Lieutenant Kerrigan Reporting

This blog runs mostly on queue. Features fandoms, fluffy animals, fun times with OCs and a lot of bad opinions.

[honeyapplebutterfly]

Antisemitism is fucking crazy. I’ll be hanging out with people thinking they’re normal and then randomly say “oh sorry I don’t eat pork cuz kosher lol” and the entire vibe of the room changes. Everyone suddenly goes quiet. Someone leaves suddenly. It’s like I’ve said a slur by vaguely implying I’m Jewish while being in a room of 20-something Gen z leftists. It’s like my existence is somehow deeply unsettling to them. I really don’t understand why. I don’t understand what echo chamber they are so deeply entrenched in that they believe they can decide someone’s entire moral frame just from their ethnicity……. And call that progressive?

I’ve started hiding when I’m around my non-Jewish friends, coworkers, and community members. I love my work and I love my community activism so I make the choice to be quiet. I don’t eat pork because… well I was raised mostly vegan (technically true). I don’t hang out on Friday nights because it’s my “personal day.” I don’t celebrate Easter because I just didn’t grow up with it. Just don’t worry about it right? Just don’t think too hard. I know my humanity is conditional in your mind. Just don’t worry about it.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

I’m was watching a video about a Jewish custom, and the entire comment section was like this

It’s about anti Zionism my ass.

This is the case whenever a post has Hebrew/ Jewish symbols/ etc. it’s obviously not about Israel.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

It’s been a while and this just happened again so here are the comments under a video about traditional clothing for orthodox Jewish men

Dozens of hateful antisemitic comments & so many “free Palestine”

[againstpuns]

Is this antisemitism? Yes.

But these people don't think they're being antisemitic, they think they're arguing for a group of people being oppressed by an apartheid regime, which they are. The main issue at play is that the genocide in Gaza fosters antisemitism in people who are not antisemitic, because Zionists are belligerently intent on inextricably tying Israel to Judaism.

When the Zionist propaganda says Jews = Israel, and the news shows us that Israel = genocide, people will inevitably think Jews = genocide.

The only way to fix this is to stop the genocide and teach people not to conflate the Jewish faith with the actions of the Israeli government.

[slyandthefamilybook]

I love how it's always the fault of those darn Zionists who are tricking the hapless masses into being antisemitic, so those same people never have to take respinbility for their own bigotry

I love how even in your mealy-mouthed lukewarm defense of Jews you can't conceive that the people accusing random Jews of killing children aren't actually trying to innocently criticize Israel, and they're not only being antisemitic by accident

newsflash, dumbfuck, the people who come onto a post about Jewish customs and ask them how many babies they've killed don't "think they're arguing for a group of people being oppressed by an apartheid regime." they think they're attacking Jews whom they view as responsible for Israel's actions, not because of "Zionist propaganda" but because they're racist assholes who are looking for simple explanations to the world's problems. same as always

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

[darkladynyara]

Bigots always have a story about how they're in the right and their hatred is good and just and righteous. That's...part of the bigotry, in fact.

[cassavanse]

The fact that this person could say the sentence "fostered antisemitism in people who are not antisemitic" and still think that any of what they're saying makes sense is astonishing.

[hazel2468]

Psst.

It's because that person agrees and is making excuses.

it's because the people who say this kind of bullshit think that antisemitism is okay so long as it is directed at the "right kind" of Jew. So many people do this shit- say that they don't hate Jews, but they're happily spewing the most antisemitic bullshit you've ever seen, but it's FINE because it's not directed at Jews, it's directed at Zionists!

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Exactly!!! Just because you replace the word “ Jews” with another word , doesn’t make it less antisemitic . Also, they’re always misinterpreting/ misusing “Zionist”.

Ps can I use the meme as a reaction here?

