#if i say terf will tumblr murder me

[zerosuitsammi3]

If I can take a moment to share my experience as a trans woman on the internet

My experience is by no means unique, it's just one experience in the plethora of trans feminine experiences and not unique to only tumblr. Though, I'll mostly talk about what I've experienced here. In the light of recent events, the reaction of "the ceo," and the comments he contributed regarding dog pile harassment; I simply wish to share my experiences that I have had to juxtapose the dynamic of his statements against a lived experience.

This account started as a way to document my social transition and eventually my journey with HRT. Tumblr had always had a large lgbtqia+ community. The queer people here inspired me and gave me hope. What I didn't know, but soon learned, is that there were people here who hated me for being trans. Being early in my transition I was a prime target. TERF groups would plan raids on my account. What this entailed was: rebloging my selfies into circles that would say the most vile things about me, threaten to kill, tell me I was ugly, tell me that everyone I knew thought I was a joke, I was a monster, my family hated me, that I should kill myself, they'd download and edit my photos into caricatures or depictions of violence. They would fill my ask box with hundreds of asks detailing how they'd kill me, call me slurs, describe the ways that I should kill myself, and pretty much everything else I mentioned above with the reblogs. Their words were carefully curated to try and break me, break my spirit, break my will to live. I tried reporting it. But it was impossible to keep up with, and like many others I saw no real response. Eventually I learned that I had to block all of them. 100's of blogs, eventually 1000's of blogs. My block list these days is incredibly extensive. I had to wade through their blogs, traverse sickening hate speech and imagery to eliminate entire circles of people harassing me. I became jaded to the hate speech, hardened to it. But mind you, I shouldn't have had to expose myself to all of this just to be at peace here amongst my community. I received no help, I was left to my own devices to protect myself. The people who hurt me never saw consequences. It was painful, it was unfair, and no one else should have to put the hours upon hours of effort and exposure to hate in to protect themselves like I did. But again my experience is not unique.

I have had to repeat this process of preemptive blocking periodically once a new circle discovers me. Blocking them all before they can start the process of hate all over again. A process of hate that seems to be hitting my community with rapidly increasing fervor as of late.

I've seen others experience far worse than me. The TERF circles will hunt down their personal information and doxx them. Expose their home address, telephone numbers, names of their family members. I can't begin to imagine the terror my queer siblings must feel when someone tells then that they want to murder them all while showing them that they know where you live. This is not a new thing, not a rare tactic, it happens. And we've all seen the news stories of trans people being murdered by people who planned it and were vocal about it.

I know this is depressing. And it doesn't reflect all of my experiences. I've had wonderful experiences here, met amazing people, made close friends, found inspiration, found hope. I found a community.

And it's my community, and I never want to let it go.

I do have fear that making this statement will get me banned. But, I wanted to say it. I wanted it to exist in the world so that everyone who doesn't know our experiences has a chance to understand and with luck empathize.

I'll part on these words and hope for the best both for myself and for every member of the community.

[star-anise]

Fun upside of rats and spambots fleeing Twitter for Tumblr are all the new fucking, uh...

They're not TERFs this time, they're "not feminists" because "feminism is cancer", they're, uh...

"Violent Misandrists"?

Like, huge use of Judith killing Holofernes vibes. 15yos posting "Kill all men (except my male mutuals lol!)" and insinuating that banning pornography will end child abuse forever.

(deep breath)

Look.

If you are a teenager from the USA, and your parents are Republicans, please consider that EVERYTHING you were ever taught about media, politics, gender, sex, feminism, and the advisability of mass murder as a political tool

has been carefully tailored to make you feel enraged with the state of the world, which is full of Good People and Bad People (groups it is very easy to sort everyone you meet into) and the way to Fix Society is to criminalize, incarcerate, or brutally murder as many Bad People as possible. You have probably seen several different sorting systems proposed, and may not have seen much political discourse beyond debates about "Which PART of society are Bad People who should be punished?"

And yes, I realize you've also been taught that people like me insisting on bullshit like "nuance" and "tolerance" and "educating yourself" are literal Satan and probably in favour of ritualized child abuse and puppy-kicking.

We're not. I'm not. I'm like a lot of people you wouldn't think are Good People, who nevertheless work to make the world better in what we understand to be the best methods available.

I don't know why I'm saying this. I'll probably end up a target of vitriol and regret ever speaking up. Just.

You are not smart for coming to the conclusion that the world is full of Bad People who just need to be killed. You did not figure out (or find the true prophet of) The Secret Truth of the Entire Universe. You haven't figured out how to fix the world. You just followed the fucking breadcrumb trail laid down by people who want to recruit you to commit atrocities in their name.

The world is so much more complicated than you've been led to believe. Fixing its problems is so much more tedious and difficult. Cruelty is so much less useful. And you've got so much more learning to do.

[ineedhjalp]

Queer Joy? No. Time to talk about Queer Fear.

conservatives saying that the queer community is indoctrinating kids are so fucking blind. Back when I was a kid I was worried constantly. Like what if some gunman sees this pride sticker on my water bottle and kills me? What if a terf outs me against my will? What if my transphobic grandma takes me to church and sits me down for a long republican conversation? What if I have an anxiety attack and hurt myself? (I was 12. I was FUCKING TWELVE. This was my childhood.)

I’m done with this fucking shit. Queer people are not groomers, pedophiles, or murderers. I feel safer with a queer person on tumblr than I would with ANY REPUBLICAN.

queers aren’t killing kids, conservatives are.

pls reblog to spread awareness

[velvetvexations]

I'd say it usually is when they're talking about things that affect everyone, unless they're talking about transmisogyny/transandrophobia/exorsexism and specifically addressing how one group is treated even if those patterns have equivalents in each other. But when it's like, reporting something bad happening that affects everyone, that's another thing.

They literally think transradfem is a slur to silence them.

detransition anon: the point is not that i agree with them, but its like self-evidently true that there are a lot of transfems who treat transmascs like subhuman scum who instead of talking should be sucking their gocks or whatever and like im not dumb enough to argue that only men could act so horrible ergo trans women are men of whatever, i can understand how you could come to that conclusion, given the described circumstances. and that its definitely not about "not looking like naruto" lmao

Yeah, like, "AMAB supremacy" is not a thing but a small minority of trans women seem bent on giving transmascs that impression to drive them out of the community and then blame them for having wanted to be TERFs all along. Thankfully most transmascs are better allies than them and recognize that the majority of trans women love them.

You surely would think so.

Sure!

They're not technically saying trans women could never do anything wrong, just that you should automatically and resolutely disbelieve anything bad anyone says about a transfem ever. Which is totally different.

