✧Prince of Hearts✧

I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.

[star--seraph]

[tlirsgender]

One of the crazier things about antisemitism is how bad most people are at spotting it. Like. Something can feature every antisemitic stereotype/dogwhistle/etc at once & if it doesn't explicitly say I Hate Jews 🗣 most people will just go "huh? Whuh?" if you point it out

[tlirsgender]

The other day I offhandedly mentioned that the umbrella academy (netflix. Also the comics but I digress) is antisemitic and I got someone in my notes saying "tua got antisemitic later ?? I stopped watching after the first two seasons" . Brother the first two seasons' main villainous entity is a secret Yiddish speaking organization of lizard people who snatch babies to bring the apocalypse which they refer to with the word cabal in season 2. Like tbf there's a degree of subtlety through most of s1 until the finale (baby snatching lizard people reveal) but after that I don't know how you could miss it

[tlirsgender]

Like I'll admit as a teenager who was kind of stupid I didn't think much of the light sprinkling of Yiddish words in the villain's dialogue especially because she does similarly with French, etc, but oh my god. Girl. The baby snatching lizard people

[iamthedukeofurl]

Being a fan of any sort of fantasty/sci-fi type fiction is always an excersize in being aware that what some people see as a wacky fantastic concept, other people view as a version how they think the world actually works. Like with Orcs. "What if there was a group of people who were all stupid, cruel, and dangerous. Imagine the sort of person who sees nothing wrong with killing people just to take their stuff, that lives to do violence against the innocent. Imagine this was biologically innate to this group, such that you could visually recognize a member of this group and know these things were true about them." Like, okay, that's fantastical worldbuilding shortcut to bring you to the point where you can enact some entertaining heroic violence without needing to spend time justifying it, occupying a similar space to "What if space aliens invaded and tried to kill us all" or "What if there was A Dracula". But there is a very real subset of people who will read that and see it as a fantastical reflection of their very real worldview. "Ah yes, in THIS fantastical setting, one of the groups of biologically inferior people who are ontologically evil and should be exterminated are called Orcs!" Antisemitism can be especially weird with this dynamic, partially because it is an extremely versatile prejudice, and partially because a lot of it sounds so absolutely batshit that it can be hard to believe that it's reflecting something people actually believe. It's like "Huh, this work features a group of people that are All Greedy" "Well, that's extremely general. Nobody likes greedy people, that isn't inheriently antisemetic" "Hey, this work features a group of hollow earth lizard people who disguise themselves as humans to secretly control the world, they steal babies for their blood and control all the major corporations and governments" "Well, that is extremely bizzare and specific. That's just a wacky fantastical concept and cannot represent anything anybody actually thinks".

[tlirsgender]

Yeah literally. I personally experienced a lot of that second one earlier in my Learning About Antisemitism; so much of the conspiracy shit is so bizarre and nonsensical you'd never think to connect it with antisemitism unless you're either jewish yourself or already the type of person who thinks Jews Control The World or whatever. Once you realize that type of shit has a tendency to Secretly Mean Jewish People a lot of other things click into place and now You are the bearer of the curse (explaining this to other people)

[iamthedukeofurl]

The thing about the lizard-people-conspiracy specifically, the reason it's able to be a Relevant Prejudice despite being so fucking absurd to anybody outside it, is because it's structured such that plenty of people can buy into different parts of it, and then fundamentally end up at the same place as far as actions they want to take, even if they don't agree on the details of the conspiracy. There's a guy who thinks that jews are literally secretly blood drinking lizard people who run a vast conspiracy to control the world. There's a guy who thinks it's absurd to imagine lizard people, but he DOES think that Jews steal babies for their blood and secretly control the world. There's a guy who scoffs at all the blood stuff, that's ridiculous, but he does think that there is a secret group of powerful jews who control the world. There's a guy who thinks it's absurd to imagine any sort of actual organized shadowy conspiracy that bosses around governments and CEOs, but he does think that Jews hold a disproportionate amount of influence and use it to help each other out to the detriment of anybody else. All these guys hold different beliefs and vehemently disagree with each other, but they're all driven to act on their beliefs in roughly similar ways.

[stjohnstarling]

The reason most indie novels are written like the author is terrified of doing something wrong is because the overwhelming majority of indie novelists get their start by networking in the violent panopticon of the social media indie publishing community, which favours the people who are able to win at the social policing game.

[3s-are-green]

Okay so this comment got me googling because I hadn't heard of Isabel Fall

And if you also hadn't heard of her go read this because uhh... Holy Shit

[headspace-hotel]

I had heard of the whole messed up situation with this story, but I hadn't ever read the synopsis of the story before, and WOW

This story sounds like it could have been a brilliant exploration of gender and warfare and violence but instead it was attacked by people who didn't know how to confront a story that made them uncomfortable, and the author faced horrible consequences.