[pagecommando]

Everything before the "But" is invalidated by the paragraphs of justification after the "but" While the October 7 attacks were ongoing, governments and police around the world rallied to protect Jews and Jewish sites. Because they knew those attacks would spur more in the diaspora. And they were right. People celebrated it and targeted Jews. And people like this poster help them justify celebrating it and hating Jews by lying and excusing it. You don't need to rebut the rest of their morally and intellectually weak argument. You just need to see they "Yes, but" and watch them strip humanity away from Jews and agency away from non-jews because all things are justified for the Fandom-Cult omnicause running on decayed Nazi/Tsarist/Soviet software. Jews don't cause antisemitism. Israelis don't cause antisemitism. Losers like this person cause antisemitism because it's a loser ideology that lets you blame the same people you and your parents and grandparents always did, do no work on yourself, and never take meaningful responsibility for your failures to be a moral human being. This person will not form a human chain around a synagogue unless it is to harass or burn it, they will not shut their friends down when they spew conspiracist bullshit that makes Jews less safe. They will simply blame "the Bad Jews" and do nothing while patting themselves on the back and hoping that the panopticon-fandom they enable never comes for them.

[ragnarokascendant]

We didn't allow 'economic anxiety' or 'those mean woke leftists calling us a nazi so I'll just be one' be excuses for the right wing's racism, why the FUCK is it somehow acceptable to be an antisemite on the left 'because Israel'?!

(I know why. I know why and I'm fucking pissed off at the entirety of the left wing rocketing straight into this bullshit when it would be clearly and obviously wrong. We should've been better than this.)

[ich-bin-jude]

"It's not a 'Western' Empire, so it doesn't count."

[iamnmbr3]

because that’s who writers the propaganda they’re repeating.

If they were truly against imperialism , they would be calling out those two empires and also the many crimes they are committing including Russia’s attempted genocide in Ukraine and China’s ongoing genocide in Xinjiang of Uyghur Muslims, but they are silent.

as soon as you notice this, the whole idea that they are motivated by morals fall apart, and you see they are just a hateful and ignorant mob motivated by propaganda written by evil dictatorships (or in the case of some of the big-time influencers spreading this, actively paid by them probably.)

[mariacallous]

[adhdnojutsu]

Don't even try signing up for Artfight if you're Jewish. I posted something totally unpolitical on their Discord where I got the star in my handle and promptly got banned for genocide denial. I didn't post anything political on that server, my Art Fight profile, and nothing "discriminatory or hateful" anywhere else.

"No discriminatory behaviour" the IRONY when you ban Jews on sight.

[bisexualbaker]

[Image one: Screencap from an Art Fight page with several text boxes. The first text box is in red and reads, "You have been banned from Art Fight and cannot access this page." The second text box is in blue and reads, "There is a new post!" The page itself reads "Banned: You cannot access this page because you have been banned from participating in Art Fight." A gray text box reads: "Ban type: Permanent. Reason: Denial of genocide. Art Fight aims to be a safe place for all users. Hateful or discriminatory content and behavior is prohibited." Image two: Screencap of OP's Discord profile; their profile picture is a light-skinned person with long black hair, the artist is ADHDnoJutsu ( adhdnojutsu ), their linktree is adhdnojutsu, and their handle is listed as Manga Artist for Hire with a Magen David emoji at the start; OP has drawn an arrow pointing to the star and labeled it "genocide denial" in quotes, as that is literally the only possible thing on the screencap that could be interpreted as anything like the stated reason for the ban. End ID.]

[theincaprincess]

I had to wait a whole year to post this 😂

[kiralamouse]

Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.

[intergalactic-ashkenazi-deactiv]

I want every Jewish person to be safe

[cielseeker]

I want every person to be safe

[d0nkarnage]

I want every Jewish person to be safe

[homunculus-argument]

What did mean scary russia do to you anyway? Why seethe so hard over something (ukraine) that has nothing to do with you?

"What did mean scary russia do to you anyway" sums up about 70% of Finland's entire goddamn history. And Ukraine's history. And every damn country that shares a border with Russia.

