#is not the same thing as them supporting the genocide
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ātheyāre not spam blogs, we vetted them!!ā
yet here I am, blocking a duplicate of the same blog that sent me the same ask for the 4th time (the 3rd time today) along with another duplicate of the same blog Iād already blocked and reported that sent me the same ask they tried sending last week. and both of them still read like a fucking chatgpt prompt.
#g talks#anyone else notice a lot of the ones with men in the pfp use a variation of the same name#like one second leftists are screeching that palestinians donāt have internet so WE have to advocate for them online base on#what we think they want#but somehow they have enough internet to make tumblr blogs explicitly asking for money with pictures of random dead people#and debunked photos of the ādestruction in Gazaā#and weāre just heartless monsters who support genocide if we question their spam behavior#Iāve seen some accounts like them on twitter#but this is a primarily tumblr thing#and I feel like these same people would be on all socials possible right#theyād want all the reach possible and theyāre all free accounts#yet these people are only on tumblr#sending links to bogus gofundme accounts#making duplicate blogs to get around block features#how many times does it have to quack before you start believing itās a goddamn duck#mine#/mobile#/okay to reblog
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I don't consider ethnicity to be a valid reason for conquest. Because that's what we're discussing here not their struggle against a state that planned from the start to kill every last one of them but a state that saw them side with those who tried to exterminate them and I do mean exterminate with every man woman and child.
Estate when given the choice between living peacefully with its own independent state or conquest it chose conquest and genocide.
Even now you see it.
Hamas's military strategy was not to be able to win militarily. They folded within a few days and had to keep retreating and retreating and retreating. They didn't even have the ability to sufficiently provide anti-air and no ability to protect its own citizens.
What's more, they could have picked a military target for their offensive on October 7th. They chose civilian targets. And they chose to start a war with a war crime, actually no, a crime against humanity. Rape serves nothing militarily.
But not being able to provide anti-air was the goal. They had a different kind of anti-air. The kind of anti-air that most dictatorships use. See a dictatorship will just put their supply depots right next to things like hospitals schools mosques you know things that shouldn't be targeted militarily. Or hamas's case they'll put it directly in these places or under them. Typically Americans and Israelis care about whether what is being targeted is this civilian target.
So what were the counting on?
They were counting on people like you. They were counting on creating a humanitarian crisis in which people like you would have only ever seen the fact that Israel was winning militarily and causing the same level of civilian casualties as any wartime operation in the Middle East. Though how you calculate that against a force that is already disobeying the rules of war I don't know. But you'd see it without any standards involved.
They started the war, they created the humanitarian crisis, and they used both to try an create the scenario in which you would have only seen in care about the Palestinians, in order to internationally isolate Israel like South Africa was previously or Rhodesia.
They were willing to throw away their lives and be martyred and die in order to achieve this. I simply just refused to give them a double standard on my behalf.
I don't think it's moral or rational to support evil of that kind. I don't think it's moral or rational to try and allow them to exploit the fact I do care about these people. More than they care about themselves. I don't think it's just that I should have to see their choice to choose death and fight against that choice on their own behalf.
They were given a choice between life and death and chose death. All I'm doing is honoring their choice without the double standard of mine.
If you're suddenly worried about antisemitism because of elon musk but you spent the last year and a half harassing Jews and "Zionists" and excusing antisemitism in your own movement, you don't care about antisemitism
I don't trust you. The Jewish community doesn't trust you. You never cared about us, still don't, and you made it very clear
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"historically polygamous societies loved to wage war and slavery to dispose of excess men and emphasize female conversion" okay all those things are true of monogamous societies too. Western Europeans are famously probably the best at war and slavery from the current standpoint and they're monogamous. And from the way you wrote that I can tell you were thinking of the middle east so what the fuck
#cipher talk#Many east and southeast Asian cultures are accepting of polygamy. They also don't really emphasize conversion AFAIK most of the time#So you're probably thinking of West Asia. And weaponizing my peoples trauma to make a stupid point#Because you don't actually care enough to research marital norms and how they impact human trafficking and genocide#And don't have the brains to understand thar the norms of a fundie community cannot extrapolate into a whole civilization#With no nuance cuz it'll collapse#Most Muslim men in history have had one wife. Because you can only have as many wives as you can afford to support#After that the common number is 2#Fundamentalist American polygamists often have FIVE TO TEN.#It's a completely different ratio with different social pressures#This is also ignoring that some sons in a whole society are not expected to have kids and have free avenues to not have kids#Instead of a cult where the choice is made for you#It's not a good situation. It's still heteropatriachy and there was indeed slavery. But it's not as extreme as fundies are in the US#Simply because discarding a significant portion of your male children by abandoning them or killing them isn't sustainable#And like. Monogamous societies do the same thing with how marital expectations intersect with genocide#Women are targeted in both instances because of their reproductive capacity and forced to assimilate/convert#To kill the culture in their generation and the next via marriage to the one targeting#A massive part of American history is doing this#And I don't mean just the US I mean both continents
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If i see that goddamn piece of shit australian voting post on my dash one more fucking time i'm gonna start taking hostages
#you know that's ficked up right? you know that compulsory.voting goes against the idea of a democracy? that being forced to vote#for someone you actually don't support is basically fascusm right?#i'm not american but there are gonna be elections here soon too and i'm seeing this kind of scary sentiment shared around here recently#and it's pissing me off something fierce like some of you are such unbelievable cowards willing to throw an entire nation under the bus#for what? temporary safety? what makes you think this same thing isn't going to happen to.you under your new oh so.''liberal'' rule#when that party is willing to ignore or straight up support genocide? with this sentiment your country's politics are going to become#increasingly more fascist like we've seen over the past decade or so!#voting for the ''less evil'' majority isn't going to change fuck all if they know you are just going to vote for them no matter what anyway!#resi.txt
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hot ppl donāt support genocide š»
#nah bcuz like. someone said ti me āwell i hahe a different definition of genocide āš¼ā dude ā¦#i said ābut didnt we do the same thing to the native americans likee .. we stole their land bruh n killed them its called the native#american GENOCIDE for a reason#likeee thats what it is .. okay dumbass ..#theyre under occupation n being killed for just living there like ..#thats what genocide is bruh like its being killed just for existing as u are ..#anyways ppl r actually fucking dumb š»š»#im an empath so like i get worked up abt seeing the horrible#stuff going on n everuthing like .. but how is it that ppl can LOOK AT WHATS HAPPENING N NOT BE UPSET OR DISTRAUGHT š#like nah u got no feelings bruh ..#those deaths are prob just numbers to u huh ..#so annoying i cannot believe it fr#how can u NOT be in favor of a ceasefire n freeing palestine from#the occupation ššš#anyways sorry for the rant but like if ur anti palestine or anti ceasefire/freeing from the occupation .. kindly gtfo š»#like i said hot ppl dont support genocide ā¦#or excuse itā¦#anyways š#tw death mention#tw war#tw palestine#tw israel#tw politics#tw genocide#tw rant#idk what else to put tw wise ā¦ uhh lmk if i missed anything
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@clayandsorcery Again: Israel has run a very intense and very SUCCESSFUL propaganda campaign, where it equated Israel with Judaism and with Jews everywhere in the world. So yes, if you're jewish, a LOT of people will assume you are a-ok and supportive of what Israel is doing right now (Heck, a lot of diaspora Jews are. Miriam Adelson anybody? Or Ivanka and Jared Kushner?) Israel achieved this, starting with such things as Birthright tours for everybody jewish and even going so far as to internationally push and establish a definition of antisemitism that equates criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism. (Btw a definition that even it's key author, has criticized as having been turned into a tool to shield Israel from criticism and from accountability for its' actions.) And far too many in the Diaspora let them. Far too many in the Diaspora kept silent as Israel violated Human Rights and International Law left and right, again and again and again. Including you and your family, sounds like.
