#these can't be the real bames

[deadpools-left-arm]

@profecional-dreamer

I literally thought this track list was satire when I first saw it because who the fuck greenlit these

[tamashi-tai-tamashi]

Just for curiosity, do you have the same problem with other dubs (such as the Italian, LATAM, French, Portuguese, etc...) that you have for the English one or is it just for that one?

Hope you have a nice day!

Heyy, thanks for the ask!

To answer your question, yes, I do! I am a dub hater in general, haha. I think watching the dub, no matter which one, is okay if you're like a casual fan who for example watch Dragon Ball when it happens to be on tv, but I really don't get big fans who still watch the dub (and they annoy me a lot to be honest 😭).

I criticize the funimation dub more because first of all, it's an english centered website, everyone on here speak english, and most users have english as their first language. So it's this dub that most Dragon Ball fans on here watch, it makes more sense to talk about this one. And if I tried to criticize other dubs I know like the french one (I am french), nobody would know what I am talking about or get the refs haha. Rare are the people who know Patrick Borg on tumblr.

But also, even though I have the same problem with all dubs in general, criticize all of them and think you should watch the original version no matter where you're from, the funimation dub especially annoys me because 1) there are way more english speaking fans who only watch the dub than people from other countries who watch the dub of their language instead of the og version. Like, in France for example, most real and big fans watch the japanese version. Almost nobody decides to watch db/dbz or the new Daima episode of the week in french. The only people who do that are casual fans who watch DB/DBZ/DB Daima when it's on tv and don't especially watch it on their own, or some idiots (often racists) who can't handle hearing japanese. It's weird for a fan in France to still watch the french version in 2024, and I know it's the same thing in many other countries. It's mostly americans who still only watch their dub (and sometimes have the nerves to criticize the japanese version...). 2) Most american fans don't know this but the english dub is imposed on fans all over the world. Many video games for example try to please the American audience by using the terms of the funimation dub, and we end up having to play with "Mystic Gohan" or "Kid Buu", many translations (like in subtitles, or books, magazines) are based on the funimation dub (which is very, very different from the original version, and doesn't translate the japanese lines well at all, so you can guess how terrible the final translations are)...it's annoying. When I buy a video game or a book about Dragon Ball, I want to play with the characters' real bames, read the most accurate translation possible, hear or read the official terms and not the american ones. As a result we all end up hating the english dub.

Anyway, I think the funimation dub is very, very bad for several reasons but I am a dub hater in general lol.

In short, yes, I have the same problem with all other dubs even though I talk about the funimation one more !

Hope you have a very nice day too!!!

[maestro04yayyy]

Chlolila au!!!

Sooo this is another au of mine!!!!

It was inspired by a post i saw here on tumblr but sadly i can't find it.

Basically the post said that alya could have ended season 5 immediately by going to lila and saying that she could help her confessing to chloe, and lila would rethink all her interaction with chloe during s5, and realizing they could be mistunderstood and when alya point it out she realize she may feel something for chloe, while chloe hear of that and had to think if she likes lila or is just extremely desperate for affection, so now those two are so stuck with love and stuff that they don't harras anyone anymore.

So in my au alya tells that to lila but her and chloe kinda resolve their problems immediatelly and became the most thoot rotting couple ever!!!!!!! Like!! Looking at them too long gives you diabets, that's the amount of sugar they have, adrienette or julerose are nothing compared to them!!!!

Oh and since lila knows gabriel is hawkmoth and chloe knows perfectly the mansion(yes she knows even the secret lair but was in really deep denial about his identity), they steal both the butterfly and the peacock miraculous!!!

They mostly use them for fun, nut convincing nooro was hard since he is pretty rigid but telling him that they would restore his miraculous good name did the trick, since now everyone was scared/hated his miraculous thanks to hawkmoth(while dusuu was pretty easy)

So now if they want to skip a test or pull some kind of prank they let an akuma out,

But more often is when chloe has tobket some steam out because of her mother or her father or her half sister or whatever, in these cases lila find someone angry and asks them if they want to break a lot of stuff without conseguences since ladybug while restore everything(usually is aurore). Then chloe use the peacock to fight them, she also creates sentimosters to help her fight the first is a great sword called Anger, he is made like a shushu from Wakfu, so a sword with an eye where handle and blade meets, his power are:1)change size 2)take fire.

Oh and chloe consider the sentimonster her kids, literally and they call her mom.(they call lila mom too)

Other sentimonster i thought are: 1)happines,a pair of chloves, they have eyes too, one in each one, on the back, their power is kinda similar to kung fu panda's ki, like they summon a golden dust that can heal injury and bring happiness, but it can also be used to make imagines in the air and stuff similar to what hawkmoth did with his butterfly during origins but it doesn't talk, oh and their pronouns are they/them.

2)lonelines, it is a huge bear

3)fear, it is a blanket covered with eyes

(2 and 3 where created when chloe was having a really hard time, since each bame represent the main feeling she had at the moment she created the sentimonster)

4)hate, she is a scyte, a huge scyte like the one of the grim reaper, it's power are that she can move to the shadow realm and bring whoever she touch here too(it is the real inside shadow, here everything is dark and black and humans can't breath or move here, so if chloe hit someone with hate she can make them disappear and happear her, or she can disappear herself only to reapper in another shadow, kinda like teleportation), hate was created one time when the heroes hurted lila(she was transformed too) during a fight

[radellama]

18, 19, 20, 21

bideo bames

18. A game you started, but never finished.

My most recent one was Terranigma. I tried when I was a kid but it didn't compare to CT (even tho my dad insisted it was just as good, if not better). I wanted to play and add it to my list of games I write about so the end of the year, but I was so miserable playing it and just didn't get what everybody liked about it. The soundtrack is gorgeous and I have nostalgia for it just from hearing dad play it so much, there's some nice visuals, and I actually really enjoyed the real time action battle style that replaces any turn based system... But the story and progression of the game... I hated it so much lol. I really try to play games and give them a fair go, and have stuck out way too many that weren't worth it, but this was one I really had to drop lol. I looked up fan forums and videos by people who love the game to see why they liked it, and it just confirmed that I don't think I'll ever gel with this one. Maybe I'll retry in future but for now I'm not touching it.

19. A game that you wish you could play for the first time again.

My answer for this will always be Chrono Trigger, but to shake it up, I'm going to say Ocarina of Time. I enjoyed playing through it so much as a kid, and although I've enjoyed my multiple playthroughs since, there was something very special about playing it the first time. Funnily enough, having nostalgic feelings about playing it when I was younger now that I've grown up just seems to make the core themes of the game hit harder

20. A game that made you cry.

I'm not the most emotional this way, while some stuff does get me, it was more frequent when I was younger lol. I'm trying to think of what the most recent one was and I'm really drawing a blank. I'll just say Life Is Strange, when I played the first time as a teen the reveal did get to me.

21. A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving?

Aragami. I hadn't played any stealth games before, at least not they I was aware of lol. I wasn't sure if I'd vibe with it tbh, but once I figured out how the game works, I really found myself enjoying it! It's a really neat little game, can't recommend it enough

Send some gaming questions >:)

[werm-whole-skwerm]

I know Japanese is my second language and I'm not super fluent, but like Yoimiya sounds so weird as a name??? Especially for a first one. Yomiya sounds better to the ears and on the bones.

[styleslistic]

How It Turned Out - Harry Styles Fic Part 6

Harry and Y/N spend the morning after the Grammys together, deal with the fallout from a drunken decision and Harry makes Y/N an offer she can't refuse.

Masterlist

Taglist: @theekyliepage @sleutherclaw @b-reads-things @mxltifxnd0m @lovurryy (just reply or send an ask to be added)

Y/N woke up to her hotel bedroom strewn with the contents of her suitcase, a pounding headache and a slew of Instagram notifications. Beside her, Harry lay in her spare set of pink silk pyjamas. It was certainly quite a sight.

True to her word, there had been no funny business when they'd got back to the hotel, although it had admittedly been tempting. Instead, they had cracked into the minibar. And that had resulted in Harry trying on half of her clothes. Because, as Y/N had asserted, Harry was "due a leather wearing era". Embarassing, she thought now. Although he had looked unfairly good.

Then Harry had insisted they record evidence of the evening, and of how he looked in Y/N's clothes, something they were both maybe a little too excited about. Y/N propped her phone against the dressing table and found herself dragged into Harry's lap as the self-timer ticked down.

Harry had grabbed her phone before she could get to it and was halfway to posting it to her Instagram profile by the time she snatched it back.

