Rabbi Sandra Lawson is the first openly gay, black, woman rabbi. She is also a musician, author, veteran, sociologist, weightlifter, and personal trainer. She participated in a program hosted by Hadassah called "Zionist Women of Color" and previously did investigative research for the ADL. She has worked as Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life at Elon University and as director of DEI for Reconstructing Judaism. She has grown a following for speaking about Judaism and Jewish joy online.
this post seems to have broken containment and if anyone's interested in what they were telling me to stop, i found the og post with this song and was mass reblogging it at an alarming rate. ive done this multiple times but i think this was the instance i reblogged it 64 times in a row
The "wishing death on all the children of Gaza" seems to refer to an incident mentioned at the end of this article. The video doesn't seem to be publicly available, but after the firebombing counterprotesters began following the group and chanting "stop killing kids", and it seems someone answered with something like "not until the hostages are released". Which is extremely not cool. But the point is that the distance from "that's extremely not cool" to "therefore it is righteous and just to murder anyone at this event with you" is massive.
"jews openly grieving is punishable by death bc they should be grieving other more important ethnicities" okay maybe but I also feel like there's a certain amount of worry. because if jews are allowed to grieve that, maybe we'll start to grieve the fact that christianity & islam & "the west" are built on jewish oppression, and that would be uncomfortable. so we can't grieve anything, because then we might grieve things they don't want us to grieve.
"kill Jews and non Jews smell blood in the water" YES YES YES THANK YOU
You know what other 'widely distributed' group is obsessed with a Lost Cause and liked to hide their faces had a set of widely dispersed chapters that all said the same shit and agreed on organizing principles and bigoted literature?
Yeah, that's right. They like fire too. We saw that.
Weird obsession with male savior-knights on horses too.
Anyway now's as good a time as ever to repost this old chestnut:
Myths of a Tranquil South
The long-standing myth of a tranquil Southern plantation society, where loyal slaves lived in harmony with paternal masters, bears a striking resemblance to the enduring image of the happy Jewish dhimmi in the Islamic world. This “teary-eyed vision” of an antebellum Southern “Happy-Happy Land” took full form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1]
Southerners viewed their social system—based on white supremacy and the heritage of slavery—as the “summit of human achievement.”[2] This notion led planters to press for the annexation of large portions of Mexico, in order to transform them into slave states.[3] Southerners viewed Northerners as dangerous intruders who did not recognize the necessity of maintaining blacks in their inferior status.
A large proportion of American historians and political scientists before the 1950s described master-slave relations in the antebellum Sough as largely amicable.
After the Civil War, white Southerners made a determined effort to control how the American public viewed the South’s “peculiar institution,” and until the mid-twentieth century they largely succeeded in convincing the authors of textbooks and the mass media to emphasize slavery’s “benevolent features.”[4] Northern publishing houses made sure textbooks did not contain passages that might offend Dixie’s whites. A large proportion of American historians and political scientists before the 1950s described master-slave relations in the antebellum South as largely amicable.[5] John W. Burgess, a prominent political scientist, complained that after the mid-nineteenth century the North had regarded slavery “too much in the nature of a crime.” He insisted that plantation aristocrats considered “their relations to their slaves as a grave trust to be faithfully discharged, rather than an opportunity for exploitation.”[6] In 1941 W. J. Cash, a leading cultural critic, concluded that the South—and its apologists—had “shut away” its record of “hate of and brutality toward the black man: ... ‘The lash? A lie, sir; it had never existed. The only bonds were those of tender understanding, trust, and loyalty.’”[7]
For a century after the Civil War, the “happy darkey” fable provided Southerners with a foundation to justify their Lost Cause. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) sponsored essay competitions on the topic of the “Faithful Slave” and called for memorials to honor slave “mammies” for their alleged deep devotion to their owners’ children.[8]
Myth of the “Happy Relationship” Between Muslims and Jews
From the time of the Balfour Declaration (1917) Arab political and religious leaders and commentators wove a web of myths about the conditions of Jews in the Muslim lands of the Middle East over the last fourteen centuries. As one “leaps through the pages of Middle East history and surveys many eras of civilizations,” they maintained, one finds only “the same story of mutual respect between Arabs and Jews.” It was there—only there—that the Jews “could pursue their daily lives in perfect freedom and equality.” And virtually all attributed the “peaceful coexistence” to “Islam ... a most tolerant faith.”[9]
