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they/them. statistics-loving adult american jew who sadly can't read hebrew (yet). send me jewish-related studies with percentages and infographics and I will hoard them like a dragon. I like polls.

[orcboxer]

voter suppression against black people is reaching Jim Crow era levels in the US so please get registered to vote now, learn who's going to be on your ballot in advance, try to talk some sense into your conservative relatives or coworkers (diplomatically), and, when November rolls around, vote to make Republicans lose as many seats as possible. there are many other things to do, of course, but the midterms will have a massive impact on the future of civil rights.

[djjohnnyt]

The next three elections are incredibly critical to turning back the fascist wave.

2026 - Make the Republicans hurt for all the ways they're trying to strip people of their votes and put a check on Trump. We can flip the House and maybe even the Senate and actually put some of the checks the Constitution intended back in place. SCOTUS is still fucked and not a lot will get passed over Trump's veto, but we can stop the bleeding.

2028 - Get Trump, Vance, and all the fascists out of the Executive Branch. It's also the only way to start on SCOTUS reform and getting back on the right track. This is also the president who will be overseeing the next census that controls which states get how many Congresspeople.

2030 - State legislatures will be the absolute MOST important races this cycle. These legislators are the ones who will be drawing the maps for the next 10 years of elections. Republicans used 2010 to completely rewrite maps across the country; Democrats need to do it in 2030.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Also look into carpooling for voters, whether you need the ride or you can help drive for people who do. Republicans are making it harder to vote and that means that registration is less accessible, polling places are less accessible, and absentee voting is less accessible. In a lot of cases, especially in underprivileged and rural communities, carpooling is the only way many people are able to register and vote and those programs can only exist if there are enough drivers and enough people who know to ask for a ride.

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[nerianasims]

That's one hell of a conspiracy theory you're believing, bud. Just out of curiosity, who's "they"?

[wickedjew]

should I edit my pronouns in my bio to be “(((they/them)))” bc funny

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[postnuclearophelia]

they want us to all hate each other and everyone falls for it every time

[yanderehiro]

"They"? "Us"? You just fell for it.

[deaddogbrain]

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

[nonbinaryjudean]

(Jewish) pride month day 1: Dana International

Dana International is an Israeli pop singer and LGBTQ+ rights advocate. In 1998, she became the first transgender artist to win the Eurovision song contest. She has performed at many pride events and has advocated for LGBTQ+ rights in Israel and abroad.

every day this month I will be posting about queer Jews you should know!

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

Jewish Languages

An introduction to Jewish languages around the world, past and present, including longstanding ones, like Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Yiddish,

[fromchaostocosmos]

I really really really hate the "Biblically accurate angel" thing, meme.

I hate it so much.

For one it is not from the Bible and for two is not an angel.

It is from the Tanach and it is a מַלְאָךְ Malach (singular).

Malachim (plural) have no free will, their name/title means messengers, and they have jobs.

The whole thing of being making pictures or whatever and then doing a caption of "Be not afraid" is annoying and frustrating.

Once again a facet of Judaism is taken and made into a joke. It is taken by goyim and used for their amusement with no care or regard to how we may feel about it, how it degrades us, how disrespectful it is to us and our culture.

In our texts the words that are used to describe Malachim are best translated as awesome, the original meaning. As in inspiring of awe.

Goyim instead of have turned them into these Lovecraftian horrors essentially which doubly disgusting when you taken into account that H.P Lovecraft was a massive antisemite.

Some Malachim we actually know the names of, which xtianty calls Archangels and misunderstand what they are and their purpose is.

These Malachim like all Malachim have no free will and have jobs.

It is very common to find Jews who are named after these Malachim.

These Malachim are also associated with protection, the protection of Am Yisrael as a whole and with the protection of us individuals.

Malachim are not jokes. They are beautiful, they are a wonder, they are one of Hashem's many creations (Fun Fact they were created on the Second Day, what we call Monday in the Gregorian Calendar) and a large part of Judaism both as a religion and a culture.

I wish goyim could respect that, but that would mean that would need to learn to respect us and our culture and stop using us for their amusement and well we have yet to see that happen.

I know Jews make jokes in regards to Malachim, but generally speaking there is a very large and distinctive difference between when we do it and when goyim do it.

And that is when the overwhelming majority of Jews do it, it comes from a place of love, respect, and understanding of the significance and meaning whereas when goyim do it, it is a mockery. It is a degradation whether they realize it or not.

And at the end of the day their will always be a difference when someone who belongs to a culture makes a joke about something in their culture/their culture then when someone who does not belong does it.

The same how way how it will always be diffrent when you make a joke or say something about your family vs when someone who is not a member of family does it.

[greco-roman-jewess]

“Israel killed Yiddish”

No that was the Nazis

The Nazis killed Yiddish

The Nazis killed half the Yiddish speakers on earth in four years.

