#gail speaks

[evilwickedme]

Almost a million protestors in Israel against the war today

A minimum of 300 thousand in Tel Aviv alone, probably closer to 500 thousand

300 thousand Israelis is a little over 3 percent of the Israeli population; if there was an American protest of that magnitude today that would be almost 11 million protestors

Almost a million protestors is 10% of the population, which would be 34.2 million Americans protestors

This is unprecedented

If y'all would just listen to what the actual Israelis want, you'd understand that WE WANT THIS WAR TO END

[chrisginny]

WHAT IF neil perry HAD WHATSAPP 😂😂😂😂

[queerastronauts]

Meme the galaxy brained and wonderful @not-the-blue made bc omg so true

[evilwickedme]

'colonialism is bad' y'all can't even handle accepting not everyone wants to celebrate Christmas

[evilwickedme]

The story of the first blood libel is crazy because straight up this story was invented because a Christian knight murdered a Jewish moneylender he owed money to, everybody knew he owed money to him and that he was broke, and he wasn’t even denying that he killed him, he just claimed that he and the entire Norwich Jewish community had killed a Christian boy more than half a decade prior and therefore it was okay for him to murder the moneylender, and then as witnesses he summoned someone who was not in Norwich the year the boy died, a maid who probably hadn’t actually worked there, and a dead person. And then for the next one thousand years anytime Christians (and later Muslims) wanted to get rid of the local Jewish community they either blamed it on an actual dead person or, more often, on the vague recalled memory of other kids/people Jews had supposedly killed, and that’s just an inescapable part of life now.

Sources: The Murder of William of Norwich, by E. M. Rose (2015); The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, by Thomas of Monmouth (Penguin Classics translation) (originally published 1172)

[evilwickedme]

how many urls has your main had*

1 - I've had one url the Whole Time

2-3 - kinda loyal, but willing to change

4-5 - I don't change very often, but I'm rolling with the punches

6-10 - I'm kinda fluid, yeah

11+ - commitment? I don't know her

I don't even remember how many urls I've had

I actually don't have a Tumblr blog

Voting ended onAug 15, 2024

*if you've deleted and remade your blog with a different url, that's a change in url; if you had X url, changed to a new url, and later went back to X, don't count X twice

[evilwickedme]

A cat is a creature that climbs all over you

[evilwickedme]

I think a lot about Dara Horn saying that the problem with the Holocaust is that nothing is the Holocaust except the Holocaust, and that it makes it hard to talk about antisemitism. Because in an era in which "microaggressions" is a term that's entered the public consciousness, there should be awareness that being made to feel uncomfortable is a form of bigotry, sure, but the standard of the Holocaust looms over other things - graffiti of swastikas isn't literally the Holocaust, bomb threats aren't literally the Holocaust, protests outside synagogues aren't literally the Holocaust, "Jews will not replace us!" isn't literally the Holocaust, getting thrown out of pride events for having a flag with a magen david isn't literally the Holocaust, stabbings and shootings that kill us aren't literally the Holocaust. But they are all expressions of antisemitism, and being unable to recognize that comes either from a place of privilege so profound I cannot even begin to understand it or from an unwillingness to understand which is equally baffling to me.