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i really need people to be so fucking careful in and around discussions of literacy because stuff like "this culture didn't develop a written language ergo they are mentally inferior to us" and "people with this disability are unable to read ergo they are mentally inferior to us" have been eugenicist talking points for a very long time
1) On the one hand most of those in the USA who could be described as working class are neither white nor male, and on the other those who are telling us that the Hunt for the Working Class must take priority over all else tend to be middle-class white men when they're telling us we must give up our commitment to other issues – women's rights, racial justice, immigrant rights, climate action.
2) God knows there was troubling information enough about [Platner] who was made up entirely of red flags and white male fantasy [...].
3) But Jesus said ["Let him without sin cast the first stone"] while preventing a crowd from stoning to death a woman accused of adultery, aka taking a stand against violence against women.
4) [W]omen's rights are very important to progressive men, just not as important as anything else.
Honestly the amount of people I've talked to who formed an opinion on the geopolitics of the middle east who were suprised to learn that hezbollah is not the elected government of Lebanon, and the elected government is seperate and hates hezbollah is shocking.
If you do not know that basic fact, you should be shutting the fuck up!
[…] There’s a film going viral saying violence lives in Israeli DNA.
The film is about Israeli families in an Italian valley. Liberals who marched against their own government and left because they feared for Israel’s democracy. The film convicts them anyway. Their anti-Netanyahu politics and anti-war activism don’t matter. Their blood does.
One other film in history was built this way. Nazi Germany, 1940. Same world maps of Jewish migration. Same theory of inherited violence.
Neither film can say what a Jew could ever do to be innocent.
Four weeks ago the mayor of that Italian valley got a bullet in the mail.
And the channel asking you to fund its “independence”? Licensed inside a Qatari government media zone.
Everything documented. The families are still in that valley.
This woman is saying that Israelis who dislike the Israeli government and leave the Middle East out of protest are colonizers.
So, let's be honest about what she's saying because it's very clear: she is saying that the only thing an Israeli can do right is die.
Because Israelis literally leaving Israel and condemning the state isn't enough. Them living anywhere in the world is "colonialism." They are tainted by "Zionism."
It's Jew hate. She's not being subtle so I won't be either. She's using buzzwords to spread her medieval age hate to a "progressive" audience and it's disgustingly obvious.
“(((They))) are colonizing the world.” Israelis and Jews aren’t allowed to live in Israel, yet they aren’t allowed to live anywhere else either. sounds like the only way she believes they’re acceptable is if they’re dead.
meanwhile, also in Italy:
Rome's antisemitism czar puts end to Google form that drew condemnation from government officials, including Senate leader who said 'profoun
A plan to track the movements of Jewish and Israeli tourists would take the country ‘back to the 1930s,’ community figures have warned
An online campaign calling on people to surveil and report the whereabouts of Jewish and Israeli tourists, or anyone suspected of having ties to “Zionists,” has sparked anger among Israeli diplomats, local Jewish leaders and Italian politicians.
The anonymous campaign, focused in Milan, and spread via social media and messaging apps, involved a link that opened to a Google document.
It asked questions to identify the exact locations of Jewish and Israeli individuals, including specific hotels, vacation rentals, and commercial establishments, to create what it called “a mapping of Zionist tourism”.
The information would be used for unspecified future initiatives, the form said.
"This form is intended to record cases of Zionist tourism, property purchases, and, more generally, Zionist neo-colonisation in Italy,” according to the document. “The data collected will be received by the Global Sumud Movement and will remain protected and confidential."
The Global Sumud Movement, which organises anti-Israel activities in Europe, including the recent “freedom flotillas” to the Gaza Strip, denied any involvement in the campaign following the backlash.
"I think we're going back to the 1930s, to the hunt for Jews," Milan Jewish Community President Walker Meghnagi said. "Mapping where Jews are is extremely serious."
He called on the judiciary to intervene and for all parties to take a stand against the campaign.
Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Alessandro Morelli, a member of the conservative League Party, a junior partner in Italy's ruling coalition, condemned the form as "abhorrent," harking back to "the dark ages of Nazi fascism".
He also called for the unanimous political condemnation of the "racist initiative".
"We're essentially talking about blacklists. We're returning to the extremely dangerous climate that preceded the racial laws," said Italian Senator Graziano Delrio of the Democratic Party, the main opposition party, referring to a series of antisemitic and segregationist decrees enacted by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime between 1938 and 1943.
Israeli Ambassador to Italy Jonathan Peled posted to X on Sunday, saying: "The initiative to map Zionist tourism in Italy is an abominable action that highlights the alarming growth of antisemitic hatred in Italy and reveals, once again, the extremist and discriminatory drifts of the Pro-Pal movement."
The European Jewish Congress, the main umbrella organisation for Jewish communities across Europe, said of the questionnaire: "Presented as a 'mapping of Zionist tourism,' the initiative effectively encourages the identification and targeting of individuals based on their actual or perceived Jewish identity or nationality.
“Such attempts to single out individuals based on their identity create fear, fuel hatred and place Jewish communities at greater risk.
"The Italian authorities must act swiftly to ensure those responsible are held accountable and that such dangerous practices are stopped immediately.
the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.
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"21% Arab population??? In the Middle East?! There had to have been ethnic cleansing!!" So, uh, there are many other MENA ethnicities that are not Arab and are often victims of Arab colonization and genocide. That is why you think "Middle Eastern = Arab".
The year 2022 saw the rise of the plight and situation of the Kurds to international attention. From South Kurdistan
NSVH reported that the failure to provide an option to register as Kurdish, which was flagged during field monitoring, has raised serious co
I mean, case and point: Kurds have been forcibly Arabized in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan for decades... and forcibly Turkified in Turkey, and Persianified in Iran.
In Syria, supposedly, they're forced to register as Syrian "Arab" on gov't documents just to receive Syrian citizenship. That's right on Israel's northeastern border.
You know, even if we could objectively measure suffering and oppression, it would still be a dick move to tell someone that they can't talk about what they're going through because you have it worse.
The social forces that prevent you from being able to admit to your own desires in the safety of your own mind are far more evil than any desire you could have.
Unacted desires are fundamentally neutral, and you can't decide what to do about the things you want unless you can admit to yourself what they are in the first place. Everyone has desires that would hurt other people if they acted on them, but most people would not actually go out and do anything they know would cause harm. Far more harm is done in this world by people who are trying to pretend they can't possibly want anything they think is bad than people running around going "ehehehe I love hurting people!"
All of us have a hungry, horny, angry, scared animal inside ourselves. You do not need to excuse or justify what that animal wants, it simply is. You cannot escape it. Lying to yourself about the animal that you are will only give you less control over it, not more.
i feel like "man massively cuts foreign aid spending, resulting in hundreds of thousands fewer lives saved, is he a mass murderer?" is kind of an interesting thought experiment. but its really really bad it happened in real life. in real life its just very simply one of the worst things you could do in your life
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