And then they'll be like "I'm just anti-callout post" even though if you actually read any discussion happening around in the notes of those posts it's absolutely not at all just about callout posts.

But just in general, even aside from the abuse it runs the risk of covering, what really pisses me off is the bullshit that trans women are being targeted for callouts to the extent that TRFs say they are. People privileged enough to be proud non-voters are lounging outside their family's beach house whining on Tumblr about how they could be socially murdered at any second while other trans women are being Actually Murdered For Real.

[red-velvet-0w0]

INTRO POST

post status: Free

Im just a silly little person with an ocean obsession who lives in your phone.

My names are Erin/Eris/Eve/Jess/Red (Erin or Eris is preferred, but I'm fine with any of them)

She/They preferred, but you can call me anything so long as it is NOT he/him (on the same note, if you call me man/dude/bro/guy I will flood your house)

Im a minor (17 years old), and am enby/trans, poly, and a Massive Lesbian, and also probably demiromantic? idk about that last one im still trying to figure that out

im definitely neurodivergent but im not entirely sure what all I have going on up in here (definitely undiagnosed ADHD, probably a lot of other things too)

American/Californian

If you're a terf, a homophobe, or a pedophile: go away please okay? Otherwise pretty much anybody is welcome here so long as you arent hurting anybody

Im pro-palestine

Im an artist, animator, and a game designer (i have a youtube and an itch.io page but neither of them have much on them) (im uh. not quite as good at finishing projects as i am at starting them)

I have an alt account @red-gamedev-0w0 which is where i post about games im working on.

my DMs, asks, and anons are always open if you wanna be silly, and honestly it really makes my day when i get a message. boundaries and norms for talking to me are at the very bottom

i have a silly little OC universe im hoping to turn into a webcomic eventualy (hopefully)

I AM VERY STRONGLY AGAINST AI ART. (and just. generative AI in general) (yes that includes chat gpt and character AI)

I am... incredibly normal about the ocean. I have healthy and reasonable emotions I feel when i think about it. dont question why "erins ocean posting" is one of my most used tags its totaly healthy trust me (is it a religious thing? a sexual thing? a gender thing? you will literaly never know)

The fandoms im in are: Tiger Tiger, Roblox Pressure (Sebastian Solace), Aurora Webcomic, The Killers, Tom Cardy, The Mechanisms, Life Series, Hermitcraft, Parkour Civ, Mineraft, Marble Hornets, Terraria, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Hades, Camp Here And There, Murder Drones, The Magnus Podcasts, Epic the Musical, Hello From the Hallowoods, Witherburn After School News, Dont Hug Me Im Scared, The Locked Tomb, Hatchetfield, Centaurworld, Amphibia, Epithet Erased, Kid Vampire, and Bigtop Burger (+ a few more but those are the ones you'll see the most of) (Red means highly likely to post about it, purple means very unlikely to post about it often)

#1 Killers fan (their best album is Sams Town and the best song is Bones and thats a fact)

i also sometimes rant about spanish literature sometimes but thats a rare occasion

I really, really hate Dantes Inferno and the Sierpinski triangle

Id love to be friends, enemies, or really anything in between if you let me.

Tags I use (in case you want to block them):

#erins cryptic ramblings (generic tag)

#erins ocean posting (for ocean related posts)

#axe and erins dnd bullshit (for when im talking about dnd with one of my mutuals)

#the forever day (my OCs/potentialy hopefully a webcomic im working on??? hopefully well see how far that goes)

#erin answers asks (self explanitory)

#erin talks about life /#erin rants about life (also self explanitory)

#erins tumblr ad saga (my compilation of all the worst ads this hellsite has to offer)

BOUNDERIES, NORMS, AND RULES OF THUMB FOR TALKING TO ME:

No horny/vaguely sexual messages unless 1) we are friends, 2) you are under 18, and 3) you have asked me directly in the past whether i am comfortable with that sort of thing or are otherwise aware that i am comfortable with you talking to me like that

Avoid using male terms as much as possible (ie. guy, dude, man, bro), and id prefer avoiding gendered terms as much as possible, but when you have the choice female terms are prefered (ie. girl). i may refer to myself using male gendered terms from time to time but that does not give you permision to

Do not EVER use the r-slur on me.

Do not EVER say "KYS" or anything of that nature to me, even as a joke

If you send me hate mail of any kind i will either just delete it or if ill just mock you. nothing you can say will ever be as hateful as the stuff my brain says to me on a daily basis so dont bother

If i say i dont want to talk about something, i dont want to talk about it.

Nicknames and terms of endearment (ie. dear, love, bestie) are fine from friends, so long as you have cleared with me that I am fine with you calling me that

I have a tendancy to be VERY flirty with some of my friends, but just know that i almost certainly mean it entirely platonicaly, unless i specificaly tell you i mean it in a different way. Even something like "i want to make out with you" can be platonic coming from me, so in general dont assume im flirting with you (likewise if you ARE actualy flirting with me be warned that I will not realize in the slightest and you will have to be very clear that you are actualy flirting because there is no other way i will ever know)

If i am saying something nice to you, it is genuine. period. i would never lie to you about something like that. if i tell you i care about you, its not out of pity or out of some strange malice. its because i care about you

you are ALWAYS welcome and encouraged to talk to me, especialy if you are feeling sad or at risk of hurting yourself. Even if we have barely talked, if you need somebody to talk to or rant to I am always here for you.

And that’s about it!

Nice to meet you!

[parabugz]

intro .. ~ 𖤐⭒๋࣭⭑

basics 💜

🛸my name is milli, you can also call me para or zebub! (other names i like to be called are jecka, zi, seven, lar, twi, & gen)

🌿DID system, AuDHD, cancer survivor, ♐︎, ENG/ESP

👻my prns are irk/it/zir/chem/bot and i also use he/him

🪲ENTJ 1w9 SO Chol, 16yo

🦇nihilist, occultist (daemonolatry study), theistic satanist

toyhouse, twitter (art), twitter (main), youtube, comic, carrd (soon)

`` . . . . `` hellooo! i am a furry artist & casual V-artist streamer but mostly on tumblr i just indulge in fandom stuff ✩ here i sometimes post my art, talk abt my comic & mostly just interact with other people... tl;dr i am a lurker more than a poster

im also a highschool dropout anddd studying to get a GED and get into an art college rn!

