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Hiatus or deactivate?

I am taking a Tumblr hiatus. Even when I don’t post much, I am often reading many other sites. Some of these sites may be described as NSFW. Gasp! I believe that Tumblr is taking the “easy” path here and just doing a blanket ban without actually looking at the issues. If the automated system can’t tell the difference between a holocaust posting and obscenity (true - one of my posts was banned for it), then hire actual educated people. Look for bots. Look for bogus accounts. To take away one of the safe zones for frank open conversation and sharing on topics that may make some people uncomfortable is hiding from the real problem. Tumblr really isn’t a place for kids. I have other places where my son has an account, and I monitor those accounts. He doesn’t need Tumblr right now. However, it is a place where people can talk about marginalized issues. I can easily scroll past, or simply don’t follow any site that I don’t care for. Don’t be weak Tumblr.

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Antisemitism on the Left

Gentiles (AKA non-Jewish people) who talk about social justice seem to be confused or completely oblivious to what antisemitism is.

It’s not just calling for Jewish people to die or being a literal neo-nazi. I regularly see Leftist/Liberal/Progressive/Social Justice gentiles that claim to be against antisemitism/nazis act incredibly antisemitic, so here’s a helpful list!

And if you’re wondering WHY something on this list is antisemitic, Google is free!

Saying you hate X group of Jews (white Jews, Israeli Jews, etc)

Accusing a random Jew (ex: Gal Gadot) of killing children/being a war criminal with absolutely nothing to back up your claims.

Calling Jewish people murderers, child-killers, etc. in general

Calling Israel a white supremacist state.

Celebrating the deaths of Jewish people (yes EVEN if they’re Israeli!)

Holding all Jewish people (EVEN Israeli Jews) accountable for the actions of the Israeli government

Asking Jewish people their stance on Israel out of any context.

Dismissing any group of Jews as “white” (note: this does not include holding white-passing Jews accountable for their conditional white privilege/racism)

Ignoring the fact that Jewish people can be of any ethnicity

Dismissing the fact that Jewish people are an ethno-religious group

Dismissing our connection to Israel

Calling a Jewish person you don’t know a reptile/lizard person/goblin (example: The FineBros)

Comparing acts of racism/genocides to the Holocaust (there are certain situations in which this is appropriate, but that’s up to Jewish people to decide)

Acting like antisemitism isn’t only about discrimination against Jews and includes ALL semites.

Acting like Jewish people are privileged for being Jewish (even if they’re white-passing!)

Using anything involving Israelis/non-government related Israel events to Discourse about Israel.

Bringing up the actions of the Israeli government in response to antisemitism.

Acting as if antisemitism is deserved because of the actions of the Israeli government.

Giving antisemitic gentiles a pass because they do other kinds of activism.

“But Jews voted for Trump!”

Inserting yourself into Jewish-only discussions.

Non-Jews are absolutely encouraged to reblog! But this is not an invitation to argue these points!

Jewish people are encouraged to add on!

forlovefromfear

Refusing to research and try to understand antisemitism the way you do with other forms of oppression and then just using ignorance as an excuse

tikkunolamorgtfo

GOOD ADDITION

sly-higashi

Takato Yamamoto.

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momolady

Ok so, since Tumblr is being an over protective Christian mother int he worse possible ‘Carrie’ sort of way, I’m going to ask that ya’ll reblog and spread the word about your favorite writers and artists again. Likes are nice, but reblogging is way better. And with the way things are and tags and searches being literally nonexistence, we need you so much! I know activity has gone way, way down for me and other writers and artists, and now, it’s gotten so much worse. Tumblr has literally fucked up being able to search for anything at all. Your reblogs mater and are so important. If you want to keep seeing content from us, please, for the love of god, reblog. I hate asking this, but it means the world to me to be able to keep creating here. If Tumblr keeps fucking up then a lot of your fvaorite artists and writers may move elsewhere. Hopefully Tumblr will get everyone back to working order soon, but for now, YOU are the most important thing to us creators.

kmclaude

Agreed. Nobody likes or wants to guilt trip but the reality is that, especially if you create mature content or content that could be deemed risky (such as LGBT content) most specifically to advertisers, creators need help in getting their works out there because as we are seeing in real time the built in tools of the system are falling to pieces. Algorithm, what algorithm?! Thus we rely on others to reblog, moreso now than normal (and we already rely on them a lot) to gain exposure and, in the case of those of us who are selling art, pay the bills. It’s why I constantly re-reblog my work: I love making art but as a creator love isn’t eyes on my work or money in my pocket or food in my stomach.

