#we should know better

[mental-about-you-too]

For the last six months, my overwhelming feeling has been: we should know better.

For centuries, the Jewish people didn’t have a nation-state--we had a diaspora. And a big part of Jewish identity and culture is born of that diffuse geographic situation: we didn’t have nationalism to hold us together, so we held together through spirituality, history, tradition, language. Now we have a nation-state, and guess what? Turns out we can be just as xenophobic, territorial, and violent as the nation-states that persecuted us throughout our history.

We celebrate hanging Haman on the very gallows he set up for Mordechai. We symbolically mourn the death of the Pharaoh’s first-born, but we acknowledge it as the final blow that facilitated our liberation. We are the children of the Maccabees. This isn’t to say that these are examples to emulate, only that our mythology and history are full of resistance in the face of tyranny, persistence in the face of persecution. If all we have learned from the legacy of antisemitism is self-preservation, then we have missed the more universal lesson: do not persecute people because their identity differs from yours, and do not underestimate the underdog.

When is Israel going to look in a mirror, and recognize our old oppressors in its own face?

We (I’m speaking not personally, but historically) have experienced oppression, ghettoization, dehumanization, and state-sponsored violence. We carry that generational trauma. We should know better.

To deny a people liberty, systematically impoverish them, and keep them under siege for years and decades; to demand that a million civilians evacuate their homes overnight, but prevent them from traveling safely and restrict them so severely that they have nowhere safe to go; to bomb a dense population center, while cutting off access to food, water, medical supplies, and electricity; to send in air strikes as hospitals run out of power—how could you look at such cruelty, and imagine it to be anything other than an attempt to destroy a people, body and spirit?

And Jews know the legacy of persecution with the goal of annihilation. We know the sorrow, the horror, the resilience.

This Passover, I’m giving to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Because what Israel is doing is wrong. Because what the US is aiding and abetting is wrong. Because on this holiday celebrating liberation, I’m watching a government commit genocide while claiming to represent my people.

Because my people should know better.

[a-timely-problem]

...my very much straight family seriously keeps insisting that Palestine is terrible and may be the wrong party to support BC to quote them: "They're very homophobic and those leftists should try to go there and survive."

...they don't care about queer people. At all. They're looking for a reason to hate the innocent people that are currently dying, completely ignoring that there are queer Palestinians and that no matter what may or may not be true, you can't ever achieve equality in a country that's being actively eradicated

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[hinamie]

7/3: pov u r nanami kento pleased that i managed to pull smth together in time for your bday

[hitwiththefandomz]

Master Leonardo has some tricks to show Casey for his first Christmas

[bittasol]

smile, iruma! | hey ive been here before

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Hi!! Your Cherik is so good and gorgeous 🤩🤩 If you don't mind wanna try to draw some Fall of X Cherik please?

thank you so much !!

i have a couple of ideas relating to the fall of x period specifically since theres. A Lot i wanna play with, so i hope this lil thing may be a satisfactory start :]]

and the obligatory bonus:

[licorishh]

no way she's alive ?? yea those mental health breaks because social media makes people suck are wild huh

[nanihirunkits]

WE ARE | EP16

[mental-about-you-too]

“The oppressor must be liberated, just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.” -Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Battle sprites and extra content from my Dungeon Meshi RPG battle post!

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Yet another jewish privilege: Stores putting sales on holiday items because (apparently) management has no clue when "those people's" holidays are.

They put chanukah candles on sale for $0.71 a box the week before chanukah

[yes-no-maybe-soo]

...I need a cigarette 😞

No but fr someone please explain to me how Sylus — this infamous dare I say legendary man, most wanted criminal in the Universe, the only person to ever escape from The Supreme Interstellar Starship Tartarus, conqueror of entire planets — gets a myth where he... boxes and makes salad 😐🫠 Like??? I'm sorry, but how does that make any sense?

[fiona-fififi]

Call me homophobic, but I don't actually think it's great representation to stick a complex, dynamic, newly-realized bisexual character permanently with a flat, boring, underdeveloped love interest just because that was the first guy who showed interest.

[alena-draws]

"Come on Spikey, you know smiling suits you better"

[lycandrophile]

just here to say to straight trans men that there are straight cis women out there who think you're twice the man cis men are. another day another time i ask sam collins please i am begging you fuck me like the whore i am

reading this ask was such a rollercoaster…the first sentence is a nice sentiment and then it just takes a hard left turn into wild fetishization.

in case anybody else didn’t know this, talking like that about real life trans men you don’t know (or about anyone you don’t know!) is super weird and generally not going to go over well at all! in fact, if you said this to him and not a random other trans man, it would be sexual harassment. so if you honestly think this is what affirming trans men’s gender sounds like, please take two seconds to actually talk to a trans man because i genuinely believe that the only way someone could possibly think is appropriate is if they’ve never interacted with a trans man in real life before and just see us as attractive faces on a screen.

please take some time to really think about the way you think about and talk to trans men. finding a person attractive doesn’t automatically mean you respect them, so you do actually still have to put some work into the respect part even if you think we’re hot.