She had vetoed the caption he'd written out: Popstars in Leather, Coming Soon to Theatres Near You. This was on the basis that a) it didn't make any sense b) it sounded like a bad porno and c) there was a very real possibility that their fans would actually believe that they were announcing a film and the fallout from that would've been such a headache that they probably would've had to actually make a film called Popstars in Leather.

The Y/Nfication of Harry Styles

Tagged: @/harrystyles

Comments:

@/user1 MY FAVES TOGWTHER AT LAST

@/user2 this is gonna inspire a new wave of bisexual crises

@/user3 im sorry is harry in her clothes, im not ok

@/user4 is this a relationship announcement or...

Y/N brought up Twitter, knowing that wpuld be the place to go to see what fans really thought. And sure enough both of their bames were trending. There were the inevitable accusations that one or other of them was too good for the other, or that one was leeching off the others fame, but mostly people's minds seemed to be breaking a little at the fact that they had finally shown evidence that the knew each other.

Y/N grinned to herself, she kind of loved messing with her fans, feeding them rumours that didnt quite make sense so that there was always something new for them to discuss, but they could never be sure enough of anything to make a solid guess about what was going on in her life. The chaos of it let her keep a bit of privacy, as she could hide the truth in plain sight.

She just hoped Harry felt similarly.

Now, Y/N chugged back some paracetomol and a pint of water, keen to stave of her hangover from developing further. She brushed her teeth, and started gathering her clothes from around the room, careful not to wake Harry.

Thankfully, she only had a few days worth of stuff with her, so it didn't take quite as long as it might have. Y/N found her last remaining set of clean clothes - she couldn't quite face the implications of putting on the clothes she had leant Harry last night - and hopped in the shower.

"Morning," Harry groaned when she returned. His face was still buried in Y/N's pillows. She planted a fresh glass of water and the same painkillers she'd taken half an hour before on the bedside table next to him.

"Morning handsome," she smirked. "I know we planned to go out for breakfast, but how does room service sound?" she said. "Not sure we would fair well moving very far after the amount we drank."

"Oh thank god," said Harry. "I don't think I'll be able to sit up at a table for a couple of hours." He gulped down half of his water.

Y/N tossed him the menu. He picked it up and studied it intensely.

"Pancakes, please," he said.

"Alrighty." Y/N picked up the phone and dialled the room service number. "Pancakes for two," she said. "Oh and coffee," she added. She turned to Harry. "You want coffee?"

"Please," he said gratefully.

"Yeah, and a massive pot of coffee, thanks. Just charge it to the room." Y/N hung up. She joined Harry back on the bed.

"Oh, I would've paid," Harry said with a frown. "You were kind enough to put me up for the night, after all."

"Don't be daft," Y/N laughed. "You might be a multi-millionaire, but so am I. This is hardly going to bankrupt me," she said. "You can pay next time," she added cheekily.

Harry chuckled. "I think I can manage that." He stretched. "Mind if I take a shower?"

Minutes later, he emerges from the shower damp and rosy cheeked.

"I've not thought this through at all," he said. " I don't have any new clothes to change into. This is gonna look like such a walk of shame, I can't leave the hotel wearing a feather boa, its the morning! Feather boas are a strictly nightime accessory." He scrubbed his hands over his face.

Y/N reached into her suitcase and plucked out the leather outfit of hers he'd worn in the photo last night. She chucked it at him.

"You're already all over Instagram in my clothes, you might as well lean into it, don'tcha think?"

Harry stared at the clothes for a moment, as if weighing up his options. "People will talk," he said.

"They're already talking," Y/N pointed out. She flashed him her Twitter feed. "It's totally your call. But I reckon this'd reduce walk of shame accusations by at least ten whole percent. At least in my clothes there is an argument that you're just borrowing cloth3s from a friend. Which ironically is exactly what would be happening."

"At least ten percent, hey? Hard to turn down an offer like that," Harry laughed. "And you're sure this isn't just an excuse to get me in your clothes again?"

"Can't it be both?" she said.

Flirting felt as easy as breathing with Harry. So much so that she sometimes worried she was laying it on a bit thick. Harry, though, gave as good as he got.

Y/N excused hersle fto the bathroom under the pretense of brushing her hair in order to allow Harry a little privacy to change.

She returned to him fussing with his hair in the mirror.

"You were right," he said when he spotted her. "I do look good in leather." He lets the implication hang in the air, and it's all Y/N can do to summon a good humoured grin onto her face and hope that the totaly brain malfunction he had just caused isn't entirely obvious.

