Ok new game. What's the thing you're a fan of that you're the most pretentious about. NOT the most pretentious thing you're a fan of, I mean the thing that makes *you* act like one of those "oh yeah? Name five of their albums" people. There is a difference
i am soooo tired of "isn't it ironic how jews—" no, not really, it's really not ironic at all because i have an actual understanding of ashkenazi history and the history of zionism and other european nationalism movements. considering that jews were violently oppressed for the entire modern era, then subjected to the world's first industrialized genocide, then were left displaced, given zero resources to reconcile their trauma, and then were handed guns and unlimited power by the most brutal and oppressive empire in human history, i actually think the reality of the zionist project makes complete and total sense. jews are not the first oppressed people to become oppressors and they won't be the last. claiming irony indicates a lack of historical knowledge, an unwillingness to engage in cycles of violence and abuse on a macro scale, and is smug and douchey and incredibly pointed at diaspora jews who are not involved.