This paradise was lost, many Arab/Muslim leaders proclaimed, only upon the invasion of the foreign ideology of “political Zionism.” The concept of Jewish nationhood, they claimed, was only fashioned at the end of the nineteenth century in response to the travails of European Jews, and had no relevance—and was allegedly of no interest—to Jewish people who dwelled in Muslim lands.[10] They contended that “the fact that a Jew is a Jew has never prejudiced the Arab against him” and mocked that “the people of the Jewish religion ... are now called the Jews.” As early as 1921, some insisted that it was only “England who created” the idea of a “National Home” for them, and they found it absurd that “England [could] conclude a treaty with a religion and register it in the League of Nations.”[11] Others denounced the “Zionist chauvinists,” who “use their well-placed influence” to promote their ideas “throughout the world,” and warned that they were “spreading the Jewish problem to ... Muslim countries, where it had never existed before.”[12]
Many Arabs stressed that even before “Zionist ... pretensions” threatened the “happy relationship” between Muslims and Jews, it had been disrupted by the imposition of European colonial rule.[13] They informed their Western audiences that Jews had “enjoyed all the privileges and rights of citizenship” before colonialism introduced an “artificial separation” between Muslim and Jew. A Moroccan political leader insisted that for this reason the Jews had “welcomed” the overthrow of colonial rule and the return of “Arabization” and the establishment of the independent Muslim nation.[14]
Contrary to the Arabs’ contentions, however, it was the colonial powers that had extended citizenship (e.g., Algeria in 1870), equality or near-equality (e.g., the French Protectorate in Morocco, 1912–1956) to the Jews, liberating them at last from their status as subjugated, humiliated dhimmis, and ending the oppressive jizya, the tribute always exacted by the Muslims. Thus Jews had strongly endorsed the colonial presence, generally embracing modern European education and culture.[15] It was under British occupation (1882–1922) that Jews in Egypt felt safest. Notably, under Islamic rule, it was only the Ottoman Empire that, in an effort to secure European support—and modern weapons—issued an Imperial Edict (1856) that, in theory, extended equal rights to all its subjects. In practice, however, Ottoman governors (pashas) confined themselves to collecting taxes, while local rulers and the populace—for example, the Mamluks in Egypt—continued to persecute, pillage, and impose additional “heavy levies” on the Jews. Thus most Jews not only supported European colonial rule, but feared the independence movements, with the threat of return to their earlier subordinate “social, political and economic” positions.[16]
Muslims have long promoted myths about their harmonious relations with Jews that they allege had always prevailed in Arab lands. These myths
I'm scrolling Tumblr. I pause to watch a video of Amaury Guichon. He pours chocolate into a mold, then carefully removes the shape of a human head. There are time lapse clips of chocolate being formed into a body, limbs, and hair. As the final detail is finished, he steps back to reveal the figure of a beautiful woman, uncannily lifelike. He steps forward and places a delicate kiss on her lips. The figure, now a living human woman, stirs and looks around in wonder. Amaury Guichon looks into the camera with a wide smile and holds out his arms in presentation.
"Fucking chocolate guy," I mutter to myself before scrolling to the next post.
I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.
And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.
The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.
The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!
Slight correction to a lot of the comments--it's not "Baking guy plays piano too," it's "Piano guy bakes too"
Inspired by the entertainers of Bermuda’s “golden age”, composer and pianist Dylan Hollis is hard at work on what he does best — creating mu
I was trying to track down a non-soundcloud version of Chords of Humanity, the song he wrote that when he was 17 was used by Doctors Without Borders, and instead found that it was used in a Fallout New Vegas mod that he may also have made at 17?
A Large Expansive Quest Mod has the courier travelling across Post-Apocalyptic America. To reunite the Rockwell People with their Superstruc
which is a sequel to another mod that's also credited to a Dylan Hollis, which I'm not necessarily assuming is him. Could have been a different Dylan Hollis who happened to have found the song by searching his name--oh, wait, there's a video of game play (with the song as background), and there's a tiny bit of voice acting...yeah, that's him.
I really gotta commend The Pokemon Company. One of their top competitive players is a large YouTuber, and they don't show him any preferential treatment on their streams. They could easily put him on screen more to get higher viewership, but instead they take the stance that you have to earn your spot on stream. Play well, get air time.
Wolfe is the most decorated player in the game's history, has been in the GOAT conversation longer than any other player, and dedicates his life to growing the community. And TPC still says "you gotta earn it every competition." Big fan of Wolfey but honestly kudos to TPC.
