[kagore]

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Added June 10th, 2025: I realize that because this blog is an angry-driven one, things may need to be calmly laid out and that's fine by me! It's the Internet.

What's my stance on the conflict?

I don't like death or people killing each other.

Up to you to believe me or not. Though if you're the type to just scream at a person's inbox, there's a chance I'll just block you. It's a blog in the public, yes, but here's a really handy-dandy phrase from the fandom community:

Don't like, don't read.

"There's a genocide--"

There are dozens happening. The world sucks and is scary. It was sucky and scary before you were born and yet here you are, alive and well and picking fights with strangers online.

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Hi everybody! This is my separate account from my main one where I vomit out all of my thoughts and feelings and rage (imagine No Face) without making my happy place fandom blog get gunked up.

Or another way to put it, I don't wanna see really depressing news on my feed between pictures of guys going at each other (violently or sexually or both). Kinda tasteless and tacky if you ask me.

If I'm following you on my fun and main and proper account, I'll probably let you know. I'll still post about fandom but from an angrier and snider stance because of how the conflict itself has become a fucked up fandom of its own! And it'd be general fandom not the ones I'm specifically in.

The Confilct = I/P one

If I reblog with a comment it's me expressing thoughts. If you respond and I don't it's probably because I had nothing to add, thought I responded, or just outright forgot because that's how it be sometimes.

As for the picture and banner--it's a picture I took of the pathway to Belzec and the banner is also of Belzec.

My grandmother's cousins and aunt were murdered there. Or on the way. Or maybe both since there were 4 kids and a mom to spread it out. Who knows! The place served its purpose in wiping out the local Jewish population, so it didn't need to stay up and running for long.

Anyway. I'm angry and full of spite, so this is where it all goes so I can have some shreds of happiness elsewhere.

[theblxefox]

"I'm not an antisemite but" - you are

"Its not antisemitic to" - it is

"Israelis made antisemitism into" - we didn't, it's what it is

Let me help you. Like any other form of racism and bigotry, if you need to clarify whether the bullshit you spew is antisemitic or not, it is, and you're an antisemite.

[lem0nademouth]

most goyim hear “the vast majority of jews are zionists” and translate that to “the vast majority of jews are evil colonizers and genocidal maniacs” rather than the true meaning of that statement which is “zionism is a complex and multifaceted concept that every jew has a unique relationship with and it cannot be distilled into a single slogan-length description”

[knight-of-skyloft]

If you hear "the vast majority of Jews are zionists" and default to "well then the vast majority of Jews are colonizing pedophile degenerates" and not "oh maybe I don't actually know what 'zionist' means", then idk! I think antisemitism might be in play there!

[candiedreads]

Absolute INSANITY!

(And by "insanity," I mean RACISM.)

Imagine believing their should be a warning for Israeli characters. Disgusting.

[dancinbutterfly]

“I want a warning in all books whenever a character is Chinese. Im not a racist. I’m just against the genocide of the Ughyirs and the colonization of Tibet.”

That’s how you sound.

[honeyapplebutterfly]

“You never shut up about antisemitism” if it stopped happening to me I would stop talking about it. Like immediately.

[moonlightandmarble]

"You know you don't have to side with neo nazis just because they also hate Israel"

"But...but they hate Israel and thats a good thing! Maybe they don't hate Jews, they just hate Zionists, did you ever consider that?"

Holy shit some of you really would get into a white van because you were offered candy.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I had a long reply to this that tumblr swallowed, but the gist was, it is very telling who is and is not represented by flags in that image.

handful of political ideologies, some of the most hyperspecific and obscure gender/sexuality identities (valid, but weird to have that amount of specificity only for that), Black or Brown people barely make the cut, and when they are represented it’s only incidentally, as an extension of another identity or a specific political cause or national entity. and, obviously, no Jewish symbols.

Jewish words, yes, but only if they can be cleansed of their Jewish specificity and stretched into a universalist metaphor, and

wait.

is that. fucking Luigi?

fictional cartoon plumber Luigi Mario

(almost certainly a dogwhistle for alleged murderer Mangione)

fucking Luigi gets higher billing than Jews

[notaplaceofhonour]

and given that only a vanishingly slim sliver Jews are “anti-Zionist comrades” what OP tries to represent as an inclusive statement to Jews (that only makes an exception for those evil nasty Zionists), is the opposite: the exclusion of most Jews, that makes an exception only for a vanishingly slim sliver of Jews, and only if they agree with their (hyper-specific & extremely fringe) politics.