Luckily, she is saved by a knock at the door and the call of "room service".

"Wait in the bathroom, yeah?" Y/N asks. "I know I just made you put on my clothes, but the last thing we actually need is visual confirmation that you stayed over. Hotel porters are notorious snitches."

"Fair point," Harry nods, doing as she'd asked.

It was just as well too, the person delivering their breakfast was, it turned out, a fan of hers and asked for a selfie together. Y/N agreed, on the promise that they wouldn't post it anywhere until after checkout time. The last thing they needed this morning was their location being leaked.

"Alright, you can come out now," she said once the person had gone.

"Thank God they hadn't checked their social media this morning, or that could've been a disaster.

Then he nodded.

"Like you said, they're already talking about us, right?"

"You can give these clothes back next time you see me," Y/N suggests with a fiendish smile.

"Well if I knew it meant I got to see you again, I would've agreed to wear your clothes much quicker."

They bypassed the perfectly good table and chairs and brought their breakfast to the bed, settling themselves against the headboard.

"I would've expected you to being having toast," said Harry plainly.

"Toast?"

"Yeah, because your album is called Morning Toast," he spelt out.

"Oh. Yeah I'm actually pretty much pro all breakfast foods to be honest. It's the best bit of the day," Y/N explained.

"How come?"

"Well you know how this life is, we're always moving from one place to another, sometimes you've got no idea where you'll end up by the end of the day, or when you'll next end up having a decent meal because you're so busy. But there's always breakfast, and I think its pretty easy to get a decent breakfast in most places."

"So breakfast is the one constant in life is that it?" asked Harry.

"Got it in one," Y/N grinned.

They continued to chat trivially as the ate their breakfast and sipped at their steaming mugs of coffee. Until, Y/N got a call from her assistant telling her they were due to leave for the airport in 45 mins.

"Ah shit," she said. "Alright, I'll be ready then." She hung up. "I'm really sorry, I'm gonna have to kick you out so I can finish packing and get checked out," she said regretfully.

"That's ok," said Harry. "We probably shouldn't be seen leaving at the same time anyway. I'll let my driver know."

Y/N nodded, and rose to start gathering the last of her things.

"Driver's nearly here," Harry said a few minutes later.

"Ok," Y/N nodded. Harry put his suit from the night before in a suit bag Y/N offered him and slipped on his shoes.

"Guess this is goodbye for now then?" he said at the door.

"Yeah, for now," she replied.

Harry lingered in the doorway, then he leant down and kissed her on the cheek. As he pulled away, Y/N could've sworn that she caught his eyes dart to her lips, but neither of them did anything about it.

And with that, Harry turned away and walked to the lift.

She closed the door behind him and went back to packing. About two minutes later however, she received a text from Harry.

Harry: When can I see you again? ...to give back your clothes no other reason of course.

Y/N: of course, no other reason...

Harry: I wish I'd kissed you just now

Y/N: I wish you'd kissed me too. Next time

Harry: Yes, I promise. When?!

Harry: I don't really have a free moment for the next two months. There's week when I have nothing on, but my agent is threatening to book me in on a couple of talk shows.

Harry: I can't wait two months I'll go insane. When is that week off?

Y/N gave him the dates.

Harry: What if I booked you in that week?

Y/N: Harry we dont exactly get annual leave in this industry

Harry: No, what if I booked you in for work reasons!

Y/N: I feel like I'm getting deja vu...

Harry: its a different offer I swear! And you can say no, but it just sounded like you very much didnt want to go on those talk shows!

Harry: I'm filming a music video for Treat People With Kindness, and I'd love you to be in it.

Y/N: Shit I love that song. Ok, I'm listening.

Harry: Really! I was fully expecting you to shut me down again.

Y/N: Depends on the premise. It better be good.

Harry: It is, I promise. It's gonna be a fifties style concert hall thing, all shot in black and white. And the idea is that I'm performing and there's a person in the audience who is kind of a mirror image of me

Y/N: I see where you're going with this

Harry: And you would basically get to vibe around, drink some cocktails then we'd dance on stage together at the end

Harry: Not like swing dancing or anything, it's more a double act than anything else.

Y/N:... that does sound fun.

Y/N considered the offer.

Y/N: Have your people talk to my people, I want to see a storyboard before I commit to this. And!! I want to sign of on my outfits for this, I don't wanna look like a twat.