So please consider, if you like someone’s work, reblog it–it goes a long way.

akatsukichelsei

hi so jews for jesus has been coming and terrorizing the area north of toronto where I live and now they’ve started dropping off these unsolicited packages.

this is blatant antisemitism I never see tumblr talking about. messianic judaism isn’t judaism; its christians trying to convert jews to christianity. if you get one of these, throw it out. expose them. call jews for judaism and let them know what’s going on.

goyim please reblog!

towerofglass

I GOT THIS ON MY DOORSTEP AND WATCHED IT YEARS BACK IT WAS AWFUL!!!

basically this guy was like “being a jew i didn’t hate myself enough for my sins, then i discovered christianity and i live in shame!!” it’s wild the shit that christians think will make people WANT to be christian.

ifyouhadmefuckyou-deactivated20

What the actual fuck lol???

jewish-privilege

I’ve seen these in New York City too. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that antisemitism doesn’t exist in certain areas because they’re “Jewy.”

sao801

Do you see that? Looks like a joke image, right? Well, it isn’t.

This happens in Venezuela. It looks like nobody knows how is our crisis, because I’ve talked with a lot of people (Americans, French, Canadian and even Mexican people) who really don’t know what is happening.

I’ll explain the imagen.

In Venezuela, we haven’t medicines, even in the hospitals. This is because a patient with hypoglycemia is being attended in this way, because the hospital don’t have dextrose for the people. This is happening in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. But not only in Caracas, is confirmed that in Maracaibo too, and who know where too.

Another cases:

“I take prednisone for animals because I can’t found it anywhere and it helps me, isn’t logic, but our health can’t wait”

“Confirmed, I’m medic performing in so many decadency. We even’t have privates places for dextrose for decompensated diabetics and believe me I could write for hours about so many that I’ve lived in the middle of this catastrophic crisis, where personally I’ve take with me a hurted pacient behind of a 350 because we haven’t ambulances, where we haven’t gloves for protect ourselves and a lot of things like that, this is the reality…. It must be give “ORALLY” because the drink is rich in glucose (Sugar) for these pacients this imagen showes [She means the soda imagen] how is conected to a micromanager where it doesn’t looks very good… But it’s valid by an OROGASTRIC probe. As a heroic way, becase like we know “It’s incorrect”.

I even can give my own testomony. My mom is sick, and she must work everyday, I can’t help her because my leg is broken, and my brother must help his own family. She’s in pain everyday, and the money is too hard to found. If there’s money, but there’s no medicine. And, if there’s medicine, there’s no money, because all the treatments are very expensive, like everything, for our inflation on the 1600%.

Please, help us.

ask-daddies-fire

@takashi0 @klubbhead @satoshi01 @libertybill @nunyabizni @boyonetta @steven-universe-official

I’m sorry, guys. Can you help me to spread this? :C I need that people know about Venezuela’s situation. I’m sorry for bother you.

femboy-fever

I’d be very interested in seeing more information on this. This sounds like something out of a post-apocalyptic nightmare novel.

sao801

Sure thing, my friend!

Since 2014, our crisis is worse with the health zone. There’s no too many medicines, and a lot of operations and treatments are delayed for this same reason.

The hospitals don’t have spaces, litters or beds for the patients.

If you go to a farmacy, there’s no medicine.

A lot of hospitals are in a terrible state.

Supplies that were lacking in public hospitals included sterile gloves and gauze, antiseptics, alcohol for medical use, scalpels, needles, catheters, intravenous solutions, nebulizers and surgical sutures. It was even common to lack basic cleaning supplies (such as bleach), which are essential to ensure a sterile environment in hospitals. Unhealthy conditions have led to in-hospital infections that could have been prevented.

And this is only talking about the health zone.

If we talk about the food shortage and the hyper inflation…

We must do LOOOOOONG lines for hours for buy the basic food. Like flour, sugar, rice, pasta, meat, chicken….

We only can buy one time at the week, for the last number of our ID.

