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since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.
“I did some research to pronounce this name correctly” = 👍 great! even if the pronunciation was still off (and learning to pronounce a foreign language correctly takes a lot of practice) people generally appreciate it when someone goes the extra mile for accuracy, and honestly, languages are cool
“I’m probably not saying that correctly”/“sorry for my pronunciation” = 👍 understandable! foreign languages often have sounds that aren’t used in English and learning to correctly pronounce unfamiliar phonemes is genuinely difficult even with help
“lol I’m not even gonna TRY to pronounce that 😂” = 👎 THIS is the problem, if treats languages other than English like they are inherently ‘weird’ or ‘overly complicated’ just because you aren’t familiar with them
“One thousand apologies for my butchering of this beautiful effervescent tongue, I will now flagellate myself as punishment for my crimes” = 👎 chill
was having a complaining competition with my friend about how even liberal environments don't seem to be able to process gay relationships when you're both pretty feminine and always default to thinking you're just friends and then she whips out "when me and [wife] checked into the honeymoon suite after our wedding reception, still in our white dresses, the hotel clerk went 'you know it's only one bed, right?'"
There have been race riots in several countries. Masked men burning families out of their homes. Moral purity tests are back in. The political left and right are exchanging notes on antisemitism. American democrats are standing behind a man with a Totenkopf tattoo. A large number of the far left identifies with a terrorist organisation. Russia continues to occupy Ukrainian territories. Russian militias in Africa continue to exploit the region for monetary gain. There are currently 117.8 million people displaced by various conflicts around the world.
A lot of people like to say that they would always be on the right side of history. Well, here we are, and from where I’m standing, a great many of you are far, far away.
hear me out: it’s almost like there’s nothing you can do as a Jew to ever be acceptable or safe amongst a movement primarily based on hating you and wanting to enact violence against you.
if this were truly about supporting and uplifting a group of people, it wouldn’t be so focused on destroying another. it shouldn’t be this way, but if this was truly built on liberation, equality, and peace, then nothing we’ve witnessed and experienced would have happened.
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim is an opportunistic sex pest who had to leave a UCLA Postdoc fellowship because of it. He should be left with the people he joined out of opportunism and kept away from any and all women or frankly, anyone he might be placed in proximity to let alone power over.
He's a shitty human being. Fuck him forever, I hope he keeps on whining after doing what he did and then trying to ASAJEW sell the rest of us out.
This post was updated Aug. 7 at 4:40 p.m. A postdoctoral fellow left UCLA following multiple accusations of sexual harassment on Twitter. St
But this also could just be cheap animation, notice how everyone in this series has the same 'cute' features? I.e the same button nose even with characters played by actors like Finn and Noah with more prominent noses.
This whole animated series just screams lazy cash grab to me.
Why are certain facial features seen as the default. Why is a button nose seen as “cuter” or more desirable? Why do some people think some features are easier to draw?
yeah, lazy/ignorant and bigoted are not mutually exclusive. in fact, a lot of the way bigotry exists in society, especially re: erasure (what is being talked about here), is due to (often unconscious) cultural assumptions about who is the default; so laziness and ignorance are often what leads to the erasure.
which is still a structural bigotry even if it isn’t always intentional; society gets built in such a way that it pushes out and rounds off the edges of difference, such as Jewish ethnicity.
the fact this can happen with even Stranger Things (a show with Jewish executive producers and multiple Jewish cast members) is sad but not surprising
For those of you confused about why it’s “nearly all children” that’s because children born to foreign diplomats and children born on foreign owned boats in US waters aren’t citizens because the constitution says citizenship applies to people born in the US and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Diplomats and people on foreign owned boats aren’t subject to the jurisdiction of the US government.
This is my very long archive of Jewish titles, collected according to what I find personally interesting, and so the authors here span many denominations/viewpoints. If you come across this as a reblog, check in on the original post to see if I have made any updates or corrections. As a general disclaimer, Judaism is a closed religion (yes, including Lilith) and so the books I have recommended on Kabbalah and mysticism are not for goyische readers, thank you for understanding.
TEXTS (Torah/Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, etc.)
"After the Apple: Women in the Bible" — Naomi Rosenblatt
"Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible’s Intriguing 'Firsts'" — Meir Shalev
"Biblical Seductions: Six Stories Retold Based on Talmud and Midrash" — Sandra Rapoport
"But Where Is the Lamb?: Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac" — James Goodman
"Covenant & Conversation: Genesis" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"Covenant & Conversation: Exodus" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"Covenant & Conversation: Leviticus" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"Covenant & Conversation: Numbers" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"Covenant & Conversation: Deuteronomy" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"Elijah and the Rabbis: Story and Theology" — Kristen Lindbeck
"Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry" — Anne Lerner
"From Gods to G-d: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends" — Avigdor Shinan & Yair Zakovitch
"Gleanings: Reflections on Ruth" — Stuart Halpern
"In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities" — Lori Lefkovitz
"It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses" — Abigail Pogrebin & Dov Linzer
"Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context" — Natalie Dohrmann & David Stern
"Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics" — Jeremiah Unterman
"Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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