And as you yourself said, you (and many others) were taught to view yourselves NOT as a part of the community you were living in, yours to shape and to participate in, but as a group apart, with your loyalty before all towards Israel. And yeah, that too is something people around you will notice and react to. (Mind, not saying that doing so would have made all antisemitim magically evaporate, because it wouldn't have, but actively othering *yourself*? Certainly makes it easier to spread distrust, fear and hate against you.) And now Israel has upped the ante, has gone from "mere" Apartheid, illegal occupation, bloody and violent oppression and ethnic cleansing over to full-on war crimes and genocide. And here's the thing....I'm pretty sure you're familiar with the saying "What do you call 10 people sitting down to have dinner with a Nazi? - 11 Nazisā. So while Zionists might not be Nazis, they're sure doing they're damnest to follow in their footsteps where it comes to committing genocide, and anybody siding with that carries responsability for that as well. And yeah....nobody likes the people who commit crimes against humanity. They tend to be rather hated and people can and will shut them out. So even people who used to be neutral or even moderately friendly towards Jews will no longer be as supportive. Heck, a lot of them will / have become hostile. Because again, nobody likes people supporting war crimes and genocide. So yes, they will blame Jews for Israel's crimes....just as Israel intended. Because Israel always needs new recruits to feed its' war machine, and they're hoping this will incite more Jews to make Aliyah and bring them more soldiers to send into Gaza, the Westbank, Syria and Lebanon. P.S.: It's a long read, but where it comes to Israel following in the footsteps of the Nazis, I usually recommend jewish-israeli Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov as an intro:
i hate this timeline i hate this timeline i hate this timeline send me to the timeline where jews are safe please i donāt want to be here anymore i am just so tired please send me to another timeline
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everyone on trans book twitter shilling for books that I did not like it could not get into but nobody shilling for the best book I've read in three years smh
#yeah yeah those are all written by trans woman authors and we should support them and this book isn't#but on the other hand those novels agent very good#and the concept frex of what if Achilles was a trans woman is just not at all compelling#and what if a snake alien repentent genocider who turned against her people and has a homoerotic Thing#with a genocide survivor who was put in an impossible position as a child. all in a universe where the demiurge is a zip file#and everyone thinks they're doing the right thing but is also doing everything out of self interest at the same time?#now THAT is literature
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It is crazy how much skinny able-bodied white ppl don't see anyone outside of themselves as human and will only prop up different kinds of ppl (fat, disabled, poc, ect ect) to either act as a free pass to be bigoted 'but they think its funny too' type of thing, or to make themselves look better by pretending to care about whatever demographic those ppl belong to. But since they don't actually see those ppl as humans and only use them as a toy, the second they get bored they find any excuse to throw them away
Like so many white grifters started talking about Palestine as a free ego boost and proping up motaz and bisan. But now that they're getting bored they're starting to look for way to un-hitch themselves from that movement and catch their next grift without ppl pointing out that it's fucked up that they never really cared about a literal genocide and only saw it as a chance to make themselves look better.
And now they're using the fact that a Sudanese person criticized something motaz said (rightfully so) as that free pass to say they refuse to care about Palestine anymore and are offloading the blame of that onto black ppl when really nobody told them to be dehumanizing grifters. They did that all on their own :/
#text#g talks#i saw a video this morning#of someone being really fatphobic at someone. and their excuse was 'well thats why they (the fat person) are popular'#and then like 5 mins later the exact same thing happening to a visibly disabled person.#then a bunch of white ppl saying they wont support palestine cause motaz is racist. asked what happened and they said. idk.#they saw someone on tiktok mention something they saw on twitter that some ppl were talking about. but had no idea why.#they just got tired of playing with their toy and were ready to throw it away#finding out that aid for sudan didnt make it to sudan and that this probably isnt the only time thats happened didnt bother them#cause of course it didnt. they didnt pick that genocide as a grift.
