#leftist tag

[notquiteaghost]

ive said this before but it always makes me so so so insane (ha) that we've structured the framework of psychology in such a way that people can either Have Problems (this may or may not involve admitting those problems have a cause but does at least generally involve admitting those problems can be fixed) or Be Disordered (this almost definitely doesn't involve admitting there's a cause or acknowledging people are capable of change) and both things are tied inescapably to privilege

so you get shit like. when i don't have enough feelings or enough connections with other people or a baseline of empathy for others, that's A Disorder. there is Something Wrong With Me. because i am just a little cog in the machine and i need to be a good cog. (never mind how those things are in fact only A Disorder if they impact my ability to be a good cog and if i can in fact be a good cog while being horribly ill am i really ill)

but when, say, the CEO of an energy company doesn't have meaningful connections with others or any empathy or feelings not linked to money and the earning of it, that's fine. that's normal. there's nothing wrong there. that CEO can do his job and that's what matters.

and how we invented the concept of PTSD because the soldiers we sent to do a kind of horrible violence to other soldiers that we'd literally only just invented were all deeply negatively affected by that violence. because the problem had to be with the soldiers, because the violence was necessary. we have to keep making the numbers go up, and that includes all the numbers related to violence. if you shoot someone and then have nightmares about it that's a disorder but if you order someone else to shoot someone and don't have nightmares about it that's fine.

to be clear i'm not saying anything new here i am just always on a hair trigger to go on a rant about this because how could i not be

like. how psychology tries to pretend it's an objective science when 99% of it is just new and exciting ways to label some people as expendable. the entire fucking concept of a psychopath is a convenient way to avoid acknowledging that people do things for a reason and that reason is never just Something Is Wrong With Me. the way we've decided to complicitly agree with the idea of Person Who Is Bad At Being Person and so you can't call people who wake up every day and choose to do terrible things 'psychopaths' because a 'psychopath' is someone who does that involuntarily. as if there's a person alive who isn't an accumulation of learned responses based on their previous experiences. as if where it's useful to split hairs here is why someone enacts violence onto others and not, y'know, the violence.

i'm sick of it i'm sick of all of it. i want to invent a new disorder just for people who have been afforded so much privilege they never had to learn empathy. i want the treatment to be being forcibly stripped of all remaining privilege because it is exacerbating their condition it is making them ill. you can have your money back when you won't destroy anyone or anything to make even more of it.

[sherryzade]

op im sure that was a rhetorical question and you do actually know the reason but like...

please god above can someone explain to me why we're still working on self driving cars when trains exist

[heydrangeas]

I am trying soooo hard not to be annoyed with american leftists. like we get it, you are ideologically perfect and won’t compromise with anyone or take any action or donate your time or money to any material cause—but at least you post the Exact Right Things and hate everyone!! Phew!

[softpinkpomegranate]

The fact that people on this hellsite can’t seem to comprehend that minorities can be antisemitic is nuts.

[jewish-mccoy]

I’m so fucking tired of the antisemites masquerading as just “anti Israel.” You want to know what just being Jewish has cost me since October 7?

Got fired from my job by my antisemitic manager

Have lost countless acquaintances and friends

Feel unsafe everywhere I go

Pride isn’t safe for me, a trans queer Jew

Social media randos keep telling me to kill myself and that I love dead children

“genocide supporter” normal reaction to me posting about Judaism or antisemitism. Israel is always the conversation with you people

That’s just off the cuff, I’m probably missing stuff

When will it be enough. When will y’all be done punching down.

