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Happy Birthday Nakayama Haruki!

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“Music is all about communication.”

Haruki Nakayama 中山春樹

Happy Birthday! 07.13

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hot girl sasuke spending orochimaru’s income on his outfit

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You can get drone bombed too sis, the fuck?

- first gay president of the United States

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we are all rowdy theatre kids in god’s denny’s when you really think about it

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it’s something experienced not explained

farmlesbians

through playful lips made of yarn.. that fragile capricorn.. unraveled words like moths upon old scarves.. i know the world’s a broken bone… but melt your headaches call it home :(

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Happy MCR reunion day

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bro..we r emos....its ok.... we're darkening our clothes now....bro lets strike a violent pose together 😳

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My Chemical Romance - Disenchanted

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please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry

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For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust

transwolvie

Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain

foulserpent

here’s a source with some quotes

meta-hemeralism-blog

okay, I’m Jewish and I appreciate this sentiment. and if someone wants to cut out Sylvia Plath, go for it, I get it.

But. by this logic we’d also need to stop reblogging TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Shakespeare quotes. Virginia Woolf wrote anti-semetic things in her private journals, too. If you only want to read classic poets who liked Jews and black people, that’s fine, but like. good luck? Sylvia Plath isn’t an exception.

idk. Tumblr’s attitude of “consume nothing problematic” just doesn’t work if you’re part of a group that most culture-creators over the last few centuries have hated by default. For people actually in those groups, it’s not like the only two choices are 1) worship authors who hate you or 2) completely cut the majority of literature out of your life. You learn to read critically and acknowledge flaws where you find them.

anyway, as a Jewish woman, I would much rather see a version of this post that said “please read Sylvia Plath poetry critically because she’s anti black and antisemetic” than just “stop reblogging Sylvia Plath poetry.”

IMO, reblog Sylvia Plath all you want, just not unthinkingly.

theroguefeminist

I’m reblogging this now because I’m seeing anti-Virginia Woolf discourse lately due to the antisemitism in her journals and like… as a Jewish person who loves Virginia Woolf’s writing and an English teacher who knows that pretty much every writer of the classics is Problematic just…chill pls

benevolent-atrophy

The point isn’t to never consume media that isn’t ideologically pure. That’s never the point. Were that the goal, we would NEVER be able to consume any media. Nothing is ever ideologically pure, especially as time goes on and our social consciousness expands.

We should be telling people instead, “Be critical as you read this person’s work. They held bigoted views. Understand how that is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it. Be critical, be thoughtful”

Compelling others to not engage with something at ALL on ideological grounds is in the same vein as burning books. We should be compelling others to be critical and mindful, not narrow and willfully ignorant.

dovewithscales

Art does not cease to be relevant simply because societal and moral standards evolve over time. The more time passes, inevitably the more flaws in art and literature become obvious, but no work is ever perfect, and the same will be true for everything. Your current unproblematic fave will be cringe inducing at some point in the future. That’s a given.

We should be critical of all art and media we take in, and it is very important to acknowledge the flaws in works both old and new. It’s also important to take what is valuable from the classics, while also openly discussing what’s wrong with them.

That’s part of how we grow as a society.