Autunno

I have a lot to say and not enough time to say it.

[rauko]

M.C. Escher | METAMORPHOSIS II (1940)

woodcut in red and black, 19.2cm x 400cm

[xaoca]

lol took me awhile to find this gif again… Escher is GOAT!

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

text from my dad (2021) - my dad

“i’ll admit that my main problem with this is that i haven’t asked”

submitted by @cornandcoconutsoup​

[cornandcoconutsoup]

Original text for context

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

op this provides no context

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

cr 苦瓜

[sick-jan]

[sixty-silver-wishes]

I love it when headlines get cut off

[jazzy-mint-219]

[the-grey-tribe]

Venti if true

[thecrushheb]

I really hate the "Jerusalem is very important to three religions why would Judaism get full control of it" because its only important because thats where the JEWISH TEMPLE was and where the JUDEAN KINGS lived. just because people made religions out of fanficing Judaism means we have to give them equal slices of our own cultural history?

[h4ganah]

But even beyond that, are you going to try and tell me that Jerusalem is equally important to all three?

Sure, Jerusalem is either

1) the most important place in every single way to not just the entire religion but the entire people and its history,

2) the place Yeshua got cancelled by Pontius Pilate (not where he lived or anything, but sure), or

3) the place where Mohammed exited to heaven (allegedly, mind you) which is why you put a mosque on top of the holiest place in the world for the religion that preceeded yours

Yeah, obviously Jerusalem is important to both Islam and Christianity. Is it considered the holiest place in the world? Is it where christians and muslims direct their prayers? Is it mentioned literally everywhere in your prayers and holy texts, literally daily? Is it the focal epicenter of your people's entire history and religiosity? For one of these religions, Jerusalem is THE most important place on earth. For the other two, either another place is way, way more important, or it's the story that took place in Jerusalem that is the most important thing to the religion, not the location itself.

In no way shape or form is the importance of Jerusalem to Islam or Christianity even remotely comparable to its importance to Judaism and the jewish people, and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.

[daughterofstories]

*in a dream.

Muhammad allegedly visited Jerusalem on his way to heaven in a dream. Dude never once set foot in the actual irl Jerusalem.

Literally the only reason they give a damn about the city is that it's important to us.

[h4ganah]

[polarbearcub-seven]

The same leftists who rag on people for not using their platforms to speak up about social issues… sure are REAL silent when something bad happens to Jewish people.

[rimonoroni2]

every once in a while i'll come across an essay claiming to interpret the holocaust in some sort of anti-colonialist way and it'll boil down to something like "the reason the holocaust is considered a big deal is because it was the first time european genocidal tactics were applied to White People instead of its usual victims #antiracism" and like, even putting aside the truly horrific implication that Jewish holocaust victims were just Normal European White People getting a taste of their own medicine, it is also simply not a true assessment about the historical significance of the holocaust! i cannot believe it is possible for people to be this ignorant and disrespectful about a subject with so much accessible, premium scholarship about it freely available and also i am going to start throwing things maybe

[penrosesun]

An Gorta Mór ran from 1845-1852 and caused over a million deaths and a 20-25% drop in population in Ireland, and this teaches us a few very important things:

There is at least one example of white Europeans being targeted by white European genocidal tactics at least a century before the Holocaust,

The fact that the Irish are generally understood to be at least as “white” as Jews if not more so has done absolutely nothing to ensure that everyone takes the explicitly genocidal policies enacted against them seriously as genocide, which, to be clear, they were, and

Perhaps “whiteness” vs. “non-whiteness” is actually a very poor metric for all forms of racialized hatred literally anywhere other than USAmerica (and even there tbh!)