fandoms🔥

⋆｡°✩ CURRENT HYPERFIX: vampair, my little pony, hyperdimension neptunia, murder drones💜

murder drones, saw franchise, aggretsuko, invader zim, kakegurui, breaking bad, beastars, l4d2, fnaf, kwite, ironmouse, K-ON, R.A.T.S., gemini home entertainment, bojack horseman, tuca & bertie, sex education, class of 09, transformice, skullgirls, sam & max, meemeows, aphmau, scott pilgrim, regretevator, hyperdimension neptunia, assassins creed, lucky star, DDLC, MMPOH, The Cat Returns, IANOWT, TEOTFW, Yansim (sorry!), Roblox DOORS, MMHOPH, Kittydog, Animaniacs, PATB, Vampair, Mystery Skulls,

kins👽

Uzi Doorman, Luka (FCU), Sadie Miller, Maximillion (S&M), Roxie Richter, ASDF Cow, Starlight Glimmer, Shuriken (Phighting), Dib Membrane, Brett Hand, Tome Kurata, Huohuo (H:SR), Darlene Anderson, Jecka ('09), Neptune (HDN), Zooble, Nana Ashida, Akira Kogami, Konata Izumi, sayori.chr, Haru Yoshioka, Sydney Novak, Figure (DOORS), Mao Mao, Wakko, Missi (The Vampair),

friends😈

@mel10k my best friend ever since we were little babies... he knows my deepest darkest secrets his only flaw is that hes horrible at actually everything

@rt-lots raegan my coworker buddy... very very smart and funny, a beautiful writer, & co-creator of our comic! cute cute CUTE GOOD art & he tries so hard everyday so check her out

@horriblegonzo insane little thing. we bonded over being cringe years ago and now were friends forever. she draws fucked up monsters and shit; read honks comic

@sparrowofsardinia raegans brother... hes cool I FUCKING GUESS. funny and has good taste in stuff.... hi charlie. thanks for being my movie night buddy

+more who either dont have tumblr or idk their tumblr so lmk 👾

DNI

bigots (racist, ableist, transphobic, homophobic, cultural or religious discrimination, etc), TERFs+SWERFs, transmeds, zoophiles, shotacon/lolicon, "MAPs"/pedos, homestuck fans, proshippers, transabled

just a note for me, as a person, if something you say directly upsets me or i think is uncalled for, im going to be blunt about it and try to talk abt it. if you cant have a mature convo then whatever but i hate internet drama so fucking much tl;dr theres a block button and we should both use it

last edit: 04/22/2024

[birgitte-on-fridays]

We need to stop fighting.

So I just joined tumblr (kind of, I've had this account for a while but I've never been active before. All that is beside the point though.) I knew tumblr was having some... issues but I really just needed to get off reddit for the sake of my own mental health.

Anyway, I got here and, pardon my language, what the fuck is happening?

I've seen posts by transfemmes accusing transmascs of being part of the mass reporting effort that got predstrogen banned. I've seen posts by transmascs accusing trasfemmes of not believing that transmascs suffer transandrophobia/transmisandry (I'm not entirely sure of the nuance in how the two terms differ.) It makes me really sad to see the community split like this, especially so soon after Nex Benedict's murder.

However, I haven't actually seen anything that would indicate that either transfemmes' or transmascs' fears about the other have any solid foundation. So why is this happening? I think I have an explanation. It's TERFs.

See, when I was first getting my bearings here on tumblr, I stumbled across a post from a TERF blog. I quickly blocked the blog, but I remember what it said well enough. As TERFs tend to do, the post infantalized transmascs and villainized transfemmes, insinuating that this recent infighting was caused by transmascs coming to some sort of realization that transfemmes are somehow tricking them into being trans. This is obviously super gross and transphobic, but more to the point, the blog was celebrating. The TERFs are happy about this conflict, which leads me to believe that they are the ones who created it in the first place.

I don't have any concrete proof for this, so feel free to call me crazy, but I'm going to walk you through my thought process:

predstrogen gets banned, TERFs see that the blame for her ban is largely being placed on them

They see an opportunity and start spreading rumors that transmascs were involved in the mass reporting of predstrogen’s account that led to her being banned from the platform

This leads to discussion among transmascs about transandrophobia

The TERFs again take advantage to make it look like transfemmes are deriding the idea of transandrophobia

The trans community becomes split, the TERFs are happy because they revel in our suffering

Now, for the sake of fairness, let’s say I’m wrong. TERFs had nothing to do with anything. There really were transmascs involved in predstrogen’s . There really were transfemmes harassing transmascs regarding transandrophobia. What does this change? Well, nothing.

These were the actions of individuals, and they are not representative of the groups they are a part of.

Okay, so this was a long post. I don’t have anything insightful to add here at the end. I’ll leave you with this message instead: be kind to each other. Understand that other people have had different experiences than you. Don’t allow yourself to close your little section of the community off from the rest because of the actions of a few individuals.

Oh, and if there are any TERFs still reading this, fuck off. You’re not welcome here.

[painfullymeta]

Warning: I'm Gonna Be Earnest Now

I am deep in my feels right at the moment so I am actually making a post of my own on this, the deep in my feels hellsite.

I am late GenX.  (Not quite what gets called Xennial IMO but definitely in what gets called the Oregon Trail (Micro)Generation.)  And for all you young whippersnappers, you have to understand "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” ( - L. P. Hartley)

I am old enough to remember when AIDS was named GRID.  ("Gay-related immune deficiency.”)  I am old enough to remember ACT-UP, the Reagans’ abandonment, “If I die of AIDS just leave me on the steps of the FDA”, all those things that tired older people on tumblr try to remind people of when the TERFs come around to tell us to stop saying “queer” as if Queer Nation was a goddamn hallucination I had when I was a kid.

On the last day of high school, after the last exam, when none of us would have to ever see each other again if we so chose – that was the day that one of my friends, someone I had eaten lunch near every day since partway through freshman year, said to me “I have something to tell you.  I’m gay.”  And then he followed it up with “Is that okay?”

I hugged him.  He broke my goddamn heart and I hugged him.  "Is that okay," he asked me. Is it okay to be who I am, near you.

I was in college before I met someone who identified herself as a lesbian — and I went to a women’s college until I lost my shit and dropped out, and I expect that if I hadn’t done that I might have gone longer.

(Of course at the same time as I was clueless and not meaningfully connected with any sort of queer culture I somehow wound up with a friendgroup who, if we got bored and couldn’t come up with anything else to do, would watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show together.  This is what we did instead of going to Homecoming.)

By 2000, I was vaguely aware of trans things existing, and in fact met my first trans person while at Brighton Pride that year, though we didn’t really speak (I was there as the guest of some people in his extended social group) and I was vaguely confused and too awkward to try to do more than ‘observe and try not to fuck this up’.  I met a nonbinary person for the first time around then as well, and zie was the only one I knew of for nearly a decade.

