#don't be anti-semitic

[staticespace]

Been blocked, which, exceptionally fair (I'm not being sarcastic). Cater your internet experience.

Post I'm referencing in the following statements shared here. Warning, I talked a fucking lot and I wasn't completely right with what I said, despite what I thought at the time.

So, corrections.

I was wrong about details regarding the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital:

Hananya Naftali worked with the former Israeli Prime Minister for 3 years as a social media consultant and staffer, but was not, as I said, "an Israeli official" or "the US-backed Israeli government." While potentially a spokesperson, I cannot say he absolutely was, so his tweets may or may not have been related to the IOF's views at that time. I should not have guaranteed that he was. That was inaccurate, and I apologize for that misinformation.

It's not completely confirmed due to consistently changing information that Israel was behind the explosion. It's also not confirmed that it was a Hamas accident either. Still, because information is still pending, I should not have stated on guarantee that the hospital explosion was caused by the Israeli government. For that, I apologize for the misinformation.

OP was right that anti-Semitism is taught to many Westerners and we should keep a watch of what sorts of opinions we draw from it. I myself was not careful enough with that, and I apologize for my prejudice in my assumptions.

That still does not change that I think being anti-Zionist is not usually being anti-Semitic, as Zionism and Judaism are not the same thing.

Instead, it means to be careful about accepting guarantees with certain information. I was not careful enough, and exhibited some of the behaviors they were talking about. My apologies.

The Israeli government isn't going to be able to deny 75+ years of colonialism and genocide, so it's best to rely on more solid historical information in such cases, not by persecuting Jewish people or critiquing the Israeli government blindly with half-baked details, but in recognizing more concrete information that has more detailed proof to legitimize it.

[grimm-the-tiger]

I made this post a little while ago listing some facts about shipwrecks that probably only I find interesting, so now I’m back to talk about some of them. Specifically, the Olympic. The Olympic was the namesake of the Olympic-class liners, whose most notable member was the Titanic. Out of the three Olympic-class ships - Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic - only one of them was actually unsinkable, and that was the Olympic. 

Over the more than 20 years of its existence, the Olympic was never once in real danger. The Olympic was the danger. On its fifth voyage in September 1911, Olympic was running parallel to the HMS Hawke, a British warship designed specifically for ramming things. Olympic suddenly turned to starboard (right side of the ship if you were facing towards its front), catching Hawke’s commanding officer off-guard; he wasn’t able to avoid the collision and ended up ramming the other ship. Olympic was left with a substantial hole beneath the water line (although flooding was for the most part averted due to its bulkheads actually working properly, *cough* Titanic *cough*) and a slightly less substantial hole above it. Hawke, meanwhile, had its entire bow caved in. Olympic made it back to port just fine under her own power, while Hawke almost capsized. Somehow, no one was seriously hurt or killed. 

Three fun facts about this situation: Violet Jessop, a woman famous for surviving the sinkings of both of the Olympic’s sister ships, was onboard the Olympic when this happened. This incident also reinforced the idea that the Olympic-class was unsinkable. The famous postponement of the Titanic’s maiden voyage also occurred because of this incident; a propeller shaft was damaged in the collision, they needed a new one ASAP, and, well, the Titanic was right there... 

Four years later, WWI broke out. The Olympic was requisitioned as a troop ship, given 6-inch naval guns, and sent on its way. In 1918, while travelling to France with a literal boatload of American soldiers, Olympic spotted U-103, a German U-boat chilling on the surface of the ocean. Olympic opened fire on U-103, which immediately crash dived to keep from dying, then turned to ram the U-boat. Olympic hit U-103′s conning tower and tore open the hull with its propellers. U-103′s crew decided “fuck this” and abandoned ship; Olympic didn’t bother to stop to pick them up, so a nearby American warship did instead. It was later found that U-103 was preparing to torpedo Olympic when they’d been spotted, but they couldn’t flood the torpedo tubes in time. Olympic remains the only merchant vessel in WWI recorded to have sunk an enemy vessel (which would become a more common occurrence during WWII, to the extent that the Nazis apparently tried and hanged at least one captured British merchant captain for ramming one of their U-boats. The Nazis were ones to talk, considering they rehired the man who sank the Carpathia and was notorious for war crimes that included things like “drowning surrendered enemy crews by forcing them to strip and stand on the roof of his submarine, then diving the submarine” and “attacking designated hospital ships that made it very obvious they were hospital ships”). 

Following WWI, while Olympic was being refit for civilian service, a sizeable dent was discovered below the waterline. It was later concluded to have been caused by a faulty torpedo, most likely fired by U-53 while the Olympic was travelling through the English Channel. 