It's a whole thing. You should read about it sometime.

[ibetteracethatinterview]

[frilledshark17]

His fans are likely hard at work spinning this into something inoffensive and fuck-obvious like "He just means that the fall of the USSR was extremely consequential for a lot of people!" the same way they turned his comments on how rape doesn't really matter when it happens to rich sorority girls into a trenchant examination of how it's harder to get justice for sexual assault when you have less money.

[pagecommando]

That ESJ guy is a fucking psycho

[smegorl]

"A famine is not a genocide . . . Unless Isntreal stops giving food directly to Hamas, that's genocide."

[wordswithoutaworld]

Honestly, I’m already tired not only of how Russian soldiers are being “blessed” to go and kill in Ukraine as a “way to atone for sins” (which is literally something I heard in an interview with a Russian soldier), and of how Russia portrays itself as a victim in foreign media — claiming that Ukraine “discriminated” against them by shutting down their channels of influence over Ukrainian society through churches — but also of how actively the Russian Orthodox Church is involved in the abduction of Ukrainian children and the destruction of their identity.

And I hardly see any condemnation of this from other religious representatives in international media — aside from repeated calls for a “quick peace”. I do believe there are individuals who speak out against it, but there is no broader, unified pressure on the Russian Orthodox Church.

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[thesassycat]

You can only reblog this today.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I don't think people on this site actually understand what propaganda is.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"Heated Rivalry is Russian propaganda because it has a Russian main character!!" Uh, Russian people?? Exist?????? In the real world?????????????

[wiisagi-maiingan]

If you call something propaganda just for mentioning that an actual country just exists in-universe, then you are a deeply unserious person and I have no interest in anything you have to say.

[mariacallous]

It's a shame Stalin's Death Day isn't a part of the tumblr liturgical calendar.

[redjaybathood]

Petition to bring this back

[folklorespring]

I still can't process the fact that russians kidnapping Ukrainian children, adopting them in russia, changing their names and other personal information from Ukrainian to russian, "re-educating" them and raising them as russians is our reality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War

BBC article

https://www.politico.eu/article/save-ukraine-children-abduction-russia-war-rescue-operation/

[stele3]

This is genocide, btw.

Russia's child abductions part of larger campaign of cultural genocide

"The Russian occupiers demonstrate that they are committed to wiping out any hint of Ukrainian identity," Nobel laureate tells Newsweek.

[svogliata-mente]

[freenarnian]

when you’ve honed the fine art of perfectly-timed reblogging of something aimed at one specific mutual and they immediately like it

[voidambassador]

Tags from @krawdad because i thought this was very cool from a puppeteering perspective

[pathos-logical]

[ID: Image one is a Sesame Street gif of Big Bird throwing a frisbee to Cookie Monster, who promptly takes a bite of it. Image two is a set of tags that read: “#i want to appreciate how wacky a stunt tossing a frizbee to cookie monster is from a practical standpoint #guy inside the bird cannot see out of it. he gets a feed of what the camera sees. #he actually catches the thing the bird actually threw

#and the only reason i can tell they didnt fake it is because cookie monster doesn’t look at the frizbee when he catches it #because the puppeteer was focused on catching the dang thing at all #how many takes must this have taken to pull off #usually you achieve that with a cut #it’s so much easier to just cut to the other character catching a prop #i appreciate the effort #and i want others to notice it #it is also a left handed catch #on a right handed performer #someone else is doing the right hand.” End ID]

[tinygryphon]

It’s also a left-handed throw because the puppeteer’s right hand controls Big Bird’s mouth

this is a really cool puppet stunt o-o

[michaelblume]

And again they didn’t even have to do this, the audience absolutely would have accepted a shot of big bird throwing followed by a shot of cookie catching, but they did it anyway, for love of the game

[msvelawciraptor]

What are y'all talking about? Big Bird and Cookie Monster can just do that.