[nonbinary-vents]

There’s been a distinct shift in how leftist Jew haters are starting to express their Jew hatred and it’s… very back to the old days, to put it lightly. It’s two specific things that I’ve seen. The more moderate stance of ‘it’s so terrible that the bad Jews are playing into Jew hating canards, how dare they!!’ which, just… ugh. And then you have the extremes, the ones who say ‘yeah, I hate Jews, but it’s their fault because of them being the scum of humanity’, it’s the ‘Hitler hated Jews for shit they didn’t do but I hate Jews for shit they did do!’ (a direct quote taken from someone who I can only describe as completely deranged)

And, honestly, seeing this shift has kind of broken me

At this point, there is no denial left. There is no going back. The pretences are starting to be dropped, people are becoming more and more comfortable with their Jew hatred being about Jews, and they’ve realised that it’s acceptable to say that out loud. All they need to do is say it’s our fault, and they get a free pass. We are fully back in the nineteenth century, all we’re missing is the ‘no dogs, no Jews’ signs (oh wait— what’s that about a bar in America banning all (((Zionists)))?) and the pogroms that go with it (oh no, what’s that about Russia, Dagestan, an airport, and a hotel?). We’re back in mid twentieth century Iran, where Jews are stuck between a country not yet legally aggressive to us, and all of the people in said country who want us dead

I don’t think things in the west are at the level of nineteenth century Europe yet, just in the style. But I’m also smart, I’m also connected to my history. My safta left Iran in 1951, at the age of ten, because her family saw what was happening. Ninety thousand other Jews in Iran saw it too. They caught on and they left. And then two decades later the revolution happened, and now our family can’t even visit without being executed. Many Jews have convinced themselves that we’ve assimilated, that were just like everyone else, that were safe. But we’re not safe. We are a people who have been persecuted and expelled and massacred for over two thousand years, it’s not going to suddenly stop now. And now that the people who are supposed to be fighting to keep us safe have started killing us, we have nobody but each other

I don’t think everyone should pack up and leave their countries right now. But I do think you should have a suitcase ready

[ara-line]

Stop glorifying the suicide of that US airman.

He grew up in a cult and never really left behind the mindset of that cult, even if his beliefs on the political spectrum shifted. According to a former member of the cult, it was common for members to leave and end up in the military. She described it as "going from one high control group to another" in the WaPo article linked.

In short, he never got help that he clearly needed. And from what I've heard about the military, his time in it may have worsened whatever issues he already had.

His suicide is a bigger reflection of this very strange pattern on the left to glorify self harm since others are suffering. It's one thing to see children in a playground and think about how there are children in refugee camps who don't get to enjoy those freedoms. This is another thing. Bushnell, unlike many other cases of self-immolation (ie the self immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, the man whose death kickstarted the Arab Spring) was not directly affected by the bombings in Gaza. Yet he chose an extreme route that even those affected by the situation, whether through being related to the Israeli hostages or through having family in Gaza, would not go to. This is a reflection of a larger trend on this website of self punishment and forcing every last gory detail of horrific events on yourself because of a) this feeling of powerlessness over not being able to do much about the situation and b) wanting to show how much of a good leftist you are because you will subject yourself to horrific violence to show how much you care. In reality, it is mental self-destruction. I've seen this behaviour in true crime communities as well.

I think a lot of the leftists on this site grew up in conservative environments where it's all or nothing right wing extremism. Thus, much like Bushnell, their political beliefs have shifted, but not their mindset. That's why so many people on this site are glorifying his suicide.

The reason newspaper headlines aren't mentioning his name is because we already know many school shooters do what they do for infamy. Therefore, by not mentioning their names, the media wants to avoid copycats. It's the same line of thinking here. It's got nothing to do with Zionism, according to some people who probably had no idea what that is before Oct 7 and not now, controlling the media. No, Zionists do not control the news cycle. You're perpetuating antisemitism when you say that.

Inevitably, since people on this site have piss on the poor reading comprehension, I expect this post to go over well. If you're going to tell me to kill myself, just know that you will be blocked and reported. Any dialogue ended the moment you decided that was acceptable.