By the mid-oughts I was with it enough to ask someone what pronouns she wanted me to use for her before sharing something about her on a message board.

(I am also old enough to have spent time on multiple message boards.  I’m old enough to resent the internet going through the world wide web instead of email and usenet actually.)

Sometime in the early oughts I guess I was at the subcommittee hearing in the Boston State House that was discussing, among other things, whether we might consider possibly condescending to allow same-sex couples to marry.  I was even going to testify!  (Please be impressed with my early twenties autistic ass I was terrified.)  There was a guy there - a senator on the committee - who was asking every person who came up if they were going to force his church to marry the gays.  Catholic, y’know, this being Massachusetts.  I revised my speech in my head to note that if we weren’t forcing the Catholic churches to marry divorcees yet he didn’t need to worry about it.

(Then my nose decided to haemhorrage all over my entire life and I couldn’t get it to stop bleeding so rather than testify while looking like an entire murder victim I went home.)

I was in my thirties when pregnancy-induced dysphoria made me start seriously thinking about my own sense of gender.

I was in my forties before I bought a binder.

I am from another fucking planet.  (The past is a foreign country.)

I know kids - multiple kids - who knew enough to identify as lesbians at an age younger than I think I knew that word.  (And I am one of those humans of freakish and unreasonable vocabulary and always have been.)

I crack jokes with one of my kids about the Queer Kids Stairs at their school, because that’s where the GSA kids hang out together after activities get out.  (While GSAs were around while I was a kid, they started in Massachusetts according to Wikipedia and that is not where I was when I was a kid, and to my best recollection I didn’t hear about them existing at all until I was an adult.)

I live in a world where my social circles include queer people of my generation, of older generations, of younger generations, and oh my gods, I look at the kids and my heart tries to explode.

My oldest knows more than one trans kid.  More than one *affirmed* trans kid.  (And we’ve talked a bit about the social dynamics that might make it more likely for the trans boys to be out than the trans girls, even now.)

And I’m writing this because of one of those trans boys, who is in the Coming of Age group at our church, and who is, apparently, in his credo, citing that thing I’ve seen on the tumblrs more than once, about how being trans means being a participant in the holy, divine process of creation, coming into being as himself.

And guys?

I’m not from the same planet as that kid.

Because I’m in my forties and I don’t even know what I’m creating.  And I’m terrified.

And here’s this kid coming out there with that as a core statement of belief that he’s prepared to stand up in front of, as the phrase goes ‘God and everyone’, to claim.

(I need to remember to talk to him about how in my Craft tradition there’s a canonically transmasc god.)

I know I’ve got at least two teenagers reading me and I just.  Y’all got this.  I know it’s hard and the world is scary and it’s fucking coming for us all but you are amazing and I am so full of inarticulate alexithymic feelings about all of you. The ones I know and the ones I don't.

We've come a long way from "Is that okay?" and you heal my broken heart.

[the-lion-guard-88]

Decided to make an introduction post so…Hello!

I am The Lion Guard 88, I am a 17 year old female (She/Her) who has a YouTube channel of the same name (8.43K+ subscribers)

Rules for my Tumblr:

Be respectful to everyone regardless of their gender, sexuality, religion, beliefs, etc; I will not tolerate any discrimination/harassment or any sort.

If you need to vent to me just DM me, don’t say it in the public chat, I will try my best to help out as much as I’m not that good at helping people in my opinion.

Do not ask me personal questions such as where I live or to reveal my face.

Do not abuse the ask box ability; do not send messages that are part of my DNI list.

Anyways here’s a bit about me

I am Italian-Armenian-American, half Middle Eastern

Favorite Food: Hamburgers

Favorite Drink: Diet Coke

I am Bisexual

I am Christian

Favorite Movie: The Lion King

Favorite TV Show: The Lion Guard

Favorite YouTuber: SMG4

Favorite SMG4 Character: SMG3 and Mr. Puzzles

Simp list: SMG3, Ragatha, Rosalina, Crimson Knolastname (If he wasn’t a dick), Mr. Puzzles, Tari, V (Murder Drones), Julie Joyful

Semi-simp list: SMG4

Kin list: Kion, SMG3, Angel Dust, Mario (2023 Movie), Luz Noceda, Amity Blight, Stolas, Puss in Boots

I have Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD, Anxiety Disorder and I am an introvert (I may have depression but I’ve never been tested because I’m told I don’t need one but I lowkey think I am due to multiple different tests from HEALTH WEBSITES saying I am)

Birthday: July 12th (Cancer)

Favorite Season: Winter

Favorite colors: Neon green, Black, and blood red

What I want to be: Actress

Other things I like: Cats, Lions, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, Lackadaisy, Glitch Productions, Meta Runner, Sunset Paradise, Murder Drones, The Amazing Digital Circus, WALL-E, Amphibia, The Owl House, Nimona, Game Of Thrones, South Park, Animaniacs, Drawing, Cosplay, Roblox, Nintendo, Super Mario (Super Mario Galaxy is my favorite), Demon Slayer, Memes, YouTube, Acting, Theatre, Horror Movies, Scary things, Halloween (the holiday), Puss in Boots, Disney (Older movies), Pixar, Dreamworks, Illumination, bubble tea, LGBTQ, I support transgender, Indie animation, Chemistry and Chorus Class

Things I don’t like: Cheese (Not all), homophobes, transphobes, xenophobes, zoophiles, Roblox Slenders, Stranger Things, Bluey, socializing, betrayal, backstabbing, people talking over one another, being interrupted every 3 seconds, being distracted while trying to focus (it gives me anxiety attacks), politics, DNI’s, AI, AI Artists, AI Supporters, Content Farms, Content Farm Supporters, Genocide Supporters, R*pe supporters

DNI list: Proshippers, Pedophiles, NSFW artists, homophobes, transphobes, xenophobes, zoophiles, p*rn promoters, spammers, racists, sexists, ableists, whitewashers, blackwashers, AI Artists, AI Supporters, Content Farmers, Content Farm Supporters, Genocide Supporters, R*pe supporters, Groomers, TERFs

Socials:

YouTube

Tumblr (You are here)

Deviantart

Wattpad

Roblox

Discord

Credit to blinkies.cafe for the blinkies and whoever made the other stuff

You made it to the end, have a good day!

