#barrenunderground

[lenvoy]

wE'LL HAVE TO AGREE TO DISAGREE THEN IT SOUNDS SO BORING TO ME D:

[aleks-is-gone]

barrenunderground replied to your post: nick just ran down the stairs singing “meatloaf”...

i want to meet nick. he sounds so mysterious.

he's. he's something, alright.

[doppelgender]

barrenunderground replied to your post: the french words for spider and peanut are way too...

cacahuète ???

arachide

[doppelgender]

barrenunderground replied to your post: why am i getting french adver...

Do you have Google set ti french or smthn like that? BC I get them cause my fb + fumble + Google are set to french

nope!!! weird

[aleks-is-gone]

barrenunderground replied to your post:“i was gonna reblog a cute little thank you new followers gif but then...”

je t'kiffe toujours <3

i don't know what that means but i'm sufficiently wooed by it

[cykesmoved]

barrenunderground replied to your post: I could actually jump into…August Writes…for AU...

oh man this reminds of trying to do NaPoWriMo. i wrote three actual poems and a haiku before quitting.

Good luck! I look forward to seeing what you write, if you ever make it public! I personally wouldn't be able to do that myself I have little to no muse for poetry but I'm rooting you on nonetheless!

[shorm]

barrenunderground replied to your post: The issue isn't that only Jews have a pass to criticize Israel, but it is that YOU are a Gentile and as someone who is not Arab have no ethnic stake in this conflict, and therefore need to be very careful of what you say. It is akin to a cisgender person talking about trans* issues, a straight person talking about queer issues, or a white person talking about racism. If you are going to talk about Israel and the shit it pulls, you need to be careful of what you say. (cont)

oh whoops - i misread that post! going back, i see what you were saying. i thought it was saying something different, i apologize.

No, it's still a good point -- I do definitely need to keep an eye on where my place actually is.

[shorm]

The issue isn't that only Jews have a pass to criticize Israel, but it is that YOU are a Gentile and as someone who is not Arab have no ethnic stake in this conflict, and therefore need to be very careful of what you say. It is akin to a cisgender person talking about trans* issues, a straight person talking about queer issues, or a white person talking about racism. If you are going to talk about Israel and the shit it pulls, you need to be careful of what you say. (cont)

(cont) antisemitism present in the antizionist movement - a movement that is basically ROOTED in antisemitism - has caused very large problems for the jewish community, not to mention the fact that Jews - especially young Jews - are trying to get more in touch with their Jewish identities. Israel has human rights violations, yes, but it is still the holy land for our people; this does not give it a pass, but it is still a land we feel connected to.

Okay, I can understand that! But that post was literally giving Israel a pass, centred around "god forbid I give it a pass". Like they were literally saying that that post was no longer important because that happened a year ago, when there've been other things more recently along the same lines -- staying focused on "but it's not all bad" on a post about blatant racism, where one of the arguments was "this happened in that year that people still forget it's not" (which relies on people forgetting/not knowing that it's still going on), seems pretty fucked up to me.