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The Privilege Of Apathy

Throughout these horrible months I've been wondering, how can so many people not care?

How can they be silent as synagogues around the world are dealing with bomb threats, are getting Molotov cocktails thrown in them, even being shot up?

How can they dismiss the suffering of the hostages, the atrocities of Oct 7th, the death of Paul Kessler?

How can so many people move past everything that's happened, expecting us to do the same? How dare they expect us to be the same people we were on Oct 6th, before everything happened, when to many of us, those versions are an irreversible part of the past?

A huge part of this is the privilege of apathy. Of being completely not connected to the current events.

When I see the hostage posters being defaced I know they would be defaced all the same if they showed the photos of my grandparents or aunts or uncles or cousins.

When I see people ignoring or finding excuses for Paul Kessler's death I know they'd do the same for me or for any of my Jewish friends.

Those people have the privilege of knowing it'll never be them, while we are left knowing it could always be us.

Even so, apathy is a choice. Silence is a choice. If you claim to be an ally but haven't even reblogged a single post supporting us then what kind of ally are you? If the extent of your support is words thought or said in private, do better.

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Hi I have a hot take after seeing too much TikTok bullshit.

Islam and Christianity are religions of appropriation.

This is something that bothered me for a while but specifically came to my attention after seeing a TikTok where someone made the joke that the Christian pride flag is just the colors of Joseph's coat, based on the musical about it.

And fine, maybe that is a little funny. But the story of Joseph and his coat isn't Christian. It was Jewish first. It's still Jewish. Fine, they believe in it too (because they originally broke off from Judaism) but to claim it's Christian like that just rubbed me the wrong way.

So so so many people claim that Prince Of Egypt is a Christian "Bible movie" except it isn't. Or at the very least, it shouldn't be. Because it isn't Christian, it's Jewish. The Christians weren't led out of Egypt by G-d's hand. It was us, the Jews.

I know I seem petty, these are just movies, just musicals, and to some they are just stories. But this removal of Judaism from originally Jewish texts feeds into a larger problem.

Why do Muslims and Christians care at all about Israel? About Jerusalem, specifically? It's because they took our Torah and made it their "old testament" and claim it is the root of their religion. They claim they have equal, if not greater at times, claim to the land they only care about because we care about it.

If these religions were not Abrahamic then they wouldn't give a crap about Moses or Israel or Joseph's coat.

Any claim that any of the stories (for lack of a better word) from the Torah are Muslim or Christian is appropriation. Sorry not sorry. They were Jewish first, are Jewish now, and will forever be Jewish.

Can people of other Abrahamic faiths believe in them? I don't give a shit, I won't tell them what to believe, it's their religion. But they have no right to claim those stories as their own. To believe them and to claim them is vastly different.

When sharing in a culture that isn't your own, it's generally acknowledged to be wrong if you say that it's now part of your culture. Because it isn't. It still belongs to the original culture you took it from.

And since they do believe in the Jewish texts and claim them as their own, they are appropriating Judaism.

Shortly after October 7th, when my mom was talking to a coworker about what was going on, her coworker lamented the safety of the sacred sites. She said nothing of my mom's family living there, even though she knew. She, as a Christian, felt more entitled to care about the "sacred sites" (sacred to them because the land was first sacred to us) than about the Jewish blood being spilled.

I've said it before, to them, Jewish blood is cheap. And this appropriation only serves to cheapen it further.

This appropriation and entitlement has been an issue throughout history. The Crusades, the taxes on Jews for not being Muslim, this repeated and continued oppression of Jews under the justification of the other two Abrahamic religions, it's because those other groups feel entitled to our heritage, because they believe they're the ones "doing it right" and say we're doing it wrong even though what they do has strayed so far from their origins that such a claim is absurd.

I do not think Christians and Muslims should convert to Judaism. We don't encourage conversion (we accept y'all, but we aren't a proselytizing religion, not meant to offend Jewish converts).

What I am saying, however, is that Muslims and Christians should back the hell off from any claim to anything within their religion that is originally Jewish. And yes, that includes their entitlement to Israel and Jerusalem, and any and all "Biblical" stories that originated in the Torah. Those aren't Muslim or Christian, they're Jewish.

Again, I don't give a shit what people believe or practice, but what I am saying is for people to start giving credit where credit is due, and to back off from claiming other people's cultures and religions as reasons for your own entitlement.

Hell, I'm not even saying that only Jews can live in Israel. Anyone can live there now and that's fine. The issue is more so when claims start that Israel is equally important to all of us, or that Jews have no claim to the land. First, you care about it only because we did, that's not equal importance. And second, whether you like it or not, Jews are from Judea. We always have been, are, and always will be indigenous to Israel.

So yeah. Back off. Believe and practice what you want, but back off of what was ours first.

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If this gets too much hate I'll just delete it tbh. It's a hot take and I recognize that the truth isn't for everyone.

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okay obviously Ted Cruz going to Cancun or whatever right now is really bad optics but in a pragmatic sense, what could a US senator concretely do to help people in Texas right now?

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People are unaware of this absolute banger?

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Time Magazine just admitted in their new article The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” that there IS a conspiracy of "a well-funded cabal of powerful people working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.” (a quote from their own article) to rig the 2020 election in Biden’s favor. Times claims that’s its okay because “it’s not rigging the election, it’s fortifying it”

Reading it, the entire TIME piece centers around an AFL-CIO and Chamber of Commerce joint press release saying that all votes should be counted.

Usual foes at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO issued a joint statement Wednesday demanding that election officials count all legal ballots.

The letter comes hours after President Donald Trump called for vote counting to cease during an early morning press conference in which he declared victory, prematurely, in the presidential election.

“Although we may not always agree on desired outcomes up and down the ballot, we are united in our call for the American democratic process to proceed without violence, intimidation, or any other tactic that makes us weaker as a nation,” they wrote. “A free and fair election is one in which everyone eligible to cast a ballot can, all ballots are counted consistent with the law, and the American people, through their votes, determine the outcome.”

In their letter, the leaders demanded that voters be allowed to safely cast ballots without interference, suppression or fear of intimidation.And with the longer ballot counting times in part because of COVID-19, they demanded officials count every ballot and that people remain patient. But they also requested timely and accurate information from the election officials.

That doesn’t really seem like a “cabal to change rules and laws to rig the election.”

The piece you directed me to explicitly countermands the point you’re trying to make.

an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted... The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.

It seems like you stopped reading at page 3.5 of a 24 page article, where it goes in-depth as to it was a nonpartisan, technocratic effort that they are actively trying to tell people (like getting a 24 page TIME article published).

Effectively, you found a 24 page article detailing the mountains and months of work done by GOP, nonpartisan, and apolitical technocrats to make sure the election happened in 2020 and decided it was “rigging in Biden’s favor”.

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Just like I said. Illegal adoption.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/immigrant-mom-loses-effort-regain-son-us-parents/story?id=16803067

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1914

I had this idea rolling in my head for months. Finally sat down to try and draw it out quickly (hence slightly clunky dialogues, ha ha, no editors!). Can’t help it, I love darker spins.

Inspired by this event:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce