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New policy: No more arguing with Christianists, especially the ones who think that missionizing is a good thing. Autoblock on sight.
EDIT: Addendum: Antisemitic atheists too.
Less a DNI, and more just an exasperated sigh at this point, yes, I vet new followers for my own safety and I will automatically block missionaries, Christian apologists, antisemitic atheists, antizionists, Nazis (WTAF are you following me in the first place?), and TERFs.
This is a fucking new one
And these people think they're smarter than everyone else.
Cool site
every Track AIPAC ad be like
RED SCARY BAD
GREEN YAY GOOD
The Zionists invented complexity and nuance in 1948 because They don’t want you to know all political and moral decisions can be easily sorted into RED BAD GREEN GOOD.
I think it is extremely important for everyone in the Greek mythology community to know that even though Greeks can have light skin and light hair, and that white supremacists like talking about Ancient Greece and using statues as their profile pictures, it doesn't mean white supremacists actually like Greek people.
White supremacists use Ancient Greece to insert themselves and their beliefs, completely erasing an accurate Ancient Greece and actual Greek people and culture from the narrative. There's a reason why when discussing the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, they only show pictures of blonde, blue-eyed, Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon women, and never actresses who are actually Greek or of Greek descent. Just like how a black woman playing Helen is an issue to them, a Greek woman playing Helen is also an issue to them.
Since the very beginning of the concept of whiteness, beginning in the 19th century, white supremacists have excluded Greek people from whiteness, like they did for other ethnicities that you may now consider white, such as the Irish and Italians. Whiteness did not exist before the 19th century. When whiteness was conceptualized, it was purposefully created to not just view people native to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania as lesser than, but to also view other Europeans as lesser than.
Even if Greeks are viewed as white today, white supremacists still won't accept them because their culture does not fit into their vision of whiteness, and they don't accept them as descendants of the Ancient Greeks because they think it is impossible for them to be related to a past where they've inserted their perfect image of white society onto.
Jew-haters are so determined to blame Jews and Israel for everything that it's honestly unreal at times. Wildfires, floods, climate change, wars, economic trends, political scandals... while at the same time being absolutely furious if Jews or Israel actually does do anything.
I swear, Iran could fire off another wave of missiles aimed at civilian areas in Israel and these people would cheer. Hell, one of those missiles could hit the Al-Aqsa Mosque due to inadequate missile defense (because these chucklefucks are all about "Defund the Iron Dome!") and it would still somehow be Israel's fault.
hi!! sorry if you've been asked this question before, but as someone who wants to be a lawyer, how do you deal with defending people that morally you really don't agree with? thanks!
I get a lot of versions of this question, and I answer it seriously every time, because it’s both important and not important at all. Anyone who asks respectfully gets my whole ass answer.
It’s just not really about that. My job isn’t about defending the idea of hurting someone else. It’s about stopping the state from inflicting further hurt, torture, pain. It’s about pushing back for some fairness against a monumentally stacked system. And it’s about stuff that’s normal human stuff that counts as crime for some reason.
Yeah, it’s hard to do a sex abuse case. Sometimes the images stick around and it bothers me. But honestly? Mostly those cases have real plausible theories of innocence or they’re cases that I will lose because the evidence is there, and the question is not whether the perpetrator will go to jail but how long.
Those cases are so rare, though. I get so much pointless bullshit. Felony of a teen taking mom’s car without permission. Two kids that try to break into a car and get so scared by the alarm that they run away. Trespassing on dad’s house because his new girlfriend wants you to stop coming around. It’s just human stuff, and the violence of the state is not necessary or helpful.
I also reject the idea of punishment completely. The state has a responsibility to stop people from hurting other people again. But inflicting pain doesn’t do it, we know this by now. So I argue for mercy and for real solutions to real problems. I’m here to build a future, not get caught up with doing violence to someone because of the past.
So yeah, sometimes it’s hard, but mostly my conscience is dead clear: I’m not responsible for the crime. The damage has been done. I want to start the healing process, and I want it for everyone involved. When that’s not possible, I just want to tell the authorities they don’t get to just Do What They Want.
The more I do this job, the more I am a genuine pacifist who is against violence in all forms, and actually I don’t see a contradiction between that and what I do for a living. State violence is a pervasive evil that tears apart families, communities, and countries, and it’s far more damaging and awful than any individual crime. The average prosecutor has more blood on their hands than a serial killer, but it’s invisible: people who died in jail, who froze to death on the street, who were shot in a drug deal. Their violence begets violence.
When I get blood on my hands, it’s because I put my hands over the wounds and try to stop the flow. I’m okay with it.
Also: people don’t ask doctors how they can stand to treat bad people. Why ask me?
#i find people have such an inherent misunderstanding of the roles of defense attorneys (understandably but still)#in that most people i talk to seem to be envisioning me personally defending the right of people to commit crimes or that like. Crime Is#Good Actually#‘yeah this person did X but they should never face any consequences ever please and thank you judge’#(and people think this would WORK??? a different tangent on a lack of legal education and cop shows being awful etc)#meanwhile i am simply protecting people’s rights. yes even those people’s#idk i could write my own post but op Gets It and also a prosecutor just filed the DUMBEST motion ive ever seen and i need to respond to that#instead lmao (via @anixit26)
The number of people who respond to my post about how even the guiltiest person in the world deserves rights with "but not [crime I think makes you undeserving of rights]!" is truly insane. People really truly think that being accused of a crime makes you irredeemably evil and protecting the rights of those accused means you are also evil.
I honestly think we need to stop calling people antisemitic (a word created by a guy who hated Jews trying to give Jew hatred a more "scientific" name) and just straight up call them bigots/racists anytime they say anything Anti-Jew. Make them defend their shitty beliefs and attitudes without hiding behind "Not antisemitism, just antizionism."
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the keffiyeh being a quasi-ubiquitous head covering in the MENA that is pretty perfect by itself vs. it being turned into the ugliest clothes and accessories imaginable because of the palestine Activism Industry
it is genuinely maddening seeing people perform this obsession with “omg #traditional #palestinian design” only to denude its most recognizable symbol of the original social connotations that made it powerful to begin with……. like okay i know i’m an evil zionist maggot of jewish satan to y’all but can we agree you fucked their shit up bad
Gang I almost never post personal stuff on tumblr let alone the doctor who blog but like. I just saw someone say a bunch of antisemitic bullshit on fucking LinkedIn. On a post that wasn’t even about Judaism! It was literally just posted by a Jewish organization. It was about remembering the Roma and Sinti who were murdered during the Holocaust.
What the fuck, on LinkedIn???
I don't want to speculate too much about the psychology of those who send these kinds of messages (and this is Tumblr, after all) but I admit I have a morbid curiosity. How old is this person? Do they think they're right-wing or left? Why do they appear to be arguing with themselves, bringing up random talking points as if in dialogue? Like, not to pathologize but this is not well-adjusted behavior. Normal people, even antizionists, should be able to see Israel mentioned without involuntarily launching into a preprogrammed tirade. And I don't even mean this in the sense of "derangement syndrome" or whatever nonsense people on the internet cook up to invalidate each other: I mean, seriously, I do not think the mindset of someone who sends these kinds of anonymous messages is healthy, and honestly feel more concerned than anything else about this. I've gotten messages of this type from reactionaries of every stripe, on every platform, since I was a child. Most of the time I just find them vaguely amusing. This is just kind of sad though. I often say that the Palestine movement has sections that behave very much like a cult, and I mean, how much more culty and detached from reality does it get than imploring others to "grow a human soul" while also hoping for a nuclear holocaust?
I wish I had a magic button that would scan the entire Internet and block any media that mentions gaza, netanyahu, israel (by non-jews), palestine or genocide. I'm so fucking exhausted. I want to be able to enjoy content without getting jump scared out of nowhere and having to check another creator, show, company, etc on the list of stuff I have to avoid. no amount of filters, tag blocking, whatever helps at all. it's just exhausting. I'm sick of hearing about antisemitic attacks, policies, countries. I'm sick of hearing about what politicians are using israel as a stepping stone to try and get brownie points with dumb college people. I roll my eyes at the idiot bigots, but my heart breaks seeing otherwise educated people that genuinely believe that I am fundamentally evil.
and I want to engage in jumblr and other jewish communities without constant posts about I/P. we are not defined by how other people label us. we are not that war. why is our existence only contextualized in our relation/difference to palestine, muslims and christians and why are we also doing it to ourselves? our existences aren't political. I want jewish joy. I want to go back to Israel where I don't have to deal with white virtue signalers. we as a people have been through so much.
I'm so tired.
The nutrition survey, which was coordinated by the UNICEF, showed that children in Gaza have low levels of acute malnutrition.
From a purely hypothetical standpoint, how would it work out if Egypt once again agreed to govern and integrate the Gaza strip and Jordan did the same for the West Bank? I know it wouldn't be accepted by either side (imagine the Arab states giving up the Palestine movement and the Israeli WB settlers having to reckon with a functioning government; not to mention full disarmament of Hamas and the IDF completely giving up control) but if it did happen tomorrow, would it be stable? Or would something go wrong anyway, fundamentally? As the people of Palestine do closely identify with the Arab identity, this would give them a familiar culture and a better government that would deter disproportionate Israeli aggression, since the IDF won't want to run afoul of two neutral-to-friendly nations. Is the Palestinian national identity too strong despite the civilians' clear frustration with the ruling power, especially in the Gaza strip?
