[rimonoroni]

btw Jewish charity organizations in the USA don’t exist to convert you like Christian charity organizations, they are specifically Jewish because they were likely founded by Jews who were being turned away from other organizations. several Jewish hospitals exist in the US because many Jewish immigrants had degrees but were turned away from other hospitals for being Jewish. so we made our own, lmao. these days most of these organizations are no longer specifically Jewish because job and care discrimination is not as common for us as it used to be. i’m saying this just in case anybody is wary of accepting aid (many Jewish charities set up free food kitchens, for example) from a Jewish charity because of mistreatment by Christian ones, and i think it’s important to understand the difference

[postingtreyf]

The bulk of the work HIAS does these days is in aiding non-Jews.

[journeyed-to-my-home]

Your local Jewish Community Center? Anyone can join.

Jewish Family and Children’s Society? They’ll still help you if you reach out for their services and aren’t Jewish.

Ask the Hebrew Free Loan Association for a loan and have no connection to Judaism? Yup, they’ll work with you.

A Jewish food bank? Will feed you, no matter who you are.

And HIAS? My synagogue is working with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to support a refugee family that is new to our area (we furnished their house, do social stuff with them, and make the phone calls that are hard for ESL folks). The father in the family is literally a pastor.

[rimonoroni]

no this is legitimately very sweet thank you

[xclowniex]

I think there is a lot of disconnect that goyim have between their actions and how it impacts jews.

What I mean by this is calling for/doing things in which the direct action is not antisemetic, but the result of the action is. For example;

Motivation: "Hillel is run by zionists'

Action: calling for hillel to be removed from all universities

Result: the main organization which helps jews have a community at university as well as helps handle antisemitism jewish students face, is now gone. Jews have no guaranteed community on campus unless students who are busy studying can take on the work load of running it. They also now have to find a local rabbi for the group and also have no extra protection against antisemitism.

(This is all ignoring that hillel doesn't even promote violence and is being targeted simply for being a Jewish organization on campus)

Motivation: "we want to make zionists lives as hard as possible"

Action: Targeting people who they assume are zionists

Result: because you cannot tell if someone is a zionist unless you ask them their opinions on Israel and Palestine, a lot of jews get targeted for simply being jewish because antizionists view a lot of things which are originally jewish as inherently Israeli and therefore is an admittance of zionism. For those who try to verbally clarify if a jew is a zionist, usually they end up harassing jews to give their opinion on Israel and Palestine, even though they are not entitled to jews or anyone's opinion on anything.

(This is ignoring that anything inherently Israeli is bad as that's also false)

Just because your direct action is not antisemetic, doesn't mean the result of your action isn't, and that still makes your action antisemetic.

[notaplaceofhonour]

oh fun fun we’ve got the global blood libel combo AND saying jews zionists being poor and needing help swindlers only pretending to be progressive for the money. totally not antisemitic at all

[youlookkindadead]

i've seen quite a bit of confusion about this, so let me attempt to clear things up :

empathy is the ability to feel somebody's emotions as though they are affecting you personally. for example, somebody tells you "my dog died last night!" -> you now feel as though you've lost a pet personally -> you feel grief and sadness just like the other person. not everyone has empathy. it's a trait some people develop and others don't. some have high empathy, some have low empathy, some (like me) have none.

sympathy is the ability to understand and care about somebody else's struggles, even if you don't feel them yourself. so, somebody tells you their dog died -> you realize how this affects them emotionally -> you care about this person, and are upset that they are suffering. not everyone has sympathy either! it's a scale, just like empathy.

compassion is doing something to relieve another person's suffering or make them feel better. somebody tells you their dog died -> you don't want them to remain upset -> you come up with ways to help them feel better, like offering comfort and distractions, or other forms of support. compassion is a learned trait, not something you can be born with like empathy or sympathy. anyone can learn to be compassionate, although some may struggle more with it than others; it's a skill, just like anything else.

however, none of these are required to be a good person. that's a choice you make on your own accord. i hope this clears things up!

[eliyahu613]

you are the one going into my inbox to argue with me

[kinonacht]

i need to study this person in a lab (reblogged by them)

[pukicho]

what’s your opinion on nihilism

Baby's first atheistic philosophy. Built for edgy teens who had their first introspective thought a week ago. The problem is, people use the term nihilism to justify being lazy with their own beliefs - that's why u get a lotta dummies claiming they're nihilist, despite doing zero research on what it actually means to practice that philosophy (which is a lot more neutral on things than pessimistic)

Just because you gave up believing in a religion doesn't mean that you should simply stop growing either. The "I don't believe in God"-part of your worldview is the least interesting part, and it's not the finish line, that's the fucking start. Now you gotta figure out WHY things matter -- despite God, despite 'floating on a rock in the middle of nothingness' -- that's when you've put in the effort to reflect on yourself, and not a moment before.

