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hey sorry we put your good friend jonathan harker in a time loop. yeah he’s about to leave for his business trip again. but at least he’ll send you emails

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in a kinder world i live in an i spy page

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So a while back, a fairly left-wing friend of mine was shocked at the thought of Left-Wing Holocaust Denial, asking how it could even be possible, how can the Left even deny the Holocaust given everything (quote: “why would the LEFT be in denial? After you read Elie Wiesel, you can’t deny any of it. Same with Maus, Frieda Appleman-Jurman’s memoirs, and all that. Also, Lois Lowry won a Newberry medal for Number the Stars”). So I’ve been chewing on this for a while now.

First, Right-Wing Holocaust Denial is straight up “denial that the Holocaust happened”–often with an undertone of “But we wish that it had and it was a great idea”. They deny the number of deaths, or excuse the Nazis, or say that the Jews had it coming, or say that it didn’t happen at all, that sort of thing. It’s a very blunt, straightforward form of denial.

Comparatively, Left-Wing Holocaust Denial takes a different, more sophisticated form that functions on multiple levels–with an undertone of its own along the lines of “the Jews are exaggerating to try to portray themselves as victims”–and to talk about this form of denial, I have to explain what the Holocaust was.

So this gets a bit long, because what is being denied is long, but I will ask you to bear with me.

But, TL:DR:

Right Wing Holocaust Denial denies the body count and the atrocities…

Left Wing Holocaust Denial denies everything that built up to it, the centuries of Othering and murders, and the aftereffects.

Keep reading

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

#i can see why people love language so much XDDDDD

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It never occurred to me to wonder whether or not the whole "you have little to no control over your life and don't have the same rights as adults" thing was an international standard

Turns out it's just the US being uniquely horrible again

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

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#atla #aw gee what does it say about me that i recognized katara bloodbending INSTANTLY

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#101 isn't even THAT high #if you're gonna have an upper age limit #go for something currently impossible #like 200 maybe

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it obviously makes sense, but one of my friend’s kids is going into swim class, and all the parents got an email today going, “when little ones are scared, they cling on to instructors. PLEASE trim their nails.” 

i don’t know why that’s so funny to me, but just. the idea of this poor, scratched swim instructor having to make sure to email before each class as a reminder to please declaw the children SENT me. 

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What hits me a little hard about the first image is that she had put little bows around her snakes' necks. It was probably picture day or some other important event where she was encouraged to look her best, so she not only dressed up for herself but she also tied a little ribbon around the neck of every single snake, which depending on their sentience and cooperativeness could've taken an hour or more. She was so determined to look her absolute prettiest, but her idea of pretty is not the lady's idea of pretty. The lady's idea of pretty is most likely not to have a gorgon child at all, but she probably thinks abandoning her would make her a monster, so she doesn't abandon the gorgon child. That would be cruel. Instead she fixes the gorgon child so that she's less of a gorgon. She doesn't have normal hair, but not having live snakes moving about her head on this important day is doable, so she beheads every single one, ribbon and all, as if she was doing this child a favor. Once they clean up the blood and coach her how to keep their bodies from writhing, she'll almost look normal. Look how helpful she's being, doing the gorgon child's hair without being asked.

Surely the child will be grateful, once she stops crying so much.

art by @BottlngSunshine

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the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

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It IS true that being on here gives you a tumblr accent. This morning my mother asked me something and i replied "i don't know i've never heard these words in that order" and she nearly choked laughing. It wasn't even that funny

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so my family went to the tulip fields and my little sister didn’t have a good time at all