[50sfemme]

3 trans women have been murdered in the US in less than two weeks. i hold you and all other terfs personally responsible. fuck you. that 14 year okd girl's blood is on your hands. how the fuck do you sleep at night?

you can hold me accountable if you wish, but you must face the truth that the murders of trans people are all at the hands of men. homophobic, transphobic men. as a feminist, i am against the associations of femininity with femaleness and masculinity with maleness, which is why i refuse to accept that a man in a dress becomes more of a woman for doing so, or that a woman is more of a man if she cuts her hair short. by arguing for the modern notion of gender, one inevitably ends up perpetuating conservative gender roles, even if this is done under the guise of progressivism. on my tumblr, all i have done is point this out, and i will keep pointing it out. i have no hatred for trans people, nor do i wish to see them harmed.

why do you not leave anonymous asks on the blogs of transphobic men? why do you not attack men, the sole people who murder trans women, why do your protest slogans not state that men are evil, that men should die? why is your activism always about harassing women who have never harmed anybody? i am lesbian woman, not the enemy, nor the enactor of harm. please direct your hatred elsewhere. saying that a fourteen year old’s blood is on my hands is an incredibly vile thing to say and i hope you can sleep at night, knowing you torment and harass women on the internet instead of your actual oppressors.

[aingeal98]

The part of the Zionists rhetoric I've seen online especially here on tumblr that really... not so much confuses or disturbs me because every part of supporting racism and genocide is disturbing, but the part that makes me nauseous in a very specific way, is how many of these people claim to be leftists. Not the Israeli government or the majority of Zionists obviously, they're proud racist right wingers. But here on tumblr you have people who believe in feminism and queer rights and would agree easily enough with surface level takes on how racism in America is bad. And when it comes to conservatives and red fascists they can easily tell when a right wing racist or homophobe is arguing in bad faith, they can make long posts explaining the harm behind terf rhetoric and how it differs from the actual fight for women's liberation. They can look at the Russia and Ukraine conflict and use critical thinking to call out bad actors with ease.

But then with Israel and Palestine they just... Flip. All the bad faith arguments they criticised before is now their modus operandi. They ignore the ongoing genocide and the Palestinians talking about it and focus on the oppressors, only reblogging the same one or two Palestinian voices once every now and then that say everything they want to hear and nothing more.

I think the most striking example is that "antisemitism bingo" someone made where the ongoing genocide was something to be laughed at and the blog made fun of Palestinian civilians being tortured. And yet when a blocklist went around of people who interacted with that ghoulish blog, clearly explaining why we should avoid them, (Hijt:The racism and dehumanisation of Palestinians) these "leftist zionists" immediately were like "Oh its a block list of Jewish blogs! It's only blocking us because we're Jewish!"

Like it's the most bad faith easily disproven illogical argument that every random 4chan troll can make. It's not my actions it's because I'm white! It's not my homophobic remarks it's because I'm straight!

I still struggle to understand how they're able to flip so easily from intelligent historical and societal discussions of oppression and intersectionality to denial of the Nakba, denial of the apartheid and racism that has ruled the Israeli state since its conception, denial of the Israeli terrorism and colonisation ongoing in the West Bank that Palestinians have been speaking up about for years (The save Sheikh Jarrah campaign and the murder of peaceful Palestinian activists predates October 7th by quite a bit and yet received far, far less coverage by western media) and denial of everything the government and soldiers and many citizens are currently doing to murder as many Palestinians as possible. How do you go from pointing out cult tactics to a Maga style tribalism enthusiast just because it's Palestinians being oppressed and not another group?

The only reason I can think of is that unlike say, white people or straight people, zionists DO have an understandable, real fear that they can use to promote their racist cult. Antisemitism exists worldwide and is a problem in every single country. Unlike ridiculous concepts like "white genocide" or misandry, there is grounded, factual and understandable reasons for Jewish people to want a community where they can feel safe. And anyone who truly cares about equality for all must be committed to stamping out and dismantling antisemitism in every country and neighbourhood, because Zionists sure as hell aren't. The more antisemitism exists the greater their fuel for justifying and promoting Israel as the One True answer to it all.

But the solution of Israel involved ethnic cleansing in order to built their majority Jewish state, and relies on racism and genocide to maintain it. Just like any other coloniser state, it's not sustainabile and is constantly spiralling towards fascism. (America currently contending for loudest spiral) And that is obvious to anyone who reads up on the history or just like. Talks to Palestinians for five seconds. Israel exists due to racism and dehumanisation of Palestinians, and anyone who considers that an acceptable sacrifice is blatantly morally bankrupt. But the tribalism is simply too strong for that sort of logic and understanding, and whatever reasons they may have for falling into Zionism, it's still unacceptable. If you're still on here talking about "demonising Israel and exaggerating genocide (for the woke agenda, is what they're two steps away from saying) then I have no sympathy or time for you. One day you will be forced to reckon with your cognitive dissonance and willful ignorance, and the self righteous racist narrative you cling to will no longer be enough to protect you from judgement. Normal people with their morals screwed on right don't support fascism and racism. Leftists sure as hell shouldn't support facism and racism. (And yes this goes for those who defend Russian and Chinese imperialism too.)

You talk about feeling isolated, about having no one but fellow zionists to rely on. No one else will accept how complicated the situation is, you say over the sound of ten thousand murdered children killed and celebrated by the fascists you're carrying water for. Everyone else is just too antisemitic! You say as the Israeli government and military celebrates Hannukah by bombing Palestinians and joking that they're lighting one of the candles.

I genuinely can't tell if these people are aware they're full of shit or just so scared that they've dived deep into cult mentality with zero critical thought allowed. But either way, there should be no more space for them in our community than a nazi, a homophobe or a Trump supporter. They may have parroted similar ideals of equality and justice for long enough, but when push came to shove and the issues began to hit too close to home, they decided that supporting facism is how they want to cope. So be it. Palestine will be free with or without them and I will mourn the intelligent principled people they could have been, but at the end of the day you have to draw the line somewhere. And supporting genocide is generally a solid line to go with.

[liches-covered-in-lich]

Not even op but you coincidentally "accidentally" commented that on a harry potter post that was meant for a different harry potter post.

From your comment it seems like you dont like harry potter or its fans so what a damn coincidence you have two harry potter posts either on your dash or you are searching for them.

Not only are you commenting negativity on peoples posts, you are instead of deleting your comment, posting more comments about how it was a "mistake".

Even if it was a mistake what makes one harry potter fan worse than the other when all you said was "ew a harry potter fan" implying all of them are gross.