Harry: YES

Y/N: I can't believed you're inviting me to be in your music video just so you can kiss me. Thats crazy energy

Harry: Hey! You can't agree to it and then say I'm crazy, that's not fair.

Y/N: Technically I haven't said yes yet.

Harry: I'd say I'm at least pencilled in

Y/N: I'll allow that. Putting it in my diary now. "Provisional plan: Kiss Harry Styles."

[readyplayerhobi]

I encourage people who want to donate to causes at the moment to also consider donating to charities helping black/minorities in your own countries as well! I'm sure they would appreciate it!

For the UK, I've donated to:

Voyage Youth, which works with disadvantaged black youths

Stand Up To Racism, which works to combat racism in our society,

The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, a charity that was set up after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 and helps disadvantaged and underrepresented youths

The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network, home to the largest number of BAME therapists in the UK who aim to help increase the availability to BAME across the UK

UK Black Pride, a space to celebrate Black and POC LGBTQI

And in the USA:

Black Lives Matter

Black Visions Collective

The Movement for Black Lives

I hope you can all find charities in your own countries that could benefit from your donations as well!

In case anyone thinks I'm not putting my money where my mouth is lol I can't donate anymore so instead, I'm going to make sure to try and reblog any useful information I see for you guys! I can only hope this momentum can inspire real change, not just in the USA but in the world too!

[schraubd]

British Jews Should Announce They Can't Support Corbyn--or Johnson

This was a piece I initially wrote for publication outside of the blog. It had a tumultuous journey, including being accepted in one newspaper before the editor withdrew the offer an hour later. Most recently, it spent two weeks in limbo after the editor who was considering it solicited the draft ... then immediately went on vacation for a week. When he returned, he promised to get to it "first thing Monday". I never heard from him again. Anyway, the election is tomorrow and there's still no sign that he will get back to me, so you're getting the piece here. It's slightly less timely than I'd like -- though much more timely than if I posted it after election day. * * *

Earlier this month, The Guardian published a letter from twenty-four prominent non-Jewish figures, publicly declaring that they could not support Labour in the next election due to the raging antisemitism that has enveloped the party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

For the UK’s beleaguered Jewish community, it was a taste of that elusive elixir: solidarity. The knowledge that Jews do not stand alone, that we do have allies, that there are people who will not stand idly by and do nothing as this wave of antisemitism comes bearing down. That the letter’s signatories included figures like Islamophobia watchdog Fiyaz Mughal, who is intimately and painfully aware of the direct dangers a Tory government would do to him and his community, only makes it more powerful. In a very real sense, this is what it means to have true allies.

These past few years have been rough on British Jews, but if there is a silver lining, it is in moments like these: the public witnessing of all those who remain willing to plant their banner and fight antisemitism. The statements of resignation from persons who no longer can associate with a party that has become a force for hatred against the nation’s Jews. The figures—some Jewish (like MP Ruth Smeeth), some not (like London Mayor Sadiq Khan)—still bravely resisting antisemitism from within the party.

And there is grim satisfaction to be taken in Corbyn’s almost comically-high public disapproval ratings—which have reached upwards of 75% in some polls. For this, too, is at least in part a public and visceral repudiation of the brand of antisemitism Corbyn has come to represent.

Yet it is the ironic misery of the Jewish fate that we cannot even take unmediated satisfaction in those rejecting Labour antisemitism. Why? Well, because of the primary alternative to Labour: the Conservative Party, led by Boris Johnson.

The Tories have their own antisemitism problems, although—and as a liberal it pains me to say this—they pale in comparison to those afflicting Labour, at least today. And for me, I’ve probably written more on Labour antisemitism than I have on any other social problem outside of America or Israel.

But if the Tories are not today as antisemitic as is Labour, where the Tories can be aptly compared to Labour is along the axis of racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia. It is fair to say that on those issues, the Conservative Party is institutionally xenophobic in a manner that is on par with Labour’s own institutional antisemitism. Or put differently: Boris Johnson is to Muslims, Blacks, and Asians what Jeremy Corbyn is to Jews.

This is hardly unknown, and the latent nativism of the Conservative Party’s Brexit policy is only the tip of the iceberg. We saw the ugliness of Conservative racism in the Windrush Scandal, where Afro-Caribbean British citizens were harassed, detained, and even deported as part of the Tories’ pledge to create a “hostile environment” for undesired immigrants in the country (notwithstanding the fact that the Windrush Generation consisted of natural-born British subjects). We saw it in the game efforts by Muslim Conservative politicians to draw attention to festering Islamophobia amongst Tory candidates and politicians, and the grinding resistance of the Conservative political leadership to seriously investigate the issue—surely, this resonates with Labour’s own kicking-and-screaming approach to rooting out antisemitism inside its own ranks.