Olympic collided with another, smaller ship, Fort St. George, in New York Harbor on March 22, 1924. There’s not much information on how badly Olympic fucked Fort St. George up, just that Olympic apparently fucked around a little too much and found out, because the collision broke its sternpost (support post in the back of the ship; think of it like a central pillar in a structure), forcing the entire stern frame to be replaced. 

On November 18, 1929, Olympic was cruising not far from the Titanic’s wreck site when the whole thing began shaking for two minutes. This was later found to have been caused by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Newfoundland. 

The Olympic’s last hurrah (and casualty) was on May 15, 1934, when it collided with the lightship LV-117. Olympic had known the lightship was in the area, but didn’t know where exactly it was until they were right on top of it. Olympic’s captain immediately ordered a hard turn and the engines slowed, so Olympic wasn’t moving particularly fast when it did hit LV-117 (about 3 and a half miles per hour), but Olympic was fucking huge, and the people onboard barely noticed when they practically crushed the lightship under them. Only four of the eleven crew aboard LV-117 survived; four went down with the ship and three died in Olympic’s hospital (yes, these things had hospitals; I told you there were fucking huge). 

Olympic was fully scrapped in 1937, forever going down in history as both the only Olympic-class ship that was actually unsinkable and the one with the longest reign of terror. Good God, man. I understand sinking the U-boat, but you didn’t need to bring like four other ships down with you. 

[tomorrowusa]

MAGA is really just a variant of fascism. The racist anti-Latino orgy of ethno-nationalism at MSG on Sunday has removed all doubt.

Dean Obeidallah at SubStack walks us through it.

Here is a sample of the hate buffet served up to the cheering MAGA crowd. 1.        Anti-women: Donald Trump again called VP Harris a "very low IQ individual." Tucker Carlson said to cheers if Harris wins she will be “the first Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”  Grant Cardone, a businessman said VP Harris and “her pimp handlers will destroy our country,” obviously suggesting Harris is a  prostitute. -David Rem a person the campaign identified as a childhood friend of Trump, brandished a crucifix and called Vice President Kamala Harris “the antichrist” and “the devil” to huge applause. 2.        Anti-Black: -The rally played Confederate favorite “Dixie” before Black GOP Rep. Byron Donalds came out at Madison Square Garden. -“This cool Black guy with the thing on his head, what is that a lampshade? Believe this guy? Just kidding, that’s one of my buddies. He had a Halloween party last night. We had fun, we carved watermelons together,” said podcaster and alleged comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. 3.        Anti-Latino and anti-Migrant hate: -Referring to Latino migrants, radio host Sid Rosenberg declared to cheers that they are causing crime and that: “The fucking illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?!” -“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” said Tony Hinchcliffe. -“These Latinos, they love making babies. Let’s know that they do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They cum inside. Just like they did to our country!’ again Hinchcliffe. 4.        Anti-Arab/Palestinian hate: -Rudy Giuliani declared: "The Palestinians are taught to kill us at two-years old. There may have good people. I'm sorry I don't take a risk with people who are taught to kill Americans at two." He then declared to big cheers, “I’m on the side of Israel…Donald Trump is on the side of Israel.” 5. Anti-Semitism: -“You also know the Jews having a hard time throwing out that paper, you know what I’m saying?’ Hinchcliffe stated while mimicking holding money, playing on anti-Semitic trope that Jews are cheap. Before this MAGA event, some invoked the hate-filled February 20, 1939 Nazi rally at MSG billed as a "Pro American Rally" which featured a huge image of George Washington in between swastikas. After Sunday’s Trump rally, that comparison was no longer speculative, it was 100% accurate.

Yes, they even played "Dixie" – the Confederate anthem.

This event was held at a large venue in America's media capital with the intent of exposing as many Americans as possible to their message. They are not trying to hide anything. They want to make sure every last nutcake hears their words.

As David Frum via Charlie Sykes on SubStack observed:

This rally seems aimed at the crucial bloc of swing voters who like Donald Trump but worry that maybe he's not quite stupid and obnoxious enough. They need him and his team to squeeze out of the tube that one last plop of stupidity and obnoxiousness.

The stupidest thing for us to do is to freak out. Michael Tomasky wrote an excellent piece in The New Republic.

If You’re Being Fatalistic or Panicking, You Are Helping Donald Trump

It's way easier to prevent dictators than it is to get rid of them once they're here. So quit doomscrolling and do stuff in real life to save a whole lot of work in the future.

Volunteer | Kamala Harris for President

[bitchy-peachy]

Hitler quoting fake "Free Palestine" bitches really hate it when you point out that they honestly don't give a flying fuck about Palestine and are just using the movement to be openly anti Semitic and also anti black and poc in general.

Also I don't see how raping Jewish women outside of Israel while claiming to do it Palestine gives you a "moral high ground". You're just piece of shit riding on the movement to do vile degenerate shit for people you clearly never gave a shit about and I'm pretty sure some of y'all are into some maga bullshit too.