Sorry if it sounds like a waste of a question- but I'd be really interested to know if this is an existing school of thought, and if so, what you think about it.
Thank you!
A little background:
In April 1987, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan secretly negotiated the Peres–Hussein London Agreement. This framework proposed returning control of the West Bank to a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation under an international peace umbrella, though it collapsed due to opposition from Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. King Hussein of Jordan officially gave up all administrative and legal claims to the West Bank on July 31, 1988. In his televised address to the nation, he announced the complete political disengagement of Jordan from the territory
Israel captured the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt in November 1956. Facing immense pressure from the United States and the United Nations, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion agreed to a complete withdrawal and Israel officially handed Gaza back to Egyptian control in March of 1957. Israel recaptured Gaza during the 1967 Six-Day War. in the 1978 Camp David negotiations, Prime Minister Menachem Begin negotiated the full return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, but Egypt strictly refused to resume sovereignty or administrative control over the Gaza Strip.
Jordan and Egypt don't want them, Anon.
On to your questions:
...how would it work out if Egypt once again agreed to govern and integrate the Gaza strip and Jordan did the same for the West Bank?
It wouldn't.
I know it wouldn't be accepted by either side...
Rejection would come from more than two sides.
The PA and Hamas would reject it because they'd lose power.
Jordan would reject it because it doesn't want more expensive, bloody, Palestinian meshugas.
Egypt would reject it because it doesn't want the hassle or the expense - and really doesn't want to bring in more of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology it's already working hard to squash at home.
The Arab street everywhere (particularly in Jordan and Egypt) would erupt.
...but if it did happen tomorrow, would it be stable?
Not for a fraction of a second.
As the people of Palestine do closely identify with the Arab identity, this would give them a familiar culture...
Very familiar, yes.
A majority of those living in Jordan identify as Palestinian and one of the most common surnames in Gaza is Al-Masri - which means "the Egyptian."
Careful, though - if you mention these verifiable facts in the wrong company, you'll be confidently accused of bigotry by people who know far less about the region and its peoples than you do.
...and a better government...
Have you studied the Jordanian or Egyptian governments?
Sure, they're better technocrats than the PA or Hamas, but that doesn't say much and a government's efficacy is eventually limited by the buy-in (or lack thereof) of the governed, even in non-democracies like Egypt and Jordan.
Egypt is a semi-presidential republic only on paper and the military holds ultimate, unchecked power over the state. They control the judiciary, they are the "custodians" of it's constitution, and any civilian political competition or dissent is crushed by violence, mass arrests, and trial in military courts. Egypt's economy is almost entirely militarized.
Jordan's government is a monarchy where ultimate power rests solely with the King, despite the appearance of a legislature and a judiciary.
...that would deter disproportionate Israeli aggression...
Israel hasn't started a single conflict with Arabs of the Levant. Not one. GTFOOH with the "Israeli aggression" bullshit - it's as mythical as the "greater Israel" conspiracy theory.
Is the Palestinian national identity too strong despite the civilians' clear frustration with the ruling power, especially in the Gaza strip?
The Palestinian national identity isn't built on having a state - they've walked away from that option too many times for that to be what drives Palestinian national identity.
The Palestinian national identity is built on the need to erase Israel.
...I'd be really interested to know if this is an existing school of thought...
It isn't.
It wasn't a totally ridiculous idea between '48 and '67, but it sure is now.
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At what point did we stop seeing each other as human? 🌎💙
Whenever I see an apocalypse setting with heavy Christian themes and the entire cast going crazy over this possibility being the end times/rapture/whatever, I'd like to imagine there is a nice area of Jews minding their own business watching smoke blow from the neighbours and deciding for once they can clean up their own mess.
can't just leave that in the tags op
I saw a comment saying "hamas has acted mostly according to international law, except for oct 7th I guess..." Yeah, except for that tiny little october 7th thing... Except for that small nothing issue of over a thousand people dying in a terrorist attack. Except for that itty bitty biggest attack against jews since the Holocaust. Y'know. Just that.
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*snort* Hamas treated the "don't" list of international law as a checklist. "Don't hide behind human shields. Don't use civilian infrastructure as military bases. Don't take hostages. Don't use torture. Don't wear civilian clothing as a combatant." Etc.