[nonbinaryjudean]

If I may add, I think it’s interesting that this is a point that people use as a “gotcha” but the people who say it are also usually the ones saying Ashkenazi Jews are white European oppressors who should go back to Poland.

Also Hebrew has always been a language that Jews use. Historically we used it as a lingua franca to interact with each other.

Also. Many of the remaining Ladino speakers were killed in the shoah.

Also. The people who bring this point up act as if Yiddish is the only “real” existing Jewish language. It isn’t even the only language of Ashkenazim.

[maimonideznuts]

Not only did we rely on Hebrew to talk to each other, but the position of Court Jew existed because mediaeval European nobility once relied on our ability to speak to each other across the language and cultural divides of Christian Europe. "I'll have my Jew talk to your Jew" was once more than a Seinfeld bit.

[nonbinaryjudean]

hey prev tags!!!! check this out:

Jewish Languages

[thestuffedalligator]

A regular part of my job is trying to reach out to people who have been quietly trying to make their community a better place; the volunteers, the teachers, the fucking. People who rehabilitate injured wild owls in a Quonset hut in the woods, and to a one this is the kind of person who immediately reviles at recognition. The kind of person who immediately says that they never got into this to get praise for it, and that they’d infinitely prefer to quietly plug away at this anonymously forever.

And from this I’ve always drawn two conclusions:

To always distrust Mr. Beast and his ilk who always want their acts of charity done on film, because the people who really want to do good and have no motives to do it besides the doing it never want recognition for it, and

That there are, in the dark, in the quiet, always people who are doing good, and the reason you don’t hear about it is because they’d rather die than receive recognition for it, but they’re real; they do exist. And you are never alone

[mariasklodowskastwixbar]

Happy pride month, if you kick out Jewish people for expressing their religion and culture you are antisemitic!! Jewish people belong at pride and deserve to express their Jewishness at pride just like any culture or religion!!

<3 ✡️🏳️‍🌈🌈 love yall!!!!

[wickedjew]

“if he writes her a few sonnets, he loves her. If he writes her 300 sonnets, he loves sonnets” also applies to politically motivated acts of violence I fear. sometimes - not always, but way too often - the people who are loudest about wanting to punch nazis or billionaires just want an excuse to punch somebody, anybody, without any of those pesky social consequences

[aces-and-angels]

caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that's our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know I hadn’t made this exact connection at first but something in my gut told me that people comparing ice to the gestapo didn’t quite feel right. This comparison does fit a lot better.

[2spirit-robot]

Exactly what I was gunna say, all the comparisons of this administration to Nazism has been striking me as Not Quite Right since the beginning. Something about it all has been giving me a bad gut feeling that couldn’t be addressed by all the comparisons to Nazi Germany. It’s been a gut feeling I’m sure has been passed down through the centuries by my native ancestors.

And I can see where they are coming from with the nazi comparisons, the playbook seems to be unchanged thus far, but thats just fascism. This administration with its talking points and actions are lacking the fundamental element that makes Nazis, Nazis. And thats the unashamed, unrelenting and overwhelming antisemitism. We aren’t seeing them blame all our problems and everything they view as a problem on jews, they’re blaming it on black and brown people; they’re blaming it on immigrants and political enemies instead of Jews and Judaism. To the point where they are trying to deport indigenous Americans off our own reservations. Thats a hate we’ve had here since Europe decided the Americas were for the taking.

This administration and its actions are MUCH closer to the violence and hatred that allowed this country to be built off of the backs of slaves and the deaths of indigenous peoples. This is a much closer and more familiar, and that’s because it’s our very own hatred that’s been festering in the background ever since we failed to properly punish the confederates. This feels like the hate that brought about the Nazis because it’s the hate that’s inspired them.

Theres a difference here, even if it all feels similar. We have to treat it like the home grown fascism it is and stop using comparisons to Nazi Germany so heavily to sum up what’s happening here, because there are some very key differences.

[brainscrems]

@2spirit-robot They are blaming it all on Jews, actually. But they’re dealing with it more internally bc presently that plays less well. You should read Skin in the Game and Skin in the Game Revisited if you wanna understand how antisemitism forms the core of white nationalist political thought. Plus they are constantly using Jewish dogwhistles. Every time they say cultural marxists, or george soros, or whatever, it’s us they mean. They’re publicly blaming everything on Black and brown people, but the context that you’re missing is that they blame Black and brown people on the Jews. I get why you are saying what you are saying, but you’re gonna have to trust Jews when we tell you that we are absolutely a target of this administration. They are presently signaling to their followers using dogwhistles that we are to blame for all the Black and brown people, “gender ideology”, “wokeness”, whatever. They put all that on us. But they do it in ways which fly over left-leaning people bc they’re fully uneducated on Jewish oppression. So when the administration then goes around and talks about, “Protecting Jews” the right knows it’s bullshit, but the left believes it and thinks Jews are privileged, protected, and not in danger. And, remember, antisemitism functions by presenting itself as, “punching up” against power as a distraction to serve those who actually have it. So the idea is to ensure both the left and the right think we are behind/complicit ok the world’s problems in service of manufacturing consent for another Jewish genocide.

