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I think something folks are missing is that a lot of, if not most of, people in the activist sphere are perfectly aware of the antisemitic undertones, messages, and individuals within their movements.

They just don't really care.

Antisemitism is seen by most left-ish goyim as a lesser prejudice, something that's not really an important issue. So when someone they're organizing with harasses, assaults or vandalizes random Jews, Jewish-owned businesses, JCCs, or shuln, they're perfectly happy to brush it off. It's a minor blemish on what they feel is a noble and righteous movement, not a big deal overall. You can point out the ways in which they are harming Jewish people and communities by spreading antisemitic talking points and obvious lies all you want, but they're still just going to reply with a non sequitur about Palestine.

The students at Columbia are perfectly aware of the naked hatred of Jews on display in the off-campus solidarity demonstration outside the gates. They are aware they are creating an environment in which the majority of Jewish students do not feel safe or comfortable being on campus.

They simply do not care.

#jews! #antisemitism #it's cool how now we're getting anecdotes about campus and corporate DEI offices turning jews away #for not 'counting' as an oppressed minority or 'being white' or whatever other excuses #it's really fucking great that that's a thing #clearly making jews feel unsafe is part of the point of a lot of this #which in this day and age is something you have to be actively TRYING to do on an ivy league campus in fucking manhattan

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#poll #alcohol #well i'm not doing any interesting substances at the moment for obvious reasons but exclusively alcohol otherwise #i've never actually done weed? the smell has ALWAYS put me off (i also hate cigarette and cigar smoke) #to the point of not even being able to be in the same room/space as people smoking let alone try it myself #not to mention i was a federal employee for several years (including with a security clearance for a bit) and didn't want to risk that #by the time it started getting legalized in places i lived i (1) still had hopes of future government employment #and (2) had really just lost any real interest (i had never had much) in trying edibles or whatever #and then there's also been a lot of kid-having and moving back to a state where it's not legal (yet?) #anyway in theory i'm down to try a gummy sometime down the road #in practice i may just be too much of a square with no tolerance #i will also say that i do miss beer and bubbly and especially my usual floral/citrusy cocktails at the moment #sushi and specifically raw salmon will be the FIRST forbidden thing in my mouth once this baby is out

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Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor in Yentl (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand

#i have for some reason never seen this movie but holy SHIT. #i have a type #mandy patinkin #yentl

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When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"

#i don't know how to tag this #bébé's daycare is reggio emilia which as i understand it is distinct from montessori but not dissimilar #the deliberate use of language and terminology among the teachers is fascinating though

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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) dir. Shawn Levy

#deadpool #marvel #mcu #i laughed so hard at this #my field of fucks to give marvel is all but barren at this point but it sure looks like this movie will at minimum be a good time #i mean there's no possible way i'll see it in a theater on account of my insane summer but that's what streaming is for #anyway this and the pegging joke alone make me want to see it. still surprised disney is allowing any of it. #and it seems worthwhile to see logan get the opportunity to curse properly #do i care about the tva and fox-verse characters not seen in two decades? no. #will whatever they came up with to describe dogpool make me gigglesnort? probably. #if they DO bring back laura kinney will i actually scream? yes.

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wistfully remembering how people (pretended they) cared about antisemitism when it was primarily coming from the right. like there are pre-2023 posts with tens of thousands of notes about antisemitism. now any mention of the existence of antisemitism (when its worse than it ever was) doesn’t breach containment outside of jewish circles. its almost funny how quickly people stopped caring when it was inconvenient.

#... #antisemitism #'inconvenient.' #and somehow at odds with wanting peace? or basic aid and safety and healthcare for civilians? or a two-state solution? #leo there are times when we are absolutely nowhere

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gummy lamas

#i just like this #it made me laugh #llama #llama llama duck #that one can fly! #animated

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#this is usually when i get a half-lemonade half-iced tea. or better yet a fancy lemonade. #although i've yet to find anywhere else that does it up quite like our old neighborhood place in illinois #which had a completely addictive concoction involving housemade lavender syrup and fizzy water and a sprig of thyme #like it's not worth moving back for but that's where the $8 for secret third option oughta go in the best case scenario #and honestly iirc that one was only like $5.50? #drinks #erin chack #twitter #lemonade

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who is the first david you think of when you hear the name david

#ew david #which is to say #schitt's creek #david rose

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Not a tail but a pillow

#red panda #as running rabbit said #i want one #the tail and the creature #death by cuteness

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ok so I was looking at the list of conspirators for the assassination of Caesar on Wikipedia (not exactly super reliable but I’m gonna roll with it) and guess what I found

Peter Capaldi plays caecilius in the fires of Pompeii and at some point during the episode I think he says something about moving to Rome (but don’t quote me on that it’s been awhile since I’ve watched the episode). but, the most important thing is

THIS MAN STABBED CAESAR

And if Donna and the Doctor didn’t save him or his family, then history could’ve turned out completely differently because one person was missing from the let’s-kill-Caesar squad

I desperately want to know if this was one purpose and no I’m never getting over it

#having been through the #cambridge latin course #back in middle school #and with a teacher who advised on the damn books no less #i feel contractually obligated to reblog this #as well as to note that on that fateful summer day in 2013 when his casting was announced 'twas i who texted everyone i knew #'caecilius est medicus' #and a VERY select subset of recipients reacted correctly #peter capaldi #caecilius #pompeii #fires of pompeii #doctor who #we should totally just stab caesar

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#oh that is a BOP #i don't know how to tag this #pharmaceuticals #? #tom lehrer #??

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andrea macasaet as anne boleyn in six: the musical

#six #six the musical #anne boleyn #don't lose ur head #i should say that & juliet was a great deal of fun but as hard as that costume designer went this one was just next level #i mean i guess they only had six people to dress instead of a full ensemble but still #anyway i love six and will patiently await my next opportunity to see it #which'll probably be in however-many years it takes to show up on tour or in a local production #because lbr if i'm in nyc i wanna see something new i can't see elsewhere #and i've since been informed that lempicka and hell's kitchen should be next on the list? #(which is jokes because i will be tied to an infant for a WHILE and also we're almost always doing family stuff in brooklyn these days...)

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#now that's what i'm talking about #ya books #poll #alanna of trebond #is still my answer #but there are so many other good options here #although as far as bsc went i recall wanting to be dawn not claudia #i would also have considered felicity merriman had she been an option here #and i suppose also hermione. i was in middle school circa 2000! it was era-appropriate and all we knew was jkr encouraged fic! (alas.)

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#poll #heights #i'm noticeably shorter than my mom and we have different body types/shapes but almost the same face/hair #whereas my tallest sister (the middle one) is about her height and has a similar shape but they look nothing alike face- or hair-wise #(youngest sister looks like a shorter female version of our dad with lighter but equally effortless hair. outlier adn shouldn't be counted. #although now that mom's well into her 60s she's shrinking a little which is STRANGE for everyone #my dad actually also shrunk a little but that was like 25 years ago when he had back surgery to remove a couple of crushed disks #just realized at the new house we could do the annual measuring of heights on the doorway with the kids! that would be fun and meaningful! #that said boyfriend is like. maybe. two inches taller than me and his parents are both also pretty short. #i think our kids will have a lot going for them in life but basketball careers are probably not among those things

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

#ruth hubbard #thinky thoughts #parenting #among other things #i think about stuff like this every time i buy something on the 'girly' end of the clothing spectrum for bébé #and wonder if she'd be actively and repeatedly donning all-rainbow outfits (as is her wont now) if she'd come out with different body parts #i mean i guess we'll see what bébé le deuxiéme does with some of the hand-me-downs #but if nothing else we're trying really hard on the food front not to use weight or body image as frames! #aaaahhhh #gender

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Rebecca Rebouche

#i just like this #rebecca rebouche #illustration #stars in the sky #always reblog things that look like your username #my mom is trying to make pen pals a thing with bébé so hard premised mostly on an old favorite kids' book called 'dear annie' #which bébé does like to read! or rather have read to her! #she is a terrific kid and at this point we've gathered she's particularly verbal for her age #but i'm not sure she totally gets the concept #still #it's making my mom happy so that's nice in its own right