I think there are far more constructive philosophies out there that explore how life really operates besides nihilism. Just because we're 'floating on a speck' doesn't means shit, it's not like you nor I in our day-to-day lives can even recognize that we're floating on a speck, so it naturally doesn't matter to our daily lives, our cultures, our ethics, or anything, really.

[eliyahu613]

What a wicked and ironic philosophy bro, now try believing in something true and beautiful.

[reclaimyourownslurs-deactivated]

Certain people on this hellsite when physically disabled people try to talk about their physical disabilities and how their experience with being physically disabled differs from the experiences of people who are not physically disabled:

It's not gatekeeping, it's not an attack, you're not being thrown under the bus or turned on by someone who wants to talk about their specific experience that isn't yours.

Your non-physical disability is valid. Your experience with non-physical disability is valid. It is not less important or less significant than physical disability.

Your ego, though? That's a problem.

[intosnarkness]

legit the best advice i can give you: feed your friends

any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don’t have to choose what it is if they can’t make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you’re just gonna make food happen at their house.

friend having a baby? delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the kid shows up.

someone’s relative passes away? offer to make them dinner.

buddy gets laid off? ask if you can order them lunch.

pal stuck in a depressive episode? offer to drive them to fucking mcdonalds, if that’s what they want.

people in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. so if you have the ability or time or money, providing that is always, always a good move.

legit i do this all the time, and it is 100% always appreciated. i have taught all my friends that when something happens, we feed each other. it makes people feel extremely cared for, and I cannot recommend it enough.

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

people who accuse our indigenous identity of being "blood and soil nationalism", what, pray tell, is palestinian nationalism, then? is it the same? or is it different, because you somehow see jews as less valid?

or perhaps they we both just indigenous peoples wanting self determination in our homeland. how about that.

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

like really. tell me. why is one group of canaanite descendants valid while another is not. do you just hate jews.

[francisforever2014]

she needs unproblematic queer relationships with thoughtful communication and healthy attachment

no! unproblematic representation will kill the patient

she needs queerbait to live

[carsonjonesfiance]

I do think “x celeb is a Zionist” always requires further investigation because in the current discourse it could mean anything from “Ben Gvir’s right hand man” to “said some vaguely supportive things on Oct 7” to “was born in Israel” to “is an American Jew and I Just Kind Of Assume” to “is explicitly an anti-Zionist Jew but called out anti-semitism”

[jewish-rock]

really tempted to make a space (either discord server or tumblr community) for disability rights stuff without all the Israel/palestine nonsense.

I've had to unfollow so many disability blogs for spreading false information or putting "Zionists dni " (idk if i even consider myself a zionist but i will not interact if i see that. i'm not pro-violence-against-Israel and I'm jewish so i'm Zionist enough for them).

i just wanna talk about bein disabled without worrying that people want me dead :(

anyone interested?

[kinonacht]

YEEES PLEASE

[jewishbarbies]

ah yes, just like we should wear gold stars in germany to identify ourselves as jews so no one confuses us with ‘real germans’.

[anshelsgendercrisis]

some other lovely screenshots.

and of course:

[fractalhawthorn]

Lets apply this logic in the reverse then.

We should require pro-palestinian people to wear something to prove to the rest of the world they aren't supporting an Islamist, Pan-Arabist movement like Hamas, Hezbollah, or the IRGC, and thus aren't enemies of the West.

Ffs there are plenty of Zionists who also fight for a Palestinian state. But that requires nuance that a majority of the Pro-Palestine movement don't WANT in their movement.

[jewish-joy]

I often get exceedingly anxious about my conversion. I stay up at night, considering ways I could be "failing" at it. How I wouldn't make a good Jewish woman in the eighteenth century, or what my place in the history of the Jewish people is.

But then I realized- I’m not going to be a Jewish woman in the 18th century or what have you. I’m going to be one in the here and now. I don’t need to worry about fitting in on the hills of a beautiful shtetl, gone from us too soon (so soon ) . I'm alive, wonderfully and divinely, in an age where there has never been a bigger connection of jewish folk.

No longer do we have to rely just on word of mouth or rare newspaper postings to find out about the safety or fate of the rest of us. We can call across the world "are you alright?" or bite your nails constantly checking the news. We can rally together and demand safety and protection- that we are not cheap.

In ten seconds or less, I can have thousands of google results for Halachic questions or send a discord-full of people in a tizzy about it. Now finding the answer is the harder part, but hasn't that always been the case!

I have a group chat worth of people to tell me to eat, to send me links like "I know you wanted to learn hebrew!" or "this is why three meals a day is important, Joy." Or even things as preposterous as "Licking the frosting off donuts is not a meal!"

(I hold that it is glucose and thus energy to be used).

We have queer torah, way too many interpretations of "shalom alechem", and "kosher near me" on GPS. We have Star Trek with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, and Jewish astronauts- we can see ourselves in the stars.