If you search in Google “The next Venezuela”, you’ll see we aren’t a country anymore. We are a level in the shitmeter.

femboy-fever

Christ, I’m so sorry. If there are any charities or reputable organizations we can donate to, I’d love to share links to them. ;;

disease-danger-darkness-silence

Y'all this shortage of necessities shit had been going on in Venezuela for at least a decade. I have never been able to help because I don’t know what charities are allowed in or out of Venezuela and I don’t trust the people who run those charities to tell the truth.

Please - someone IN Venezuela. Give me a name. A valid website. Something. I will do my damnedest to make something happen, even if it’s just a few families getting fed a few days.

(Love how they voted the fucker out and he’s still in power. Just. So awesome. -_-)

influentialcreativity

This is the first time I see a post on this site about my country and it breakes my heart… Because I want to give you names of charities so you can actually help us but I know people that tried to donate meds and food but our fucking goverment blocked that help. They refuse to accept aid. They are so fucking sick of power that just don’t care about us.

The only way we have to fight this crisis is through social media, we use twitter to find meds and food and we came up with a few apps like Donamed or Akiztá to help us find what we need.

There are a bunch of twitter accounts dedicated to locate meds, such as: @spvzla, @MedicinasEquiv, @Flapastillita, @compartex1vida, @sanandove, @Donatumed, @AyudaMedicinasV y @DonandoMedicin1

For the people out there that want to help, like I said… it’s hard to tell you how you could do that because there’s no warranty that we’ll get the help. Still, I won’t let them win so I did my research and I found a few websites that I think you guys can trust and can donate to.

http://comparteporunavida.com/ —> With your donation, this people get formula and nutritional suppliments for children in hospitals and homes in need.

http://www.ayudahumanitariavenezuela.org/english.html —> You can go to their online shop to buy medical supplies from a wish list, which are then delivered to those in need.

https://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/donate/sponsor-a-child/ —> I think you can choose and sponsor a Venezuelan child.

http://www.chamos.org.uk/about-us/ —> They provide financial support for children to acquire medical, educational or other essential equipment.

http://www.corazonymanosenaccion.com/dona_ahora.htm —> The thing with this site is that the bank accounts they work with are from here, so I don’t know the process when it’s an international donation.

The other sites I could find two gofundme created by people like you and me, I hope they mean well and that the money they receive reaches the people who really need it.

https://www.gofundme.com/FoodtoVenezuela

https://www.gofundme.com/help-venezuela

If anyone knows more valid websites where people can go and make their donation, please feel free to add it.

And of course SPREAD THE WORD! The more we all know about the crisis, the bigger chance we have of making a difference in the lives of those who are suffering.

yourshadowisfollowingyou

@enrique262 Some charities.

enrique262

Signal boost!

buzzfeedlgbt

Everything You Need To Know About Changing Gender Markers On Your Identification Documents

progressivejudaism

~For Children at Our Borders~

G-d of mothers and fathers, G-d of babies and children, Youth and teens, The voice of agony echoes across the land, As children are taken from their parents, Perverting our history as a nation of immigrants, Perverting our values, Perverting the ways of justice and peace. These children Wait in misery To be reunited with their families So that a few may reap the political rewards Of their suffering By playing tough at our borders.

Source of grace, Creator of kindness and goodness, You call upon us to stand in the name of justice and fairness, To witness against this abuse of power, To battle the systematic assault on human beings, To speak out against their suffering.

Bless those who rise up against this horror. Give them courage and determination. Bless those who plead on behalf of the oppressed and the subjugated Before the seats of power. May the work of their hands never falter Nor despair deter them from this holy calling.

Bless those now in bondage at the hand of the U.S. government. Grant them shelter and solace, Comfort and consolation, Blessing and renewal. Release them. Free them. Heal them from trauma. Reunite them with their families. Hasten the day of their reunion.

Blessed are You, G-d of All Being, Who summons us to oppose violence, oppression, slavery and injustice.

paulapopper

Amen, keyn y'hi ratzon

jewishvirtuallibrary-blog

Libyan-Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to Libya from Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen; 1945. x

The Holocaust not only affected Europe but also affected North Africa’s large Jewish population. Libya was no exception to this. By 1931, 21,000 Jewish people lived in Libya which made up 4% of the total population. The majority of the Libyan Jewish population went to Jado Concentration Camp in Libya where many died of malnutrition and Typhoid from unsanitary conditions as little preparation was made to house the thousands of Jewish prisoners there.