Like obviously this take on the Holocaust is antisemitic and terrible, but more than that, it’s weird the degree to which it fundamentally relies on playing apologist not just for the Holocaust, but also for a tremendous number of other genocides as well. Why do you hate the Irish so much? Why do you hate Ukrainians? What did the Cherkess ever do to you? How about Serbs? Bosniaks and Croats? Is your contention that the Cathers weren’t white, or that their elimination in France wasn’t genocide? How many genocides will you die on the hill of defending just to make this ridiculous ahistorical Holocaust take sound even halfway reasonable???

The answer is always “they haven’t thought that far” but my genuine question is why. Because it seems like it would take a whole lot of not just unchecked privilege but actual willful ignorance to even entertain the idea that the Holocaust was a uniquely white-on-white genocide. Why did you feel the need to make this unforced error? What is it about the Holocaust specifically that had you spouting off at the mouth before you even stopped to think about whether or not you were actively engaged in unrelated genocide denial?

[eel-slap]

Will also note that the framing of "we only recognize it as a genocide if the people victimized were of a specific deeply historically oppressed status AND were victimized by people we are ostensibly in strong ideological opposition to/by US empire" was a huge problem in some of the tankier spaces and should have been recognized as both a massive harm and an oversight/vulnerability just waiting for antisemites to eventually exploit, rather than further normalized once they did.

Like one of the biggest tragedies OF the left is that genocide denial wasn't collectively squashed instead of everything from pro-Stalin Holodomor denial, denial of the Cambodian genocide, denial of the Balkan genocide, confusion over the Rwandan genocide, near-complete overlooking of the genocide of Uyghurs, near-complete overlooking of the Myanmar genocide, minimization to this day of the genocidal intent of Russia toward Ukrainians, etc all being something one didn't have to go too far to find...

And worse, any left analysis reducing genocide to "something that can only be done on the basis of a specific American type of race-based oppression" *also* actively excludes femicide/extreme misogyny (which is probably THE most common historical and present genocidal activity globally), that of the disabled of all races and ethnicities (also depressingly common and still present worldwide), and the intentionally genocidal targeting of LGBTQI people (lots of places historically, present Uganda, and the current US regime is headed there too)

All of that's why honestly the best stance, and one I wish more people would take is that genocide is eminently preventable by cutting it off at its sources: bigotry, prejudice, dehumanization, and hatred. Which can, unfortunately, be over anything. Which can even be inflicted laterally with one oppressed people hating another, or even in rare occasions upward (e.g. Cambodia as a class example, where people were targeted for being intellectuals or seeming to have "more" than they "should," at least according to Pol Pot) And that because of all of that, no one is immune to either becoming perpetrator or victim, which is WHY we have to ideally stop it before it happens within ourselves and within our societies and, if it does happen, recognize it for what it is and demand it stop.

[envyingrams]

Things like this are why I don't believe guns should be banned — many people do need them for protection. However, we need better gun laws so that no one can buy a war weapon and so any person can't just buy one willy-nilly!

There needs to be a middle ground.

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[brionysea]

everyone's all about queer subtext until it's aromantic or asexual

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[doomhamster]

"You don't understand it's the ALGORITHM making me harass people! If I see a Jew post about Jewish holidays or their lunch or their asshole boss I HAVE to comment with "free palestine"! It's the algorithm that MAKES me see those things so it's MAKING me do it!"

...my child, tumblr has been advertising the "save Gaza from genocide" community to me daily for the past two years and somehow I have not ONCE gone onto their posts to start fights. Even though, you know, they ARE actively weighing in to a conflict they don't understand, instead of just trying to live their fucking lives.

I promise, with the exercise of the tiniest fucking BIT of willpower and common decency, you too can avoid being a pest to people who never harmed you or anyone else.

[beardedmrbean]

[eebie]

I just ate one

[eebie]

You can lie when you name things

[brionysea]

I like the part at the end of the Good Place where it's like, 'Chidi, you can't reform a bigoted white guy in his 50s who thinks he belongs in the Good Place!' It's so funny because Chidi Anagonye is such a good teacher he reformed A LITERAL DEMON