Just shut up with your virtue signaling and delete your comments

1) I can't delete comments on tumblr mobile, it's a glitch I got

2) So what happened with that whole comment thing is that I was trying to reply to a fandom post complaining about Harry Potter fandom stuff by saying "ew Harry potter fan". But for some reason tumblr glitched and made me reply to some artist's post. So I put in an apology but that apology got put into the fandom post. Hence my confusion and apologies. If I could delete the wrong comments, i would. But tumblr is held together by glue and toothpicks, so I can't

3) I don't follow nor look for Harry potter content as HP is lame and directly funds a holocaust denying terf who is using her money to hurt marginalized groups. I follow Fandomproblems because it's interesting at times, and it happened to have a post about Harry potter and I wanted to be petty

4) Yes, all Harry Potter fans are bad. I'm sorry that a children's book series that is directly funding the murder and discrimination of trans people are bad, anon. Sorry to have to break it to you that Harry Potter fans are generally bad and don't care about anyone else but their mid-tier fantasy stories and "childhood nostalgia" :( Hope you get better soon. Maybe upgrade to Bionicle Books? Or even Warrior Cats?

[fluffymuffincentral]

This is the pinned post and guide to my blogs as well as a bit about myself and what I’m doing here on tumblr!

Quick about me!

Name: FluffyMuffin, but you can just call me Muffin

Pronouns: they/them

Likes: games, TV shows, animations, vocaloid music (I’m so cringe ik), The Crane Wives music, drawing, reptiles

Dislikes: school assignments, being singled out, sudden loud noises, being yelled at, feeling like I’m worse at something than everyone else

Fandoms/hyperfixations: murder drones, Pokémon, the owl house, TADC, hollow knight, wings of fire, sky cotl, Steven Universe, Amphibia, Gravity Falls, Kipo, She-Ra, Hazbin Hotel, Fablehaven/Dragonwatch, Percy Jackson (the Disney+ series sucked tho. The books are better), Maze Runner

My discord server: Muffin’s Treehouse

My commissions: carrd

Ask rules:

I may be socially anxious but don’t be deterred! I love chatting with people! (Especially about my hyperfixations)

You may: chat with me, just say hi, ask me about my ocs, ask me about my art and stories (no guarantee I spoil anything), send me things like fanart, memes, or other things!

You may not: send me NSFW, be problematic, or be weird or creepy in any way. I am a minor and would rather not see those things without consent.

DNI with me if you are: Homophobes/Transphobes, TERFs, Ableists, Pedophiles, Zoophiles, Proshippers, Prolifers, BASIC DNI

Quick blog guide!

@askmuffinmews my interactive pokémon sideblog about my mew and mewtwo ocs!

@the-solvers-heart my interactive sideblog about my murder drones ocs!

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DO NOT INTERACT:

Pedophiles/MAPs/NOMAPs

Proshippers

Racists

LGBT+phobic

Terfs

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Just too say. Im very cheesy. So you will see not canon compliant stuff in my blog. Like Horror, Geno and Nightmare. I absolutely mutilated their canon personalities, so please if you dont like them that way, dont see my utmv content. And Springtrap and Deliah content.

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Interact Michael haters too

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Please do not send me asks for donations

Here's why:

I have NO money to give you

I'm not a popular enough blog that I will give you any reach

I am a minor, and most of my followers are too

It makes me feel extremely guilty

Seeing pictures of injuries or hospitals etc are triggering for me (which are in most intro posts for this sort of thing)

They are always worded in a way that makes me feel like I am a murderer if I don't donate

It makes me feel uncomfortable

I said I don't want them, and my boundaries should be respected

I can't tell what is a bot and what isn't

I get a lot of spam from this. It is disappointing to see 10 new asks in my inbox just to be the same ask for donations over and over

Please, just respect the fact that I have said this.

Edits below (probably for the best if you read them too)

Edit: To all the people reblogging this, I'm sorry you have had to deal with this too. And yes, you can put this in your pinned post! Stay safe <3

Edit 2: I am pro Palestine and want to do everything I can to help but I'm not financially or mentally well enough to do much. I'm not in support of these people dying. Also, this post isn't just about Palestine. It's about ALL asks for donations. I'm not doing favouritism or racism. I just can't deal with it. Don't harass me for expressing boundaries.

Edit 3: Yes, this post might seem controversial. But I did literally make this for my own personal experience and didn't expect it to get more than 12 notes or so. You can agree with this post, pin this post, reblog this post, I don't care really. But don't add opposing views because quite frankly, it's none of your business. It's not my problem and I didn't mean for this post to get so many notes. Edit 2 mostly covered what I'm trying to say here, but don't use the number of notes as an excuse to fight me. I just want a peaceful Tumblr experience. Also, if you are reblogging this, don't trauma dump. I keep notifications on for this post so that I can block people harassing me before shit escalates, so I can see every reblog. You can screenshot and repost if you want to talk about your problems, but honestly its no better seeing people saying "I'm bankrupt and I just got kicked out by my family. I also have a history of abuse and those images are so triggering that I want to die". That doesn't help me. Make your own post to say that. Please

[saltymcsaltything]

I know I am conditioned by trauma to see red flags everywhere and assume the worst of anyone I don't know and trust because experience has shown that it's the safer default, so it's very hard not to see malice and contempt in the behavior and words of @photomatt

But I am trying to turn that off enough to appeal to reason, because in reflecting on his most recent posts in particular, I think it's possible, however much my instincts scream otherwise, that he's just ignorant of what the trans community experiences and actually can't understand why we see his words and actions as harmful and transphobic.

This entire debacle keeps making me think of the double empathy problem - he cannot possibly understand the truly vile hate and abuse we are exposed to on this site or the lengths even small blogs have to go to in order to curate our experience into something that feels remotely safe. Many of us have been physically and sexually assaulted because of our gender and we are at risk of being murdered. TERFs on this site *gleefully celebrate the deaths of trans people including children* and actively target people with a history of self harm and suicidal ideation. That is the context of trans lives that has him painting us as toxic for mocking him and his overreaction to 'threats' that most of us wouldn't even bat an eye at. I don't doubt that anons and DMs have been sent to him that are far worse than the hammer car thing, but he's still only seeing a tiny sliver of the hate levelled against trans people. Maybe if he considers how what he is experiencing happens every day ending with Y for any trans blogger with a sizeable following and that Tumblr's track record for taking action against that is beyond abysmal, he might snap out of this pattern of centering himself over the user's who have been pushed past their breaking point by the years of failure in addressing biased moderation and complete lack of visible action against hate speech. If he does, maybe there's an opportunity to actually see something positive come from this.