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oh i'm definitely gonna lose some friends for this one huh
#already got vagueposted about by one former friend as 'comparing pro-palestine sentiments to antisemitism'#direct quote 'israel desperately wants them to believe this is a religious war and not a genocide'#same guy who said 'boy howdy do we know their side of the story' and ten short texts later said verbatim:#'we can't use religion as birthright thats stupid and the Number One Tool of Colonizers'#which is a STAGGERING amount of cognitive dissonance#as if religion is the relevant part and not the literal historical fact of jewish indigineity to eretz israel#mind you at the time of the vaguepost the ONLY thing i said regarding palestine#was that if your 'support' for palestinians includes sharing basic antisemitic dogwhistles and blatantly lying about history#then that 'support' will accomplish nothing for palestinians and only get jews killed#and i feel like looking at that and insisting that i'm comparing all pro-palestinian sentiment to antisemitism is uh. telling#we'll see how this ends up going - i fear it may not be the greatest for my social life but i stand by what i said#bc even if i am wrong about Everything directly surrounding israel and palestine#i was strictly discussing antisemitism in the discourse surrounding it#and a longer version of 'no stance on israel makes you immune to antisemitism and antisemitism runs deep and will affect your thinking on#the matter and refusing to acknowledge that is dangerous' isn't actually dependent on the intracacies of the conflict it's just True#and i'm not gonna back down again i'm not going to downplay antisemitism again i'm not going to give up#i'm not sure if i have jewish friends i simply do not know about who see what i say on there#but if i do then i need it to be clear they have Someone who is willing to fight for them#and if not i still need to make it clear i won't stand for blatant antisemitism no matter whose name it's in#the only thing that would make me consider taking down what i said is if i believed it's counterproductive#and part of me wonders if it is - i don't want to put people on the defense bc that's simply not conducive to good faith discussion#but at the same time i know that a lot of what i've needed to hear was fed up or harsh words#that i started off just reading and keeping my defensiveness inside until they sunk in over time#and maybe my frustration will have that effect for someone#damn i really need to make some jewish friends... maybe after break i'll reach out to hillel or a local shul to ask if they could use a han#or something idk we'll see#personal#faggotry enjoyer original
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I don't understand - Either you think Trump as president is much much worse for Jews than the past year of antisemitism or not. I think it's not (I'll try to explain below)
You think it is. And you're getting upset at me because
a. how dare I say you think that way
and
b. of course it's this way
you spend a lot of time telling me why Trump is so much more dangerous to Jews (and how dare anybody who deals with antisemitism for over a decade tell you anything about it )
Just to clear up that last point, because you accuse me of "putting things into your mouth" and then you do the exact same thing to me: I didn't say that Biden didn't condemn antisemitism. Of course, he did. I said that Trump took steps against antisemitism that should have been done a long time ago Biden didn't do anything against antisemites (and frankly, actively encouraged them) and thereby made the lives of American Jews that much more unsafe.
I realize you don't really care, but here's why I think Progressive antisemitism is much, more worse.
What does "Jews will not replace us" mean? It means that Jews are committing a genocide in the US. That is, of course, a Nazi antisemitic canard. And yet "Jews are committing a genocide in Israel" - does not seem so bad, does it? Nobody would say that it's Nazi, right?
Yes, Biden said that Israel is not committing a genocide. (which shows that he recognized it was wrong to say) But he also said that he understands why some people think that way. And his VP said that people must speak their truth.
For some reason you remember Trump as saying that Nazis are "a very nice group" But what he actually said was that he condemned neo-Nazis and White Supremacists and that there are "very fine people on both sides" when discussing taking down Confederate statues.
Now, how in the world does that sound different from what Biden said? In fact, I think it's way, way worse. Trump did not support the neo-Nazis in anything they said about Jews. Biden did.
There are so few neo-Nazi groups in the US and they're beyond the pale. The FBI usually stops them when they get weapons in order to commit an attack, as it does for most antisemites who try to commit attacks against Jews.
However - the Democratic party is mainstream. Saying "Israel is committing a genocide" is mainstream. Saying "Jews are European colonialists" is mainstream. people aren't sure that "destroy Israel" is antisemitic
Because if Trump would tell Nazis "you must tell your truth" - the entire country would go berserk. But for Progressive Nazis it's okay.