It's so important to be able to deal with stories that give you uncomfortable feelings in other ways than just attacking it. Being shown new perspectives sometimes has feelings of discomfort because it's an unfamiliar way of seeing the world.

[mickpin]

You can read it Here

[headspace-hotel]

...

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

For the love of God, please read this story. It is so fucking good in ways that I can't even begin to articulate.

[goingrampant]

Isabel Fall alluded to Nazi concepts in an edgy ambiguous Nazisploitation aesthetic that, if you read it in good faith, you could tell was ultimately in subversion of those concepts. However, the general sentiment of edgy South Parkian ambiguity caused the hypersensitive leftist critics to read her as a Nazi as a baseline assumption. It's the same phenomenon as The Boys viewers reading the (very Jewish) show as Nazi because of the presence of a likable Nazi character. Any attempt to put the brakes on it has everyone scrutinizing you as a Nazi, so the most extreme voices intimidate the rest into staying quiet.

When the detail that the writer was a trans woman (and a specific one people knew) had filtered into common knowledge, the consensus of the vocal detractors was that she had done Nazi actions equivalent to being a Nazi that hurt every trans woman, and it was their responsibility to terrorize her. When she ended up suicidal and swore off writing, that was viewed as a great victory against an enemy of trans women. (Not dissimilar from people harassing Jewish actress Aya Cash for portraying a Nazi on The Boys.)

Also, people like to single out N.K. Jemisin for participating, but she was pretty much doing what people expect of an ally: following the leading voices of the relevant minority, repeating their messages, and using her social capital to boost theirs. The problem was the trans women leading the mob. I find the presence of trans woman author Alexandra Erin more objectionable because she was run off Tumblr for being into vore and bondage and because she liked a post from a black submissive woman showing off a collar, which was framed as her wanting to enslave black people, so you would think she'd be sympathetic to a trans woman author stigmatized for being into edgy humor. Instead, she likened the story to firing randomly in the air and hoping only bad people would be hurt, when it should be clear innocents would likely be hurt, making the whole endeavor harmful. (Like being open about liking controversial fetishes on Tumblr?)

Edgy humor sets off mainstream leftists like Daleks sighting an enemy.

[outraged-honk]

Seeing so many Americans wanting their country to be destroyed. "Watch it burn" as one post said.

So you'd rather have no rights? You'd rather have no say in government? You'd rather have absolute chaos, widespread death?

Your privilage is showing.

If you hate the USA so much, leave. Same with other western countries right now.

Hating your country, sure, I feel we have at one point. However, wanting it destroyed is another story. Not only does it show extreme first world privilege, it also shows that the propaganda from terrorist regimes has burrowed deep into your common sense.

Being from a country that I can be free in, that I can associate with who I want, I don't have to worry about bombs, women can wear whatever, I like having democratic rights like freedom of speech, and to voice my opinions.

But you forget that what you have in the western world, all those rights and freedoms, they are not as common elsewhere in the world. Every country has a different system and protects their laws and citizens differently, while it says about 160 countries have this right, the same amount is said to violate human rights at the same time.

Be careful what you wish for because it might just come true.

Sources:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-freedom-of-speech

https://worldostats.com/country-stats/human-rights-index-by-country/

[cantotallyeven]

As someone who moved here from a country that burned and has known many people from many countries that burned, people who were born here really do need to check their privilege.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

Relatedly, I don’t think leftists understand that our repeatedly being seen to despise America and support its enemies is a big reason Americans who otherwise agree with us on several political issues in the abstract nonetheless understandably do not want to entrust us with control of public spaces or state functions

Everyone understands for example that black people vote democrat way out of proportion to what any policy preference could explain for the simple reason that the Republican Party is baseline anti-black; there’s no amount of policy agreement that can overcome the fact that we think republicans hate us, will abuse any power they’re given to hurt us, or at minimum do not seek our welfare or have our best interests at heart

But leftists for some reason don’t connect that to why disparaging America or supporting anti-American forces hating or even attacking us would make Americans similarly less inclined to support the left. Bemoaning people making stupid decisions for lack of trust in experts/journalists/academia and voting against their interest on provision of healthcare, education, etc is letting ourselves off the hook for having eroded that trust

[pagecommando]

All politics is transactional and rage is acceptable except when it is from people viewed as inhuman/subhuman who can at best be 'consumed' for their culture and exoticism. Turns out a shitload of leftists are just consumerist libertarians in a different wrapping paper.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

Why Leftists Are So Uniquely Annoying

Or, the subtle art of alienating everyone

[star--seraph]

The way he keeps getting himself restrained and helpless 🥲

[et3rnalsummers]

it's currently spring, sooo reblog this with an image of your partner or f/o and I'll assign them a flower i think might fit them:]

example👇:

Helen's flower is: orange carnation! (desire, enthusiasm, fascination)

[star--seraph]

One for Atom would be nice ☺️

[gayhoediaz]

“it sounds like you’re justifying their actions-“ i am. they’re a fictional character. i’m okay with anything they do all the time. hope this helps.