[phoenixyfriend]

Donald Trump is facing widespread criticism over comments he made about Jewish Democratic voters.

Donald Trump: “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion, they hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves.”

On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted Trump’s remark as “unadulterated antisemitism.”

The radio broadcast, in a later segment, discusses this with a sitting US Senator, Chris van Hollen. You can find the video and transcript here.

This is an insane thing to say, obviously, but at this point my concern and curiosity is the potential influence this has on the Dems at large and on Schumer in particular, in light of last week's shift in rhetoric.

[wanderrnest]

I'm jealous of people denying the massacre of israeli people by hamas.

Imagine living in a world where these horrifying acts didn't happen. Thousands of armed terrorists won't just storm civilized areas and break into your family home and kill, slaughter, and burn everyone in there. They won't rape women and kidnap children and murder babies and elderly people. They won't molest and parade with dead bodies. Such a safe little world you've got there, where there's only one good and one bad, no need for complex thought, no need for cognitive dissonance, no need for fear, no need for extra compassion. Everything is so easy! Ignorance IS bliss. happy for you for being able to live in this world. some people don't. some people are right here having to deal with those horrors. all you do is being no better than a common holocaust denier neo nazi.

Caring about innocent Palestinians doesn't have to go hand in hand with denying the worst and most brutal massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. I'm not going to sit and listen to your human rights rants when despite every proof shown otherwise you still choose to believe an actual isis-like terror organization that intentionally does the worst things imaginable to other human beings and lives on murder, propagenda and incitement. that's fucked up. and the absolute evil and ignorance that people have in them to tell someone who's whole family murdered right in front of them that it just didn't happen is beyond me.

[fakevariety]

i think people get really fucking loose with anti semitism to the point where they don't even know what they're saying and i am out of patience people need to shut the fuck up

[whimtortoise]

What is your Hogwarts house?

i'm mentally ill but not that mentally ill

[katarh-mest]

So go ahead and tell me again how both parties are the same.

[wormbraind]

pro-palestine posters please work harder to ward off anti-semitism. you don't call for the death of usamericans because our government has committed genocide and continues to support one, or allow such calls to go unchallenged. don't do the same for israelis.

[anarchotolkienist]

The alessian order is clearly based on (a really stupid romeaboo/idiot new atheist coalition take on) the rise of Christianity in the Roman empire, but I remain convinced that most of the characterisation is specifically islamophobic. The whole "zealously monotheistic religious order who puts in really stupid rules for no reason and hates fun and also sucks in all ways is led by a prophet who separated himself until that he wss spoken to by God. That prophet guy is also a rapist. Oh, and literally a monkey, by the way. Just in case we weren't being clear enough with just how racist we're being here" to me screams your average Sam Harris reader, ca. 2004.

[oifaaa]

i would really recommend looking up the antisemitism around court of the owls before you make a talon au. im not going to tell you not to make it or anything i just want to give you a heads up that theres an issue surrounding it in case you didnt know so you can make your own decision based on that

So I tried looking into this but all I could really find on the subject was a tumblr post from a few years back detailing how the court of owls plays into anti semitic troupes which I was kinda already aware of considering all secret organisations unfortunately play into that troupe thanks in large part to nazi propaganda the same way alot of conspiracy theories are also anti semitic due to how they've been used by nazis and white supremacists

And court of owls does play into the troupe - a group of rich elites that control Gotham from the shadows, that activity try to keep Gotham as shite as possible for their own profit and that steal children - but these are also just common troupes when it comes to secret organisations so it raises a good question of if people can ever use a secret shadow organisation without it being anti semitic? As a non Jewish person I really don't feel comfortable commenting but if you are Jewish and have some opinions on the topic would love to hear them

[wyn-n-tonic]

it is so chaotically fucking disappointing that, after all JK Rowling has said and done, companies are still collaborating and dropping Harry Potter merchandise. because y'all have taken 'separate the art from the artist' so literally. it can't be done here, as long as JK Rowling's estate makes profit off of HP, then purchasing Harry Potter collaborations makes you complicit in the spread of violent transphobia. that is actively influencing policies in the United Kingdom. and companies are still doing it because y'all eat it the fuck up. it's embarrassing.

[gugf]

i think it's called anxiety disorder, man (neurasthenia? idk i only experienced that)

[poor-boy-orpheus]

I'm going to regret posting this but I need some of you to understand that while colonialism is very bad, you do actually have to work to consider what the solution is. Some of you clearly just want to ignore the problem by pretending like Israel or other powers that be can just dissolve or something. It's the same level of intellectual dishonesty as those who pretend that the issue doesn't exist.

[wanderrnest]

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A million times this. Please be thoughtful and don't make this dark painful world darker. There's enough pain already.