i have been informed that the red triangle has also been used in other ways, such as highlighting destruction in gaza or marking hamas/palestinian resistance groups' targets. thus, heritageposts may not have been invoking the holocaust as i assumed. PLEASE REBLOG THIS VERSION OF THE POST IF YOU REBLOG.
PSA: heritageposts is antisemitic.
while most of their political posts are no-commentary reposts of coverage of the palestinian genocide, they do occasionally add comments in the post body or tags.
here is a post where they wish the holocaust on an israeli man.
in case you are unaware, the upside-down triangle was used in nazi concentration camps to mark prisoners. the red triangle was used to mark political prisoners specifically, but i am not putting weight in the color since this is the only upside down triangle emoji available. the upside down triangle would be modified into a star of david using a yellow triangle for jewish prisoners, but the upside down triangle in general is more recognizable, especially as a nazi-specific thing. i cannot think of any other reason they would use the upside down triangle in this context except to wish the holocaust or similar on this man. wishing for a repeat of the holocaust is pretty common among antisemites and does not come without baggage.
please get your palestine news someplace else. israel is the aggressor, but that does not give anyone an excuse to air their antisemitism.
it might be tempting for non-jewish leftists to ignore this, but remember that if you let someone filter the news for you, you are liable to accept their biases as fact.
please be conscious of their antisemitism going forward.
I know it's small consolation, but I get dark satisfaction in watching @heritageposts froth at the mouth over a parade float that depicts Hamas for what they truly are: Terrorists and cowards who use the Palestinian people as human shields.
I'm gonna be honest, "badjokesbyjeff exposes heritageposts as running a scam ring" was not on my 2024 Bingo card
RIGHT?!?
…Seriously though, it is appalling how hard people are making it to talk about the proliferation of scammers on this site. I’ve literally never seen people get this much hate and pushback for calling out “sick cat” scams, “homeless queer teen” scams, “Ukrainian refugee” scams, etc. But now that scammers are stealing the photos and stories of Palestinians in Gaza, suddenly pointing out that hey, they’re still scammers, and the things they’re claiming to get money are still lies opens you up to a truly bizarre flood of vitriol and accusations.
Several months ago, I raised my own concerns about supposed “vetted fundraisers”, not because I had any specific concerns with any vetting blogs, but just because literally anyone can write “vetted fundraiser” on anything, and as far as I could tell, most of the blogs who were claiming to be vetted hadn’t been vetted by literally anyone at all. It didn’t even occur to me that some scammers might go the extra mile and create fake vetting accounts in order to “vet” their own scam posts, or catfish real users who don’t know a thing about scams into running supposed vetting efforts which are instead effectively just promoting and covering for scammers. But in hindsight, it’s painfully and sadly obvious that they would do both.
The most horrible part of all of this is that there are real organizations which you can give to that are actually tangibly helping Palestinians in Gaza today… and people are giving their money to these utter shit-stains instead. It honestly makes me sick to think of the lengths that some of these scammers have gone to literally steal donation money from Gazans who are living in a war zone. How utterly slimy do you have to be to steal money meant for people in that desperate of a situation? And to do this much, just in service of that absolutely vile goal??
I had issues with heritageposts well before this, and I’ve had them blocked for a while, but imo this really takes the cake.
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hi, would you share sources on HeritagePosts supporting Russia and North Korea? i'd be thankful
Sure thing. I’m currently on my phone and they blocked me, so I can’t pull up their russia posting (if anyone else can I’d appreciate it), but I do have a screenshot of them posting North Korea propaganda films and tagging it like this:
Kim Ryon Hui, the woman from the documentary, has spent nearly a decade trying to return to the DPRK. All she wants is to be reunited with h
To those unaware, DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, AKA North Korea. If you didn’t hear this acronym before, it’s because the only people who use this term are North Korea apologists.
Generally these apologists tend to also be apologists for any authoritarian state deemed “communist/socialist” and “not-western”; aka a tankie. I avoided the term until now because any buzzword usage makes people react with preconceived notions but - that’s what they are. They are what the term “Tankie” refers to in the modern day.
