationaldispatch]

New York: Antisemitic incidents surge under Mayor Mamdani - i24NEWS

Jewish New Yorkers bearing the brunt of over 56% of all recorded hate crimes since January 1, 2026 despite making up only 10% of the populat

Hate crimes in NYC surge under Mamdani: NYPD data shows increase by 9.4%, with 56% of hate crimes targeting Jewish people since Jan 1, 2026.

[knight-of-skyloft]

The troubling hate crime trend stands in sharp relief against a broad drop in general violence. All seven major felony categories saw declines, with murder dropping 22.8% and year-to-date shooting incidents down 7.5%.

Emphasizing this because I've seen people say "oh Jews were crying antisemitism and they were so scared of the Muslim mayor, but crime has gone down under Mamdani" and conveniently ignoring that every kind of crime has gone down except hate crimes, which have spiked alarmingly.