Also, I’n bot trying to argue which is a better analogy. As a Jew, I’ve been seeing this a lot through the light of the holocaust bc that’s what it all looks like to me. The rhetoric, and methodology, and the particular ways in which the system is abused during a state’s fall into fascism. The comparison is overused, and sometimes decontextualized, but. It inaccurate. As for which is better, I don’t wanna argue that point. But, personally, I think it should be done on a feature by feature basis and we should treat it as its own scenario and not a repeat of any other. That said, there is something in the video she vets wrong enough I couldn’t stomach finishing it. The idea that white people care about the holocaust because we Jews, “Look like them”. Firstly, Jews of color exist and were murdered in the holocaust. Secondly, they don’t think we look like them. They do not believe the people whose bodies they paint with exaggerated features, who to this day they GENUINELY believe have horns on their heads, who make us look like literal monsters and demons??? They don’t think we look like them. They don’t see theirselves in us. The holocaust is the go-to comparison for genocide and ethnic cleansing because it is a genocide where (most) white people get to look at it and say, “Oh, I was the hero for once! I saved the Jews!” And, of course, that’s a lie. They’re all complicit. The entirety of the globe is, they just don’t wanna accept it. If you wanna see just how much white people think of Jews as their own, you should look up the Evian conference. The holocaust is not simply the story of Germany’s genocidal campaign against the Jews. It is the story of every nation and people which closed their borders to us because they’d rather watch us die than suffer some kikes to lives among them. It is the story of our neighbors, acquaintances, coworkers, friends who turned us in to be murdered, gleefully raped us and stole our homes and valuables the moment the Nazis gave them permission. And, keep in mind, this is not the story of Germany. Save Denmark, in every place the nazis conquered our supposed communities turned against us and gleefully sent us along. Some nations even payed the nazis to take us away before they ever arrived in force. And every single nation which closed their borders to us did it too. Shit has not actually changed in the 80 years since then. These people don’t actually see us as any more a part of themselves. The idea that they care abt the holocaust bc they see us as white is such utter horseshit. They care bc the popular historical narrative presents them as the heroes of the story, regardless of the fact that they weren’t. I feel obliged to clarify that I’m not claiming that some Jews don’t experience meaningful amounts of white privilege. I’m saying that, even though we are not people of color, we are still racialized and the idea that to white people we, “look like” or are part of them is laughable.

[shakedownstreet73]

Jews and race: some food for thought

What does it mean to say that Jews are (or have been historically) racialized? It means that we Jews are (and were) considered racially distinct from other people.

While most (but not all) American Jews identify as racially white in the American racial construct, it wasn’t always so, and to many people, even light-skinned Jews are seen as not really white.

Here’s a page from a ship manifest, showing passengers on a vessel that sailed from Vlissingen, Netherlands to New York in late December 1938, five weeks after the violent pogrom known as Kristallnacht (German for "the night of broken glass"). Almost every passenger on this ship was a German Jew (or Jew residing in Germany) fleeing Nazi persecution. (As you can guess by the listing of names and where they fall in the alphabet, there are many more pages to this manifest. This is just one.)

Note how those passengers are identified as having German nationality (ignoring for a moment that their German citizenship had been revoked in 1935 under the Nuremberg laws) but being Hebrew as a matter of racial identity.

“Hebrew” was a separate racial category in U.S. immigration law until 1943. A Gallup poll taken in late November 1938, two weeks after Kristallnacht, asked Americans, “Should we allow a larger number of Jewish exiles from Germany to come to the United States to live?” 72% of the poll respondents answered “No.”

So, are Jews a racialized people? In the not-so-distant past, absolutely. Now? Depends who you ask, but to many people, Jews aren't really white. To them, we are something else, a separate category. Even if we look (pass as) white.

So, when you see people describe a Jewish man or woman as "just another white [dude or lady]," consider that the reality of the situation is more complex than that.

[wickedjew]

being jewish means not really being able to laugh along with “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!” jokes because yeah, it’s a fun silly movie reference, but it kind of stops being one when you remember what sephardim were forced to endure. (and, how if any of them spoke out against these jokes, they’d most likely be belittled and shut down.)

and the worst part is, goyim often completely miss the point and just think you’re just trying to take away their fun.

[flyingpurplepizzaeater]

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.