#im not speaking for everyone obviously and im not indigenous myself

[tibli]

i will say, i think ive previously used the word "ethnostate" or reblogged posts using that term to refer to israel, and i am starting to think that that's probably not a fully correct term to use, regardless of my anti-israel sentiments. i dont think its wrong because its a country composed of largely a specific group of people, its wrong because its enacting a genocide and displacing the palestinian population that was already living there.

also, ethnostate apparently has two different definitions, which further muddies the waters. it can just mean a country largely composed of one ethnicity (which honestly most countries would probably fit into this definition), or a country that restricts citizenship only to certain groups of people.

based on my research, israel allows citizenship for non-jews, and even though jewish foreigners get preferential treatment because the end goal is specifically a jewish state, i dont think 'ethnostate' is a fully accurate term to use, so i think I'll avoid it in the future. i dont think i have enough knowledge on the laws of citizenship there to make that claim

im still fully against israel as an existing country, by the way, i just want to be accurate in my criticisms so that that cant be used as a talking point against them. and i dont hate israeli people for being israeli, especially if they are actively against what their government is doing. im hating the ones that are actively participating in the stealing of palestinian land that does not belong to them.

regardless of who you believe lived in the area first (ive seen some sources say it was hebrews, and some say it was arabs), that was literally CENTURIES ago, and WELL out of personal family memory. what matters is that it has been palestinians living there for hundreds of years, and european/american-jewish citizens thinking they had any claim on that land is ridiculous. i am not denying that the formation of israel was largely due to countries not wanting their jewish population after the holocaust. that is a tragedy. but that does not give those people the right to then steal the homes of others. plenty of jewish people today recognize and understand this, but those that dont have likely been brainwashed and deluded into thinking they have an ancestral claim to land their families havent lived on for hundreds and hundreds of years.

[jellybeanium124]

the thought of you getting anon hate is horrendous to me so anon love for you!!!

i love your ofmd takes, you're genuinely so funny, and look im as goy as a BLT but the amount of backbone and intelligent posts and bravery you have in the face of all the awfulness is so inspiring and i hate that you experience it in the first place but yeah. im firmly with you. i hope you have a wonderful day<3

aww tysm!!! 💖💖💖

jews on this website will say crazy shit like "hey what if both indigenous groups to this bit of land get their own free, independent, democratic nation?" and tumblr users will go "RACIST!! GENOCIDER!!!! YOU ARE ON A PLANE TO SUCK NETANYAHU'S DICK WHILE WE SPEAK!!!" so 🤷‍♀️

I was completely terrified to speak my mind about this after the may 2021 riots until oct 7, but no more. I've lost some people. there were people it didn't hurt to block at all, and there were some people who it really, really hurt to be blocked by, but I'm not censoring myself or hiding my opinion anymore. tbh I expected literally every single goyische mutual to turn on me immediately and then get doxxed and like idk a bomb threat to my apt or something (I have anxiety, obviously) so the fact that that didn't happen and the vast, vast majority of my friends are still my friends makes me so happy. it reminds me that not everyone is actually a rabid jew hater under the surface. lots of people are allies. the extremists are a minority, they're just overrepresented on tumblr.

I hope you have a wonderful day, anon <3 also ty for liking my ofmd takes, I much prefer sillyposting on the sillyposting website. izzy's getting shooketh tonight for you <3 :)

[dog-teeth]

hi ezra. i looked at some of the comments on your 4th of july art and im legitimately worried for you. do you get a lot of anon hate mail, and if so, how do you deal with it mentally?? im sorry people are like that

wahhhh thank u so much for your concern i really really appreciate it!!!! i do get a fair amount of shitty comments on my posts and sometimes anon hate, i never answer it i always just instantly block them bc i think giving their voice a platform and responding to them isn’t healthy or helpful. the fourth of july one was rough, people sooo brainwashed into defending literal genocide on my post was very difficult to see (i blocked a lot of them soon after i posted but there were too many tht kept being added so i turned off notifs and idk whats left on that post lol) and recently i had to delete an old post i made speaking against transmisogyny because TERFs latched onto it and were saying really awful things about trans women and about me, including some triggering trauma stuff. then recently i made a comic about being genderfluid and a bunch of TERFs/radfems were being transphobic on it as well.

ultimately i think what helps me the most is that for every terrible mean comment i get, theres multiple ones that are positive and make me happy, ppl interacting with my art or complimenting me. i’ll admit the negative ones stick more in my head, but i get more positive comments by volume so it outweighs it! i mean ideally i wouldn’t get any bad comments, but the amount of love and support i get makes it worth it. like after that fourth of july post, i got three asks from native americans telling me they appreciated me speaking out against the usa’s imperialism. obviously i still would have done it even without that validation but people voicing their appreciation for what i do was enough to help me deal with the hatred and remember that its worth it to be a voice for what i believe even if theres backlash. and ultimately i know that whatever harassment i endured online for it, indigenous peoples face a hundred times worse due to systemic oppression, so i can suck it up. same with the TERF thing, i would rather they harass me than some innocent trans woman on here even if it hurts, and i dont wanna complain bc i know they deal w the brunt of this type of hate. it hurts me deeply to know there are people out there who hate trans women, who are some of my most precious friends and favorite people, but i’m secure in my love for those im close to and i know they love me too and that means i don’t care so much what some random shitty transphobes say online.

sometimes it does weigh down on me. sometimes i think that i just wasn’t meant to be bombarded with so many strangers opinions, even when they arent being horrifyingly hateful, just being on display like this with so many people having access to my deep emotions and art and opinions gets...heavy. i do it because i love sharing my art, and i love connecting with people, and tumblr has absolutely been a home for me throughout the years, but yeah, sometimes that part sucks.

i mostly deal with it by reminding myself of all the nice comments ive gotten, and of course i have my irl support system with people i know i could talk to about it when it gets to be too intense.

so just another thanks to everyone who leaves nice comments on my art or in my askbox, i don’t reply to a lot of them but i do read and appreciate all of them very very much!!!!! every one i get tips the balance in favor of positivity and love and drowns out the hateful people

[xandiebean]

I’ve always known that I have mexican descendance in me, I mean my family is from very rural mexico from a small ass pueblo in Puebla and I was raised mexican in a very hispanic neighborhood. But something that is almost never talked about in my family is my parent’s (aunts and uncles too) ability to speak nahuatl. I’ve always wanted to learn more about it. To my parents, spanish is their second language. They grew up speaking nahuatl, but they never taught me or my siblings any of it. It’s so strange how sometimes they’re talking regular spanish, only to get stuck on a word they can’t think of and then say it in nahuatl. That’s what I do with spanish! So while yes, I am Mexican - American to most people, I know somewhere inside me is a history of the nahua culture, and I think im technically of nahua descent as well. Everyone in my pueblo is indigenous, thus my parents are indigenous, so does that make me that too? I have so many questions! Well for now, I won’t ever claim to be a native american since I don’t think I have lived enough as a native american to be considered one. 

Why is does my family go to church and not pray to the aztec gods? Why does my brother get blonde beard hair? Obviously there was some major colonization in my pueblo, but I want to know more about that history even if it’s painful. I hope I get the chance to go to mexico next year and explore the undiscovered part of my myself.