Black lives matter.
Read the previous sentence carefully; there are no ifs, ands, or buts. The name's Maws Enderteeth (toki pona: "uta Mase"), I don't bite unless you're being antisemitic.
I will convert to Judaism or die trying, but rabbis don't grow on trees around here so don't hold your breath.
I love learning, please correct me when I mess up so I can keep learning. I'm probably more awkward than you, but definitely in no position to judge. mid-20s - he/him or it/its - white Wanna hop into the Toothy Ballpit? (small Discord server) No DNI, but I will ask that religious Christians please ask permission before following me. I will block overt Christians who follow without permission. This is a simple boundary and you may inquire about it, but I will not negotiate about it.
An Incomplete Guide to Recognizing and Unlearning Antisemitism
Ok first of all, disclaimer: I'm studying to convert, but I am not Jewish yet. I will not pretend to be speaking for Jewish people, merely collecting and boosting their voices to help other gentiles learn, especially if you're like me and tumblr posts are very easy to absorb information from.
Since I just discovered my antisemitism tag is almost empty if you use the search, and you need to open my blog website in browser to really see it, I decided to go through it and collect good educational posts about antisemitism.
(Update: you should be able to follow this link on mobile as well as in browser or this link if you're in browser and prefer to read on my forever under construction theme, both should show you all my posts with this tag without tumblr's infamous search getting involved)
This list is far from comprehensive, but should contain a lot of useful information to get you started. These are things I've learned and collected over the years, and hopefully will continue to update and fill with Jewish voices. To my knowledge, every post and video except my own is written by an actual Jewish person.
If any of the links seem broken or mislabeled, or if you are Jewish and think information provided is inaccurate or would like to append something, please let me know.
Before you read, you should know the following terms:
Goy = gentile, AKA a non-Jewish person.
Goyim = the plural of goy.
Goyische = non-Jewish as an adjective.
These terms are not slurs and not meant to insult you any more than "cis" is for non-trans people. That said, some consider it appropriative to use these terms unless you are Jewish, so the English word "gentiles" is recommended for gentiles to use.
"Antisemitism is still a thing?" Yes, very much so.
(https://youtu.be/FAJfddwKraQ)
"But that's just neo-nazis, right? I'm not antisemitic!" Sadly, Antisemitism is prevalent across the political spectrum, and everyone needs to learn to recognize and address it in their own communities.
(https://youtu.be/c3dKIDtAYXk)
History and background of Christian persecution of Jews
one of the smaller more subtle things about video games that i absolutely love is when your footsteps sound different depending where you’re walking like hell yeah
some of you guys are going to have to start internalizing and accepting the fact that you will not be able to tell some indigenous people apart from white people at a glance, no matter what their 'blood quantum' [gag] is, partially because genetics is wild, and partially because there are indigenous groups that are naturally paler than whatever you're thinking right now.
If you've come across a trader in the most inconvenient of places with the most inconvenient of trades, chances are you've come across THAT Wandering Trader.
Also yes, this is the one that tried to poison Nil and Polly.
Hey so there's probably a nicer way to say this and I'm sorry if I'm failing you there but I'm really tired and I checked the notes nobody else is saying it so: why the fuck are we leaning into the blatant racist caricatures in Minecraft? I love Minecraft but fucking hell it's not subtle and neither is this art leaning into the archetype of the big nosed robed foreign swindler yet not a soul even says a word?
Social media platform that solves the problem of unsustainable storage and bandwidth growth by allowing any combination of text, audio, video, and images, but capping all of them combined at 100 kilobytes per day. If you go over with audio/video/image content, it just cranks the compression up until it fits.
For reference, this image is just a shade under 91 kilobytes, so under this proposal you could post this guy once a day, every day and still have enough remaining quota for over 9000 characters worth of text posts.
Or revitalise existing ones. With an appropriate choice of audio/video codecs and compression settings, 100 kilobytes is enough for just a bit less than ten seconds of 480p, 30fps video, so if didn't care about HD you could totally post a Vine a day.
i haven’t heard the word “cyberstalking” in a long time but it used to be a recognizably bad thing to stalk someone online, to try to dig up everything you can on them, follow their every move online, obsessively post about them, barrage them with messages, block evade, etc - but now it’s just normalized and seen as something totally “ok” to do if the person in question is “problematic” in some way - like the same people who say “if your partner does this run” will turn around and do the same thing to a stranger online they dont even know and they don’t even think twice - it’s abuse, it’s harassment… just stop it