@photomatt, I am going to attempt to put aside my visceral aversion to so much of what you've said and done over the last few days and try to get you to understand *why* you've faced the backlash you have, because it is clear you do not really understand our experiences and cannot empathize with them. And please don't claim that you do, your actions and tone towards us say otherwise and it's insulting to watch you claim allyship when you have contributed to the harm we endure on a daily basis. You need to sit with th knowledge that you have hurt us because of your ignorance, reflect, and start actually listening to us. Stop centering yourself and work to see what your actions, words, and the past and present failures of Tumblr as an organization have done to the trans community. Keep in mind that you admitted to having a contract moderator that was actively targeting us and colluding with others to do the same, and understand that the harm done by that didn't disappear when they were dealt with - if anything disclosing that ripped open gaping wounds, and your actions since have poured salt in them.

I doubt this is worth the effort at this point since you seem to have fully entrenched your defensiveness and your framing of a community in the current political climate that is constantly under threat of actual, life threatening physical violence for the crime of existing as "toxic", but if you have even an ounce of humility and genuine desire to support us, I hope you'll consider taking a step back and reflecting on your recent behavior from the perspective of users who have seen communities they have painstakingly built on Tumblr where we had a modicum of safety repeatedly decimated by disastrous policies and practices, and who have for years been actively targeted by bigots who want to see us erased from existence and openly brag about their attacks. Put yourself in the shoes not of a CEO but someone who's existence is under theat on multiple levels on a daily basis, and then read the way that you, the most powerful person on the platform talks about a member of the community who was the target of a malicious campaign of harassment, mass reporting, hate speech, vile accusations and death threats. Try to see what we see - especially the avoidance of the biggest issue for the community, which is the harassment campaign that TERFs are gloating about in the notes of your posts.

Behavior is communication, and your behavior feels *abusive* given your position of power in the context of what we face on a daily basis. Users desperate for a scrap of hope that the common threats that we are faced with on this platform might be dealt with in a meaningful way saw the most powerful person on the platform focusing solely on the "violations" of a single user who was being brigaded by one of the most vitriolic and toxic groups on the platform. Not addressing the harassment being visited on her spoke volumes - it told us you *do not care* about the harm that is done to us on a daily basis by bad actors, but you absolutely care about whats directed at you and @staff. While I sympathize with line level employees who are caught in the cross fire of the backlash you incited with your ignorance and callous disregard for a community that is routinely traumatized, I don't have much empathy to spare for those in leadership who have a level of power and privilege no ordinary user on this platform comes close to having, especially after witnessing how quickly you will wield that power to protect *your* in-group and yourself from a *sliver* of the abuse the trans community endures on a daily basis. It was sickening witnessing how quickly blogs mocking you were banned when people who have done *far worse* to us for years have been able to do so with impunity under your watch when all it would take us for you to look at a single report of the hate and abuse we report and wield the same ban hammer against people who should have been held accountable *years* ago. Knowing you would do for you and yours but not for us is utterly depressing.

And it's not only the trans community dealing with hate speech, death threats and harassment, but in this instance that was who your behavior was harming when you showed what you were capable of doing to protect your people when the issue you repeatedly failed to address but clearly could have was the *massive* flood of hate that the trans community repeatedly reports but sees scant evidence of any response. If there *is* meaningful action in the background, the lack of transparency makes it meaningless because from our perspective there isn't anything being dive to address mass coordinated harassment campaigns that *should* be easy to mask since so much of it is copy/paste anon hate spammed in asks. You claim standard policy is to not comment on moderation decisions but then decided to make an exception in this instance to, from our perspective, shit on a victim of a targeted smear campaign and make claims about their behavior that did not match the evidence you made available, while invoking law enforcement action against someone who is at increased risk of police violence and then doubling down on how much *you and your people* were being hurt when criticized for failing to address the entire situation and for centering your own feelings over an entire community who's suffering on your platform you fail to acknowledge.

Make an exception and tell us what you've actually done to address transphobic harassment. Not doing so when you made an exception to talk about the victim of one of their campaigns is a bad look and is part of why you are being accused of upholding and enabling systemic transphobia. Sticking to your policy of silence for transphobes but making an exception to talk about a banned trans user looks pretty biased,and given the well documented track record of Tumblr when it comes to bias against the LGBTQIA+ community, it's a really bad look. As CEO you should be sufficiently cognizant of the history of these issues and the ongoing problems with moderation to recognize how easy it is for users which have been conditioned to expect the worst to see this as biased. You desperately need to gain some perspective before putting your keystrokes out there on these issues

Your behavior has hurt vulnerable people. It has made people feel unsafe. You're angry about being called a transphobe, but your actions have harmed the trans community and your inaction in addressing those targeting us looks like tacit approval of their behavior. If you cannot clearly and unequivocally commit to take action against the transphobic harassment we face from malicious users on the platform, then your inaction creates and upholds systemic transphobia. Your intentions and principles are immaterial when the impact is harmful. If that hurts you so much to be called out for upholding and enabling transphobia, *do something about it*

I don't think you can be reached at this point and I am not even sure that assuming your intentions are not deliberately malicious is even reasonable, but I would sure like to be proven wrong for once.

But I won't hold my breath. Long before this situation I had blocked you for your ableist behavior regarding forced animations. Suggesting that disabled users could simply pay for premium features in order to have a safe user experience was a stunningly insensitive take. That comment belied your ignorance of the potentially fatal effects of visually triggered seizure disorders and the widespread prevalence and debilitating symptoms of other visually triggered conditions like vertigo and migraine. Your embrace of the prevailing societal opinion that actually, making disabled people pay more to exist at every possible opportunity is just good business was disheartening and caused me to write you off as a fake ally. All you have done recently is provide further evidence that my suspicions were well founded, and at this point if you don't wake up and start actually working to address your failures instead of becoming defensive and painting people you have hurt as toxic, you won't have any users left on this site but the transphobes you are protecting, inadvertently or otherwise. I guarantee other communities are watching you closely and spotting the sane red flags that the disability and trans communities have. You have a lot of work to do to repair the damage you've inflicted and to start actually fixing the problems that have plagued this site for years. None of us are going to want to support this site financially ever again if you continue to behave like this, so your threats to abandon Tumblr are toothless because people are already leaving. You have a chance to salvage this situation if you are actually willing to do the work, and then maybe you can actually monetize things on here in a way that doesn't alienate the user base so that people are actually happy to support the platform.

If you actually believe in the principles you posted, actively work to uphold them *here* take action to protect and support the trans community instead of stepping on a landmine you easily could have avoided by seeking perspective before responding. Prove that you are actually doing something about Nazis and transphobes - give us an option to report transphobic hate speech specifically and release metrics - reports submitted and actions taken. Hell, release metrics on all of the reports - some of those mass reporting campaigns should be pretty easy to spot.