And—like with Corbyn’s Labour party—Tory xenophobia starts right at the top. In 2018, Boris Johnson was slurring Muslim women in Europe as “letter boxes”. Advocates at that time urged then-Prime Minister Theresa May to withdraw Johnson’s whip. She declined. Now he’s Prime Minister. In the meantime, Islamophobic instances in the country surged 375%.

There is a terrible commonality here: the legitimate fears Jews have about a Corbyn-led British government are mirrored by the equally legitimate worries BAMEs (Blacks, Asians, and Minority Ethnics) about the prospect of another term of Conservative rule.

To be clear: the Jewish community has not endorsed these Conservative predations. They are overwhelmingly opposed to Brexit. They have spoken out and stood out against racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia, and have done so consistently.

But there is another step that has not yet been taken. The Jewish community might return solidarity with solidarity, and write their own letter announcing that they cannot sanction voting for Labour—or the Tories. Twenty-four Jewish luminaries, each pledging that just as Labour’s antisemitism means that they cannot support Labour, Conservative racism and xenophobia preclude them from backing the Tories.

The UK, after all, is not a complete two-party system, and in many constituencies there are very live options that extend beyond Labour and Tory. The resurgent Liberal Democrats, for one, bolstered by refugees repelled by Labour antisemitism or Conservative xenophobia and showing renewed strength particularly in marginal constituencies where Labour is flagging. Regionally, the SNP or Plaid Cymru also are often competitive. Even the Greens, in some locales, are a viable option.

None of these parties are perfect. One does not need to search far to find instances of antisemitism in these other parties, for example, and the Liberal Democrats still have trust to re-earn following their disastrous stint as junior coalition partners to the Tories less than a decade ago.

But imperfections notwithstanding, none of these parties has completely caved to gutter populism in the way that both Labour and Tory have. They are cosmopolitan in orientation. They have faced antisemitism and other forms of prejudice, but they’ve responded decisively to it. They are not perfect, but they are viable choices, in a way that neither the Tories nor Labour can at this point claim to be.

And yet, still this companion letter—rejecting Conservative hatred with the same public moral clarity as The Guardian writers rejected Labour hatred—hasn’t been written. As much as many dislike Conservative politics, as much as many loathe Boris Johnson and the insular nativism he stands for—we have not forthrightly declared that the bigotry of his party is of equal moral weight and equal moral impermissibility at the bigotry of Corbyn’s party. We have not insisted that both be rejected.

Responding to the argument that Labour antisemitism had to be overlooked because of the pressing necessity of avoiding the disasters of a Tory government, the Guardian letter writers asked “Which other community’s concerns are disposable in this way? Who would be next?”

One could perhaps forgive the Windrush Generation for taking a tentative step forward in reply.

So again: why hasn’t that companion letter been written? Why hasn’t there been the declaration that the Windrushers, the migrants, the Muslims—that these community’s concerns are indispensable in the exact same way that the Jewish community’s concerns should (but often are not) be viewed as indispensable? Why has the wonderful solidarity demonstrated by the Guardian letter not been returned in kind?

The most common answer is that as terrible as Johnson is and as repulsive as Tory policies are, only a Conservative majority can guarantee that Corbyn will not become Prime Minister. Even the LibDems might ultimately elect to coalition with Labour if together they’d form a majority (ironically, many left-wing voters who dislike Corbyn but loathe Johnson express the same worry in reverse to explain why they can’t vote LibDem—they’re convinced that Jo Swinson would instead cut a deal to preserve a Conservative majority). As terrible as Johnson is, stopping Corbyn has to be the number one priority for British Jews. And a vote for anyone but the Tory candidates is, ultimately, a vote for Jeremy Corbyn.

Jewish voters who act under this logic, they would say, are by no means endorsing Brexit, which they detest, or xenophobia, which they abhor. They hate these things, genuinely and sincerely. But their hand has been forced. In this moment, they have to look out for Number One.

I understand this logic. I understand why some Jews might believe that in this moment, we cannot spare the luxury of thinking of others.

 I understand it. But it is, ultimately, spectacularly short-sighted.

