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Jadwiga | 25 | Aborcja Bez Granic (Abortion Without Borders): [phone] | Any pronouns | I stand with Ukraine | Antifa means Anti-Fascist | Black Lives Matter

[jadwigaspeaks]

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About Me: I'm Jadwiga!

I'm 25, queer, Polish (living in the UK), and probably-autistic. I'm fine with any pronouns as long as you're not using them in an asshole way, and with any gendered terms except "man" and "woman". My main blog is @vigilantsycamore and this is the sideblog for my political and current events posts

About this blog:

I will generally try to find at least one (and ideally more than one) accessible and reliable news article about a current events topic before posting about it here, and will link that article in the post.

Some examples of "current events" stuff I will try to avoid posting or reblogging here:

Stuff that uses screenshots of social media posts as a "source"

Photos or videos without a verifiable and reliable source that mentions where and when they were taken

Videos or text in a language I don't speak with a "translation" that conveniently supports one specific agenda - unless, again, there is a verifiable and reliable source for that translation

Articles that focus more on telling the reader how to feel about an event than what actually happened

Tags:

#politics: for posting about political topics or opinions

#current events: for posting about things that are currently in the news

[jadwigaspeaks]

Also TERFs like to trot out this claim that "the establishment" just loves trans people, which can only be explained by them 1. being unbelievably ignorant of current and recent events, or 2. lying on purpose

[jadwigaspeaks]

The fact that antisemites are using the word "noticing" and "noticing patterns" as dogwhistles is annoying because I do actually notice a lot of stuff, patterns included, and one of the most obvious patterns I've noticed to date is that all antisemitic rhetoric makes no sense if you think critically about it for 5 seconds. Often less

[jadwigaspeaks]

A TERF liked this post so I just want to clarify that another pattern I've noticed is the massive overlap between anti-trans rhetoric and antisemitic rhetoric

[magnetothemagnificent]

No one is forcing you to stay home on Saturdays. You choose to live like that. And that completely fine; you are well within your rights to be as observant as you want. It’s just not anyone else’s responsibility to accommodate your schedule, which again is something of your own choosing. Your religion prevents you from doing things on Saturday it doesn’t prevent me or any other non Jew from doing things on Saturday.

Do you actually believe that putting a blanket ban over scheduling events on Saturday is a reasonable request? Because that would mean non Jews would have to follow a religious law or a religion they don’t belong to!!

The doesn’t revolve around you!!!

Me: Hey you know scheduling things on Saturday is inconvenient for Jews and anyone who works on Saturday

You: SO YOU WANT TO BAN EVENTS ON SATURDAY??? YOU MONSTER!!!!

[jadwigaspeaks]

Anon reminds me of the people who learn a food place is offering vegan options and react as if the owner banned them specifically from ever eating animal products again

[jewish-sideblog]

Magen David Pride Flags except I fixed the sizes and the colors to better soothe my neurodivergent brain

Feel free to use them for whatever without credit. I wouldn't stop you even if I could, it's all in the public domain anyway

[jewish-sideblog]

Some free DLC for my lovely Queer Jews of Colour and wonderful Polyamorous Jews. I also tried my hand at the toothpaste gay flag, but the number and size of the lines made it impossible to actually soothe my neurodivergent brain...

[jewish-sideblog]

These are all now on Wikimedia Commons with a Creative Commons license!

[ladyimaginarium]

Updating these with the jewish two spirit flag for my& fellow queer native two spirit jews who're so often unheard in both queer & jewish spaces!

[jadwigaspeaks]

The hammer and sickle crowd loves to act like their ideology is the Only True Leftism and also the Most Moral and Most Best and Most Righteous belief system and if you don't agree you're Evil and will be Left Behind when the Rapture Revolution happens

But they also keep saying things like "OMG it's just a Nazi tattoo, you [antisemitic slur coined by the Klan] are overreacting! This is just like when the CIA tricked everyone into thinking the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was bad when it was actually good!"

[jadwigaspeaks]

Leninists talk about Lenin the way the really weird fundamentalist type of Christian talks about Jesus, which is not how you should be talking about any politicians or historical figures, especially not the imperialist who strangled Soviet democracy in its cradle

[dynamicity-keysmash]

If you only treat antisemitism like a real issue when your political opponents do it I think you're an ignorant hypocrite with a small heart and an empty void where your integrity should be.

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[weirdtranssexual]

if you can’t condemn antisemitism as it occurs today then you have no business using the holocaust as a metaphor for anything. this should not be controversial.

[lesbianonsteroids]

I forgot to post this. But also appreciation to the studs. I've seen appreciation for the butches and that's valid and good, but what about the studs? I adore you guys and we love you for all you've done in fighting for the community since the beginning. For constantly fighting societal representation of black queer women. We see you and appreciate you.

[transcaptainleviathan]

happy pride to my jewtuals and any queer jews this comes across :)

[lliveonthesunn]

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[aspiring highway bandit voice] oh yes absolutely your decentralized anticiv pastoral utopia with no form of organized or regulated transport of goods sounds incredible

[tsarina-anadyomene]

this is a really interesting point. can you think of some material conditions like, I don't know, the state of transport infrastructure or maybe form of commodity production (pastoral, etc.), forms of state/non-state organization that would contribute to that?

[jadwigaspeaks]

The people who use the phrase "material conditions" a lot tend to get really angry at you when you talk about actual material conditions

[jadwigaspeaks]

I have, over the years, come across a few instances of people - specifically culturally Christian atheists - ragging on the Ten Commandments, and the way they do it suggests they think those are supposed to be a Complete Manual Of How To Be A Good Person or something, and that they're meant for everyone to follow

And that's not completely unfounded from a Christian perspective, because despite still not being exactly that in Christianity, the 10 C's are often presented that way. But the Ten Commandments are not Christian in origin

And my understanding - which is still an outside perspective, so Jewish people reading this please correct me if I'm wrong - is that rather than a 10-step guide to Being A Good Person, the Ten Commandments are the first ten clauses in a 613-clause contract. In that context, it makes perfect sense for them to start by clarifying the relationship between the parties to that contract (which is one of the things the people ragging on the 10 C's like to focus on)

It's also worth noting that the Ten Commandments only apply to the people who are party to that contract, i.e. the Chosen People, i.e. Jewish people. If you're not Jewish, your feelings about your neighbor's wife are really not relevant here

Really the Noahide Laws are a much closer match to what the people this post is responding to seem to think the Ten Commandments are. And I'll admit I don't really understand what each of those Laws means or how they're meant to be viewed in general, but 1. I'm pretty sure one of those is a rule against "sexual immorality" which would almost certainly include the other thing the people this post is in response to like to bring up, and 2. they're still less "compulsory rules everyone must follow" and more "if you follow all of these in your day-to-day life, you are in fhe same moral category as Noah"