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Many many many people pointed it out already, but the fact that posts like these about Musk seig heil-ing get almost 100k notes in 2 days while any other post about the rise of antisemitism and/or antisemitic incidents and attacks barely breaks the jumblr ceiling is very telling about tumblr's virtue signaling.

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Oldie but goodie sociopolitical movements!

everytime someone asks me if im a zionist i feel the urge to tell them i’m a suffragette as well

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Many many many people pointed it out already, but the fact that posts like these about Musk seig heil-ing get almost 100k notes in 2 days while any other post about the rise of antisemitism and/or antisemitic incidents and attacks barely breaks the jumblr ceiling is very telling about tumblr's virtue signaling.

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while we're talking about the ADL, a reminder they actually provide really critical and important services. when i was in elementary school my mum showed me their system for reporting incedents and i knew if school admin ever stopped helping with the bullying i was getting from an antisemitic classmate i could go to them.

fast forward to high school and admin was doing fuck all for my friends who were getting harassed by homophobes and i was like "why don't you report them to the homophobia legal people" and they were like "the who" and i was like "whatever the equivalent of the adl is where they do court cases and incident reports and whatnot" and that's how i found out that's not really a thing and gained a bigger appreciation for having an organization like that

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^what he said

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Believe and support intersex people.

I grit my teeth and read the entire executive order regarding trans people, and I just want to take the opportunity to remind folks not to forget intersex people. One of the rescinded documents is “Supporting Intersex Students: A Resource for Students, Families, and Educators," and there is a huge emphasis on legally enshrining "only two sexes."

Yes, this affects trans people, but with the way intersex voices often get ignored in trans spaces, I just want to remind folks not to shut us out. Don't forget us. Don't keep talking over us. Don't act like we aren't on the front lines. Don't act like this is just about you. Please.

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Gorgeous!

may she have nothing but happiness and peace for the rest of her life. i am so proud of her for this. facing the evil horde of ignorant assholes to bring music to the world.

she’ll show them all and we love her so much 💙💙 am yisrael chai!!!

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And the award for the biggest frauds who used civilians as pawns while enabling a monster who’d make their lives worse goes to: the Uncommitted movement! Congratulations, you did it! You made the situation even worse, exactly like those libs who you accused of loving genocide said you would!

Or have you already stopped paying attention because your boy won and your ratfucking campaign is over?

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Shakespeare: So, in Macbeth, the forest doesn't actually move, it's just an army holding branches

C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien: And we took that personally

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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While it is obviously incredible news that a ceasefire/hostage deal has finally been agreed in Israel and Gaza, and I hope and pray more than anything for all involved that it holds, I won't ever be able to forget how quickly, easily, and happily a horrifyingly huge amount of people fell into vicious antisemitism.

Mocking Israeli dead, denying or cheering the atrocities visited upon Jewish bodies, tearing down hostage posters, gleefully buying into and sharing ancient propaganda and conspiracy theories, abusing, attacking and isolating Jews or anyone at all who has the audacity to care about them. Disgusting, evil cruelty.

How many people, now that the war is (hopefully) over will pretend that they never took part at all, never do an ounce of self reflection and then dare to wonder why any Jewish people in their lives no longer trust them or the organisations they represent? How many people will blithely continue imagining themselves to be bastions of human rights, compassion and social justice while completely ignoring the pain and trauma left in their wake?

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jews have been sounding the alarm about the rise of antisemitism and neo-nazi rhetoric around the world for years now, and have been largely dismissed by all sides of the political spectrum. they’re playing the victim, they’re exaggerating, they’re lying, they’re a distraction from other more important issues, etc etc.

i hope this can be a wakeup call for many. if this is shocking to you, i urge you to find jewish voices and creators to follow. antisemitism is a canary in the coal mine for fascism and jewish people are the ones most equipped to recognize it and oppose it.

we will all need each other more than ever for what’s to come. make sure the coalitions and networks you build include jewish people too.

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Toward the end of the Reconstruction era, something very significant happened. That is what was known as the Populist Movement. The leaders of this movement began awakening the poor white masses and the former Negro slaves to the fact that they were being fleeced by the emerging Bourbon interests. Not only that, but they began uniting the Negro and white masses into a voting bloc that threatened to drive the Bourbon interests from the command posts of political power in the South.

To meet this threat, the southern aristocracy began immediately to engineer this development of a segregated society. I want you to follow me through here because this is very important to see the roots of racism and the denial of the right to vote. Through their control of mass media, they revised the doctrine of white supremacy. They saturated the thinking of the poor white masses with it, thus clouding their minds to the real issue involved in the Populist Movement. They then directed the placement on the books of the South of laws that made it a crime for Negroes and whites to come together as equals at any level. And that did it. That crippled and eventually destroyed the Populist Movement of the nineteenth century.

If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. He gave him Jim Crow. And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man. And he ate Jim Crow. And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, their last outpost of psychological oblivion.

-Martin Luther King, Jr., March 25, 1965, Selma to Montgomery March, State Capitol steps, Montgomery, Alabama (x)

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Elon a racist antisemite? What a surprise!

Wow, how shocking the far right guy from an actual apartheid state who supports the far right German party and believes Jews foment hatred against whites did a Nazi salute at the inauguration. So shocking. I’m absolutely floored.

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Does the ADL Care That Republicans Admire Hitler?

Shortly before the election, I posted about the alarming fact that (a) Trump seems to admire Hitler and (b) Republicans don't seem to care that Trump admires Hitler. In the course of that post, I asked rhetorically what the ADL's response to this news was going to be, observing that the actual answer appeared to be covering their eyes with a "lalala" see-no-evil approach. This was of a kind with the new direction Jonathan Greenblatt had taken the organization, which was steadfast and resolute in never, ever, giving offense or more than the most mealy-mouthed critique to the American right no matter how open their antisemitism became. Fast forward a few months and some increasingly pathetic acts of ADL supplication, and we reach inauguration day, where Acting President Elon Musk appears to have given a Nazi stiff-arm salute (the Nazis sure think so).  Is the ADL on the case? Only if dismissing the case counts! On possible basis is there to extend any sort of "grace" or "benefit of the doubt" to Elon Musk of all people? He's basically a modern-day Henry Ford (oops, bad comparison)! He's been one the leading figures injecting extreme-right antisemitism back into mainstream discourse! There are few people -- even including Donald Trump -- who have been more open than Elon Musk about wanting to resurrect the reputations and the political influence of the modern-day Nazi movement. Extending "grace" to Elon Musk should be like extending "grace" to, I don't know, the Alternative for Germany party. But of course, none of that matters. The ADL has, over the past few months, made it abundantly clear that it views the American far-right as its friend, and so will extend infinite grace to them no matter how obvious their antisemitism becomes. It's disgusting. It's despicable. It is a grotesque abdication of the ADL's core mission. And the worst part it is, it's no longer even surprising. I spent today taking care of my newborn, doing my best to keep him fed, warm, and safe. My only thought on the inauguration I wanted to have was that it was a shameful, shameful day. Which it was -- but it didn't occur to me that the ADL would add to that shame.  Maybe it should have. What a shameful, shameful display. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/k160CsB