To begin, if we accept that British Jews are justified in voting Tory because we are justified looking out for our own existential self-preservation, then we have to accept that non-Jewish minorities are similarly justified in voting Labour in pursuit of their own communal security and safety. We cannot simultaneously say that our vote for the Tories cannot be construed as an endorsement of Conservative xenophobia but their vote for Labour represents tacit approval of Corbynista antisemitism. Maybe both groups feel their hands are tied; trapped between a bad option and a disastrous one. And so we get one letter from the Chief Rabbi, excoriating Jeremy Corbyn as an “unfit” leader, and another competing letter from the Muslim Council of Britain, bemoaning Conservatives open tolerance of Islamophobia.

But if the Jews reluctantly vote Conservative “in our self-interest” and BAME citizens reluctantly vote Labour “in their self-interest”—well, there are a lot more BAME voters in Britain than there are Jewish voters. So the result would be a massive net gain for Labour. Some pursuit of self-interest.

Meanwhile, those Brits who are neither Jewish nor members of any other minority group are given no guidance by this approach. There is no particular reason, after all, for why they should favor ameliorating Jewish fears of antisemitism over BAME fears of xenophobia. From their vantage point, these issues effectively cancel out, and they are freed to vote without regard to caring about either antisemitism or Islamophobia. At the very moment where these issues have been foregrounded in the British public imagination in an unprecedented way, insisting upon the primacy of pure self-interest would ensure that this attention would be squandered and rendered moot.

Of course, all this does not even contemplate the horrible dilemma imposed upon those persons who are both Jewish and BAME—the Afro-Caribbean Jew, for instance. They are truly being torn asunder, told that no matter how they vote they will be betraying a part of their whole self.

And finally, whatever we can say about the status of Tory antisemitism today, painful experience demonstrates that tides of xenophobia, nativism, and illiberal nationalism reflected in the Conservative Party will always eventually swallow Jews as well. That day will come, and if history is any guide it will come quickly. Jews should think twice and thrice before contemplating giving any succor to that brand of politics, no matter what seductive gestures it makes at us today.

So no—it will not do for Jews to back the Tories out of “self-interest”, for doing so will ultimately fail even in protecting ourselves. Ultimately, the reason that Jews should clearly and vocally reject both Labour and Tory is not sentimentality, but solidarity—solidarity in its truest and most robust sense. There simply are not enough Jews in the United Kingdom to make going it alone a viable strategy. We need allies, and so we need to find a way to respond to the reality of Labour antisemitism in a way that binds us closer to our allies rather than atomizing us apart. The solidarity they showed us must be reciprocated in kind.

If there is one theme I have heard over and over again from UK Jews, it is the fear of becoming “politically homeless”: unable to stomach voting for Tory nativism, unable to countenance backing Labour antisemitism.

But as The Guardian letter demonstrated, Jews still have friends, and allies, and people who will have our backs no matter what. And if you’ve got friends, allies, and people who have your back, what do you do if you’re worried about homelessness?

I’d say, you start building a new house—one with room enough for all of us.

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(1) fwfahbsjfdwq, Gotta be fucking kidding me. The crowd that fucking whinges about "whitewashing", and not being accurate to the book, when an olive skinned character is cast as a tanned/light brown girl, (which is what olive is), is the crowd that also whinges that "why can't the explicitly mentioned white character be a black chick?" Let's be real, if an Asian girl gets chosen, they'd call it "taking away the role from a black actor." I'd seriously beg to see some slav rep, gonna sound stupid

(2) but I got kind of a Slavic face, my aunt, full Slav, said a few times. "You got a really slavic nose, and face!" I got kind of a rounder big nose, and high cheekbones and stuff, which fits with that small niche slav branch I descend from. It would have been dope to see at least some slavic looking characters with some of these features, in an ACTUALLY SLAVIC BASED STORY. Also, I hate how the people who wanna force this BAME shit Ciri thing, are accusing people like, fex you, me, some others

(3) of being racist, and hating "minorities" or just being whinny. While at the same time I saw you, etc speaking out against the bullshit culture melting in Black Panther, disrespecting a bunch of cultures because "aesthetics!" Their only argument is ever racism. They don't care about the people who actually come from these places, or who's cultures those stories are based on. They just wanna have their ass kissed, and say we should accept the bastardisation of stories, because "AMERICA!!"

It’s even worse, because it’s UK with imported American views on race, not even America itself.