[notquiteaghost]

plain text of those tags: #except panse-- no shut up. #except asexu-- no shut up #youre a fed. a fed whos learned how to talk like a tumblrina #coming back to this because it makes me so mad. it always happens. theres a cycle to it of which posts get deemed okay and funny #quipping snotty pathetic little comments at the designated 'cringe gender cringe sexuality' like youre some kind of tumblr funnyman #when you all fucking sound the same. all the discourse buzzwords were hand selected for you by a person even meaner and slimier than you #youre a truscum and you dont like terfs? actually terfs are your best friends #youre a wounded person. wounded from people you cant hurt in return #and youre frothing. foaming at the mouth. to find someone who CAN be hurt by you. it feels good to be the bully for once

officially decided that anyone who tries to divide the lgbt community is a fed. i dont care if you're not actually a fed, if you're causing infighting in a minority community then you're a fed who just isnt getting paid to be one. either apply for a job at the CIA or shut the fuck up

[kosherkept]

at the very least, leftist antisemites can actually be really funny sometimes. getting on the internet to celebrate the deaths of over a thousand jews only to deactivate your account because you're "feeling really overwhelmed and need to take a break from harassment :/" because like one jew told you "hey thats bad actually." ???? HILARIOUS

[everestentertainments]

“Can’t believe Orion Pax took a bullet for a dictator” guys he didn’t do it on purpose 😭😭😭 he jumped in front of D-16 and fully expected him not to shoot. It was just bad timing.

Orion Pax would not purposely take a bullet for a dictator but he WILL fight his friend over how best and when to kill a dictator. It’s not that he didn’t want Sentinel to face consequences, it’s just that he thought his friend was making a rash, bad decision, and Sentinel’s fate got caught in the crossfire.

[hilacopter]

y'all have no fucking right to whine about how israeli leftists and pro-peace activists DoN'T aCtuALLy cARe AbOUt PaLEsTine because we don't spread fucking antisemitc misinfo and don't want our country bombed. perhaps we'd be willing to work with you if you haven't made it abundantly clear you don't want our support, you don't want our work and effort. in fact don't want us to exist at all. our existence infuriates you, it contradicts the black and white narrative you've made up for comfort in which all israelis are genocidal bigoted colonizers who's deaths are justified and welcome in the name of resistance. in which the big brave westerners get to play white savior and cleanse the evil israeli hivemind. you aren't willing to acknowledge us or ally with us because we refuse to work on your terms in which we have to disregard our own history in favor of your own false antisemitc narrative, we have to loathe our existence and grovel for repentance over the sin of being born, or we have to actively cheer for our own deaths. if you want help from the people who can make the most of an actual difference, who can protest the israeli government and military directly, then you're going to have to listen, you're going to have to apologise and you're going to have to compromise. you're going to have to hear stuff you might not like hearing and you'll have to make drastic changes to your movement of terrorist stans. but you've made it abundantly clear you don't actually want that. you only make us more reactionary and bitter by spitting in our faces. I've talked to fellow peaceniks who have lost the motivation to protest or donate out of spite for the western pro-palestine movement. I myself have become much more wary of it all. you're causing us to be resentful and then you complain like we were the problem all along when guess what, human beings (surprise, we are ones despite how much you want to think otherwise) don't have that kind of mental tolerance and you can't expect us to keep advocating for your cause while simultaneously having to tolerate your bullshit. in the end I think you're the ones who don't actually care about palestine, when you're actively rejecting movements and protests that are actually helpful as soon as they don't align with your worldview or your ego or your fantasies of a glorious violent revolution. your standards for what's considered pro-palestine and not "both-sidesing" are absurd, hostile and only harm everyone in the long run. peace is the ideal solution for all but you have made it clear you don't want that, you want "justice" based on your own misconceptions about a 2000 year old conflict you knew nothing about before and know nothing about now. you're in this to feel good about yourselves. I said what I said.

[athymelyreply]

It’s driving me up the wall that the same people who demand that Israel be dismantled and call for “death to Israel” because it’s apparently an ethnostate (already a very dubious claim in itself), then turn around and praise/idolize the Islamic fucking Republic of all places!!!!!

Are you genuinely that disconnected from the reality of the situation? How far up your own ass do you have to be to not immediately see the massive hypocrisy?

Did you forget Masha Amini? Was she just a trend to you? Are you willing to throw your lot in with morality police, Russian allies, and fascist extremist governments just because you both hate Jews?