A smaller number of Libyan Jews were sent to Europe where many would not survive the Holocaust. They had died at higher rates than European Jewish communities because of the differences in language and climate. When they returned to Libya after World War II, the Jewish community in Libya was in disarray and mostly lived in squalor and lived that way until they were kicked out of the country in 1967. There are no more Jewish people left in Libya as the last Jewish person in Libya, Esmeralda Meghnagi, had died in 2002.

paulapopper

The reach of the Holocaust was extensive.

behirahbee

listen up, goyim, because i’m gonna say this once and once only.

antisemitism is a form of oppression, but it relies on a different mindset. it is a different ballgame than ANY sort of prejudice you know. yknow why? because to antisemities, jews aren’t lesser (well, we are, but that’s not the important thing). we’re successful.

that’s the kicker.

antisemities WANT you to believe that jews are doing well, because if we’re doing well, we’re not REALLY being persecuted. it all goes back to the protocols of the elders of zion: the jews are taking over. the jews are a threat. therefore, if they’re a threat, it’s only right to kill them. it’s only right to ghettoize them. it’s only right to have exterminated 40% of the world’s jewish population in the 40s.

nevermind the fact that antisemitism makes up nearly 50% of all religious hate crimes in the us. nevermind the fact that jews make up less than 2% of the world’s population. nevermind the fact that jews, historically, have been scapegoated and killed and othered for literal millenia. i mean, who cares, because jews are rich and powerful, right?

don’t fall for it. don’t fall for the centuries-old claim that jews are just faking it. listen to us. support us.

and the next time you brush off antisemitism because ”oh, it’s not a big deal, jews are successful”, take a good hard look at yourself and realize that you’re spouting the same nazi propaganda that killed six million people.

avi-why

if y’all reblogged my other jew posts you should look at this one too. really important point.

chirikli

After right-wing nationalists open fired on a Romani settlement, they burned the entirety of it to ashes, INCLUDING their passports, birth certificates, and money. Three people were shot. This must end, but I have no idea how to get people to see us as human beings…

paulapopper

Disgraceful! I hope there is someone who can help get their paperwork redone, and others who can prosecute those responsible.

businessinsider

This is what your smartphone is doing to your brain — and it isn’t good

blackwomenworldhistory

Women’s History Month (March) is a time to reflect on the many contributions of women worldwide in various sectors. The culinary industry is currently bursting with talented black women who are giving a boost to the much needed diversity and inclusion in the field. During this month, we’re celebrati

moniquill

Seriously that time travel post though.

Oh let’s futz around Europe for a bunch of history drawing things in the margins and baking bread yes yes.

Fuck that.

I’m introducing the concept of vaccination.

I’m warning the rest of the world about white people.

I’m killing the concept of colonialism/imperialism in its cradle.

I’m tearing down capitalism.

Fuck this ‘teach victorian ladies to overthrow patriarchy hee hee’ nonsense.

I’m making sure patriarchy never happens even if I have to go back and reengineer human evolution so that our baseline behavior is more like that of bonobos than like that of chimpanzees, damn it.

I HAVE A TIME MACHINE.

rhube

This is a really interesting point.

The tradition of time travel has become ‘don’t change anything because you might make it worse!*’. (*Except where it places a white man at the centre of history)

Don’t save JFK, because his affairs might come out and the power of his memory would be lessened (Red Dwarf).

Don’t kill Hitler because something, something, look it might be worse, OK? (So many things.)

Rose, don’t save your dad because your mum will see what a loser he is and stop idolising him. And that’s so important we invented a new time-creature thing to punish you if you do. (Doctor Who)

It’s very important that the first female space hero be a hero for DYING. That’s the only way to inspire other women. Not by providing a living example, but by DYING. (Doctor Who)

But also:

Man goes back in time. Decides Jesus isn’t good enough. Becomes Jesus. To make sure history as he wants it to be remains intact. (Behold the Man)

Doctor, did you just set Rome on fire? Lol, maybe. It was meant to happen, OK? (Doctor Who)

Doctor, did you just set London on fire? Lol, maybe. It was meant to happen, OK? (Doctor Who)

(OK, a lot of Doctor Who examples, but that Great White Patriarch has been playing with our history, and getting self-righteous about when not to, for longer than anyone.)