Please actually give a shit about users. You have a great deal of power and you have welded it against vulnerable people. However justified you may feel in doing so, you're still contributing to harm, and you should rethink the way you respond because it makes you appear vindictive and capricious.

[counterpunches]

Your absolute trust in Zionism and the rapid defense that Israel has done nothing wrong against the Palestinian people, the ironclad belief that everyone on tumblr is actually just antisemitic - it reminds me of when I fell into radfem discourse.

It started innocently enough - I’m a woman, I saw everywhere all the time the way men harm women. The way misogyny affects every part of our lives. The way people mock women’s experiences, don’t get equal medical care, the way women are still so beholden to men especially in the age of toothless choice feminism.

And then TERF’s came. The thing about radfem circles is they make you believe everyone is against you. YOU are the only reasonable person, your belief is just and true, and anyone who speaks against your beliefs is only attacking you, oppressing you, because you have been WRONGED by the world. “Trans women are hurting women” is an easy conclusion they lead you to - after all, women are oppressed right? The whole world hates women! It makes sense that all these other groups are ALSO oppressing women, harming them in some way.

They remind you it’s you against the world, that your belief in the cause is the defense that is needed - they more people attack the belief that you are oppressed and right and just, the more you defend it - they’re all wrong, they’re disillusioned, “LOOK at the way we are suffering, look at how they attack us, surely we are right!”

But I wasn’t right.

Sure, women are oppressed, but so are other groups. This is blasphemy, in those circles, to say women might have power over another.

Yes, a group can be grievously harmed in one way, and go and harm another. Pointing this out is not hatred. Our instinct is to coil inwards, to prove WE are the most just, WE are the most harmed, WE are the most justified - this is also the thinking that religions do, that cults do, that political parties do.

Israel should not be killing Palestinian civilians. This is not hatred to say so. This is not antisemitic. This is a fact. Israel has security concerns based on decades of incursion and systemic oppression of the Palestinian people. Jewish people have long been a nation without a state, and have suffered harm for it, and it is understandable they will viciously and zealously defend that burgeoning state. But it is not antisemitism to say “killing and bombing of a population who cannot defend themselves” is a crime and morally repugnant. The US did this in the Middle East and it was repugnant then too.

We all believe we are infallible and our injuries hurt the most. But we are not always right.

"absolute trust in Zionism and the rapid defense that Israel has done nothing wrong against the Palestinian people"

You're absolutely right. Absolute trust in most things and denial of another groups peoplehood is wrong.

I, however, have never said anything of the sort.

I'm not an extremist. I am a Zionist, under the definition of 'the establishment and existence of a homeland for the Jewish people'. That's it.

Of course Israel has done wrong against the Palestinian people. There is no doubt, no question.

"a group can be grievously harmed in one way, and go and harm another. Pointing this out is not hatred"

Yes! This is absolutely true. You are absolutely right.

Israel should not be killing Palestinian civilians. This is not hatred to say so

No one should kill any civilians! That is the ideal in a just and peaceful world. However the world is not ideal. Israel shouldn't be put in a position to kill Palestinian civilians.

It is not hatred to say innocent Palestinians are being killed.

It is, however, ridiculous to say (ironically borrowing from the UN's words) that Palestinians innocents are being killed in a vacuum.

Like, Israel didn't just wake up one day and decide to invade and murder innocent civilians.

Like, Israel pulled their own citizens out of the Gaza Strip in 2005 - pulled people from their homes, and left it all to the Palestinian people to govern themselves, in an effort for peace. Land for peace has historically been Israel's strategy and barring the awful right-wing party, has been pretty successful. Any Israeli land gained since 1948 has come as a result of external declarations of war from neighboring Arab states.

And, like, the reason innocent Palestinians are being killed is because a terrorist organization started this war by invading another country and slaughtering hundreds and kidnapping innocents, knowing full well what the retaliation would be?

Like, the reason innocent Palestinians are being killed is because a terrorist organization has literally built itself inside and underneath the entire infrastructure of civilian life? In hospitals, mosques, schools, homes?

Like, that innocent Palestinians are literally put in harms way as a human shields?

It is not hatred to point out that innocent Palestinians are dying. And that this is a tragedy. They are starving! They are dying! Their homes have been destroyed, they literally have no where else to go. Their own brethren do not and have never wanted them. They are stuck.

It is, however, hatred to think this is all Israel's fault alone.

It is, however, hatred to condemn this war as the largest moral repugnance without also mentioning in the same breath what is happening in Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, and Russia/Ukraine.

A friend of mine recently traveled to Israel for the first time in November and remarked that there was some worrying nationalism. People seeing 'PRESS' on her clothing and asking “are you for us, or against us?”

A worrying thing on its own, to be sure.

But when you take into consideration the vitriol shown around the world towards Israel, towards Jews - all Jews everywhere - it becomes a little more of a warranted statement. The world is literally against us. Has always been. Literally always been. This hatred is old. This hatred is deep. It is so deep, people don't understand they're falling into age old tropes and traps. It's so deep, its circular.

We have a very good reason to be defensive. We have had to be defensive for thousands of years. The world has always told us there is no place for us. And when we have a place, they've told us we're not supposed to have it.

Israel is not perfect. I have never and will never say it is. There is systematic prejudice and racism in the government and in Israeli policies. These must be fixed. My family has been protesting the Right for years. My family has been on the ground fighting this kind of racism and hatred for years. My family believes in for equality for everyone.

Just because this war is tragic and heartbreaking on all fronts doesn't mean its a genocide.

There didn't have to be a war.

They could have always and could still let the hostages go.

Innocent Palestinians didn't have to die.

Hamas is doing everything in its power to make sure the causalities are high.

“LOOK at the way we are suffering, look at how they attack us, surely we are right!”

Everyone is suffering. Hold multitudes. Whether or not you agree with the direction the war has taken (different choices should and could be made. No choice is easy), it is not hatred to say that Israel has the right to defend itself. It is not hatred to say that innocent people are dying in the process.

It is, however, hatred and antisemitism, to ignore the whys. It is, however, antisemitism to deny us our defensiveness when the world ignores other atrocities and wars and thinks only us vicious, rabid monsters.

There's an endless amount of things I could say to defend myself but I'm tired. I'm so tired. There are so many other sources, other posts. Look at my tags and find them if you want. Or don't. Whatever. I don't know if this is a troll comment in disguise or not, I'm just bleeding in a little good faith.