[edenfenixblogs]

Well Drawfee is officially no longer safe media for me :(

Karina liked multiple tweets conflating a PSA for antisemitism with Israeli propaganda and claiming that Israel planned its assault to coincide with the superbowl…

Julia liked posts claiming that the war isn’t a war. Nobody has liked anything about antisemitism or even acknowledging Jews are in danger right now.

TBH I’m devastated.

I have Drawfee art all over my home. I was actually gonna become a patron this year. I’d literally been saving to make it feasible. This is crushing. I feel sick.

[softpinkpomegranate]

Remember these are the “leftists,” who “protested” for Misha Amani after she was brutally murdered and raped by a fascist government.

Fuck the Islamic Regime. If you are endorsing any of what Iran is doing you are standing with hatful, antisemitic, bigoted, and misogynistic people.

[soup-in-the-inbox]

Last serious post from me for now, but every time I see people insist they have to talk about the conflict, that they HAVE to witness the horrors, retweeting untagged and uncensored real life gore and all it's just disheartening.

All I can think about is the therapists I know being told not to consume true crime content, to monitor their news intake to prevent empathetic burnout. Same thing I was taught. Because consuming the horrors you can't do anything about dulls you to it.

You aren't helping anyone, hell it's only hurting to spam post ACTUAL REAL GORE. And excuse my language, but I can't trust any "activist" who does this. It's why I've blocked so many people really, because it's not about protesting war, or advocating for a peaceful solution, or actually caring about the real people affected, it's about internet clout. Because now, you can get brownie points for driving yourself to a near second hand trauma.

I do think a lot of watermelon activists need to step back and reexamine what they're doing. Especially when it comes to their xenophobia, thing for suffering, and antisemitism. All it's doing is ruining their sense of empathy.

[nonbinary-vents]

I know this is such a doomer kind of attitude but I genuinely cannot stand it when people go around talking about the ‘silent majority’ when it comes to Jew hatred. There’s two main problems I have with this statement

— Sure, these people might support Jews now, but it’s probably safe to say the majority of people in the world have deeply ingrained biases against Jews. Those biases are easily exploited, easily brought out, and easily radicalised into rabid hatred. See: large swaths of leftist spaces, who honestly seemed like sleeper agents with how fast they openly admitted raping Jews is a moral thing. There’s also the issue of a lot of these silent majority people not supporting Hamas or believing in the Aryan race or thinking that Jews have no culture and we’re just stealing it from everyone else, but still tolerating those ideas being held in other people— it shows that these people neither understand nor care about the gravity of these views, which then makes those precious biases much, much easier to show

and

— The entire point of the silent majority is that they are silent. Sure, they might chat with their Jewish friends about how bad things are, they might express sympathy in private, things like that. But when push comes to shove, when Jews are being actively murdered wide scale, they don’t show up. They leave us in the dirt. They watch quietly as the Gestappo drags their neighbours away. They look away politely as their Dhimmi shopkeeper is beaten in the street for walking on the wrong side of the pavement. They close their blinds when their friend is tied to the stake and burned alive

I know it’s comforting to think of this vague concept of the silent majority, but it’s not actually reality. I know it sucks feeling like you need to have your guard up all the time (and you don’t, just be careful), it’s going to suck a whole lot more if you put yourself into a false sense of security. The silent majority are not our friends. The silent majority are not there for us. The silent majority don’t care. We can’t just live in a nebulous idea of people who quietly tut to themselves whenever they see someone saying ‘glory to the resistance’ or ‘Jews are trying to taint the Aryan race’, we need to focus on the tangible reality, and the people who are actually present

I think this is also why I, and so many other Jews, absolutely love non-Jewish allies. There’s something so indescribably amazing to see people in this world that’s been so horrible to us standing up for us, listening to us, helping us. Allies go through a lot of shit from others because they care about us, I’ve seen it so much— they’ll get vicious hate for just associating with Jews. And they still do it. They still stick with us. Because they care, and it’s just so wonderful

Spread the love to non-Jewish allies, you are so amazing. And to the silent majority, I hope you can become the help that we desperately need