In fact, I'm currently under attack because I'm pointing out how Palestinian society and their anti-Zionist supporters are actually Nazi (hitler, swastikas, nazi salutes, murder of Jews) I realize you're upset. But try to stop and think who you support in this and what are the chances that you'll say "there are fine people on both sides"
so. american jews. ...is this "My Go bags are refreshed and packed," or is it "start making serious plans to leave the country"?
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analyzing hermes, emet-selch, the ancients and ascians, how they're written, and the fandom's reaction to them be like hm. emet-selch's role in this fuckery is compounded by the fact that his backstory as a genocide survivor is incongruous with his ruling a huge genocidal colonialist world power in the present da [ANTISEMITISM BLAST]
#ffxiv#ffxiv hermes#emet-selch#i have Posts in Me to write up about the subject but like you can maybe immediately start connecting some dots here lmao#hermes and the ancients lie at the intersection of A Lot of Shit That is Very Important to Me#the vast majority of it having to do with gaslighting in various different forms#one of those posts is going into how his story reminds me eerily of what Questioning Things in an abusive evangelical environment is like#and how the fandom instantly jumping straight to OH SO YOU THINK THE ANCIENTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN GENOCIDED IS THAT IT#YOU THINK THEY SHOULD BE INFANTILIZED AND CIVILIZED BY THE SUPERIOR MORALS OF YOUR OWN CULTURE IS THAT IT#and start throwing around words like 'sympathizer'; if you say 'hermes was right about some shit actually'#'what we see of the ancients' society is full of inexcusably horrific shit which does not get a pass for ~different values~'#smacks strongly to me of evangelical crybullying in the name of Cultural Sensitivity#and how people use 'well it's not my business what other cultures think is right or wrong' as an excuse to throw up their hands and#disengage from actually learning about or supporting the people in those cultures who know and are working within it to fight bigotry#amazingly enough 'racism and misogyny and queerphobia are bad' is not an idea exclusive to western cultures lmfao#your job if you engage is to seek out those people--across the spectrum of opinions and relationships to their culture's issues!#they're not a monolith!--and spread that information; and listen to what they ask of you when they tell you what kind of help they need#but that's complicated; and takes time and care and thought and effort and connecting to marginalized people#talking over activists and victims of the societal issues they live with; and telling them they're the same as colonizers; is easy-peasy#like i cannot stress enough here that hermes Is an Ancient. He Lives Here. He Knows His Society and Thinks About It a Lot#He Wants to Salvage It and is Specifically Fucked Up About Feeling Like He Can't Trust People Around Him for Input#WoL doesn't barge in and start telling the ancients what's what; they find the person who Cares and back him up that he's not crazy or alon#anyway there's a lot here but it is uh. a Lot. the ways in which the game blends up christianity and judaism here.#including the fact that between the two; the default cultural values and dynamics align more with christian associations of Conformity#(the game is by japanese creators and i feel like that's A Factor too; but there are Eerily Accurate evangelical things going on here)#and people cape for the ones who are Most Evangelical about it + the one whose Compelling Aspects are all antisemitic as fuck tropes#whereas the brown guy who grapples with his faith and worldview; who questions and challenges and argues with others in his ethnoreligion#and tries to look for perspective and deeper meaning + Improve Society Somewhat; gets torn apart in the worst faith possible by the fandom#ffxivtag#warning: worm grass
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#i have a different kind of hate in my heart for white people who still canāt support palestine#canāt do the bare minimum and boycott one single thing#THE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM#like itās not just white people but i havenāt seen many poc people in my life or online ignoring the genocide the way white ppl are#but unfortunately there are poc whoās the same tho so itās whatever#idk where iām going with this like iām so fucking mad#a man lit himself on fire to protest AND THESE PEOPLE CANT DO THE BARE MINIMUM#and the worst part is this is the SECOND TIME someone did that#the only difference is the second one was filmed#seeing how disconnected ppl are from this is so heartbreaking#also like#the conversations look so different when iām talking about palestine irl to poc vs someone white cuz holy fuck#maybe i need some better friends tho cuz i got this one friend in particular that keeps sending memes in our palestine gc and i stopped#talking to them but ough i just wanna cut them out of my life cuz of how fucking indifferent they are#anywas#idk this was a weird incoherent vent and as always i hate white ppl
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i swear, every time i go into satine's tag, looking for neat things to reblog, i'm disappointed and lose faith in fanon a little bit more.