[kagore]

Why should anything a group of serial liars dedicated to anti-Jewish propaganda and the destruction of Israel and the Jews ever be taken seriously? They have negative credibility. That's like saying we need to seriously investigate allegations by neonazis that Jews are raping white women.

Because I can't counter lies if I don't know where they came from or how they came to be in the first place.

Years ago, I didn't know the anti-Zionist rhetoric we hear today stemmed from USSR antisemitism, for example. And then I learned and now I know more.

[iamgayjew]

Imagine "We're on the right side of history" being one of your movement's main slogans and you are on the same side as kim jong un lmao

[kagore]

Hi,

I’m also on r/Jewish left and I think what you’re talking about is basically because there’s a group of r/jewsofconscience posters there as well. They’re generally the ones saying people on r/jewishleft aren’t actually leftist because we think antisemitism is; A) Real and B) A bad thing. Or making posts about how Jews need to stop being Jewish and admit they’re just white people.

Ugh I'd believe it.

A user who was a mod at r/BDS and possibly the JOC sub. They haven't shown up in jewishleft for a while, but that doesn't mean other JOC users aren't in the sub.

JOC is a, uh, fascinating place. But that would probably explain the weird back-and-forth about antisemitism on the jewishleft sub :/

Thank you for your insight!

[kagore]

I've said it before, but r/jewishleft is a fascinating and ultimately disappointing place.

It isn't r/JewsOfConscience level self-hating, but it's got some members in there that make me feel like the sub has turned into a "good ole boys" club.

Accusations from the flotilla should be taken seriously, but I am bothered by how quick that sub is to being okay with taking every accusation at face value. And the way comments get completely wiped away for no discernible reason is baffling. A reasonable post can be made, but if the mods disagree with it it gets removed. Yet some dipshit bro can say "you keep going on about that" in regards to rape denial can stay?

And I won't lie, there is a part of me that is going "Oh, okay, once again the victims aren't Jewish, so we aren't going to try to get to the truth of the matter" and it's making me just not want to engage. Apologize for downplaying or denying what happened on October 7th and then perhaps I'll give listening a chance.

Also Kristof article being accepted on there despite dubious sourcing is just...YES ACTUALLY A BAD THING?? With how they will shred sources from Jews or Israel but take it for face value if it makes Israel look bad is disappointing.

Honestly the sub is weirldy managed and it feels like some days it's okay to be Jewish and angry about antisemitism, and then other days it's like that isn't allowed.

[prof-grace-aspen]

You know that’s bitterly funny? There are zero Iranian scam bots. Because gullible leftists don’t give a fuck about Iranians. Because the only reason they gave a fuck about Gazans was because they hate Israel.

[myfootyrthroat]

The number of people affected by famine and war in Sudan or the DRC is millions more than Gaza, and yet I have never gotten a single ask or tag about either.

[mariacallous]

[mariacallous]

[hillsofspices]

the way some people talk about jews makes it sound like they just discovered the concept of human culture. “they have a word for outsiders 😡” yes most people do

[ich-bin-jude]

Leftists, "Cis is not a slur!! It's just a word for non-trans people!"

Also Leftists: "OMG, goyim/gentile is a slur!!"

[hyperrbolic-orange]

babygirl I don't know how to tell you this but there just isn't a way to do mass dehumanization in like, a "progressive leftist" kinda way.

[kagore]

I'm watching a video about the shitshow meltdown over Kuang's latest controversy.

The video maker is making good points about people being stupid over this. Her then going that the land is Palestinian and "people started showing up around...I forget when, I want to say the 1950s?" made me want to fucking die because holy fuck people have strong thoughts and feelings on this situation and are this ignorant about it

Do we have a prayer/comment for being grateful for diversity of thought because I feel like I need one now to avoid the pitfalls of black and white thinking. On the one hand I'm glad she's saying the reaction is batshit bananas, but also how incurious do you have to be to not look at a basic ass timeline?

Oh well. I'll take the sanity points when we can though there's still 7mins left for her to disappoint me further.