I'm here. We're here. And I still can't believe it.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[altospaceangel]

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

[goodluckdetective]

Look, this is what moral OCD is like for me:

I walk past a piece of paper. I don’t pick it up because I had a long day at work and it’s very cold outside. This then becomes my internal monologue:

I didn’t pick up that piece of paper, I should have. Don’t I care about the environment? It’s not my trash, I shouldn’t have to pick it up. But also that’s how these things happen right? We place the blame on others as our environment degrades. It was just a piece of paper, it’s not like it can do that much damage. But also how do I know: I’m not an environmental expert. Maybe stray paper scraps are killing the frogs. You’re literally killing the frogs. You should look up how many frogs die a year so you know how shitty you are-No stop it.

I care about the environment, and I recycle and I joined green activism movements but is that enough? I could be doing more. I should be doing more. I should donate my entire check to charity. But isn’t it self serving to think that my one check could help that much? Do I really think I’m that important, how self entitled and-no stop it, reset! You are obsessing and if you fall for it, you will not eat dinner. Let it go.

Okay it’s just a piece of paper. It’s okay you skipped it this once: it could have had something dangerous on it. Yeah that makes sense. But also, that means I’m putting my own safety over trying to help the environment, which is very selfish of me. I’m just one shitty person: god how could I be so self absorbed. I should have picked up the piece of paper. I’m so selfish, and shitty and-no, no, stop it! This is not helpful. It’s fine.

It’s been a long day and I’m cold, that’s not a crime- no that’s being selfish again, you’re making excuses. You’re just a lazy piece of shit who doesn’t care about others, and selfish and God the fact you’re thinking this much about one piece of paper shows how selfish you are, you care more about if you’re a good person than anything else, you’re a piece of shit, you’re a piece of shit, YOU’RE A PIECE OF SHIT.

I get home and open up Tumblr. The first post I see says “if you don’t reblog this post about the environment you’re as complicit as an oil billionaire.” I close my computer and resign myself to looking up the state frog populations until I go to bed.

I don’t eat dinner.

The amount of frogs that die a year is somewhere from 200 million to over 1 billion.

[inkskinned]

they want to talk about mental illness and acceptance and how everyone is a little ocd it's cute and quirky and their "intrusive thoughts" are about cutting their hair off and you say yours are about taking a razorblade to your eye and they say ew can you not and everyone is a little adhd sometimes! except if you're late it's a personality flaw and it's because you are careless and cruel (and someone else with adhd mentions they can be on time, so why can't you?) and it's not an eating disorder if it's girl dinner! it's not mania if it's girl math! what do you mean you blew all of your savings on nonrefundable plane tickets for a plane you didn't even end up taking. what do you mean that you are afraid of eating. get over it. they roll their little lips up into a sneer. can you not, like, trauma dump?

they love it on them they like to wear pieces of your suffering like jewels so that it hangs off their tongue in rapiers. they are allowed to arm-chair diagnose and cherrypick their poisons but you can't ever miss too many showers because that's, like, "fuckken gross?" so anyone mean is a narcissist. so anyone with visual tics is clearly faking it and is so cringe. but they get to scream and hit customer service employees because well, i got overwhelmed.

you keep seeing these posts about how people pleasers are "inherently manipulative" and how it's totally unfair behavior. but you are a people pleaser, you have an ingrained fawn response. in the comments, you have typed and deleted the words just because it is technically true does not make it an empathetic or kind reading of the reaction about one million times. it is technically accurate, after all. you think of catholic guilt, how sometimes you feel bad when doing a good deed because the sense of pride you get from acting kind - that pride is a sin. the word "manipulation" is not without bias or stigma attached to it. many people with the fawn response are direct victims of someone who was malignantly manipulative. calling the victims manipulative too is an unfair and unkind reading of the situation. it would be better and more empathetic to say it is safety-seeking or connection-seeking behavior. yes, it can be toxic. no, in general it is not intended to be toxic. there is no reason to make mentally ill people feel worse for what we undergo.

you type why is everyone so quick to turn on someone showing clear signs of trauma but you already know the fucking answer, so what's the point of bothering. you kind of hate those this is what anxiety looks like! infographics because at this point you're so good at white-knuckling through a severe panic attack that people just think you're stoic. even people who know the situation sometimes comment you just don't seem depressed. and you're not a 9 year old white kid so there's no way you're on the spectrum, you're not obsessed with trains and you were never a good mathematician. okay then.

mental illness is trending. in 2012 tumblr said don't romanticize our symptoms but to be fair tiktok didn't exist yet. there's these series of videos where someone pretends to be "the most boring person on earth" and is just being a normal fucking person, which makes your skin crawl, because that probably means you are boring. your friend reads aloud a profile from tinder - no depressed bitches i fucking hate that mental illness crap. your father says that medication never actually works.

you still haven't told your grandmother that you're in therapy. despite everything (and the fact it's helping): you just don't want her to see you differently.