#Ā· ooc Ā» entranced by navy burnout silk velvet#'satine committed cultural genocide' is just a really bad take that isn't even supported by the evidence#she definitely makes mistakes but it isn't THAT#all she did was ban armor and most weapons on the planet of mandalore itself... which i don't totally agree with as the best way#but it wasn't like she was blanket banning the sector... and it was after an incredibly bloody civil war AND she was 18#that take was bad enough in the tags#now it's turning into 'satine was an ethnocentrist and committed cultural genocide'#and i'm just that ben affleck meme#they're taking one line from a guy who is more likely to be death watch or unaffiliated and smushing it with the lack of diversity#in the mandalore eps... when it has been stated multiple times by the animators that they were constrained by budget/time#i mean you can call that a copout and them lazy if you want but don't go out there and then slander that woman#does any of this matter? absolutely not. it is fiction#but boy is it tiring especially when i come occasionally across people who want to write with her who believe the same things#i'm not going to shift her to fit fanon and she's canon divergent now anyway so ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ#also someone's muse is welcome to believe that and make her the villain in their story... she clearly is to some in canon but#ooc i do not appreciate
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holy SHIT. you are so fucking ignorant itās insane.
i am someone who 100% stands with palestine and despises the genocide that is happening right now.
BUT.
if you knew fucking ANYTHING about this except for the surface level on social media, you would know that israel is suffering too. their people are suffering too. the civilians of israel arenāt deciding to bomb people. itās the government. why the fuck are we blaming an entire nations worth of people for something that their government is forcing upon them??
imagine living in a country that is supporting and causing a genocide. what the fuck are you supposed to do? if you resist, you could be in danger. the israeli people are not all evil and bad and horrible. they didnāt choose this! you are wandering into anti-semitic/racist territory very quickly and itās very concerning.
do you seriously think going on social media and attacking every israeli person you see is helping ANYTHING? no. itās not. you just want to fuel your disgusting, idiotic, performative-activism ego. get the fuck off social media and actually do something to make a difference. harass the people who actually have power over the situation instead of an innocent civilian who is trying to show support for the other innocent civilians of their heritage. jesus fucking christ you disgust me so much.
@phantomhunt iām so sorry you have to deal with this. please let me know if anything i said is inaccurate or wrong, i donāt mean to like talk over you. this kind of thing just makes me so angry, and i didnāt want you to feel alone because youāre not. being israeli doesnāt automatically make you some evil genocide supporter. this person is sick.
Why the flags??
If you're referring to the Israel flags in my display name, that's cuz I'm Israeli and I wanna show support for the people of my country :D
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#just to be clear#i AM pro palestine#i stand with palestine#but.#the decisions the israeli government makes#should not reflect on the innocent civilians of israel who are just trying to stay alive#this genocide should not be happening#palestine deserves to be free#but an israeli person trying to express empathy for their people during a time when they are in so much danger#is not the same thing as them supporting the genocide#people on here need to get their heads out of their asses#performative activism#can suck my dick
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it's almost like the only option is dividing things further black and white then just going hardcore to an extreme.
like.
i spent all day yesterday cutting off friends and blogs of people i love in my native community because of the excessive call for violence as the answer to decolonization, maintaining nuance but only for one side and saying fuck all to everything and everyone else.
but then today.
the number of jewish friends and blogs i've had to unfollow because people are doubling down on "hamas bombed a fucking hospital" when there's clear evidence that isn't true and it's propaganda to perpetuate cycles of violence?
fucking horrifying.