Consistent through-thread: tampering with history would be bad, BAD. Because it would change where we are today. You know, the today that’s really great for cis-het white able men, and not a lot of other people.

IT’S VERY IMPORTANT THAT NOTHING ENDANGER THIS, EVEN IF IT MIGHT MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR OTHER PEOPLE.

But, you know, anything that puts a white man at the centre of historical events and maintains the status quo as we know it today is A-OK.

I admit, as a philosopher, I get really irritated with time travel stories that change history as it has actually happened, because they don’t make sense. But, to be fair, NO time travel story actually makes sense if you actually start thinking about the mechanics of time. (Please, no mansplainers who think they know a little something about quantum physics jumping up and down to correct me. Anything about the philosophy of time travel is highly theoretical, but as someone who has lectured on this, my opinion is not under-informed.)

Moreover, my favourite films - The Terminator and Terminator 2, don’t make the tiniest bit of sense, in terms of mechanics. There’s like, at least two time-travel paradoxes at work (a version of the grandfather paradox and the bootstrap paradox), but they’re awesome because they use the time-travel genre to bring about paradigm shift (a woman at the centre of the story, critique of capitalism, critique of essentialism and promotion of self-actualisation and definition (existentialism/no fate but what we make)). Whereas the film of which we do not speak seeks to rationalise the time travel by decentring women from the story and replacing the revolutionary thematic arc of existentialist change with one of fate and inevitability.

So, yeah. Reject the traditions of time travel. There is no fate but what we make. The patriarchy/white dominance/colonialism/heteronormativity/the gender binary etc. etc. - none of these were inevitable, and it isn’t better to stick with these for fear of what might take their place.

The only ones for whom it would be clearly worse if history were different are those in power.

craftastrophies

I feel like a lot of these narratives are a continuation of the idea of ‘don’t make trouble, everything’s fine’ in present times.

Don’t protest about injustices, everything is on track for ‘progress’. Complaining about it will just make it worse/more uncomfortable/might happen faster which would be terrible because… well because. Don’t ask questions.

Like yes, going back in time and killing Hitler might make things worse. And might not help much, there might be more people waiting to be just as terrible as him. We can debate this, and we can maybe debate ‘it gave Europe a shock and killed the eugenics movement world wide’ but you know those things aren’t looking so dead so… anyway there might be problems and it might be useless or misguided… BUT IT MIGHT NOT. And surely it is immoral to not at least consider it. Even if it means people aren’t born who would otherwise be - welcome to the reality of living in the world. Your every decision NOW changes things, too. Just less obviously.

IT’S VERY IMPORTANT THAT NOTHING ENDANGER THIS, EVEN IF IT MIGHT MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR OTHER PEOPLE.

That’s pretty much the line of those in power, even talking about present day issues, which by the reasoning of not changing the past, should be ours to change. I feel like a lot of time travel stories insist we not change things not because it would create a paradox, but because it would ‘change history’. Well, people have been trying to change history as it is made since forever, and people in power have been telling them to stop, since forever, because ‘history’ is on track. For the people in power.

See also ‘the economy’. We can’t raise minimum wage, it would be bad for ‘the economy’. I don’t even know what you mean by that. What is the economy FOR? Why do we even want a better economy? Personally I want a better economy so that my society can afford to help those who need help - creating more people who need help so that we can be in a position to help them is just ridiculous. Especially if you believe in small government etc. So if we are deliberately disadvantaging people to give health to ‘the economy’ then maybe we have to admit that you want ‘the economy’ to be the kind of thing that only exists to benefit rich white people. (Seriously with the quotation marks but you know that ‘the economy’ is not really a real thing, nor is ‘the free market’, right? They are made up concepts, just like ‘money’ or ‘diamonds are rare and precious’ that only continue to exist because we continue to pretend they exist.)

Ok that got a bit off topic but the point is… history. It is not really a thing that exists of itself. It is a living, growing (IMAGINARY) thing, and it is NOT OWNED by rich white people. They will tell you that it is, but that is lies. It belongs to everyone, and everyone should have a shot at changing it, even when the rich white people don’t like it.