#or 'recent antisemetic events that have happened to me as a jew'

[artificial-ascension]

Sometimes I see personal accounts of racism, antisemitism, ableism, fatphobia and other such social injustices which I do not experience and get so fucking mad hearing about how other people have been treated, but it's like, there's not really a point in going "Grrr that was so awful of them. That's so terrible I, a random white/skinny/able-bodied/goy, am really angry on your behalf"

Cause I mean... one, I'm certain no one cares, and it's just kinda virtue signaling at that point, and two, I don't think people afflicted by any sort of bigotry complaining about their experience need anyone to be mad on their behalf. I don't really think that's the point of sharing those experiences, just to make people who don't have them be mad for them, so much as it is venting and/or a learning experience where the takeaway is not "I'm so mad I'm gonna daydream about beating up the Bad Person who said that" but rather "There are people who experience things I do not and also experience certain things worse than I could imagine. Here are the material realities of another person's life." And furthermore, deciding to take that information and fight for, or at the very least support and uplift people who have been affected in such ways is infinitely better than yelling about how you think that's just terrible and showing off your weird savior complex in a random Tumblr users notes.

Tl dr: I think bigotry is bad and the fact that other people get treated so badly makes me angry. I just don't think that's productive to be saying every 20 minutes because being nice to people is an infinitely better use of time and energy than being mean even if someone really deserves it.

[whosplayerthree]

TL;DR version: at least read this

Now angry long version:

I keep accidentally reblogging Jewish stuff meant for my negativity blog on my main, and I was going to move them but, you know what? I’m not going to shut up about jewish stuff and hide it off my main until “progressive” goyim start actually paying attention/stop obviously pointedly ignoring it. I hate guilting, and I dismissed it as paranoia at first, but I see you (most specifically American, seeing as I guess people from other countries have the excuse “well that’s not my country”, and I don’t want to be american-centric here) goyim going through all my posts on my negative blog and liking or reblogging the two or three that come right before, in between, or after the info and rage about the most recent big ol’ antisemetism thing I’m raging about that happened and why it’s bad. And not even a single like on any of the antisemetism posts. No acknowledgement. Navigating between the flurry of those, oh so carefully. Same as every other time. And I dismissed it as my paranoia, but you know what no. I’ve seen nothing on my dash aside from jewish people about this so I’m putting this where i have more followers in the desperate hope I’ll reach someone who doesn’t know who will give a damn.

And I know it’s not the “biggest thing ever” or whatever, I know no one was physically attacked, but still. It’s just so evident. The silence. No condemnation. No damn comments about the events from goyim except from ones going “lol who cares about you kikes you deserve it”. No goyim even sharing the information. Like I said, pointedly avoiding it. Like I said, usually I’m against quilting but it’s just so fucking obvious at this point that no one, not just talking about my meager amount of followers on either of my accounts, not just talking about people I follow, especially otherwise “woke” ones who reblog information about bad things happening to other marginalized groups they aren’t a part of, cares aside from us “kikes”..

....Okay I am being dramatic and exaggerating a tad. I’ve seen two or three goyim sharing info or showing care at all (though not on my dash aside from my partner, and one person I’m.....pretty sure is a goy.... liked some of the posts....and had two friends come to me privately to comment so you guys are safe, you escape my “mad at goyim in general” anger), but yeah that’s uh, not a lot in comparison to....other things....Anything else, really.....and I’m I’m talking on the ENTIRETY OF THE INTERNET that I’ve seen. And boy I got in a desperate frenzy to find goyim who cared and went deep. But they are far outweighed by the goyim saying we deserve it. 

And I’m not the only Jewish person pointing it out. Others have noticed. Only popular “progressive” blogs sharing this info (like I said, even if they share about like.....every other marginalized group examples of oppression) are Jewish ones. And they’ve noticed that too. And that they are very very sure (at least some of them, a good number of them) it’s not like they aren’t seeing the info presented to them. They’re just staying silent on it. Or, of course, that could just be us wacky whiny jews being paranoid again. Like we always are called. Always whining. Always being paranoid. Always told we are being that....about things that are then....proven true............

But’s what’s fucking new about that. Not just on this website. Not just on the stupid thing called the internet. Gotta be another genocide for you to even take notice I guess (and even then, decades later, and even then, as a passing mention as just “never again” and nothing else but a question on a history test, and even then haha no usually you don’t notice nope only one time it was big enough to be relevant I guess, seeing as the one I know you know I am talking about happened)? 

Nothing new about that though. Silence is what always comes before them, and then “Oh no! Who saw this coming?! I mean, there were signs right in my face and I may have even taken part of it, but I never thought it was a REAL problem! Never thought it would lead to this! Even though it has again and again and again and again! I care soooo much!” will just be the response. Too little too late. And then we will be forgotten. Again. And then the cycle will just repeat. Again.

 And sure people pay lip-service, make and share “Hey Jewish people! We love and don’t hate you!!!!” comments or whatever, but when it comes to spreading info or showing concern when something ACTUALLY HAPPENS? Nothing. 

I don’t trust you. I mean, I don’t trust most people, but I “pointedly” don’t trust you for your “allyship” as much as you “pointedly” ignore actual antisemetism. 

I’m going to bed.