[some-stars]

this shit from the comments is unironically so fucking sad to me. this is where we’re at now? “aren’t books supposed to have morals?” genuinely let’s all just pack it in and go home, we tried the whole “experiencing life and art at a greater complexity level than an eight year old can handle” thing and it didn’t work out, somebody break the news to oscar wilde, we’re done here. “books are meant to teach you something.” christ.

[napalm-waistcoat]

[prof-grace-aspen]

Among the left, suffering is clout. It’s currency. If you’re suffering, especially if you’re suffering The Most, then your options are Right and Correct. And you can borrow suffering from others by supporting their cause and therefore You Are Correct.

[nonbinaryjudean]

free yourself from radical politics. the world is lovely and nuanced.

[imyourbadjew]

The transformation of “being radicalised” into something cutesy and positive has done untold damage

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Nuance lets you rest. Resting lets you think. Thinking lets you decide what you really do and do not have the energy for. The people who want you on the cliff's edge of anger constantly in order to be radical enough for them to like aren't your friends and don't care about you.

[lostboy-ish]

This mindset only works if it isn't your ass in the fire. If you have a friend who's family has just been deported, They ARE living in the cliffs edge. Some people are being bombed. They didnt asked to be radicalized. Yes, take care of yourself. Yes, you have to live. But! there are some people who dont survive having been forced to live on the cliffs edge, and saying the dont care about you is untrue.

[nonbinaryjudean]

i understand what you are saying but this post was written about political ideological radicalization. in other words, extremist views.

at baseline, "radical" refers to something extreme. radical politics are extreme views.

vocabulary.com: "In political science, the term radicalism is the belief that society needs to be changed, and that these changes are only possible through revolutionary means."

in recent years there has been an increase in radicalism. people talking about some glorious revolution they have in their mind, holding others to a standard of moral purity or constant anger.

i can only speak to my intentions as the original poster. what i meant by this post was that radical politics tend to throw nuance and understanding out the window in favor of extreme, black-and-white thinking.

i did not write this post about people who are in immediate danger. i did not write it about whether or not you should care about specific things.

i wrote this post about the way extremism is on the rise at an alarming rate on both ends of the political spectrum. implicitly, this is my jumblr blog, so i am also talking about the violent antisemitism that is being perpetuated on both ends.

i am jewish and i have had to watch as political radicalism gets my people killed, whether it's a white supremacist or a pro-hamas far-leftist. many jews have described our feelings over the past several years as "political homelessness". feeling unwelcome everywhere. the truth is that i currently feel safer as a queer person and a trans person and a disabled person than i do as a jew.

genuinely all i am saying with this is that nuance is important and the modern examples of extremism and radicalism tend to reject it entirely. i could get into the mental health ramifications of the expectation of people to be angry about things 100% of the time. however i dont know if i have the energy to.

[forlovefromfear]

@lostboy-ish “some people are being bombed” there are people in this post who have lived under constant bombing. you just don’t want to admit that constant lashing out in anger won’t create the world we want.

[prof-grace-aspen]

I love the implication from lostboy’s reply that if you are suffering, you MUST be radicalized, and you aren’t radicalized, you aren’t suffering enough.

[amillionmagpies]

Btw, that idea that privilege makes you morally evil and suffering makes you morally good is just repackaged versions of the Christian concepts of the evils of luxury and the holiness of martyrdom. Hope this helps!

[star--seraph]

Doing the trend of imagining my characters in The Amazing Digital Circus

[innerchildabortionclinic]

ummm that's literally just lovebait. she only made those cookies because she loves you and knows you will enjoy them

[thesweetiepienovels]

Actually, you are enough. Even if you don’t work. Or study. Or go out. Or have friends. Or have family. You’re enough because you exist and your existence is enough to be enough because you are not a product. You are not a sum of output. You are not a task to complete. But because you are something the universe wanted and put here even if you’ll never understand why. Somewhere in the cosmos your existence makes a difference, even if it’s not the way others existences do.

[holidayslaughter]

whenever i see people call random edgy but not-at-all harmful artists "degens" i would like to refer them to the first sentence of wikipedia's "degenerate art" article

[star--seraph]

New reboot trailer got me raised from the dead

[goldensunset]

the nearest depiction of an animal or other sentient fantasy creature to you at this moment comes to life right where it is (i.e. cat photograph, shark plushie, dragon painting, etc)

what happens to you

i am so dead

i need to go to the hospital

maybe a few things to be looked at but i’m fine in the end

i’m totally fine

i’m totally fine and i’m happy

my situation is really really really specific lemme tell you about it

n/a

Voting ended onJan 11

assume it doesn’t know you (unless it’s actually a specific animal you’ve met) and that it’s normal for its species and would do whatever was natural for it. including being too giant for and destroying the room it’s in. as well as dying immediately if its environment can’t support its life

[star--seraph]

Quasi-Stellar Object