#like as someone from a native background and someone working to convert it's just#heartbreaking and frustrating to feel absolutely abandoned by both sides#simply because pointing out israel is built on a settler-colonial stance even if jewish people aren't settlers and colonizers#because they are indigenous to the area#gets me beat to the ground in native circles because it means i support netanyahu and gver and genocide#and i get the same fucking condescending look of 'you shouldnt talk' from liberal jewish groups that are all for saying zionism is a diseas#and yes they agree as jewish people that they are white and israel is white supremacist like#like i'm sorry the fucking whiplash of what the absolute fuck#but then pointing out that palestinians are being mass murdered and their response is clearly understandable#and israel is purposely using this shit to perpetuate genocide#all of a sudden i'm a fucking hypocrite to both sides#and my poor fucking husband is standing here like 'yes thats what you get for being clearly aware and wanting nonviolence'#how dare i not stand solely with israel#how dare i not demand only free palestine#people are just so fucking toxic and caught up in their own opinions being the only opinions and nuance being a fucking crime for condemnin#as if talking about this shit does anything! people are dying on both sides - one clearly more than the other - and what#you truly think attacking people that aren't specifically nodding along in blind support is really the thing that'll change the world#also saw a thing today that was like ābeing an ally means i will fight for youā like fuck that#but that's a different thing anyway#anyway i hate both my communities and feel absolutely isolated from them and wow#community just really isn't a thing unless you're ride or die without speaking up about anything huh
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A piece about survivors guilt.
This comic isn't perfect. I started it back in October 2023, and every time I picked up my pen, I wept.
I bring this to you today, on 9/11, in hopes that you reflect on this day a little differently than how most Americans would. Let it move you to continue to boycott, protest and challenge your family, friends and colleagues. You have a bigger impact than you would believe.
Thank you for reading this with an open heart.
From the river to the sea...
I'd like to bring to attention the fact that the figures depicted above are a gross undercount of the actual number of deaths. I scoured the internet high and low to source my findings and not a single one could break down the devastation that befell an individual ethnicity. Instead, they lumped a bunch of ethnicities together, provided a general timeline, and called it a day, reinforcing the sheer scale of dehumanization propagated in the west. The only consistency between all the articles I looked up was the 4.5 to 4.7 million figure I've included above, and even then, they were all published by western media news outlets... the very same that have been so unreliable and complicit in the genocide of Palestinians today. So I have to take everything they say with a grain of salt.
We are not just numbers.
All of us have ambitions and desires and lives worth living.
With that said, this is your friendly reminder to:
Donate an e-sim
Donate to PCRF to provide Palestinian children aid
Donate to Pious Projects to provide woman with feminine hygiene kits
Donate to CareForGaza to provide food to displaced families in Gaza either through their Gofundme or their paypal
Donate to any of the vetted gofundme campaigns on GazaFunds to help Palestinians trying to flee Gaza.
And if you or someone you know sees or experiences a hate crime and can afford it, SUE. This is a more effective use of your money than most realise. The reason zionists act with impunity is because of the normalization of white supremacy and oppression of ethnic minorities. Challenging that in any capacity tells them that there are consequences to their actions and makes them think twice before engaging in hate crimes and helps raise all of us up against the systems currently in place that let them get away with it.
If you can't donate or spend any money, you can:
Do your daily clicks.
Boycott targeted companies on the BDS list (if you're like me and you don't want a single dollar to go towards anything supporting Israel right now, you can use Bdnaash to double check what products are okay to buy, but the BDS list is sufficient as it is a strategic attack and proven very effective thus far)
Flood your representatives emails and voicemails with how you won't be voting for them unless their politics align with an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Attend a protest, be LOUD.
Challenge your circle of friends, family and colleagues with conversations about Palestine. (THIS IS THE MOST UNDERRATED AND MOST EFFECTIVE THING YOU CAN DO)
and if you're really up to, be disruptive in any capacity that you can think of towards major corporations benefiting from this onslaught. (i.e. halting military manufacturers from production + shipments, sticking boycott stickers on products at your market etc)
And finally, if your country wasn't mentioned in the above excerpt, it was no deliberate omission on my part and I encourage you to come forward and tell your story about the suffering of your people so that this may be a learning opportunity for everyone.
You are seen.
You are not alone.
Thank you again if you've read this far.
From the river to the sea...
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