#athiest antisemetism

[nerves-nebula]

Holy shit finally!! someone else who noticed that about tmc!!! It’s been bouncing around in my head since I watched Pastra’s video on it (I don’t remember them noticing anything off either), ty for putting what I’ve been feeling into words

First I thought it was like “this person has been replaced by someone dangerous” as a representation of the right-wing pipeline and invented paranoia and that the “weird faces scary” shit was more unconscious bias but all the weird religious and antisemetic stuff touched on in the video has been looping in my brain for easily over a month, like you’d think more people would pick up on that by now, not sing its praises.

The premise isn’t even unique like people go on about “what if there were dangerous beings that could act like people and replace the people around you ” that’s been around at least since Dracula and he’s coded as a gay man with a bunch of antisemetic references too. anyway

Y’know speaking of antisemitism… at one point the lore of tmc said that “religious thinking” or something made you susceptible to MAD (don’t get me started on MAD) because you aren’t meant to question stuff or something and they showed the religious signifiers of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. And they cut that out layer I think, probably because Alex realized he had no idea what the fuck he was talking about and fell into the typical American Christian trap of assuming all religions are basically Christianity with a different god. Also I think they included like, philosophical ideologies??? Which you aren’t uhhh supposed to just blindly believe. But it’s a common Christian talking point to say that athiests Gods are like, philosophy books or something. So that’s. Hm.

Anyway, not only is the premise not at all unique, it’s literally a staple antisemitic trope. Shape shifter/changeling hiding as a human shit is always at risk of that happening but tmc really blew it out of the park by adhering to every single antisemitic trope I can think of off the top of my head.

#nnstuff #hateful webseries

[rottenmarquee]

I am spiritualist but tell ppl im athiest because i dont want to be associated with antisemetic conspiracy theorist white spiritualism but thts gotten boring so im just gonna start telling ppl tht im in a weird cult. And i get to make that joke bcs i was in at least one of those before.

#random

[magicalgirlpropaganda]

I am spiritualist but tell ppl im athiest because i dont want to be associated with antisemetic conspiracy theorist white spiritualism but thts gotten boring so im just gonna start telling ppl tht im in a weird cult. And i get to make that joke bcs i was in at least one of those before.

#dont ask bcs im not dumping my religious trauma #tw cult

[whoseventingthere]

“Please don’t talk about jewish culture things, like even mentioning your rabbi or correcting that judaism doesn’t have a hell, it makes me uncomfortable because it is a religion, and I was hurt by christianity when I was raised under it, and that is also a religion, so I have trauma related to all religons even though I know nothing about anything beyond christianity and everything else is just assumptions. What do you mean I’m just doing the work of christian-supremacisy for them? Haha what a funny thing to say, for I am an athiest, not christian.

Anyways, I’m so excite for CHRISTmas this year! :)”

#antisemitism #goyim gonna goy #christian antisemitism #athiest antisemetism #if i can be a jewish athiest (which i am) then they can be a christian culture athiest (which they are)

[killstreak-kritzkrieg]

i don’t know jack shit about the christian faith outside of them going hog wild about christmas

#i’m gonna have to do a lot of studying for my story #originally it was just gonna be agnostic/athiest the way i am #but now i think leaning into the tale’s original christian themes might actually be interesting #for Brain Shit reasons #not to use them in the odd way the original tale presented them that didn’t really do anything to deepen or strengthen the plot #(and if anything it just geared the story to even freakier antisemetism 😬)

[black-mesa-slut-voice]

Hey! you should probably change your benrey design, they have a fair few antisemetic features (skin tone, teeth, claws namely)

Thank you for contacting me about this! gonna put it under a readmore cus i like to talk ig!

the TLDR is i’ve done my research and will be changing my designs. My art does have some things I can do better- and I will do better from now on. I’m going to fix Benrey’s skin/blush tone and change some other features of his. But if anyone who’s jewish (and isnt an anon) genuinely feels uncomfortable I am willing to change my designs further. I firmly support the jewish community and want to do better if I can.

Alright! Again, thank u for this ask, I just wanted to go in a lil deeper.

Anyway! to start, I want to make things clear- I just turned 20, white, raised christian now athiest. Not that it changes anything, I just want to point out that- while I have done my best to research- I am not Jewish, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, because I don’t want to speak over actual jewish voices.

I've done a lot of reasearch both before and after receiving this ask, and I agree that my art could have a lot of things I can change. I will admit that I’ve used some bad stereotypical features in combination with each other, mainly grey/blue tinted skin and blush. I will be extra careful with it from now on, and not do that anymore. It was wrong of me and I apologize. I won’t go back and delete old art, but I edited my sidebar and icon and I’ll keep it like that from now on in any art I do.

The main reason for the stuff that I’ve done isn’t because hes the villain- it’s because I like drawing creatures/monsters/aliens- splatoon, tmnt, etc have always been my favorite things to do. I love creating biological headcanons and ‘xeno’ art, and my benrey is an alien. I find it fun to create biological, anatomical and social hcs for things like that. Which is why he has them at all- not because he’s a “villain”, but because I like monsters and aliens. I thought the blue thing was cool, but I see why it’s wrong now. I didn’t really associate that a lot of my interests unintentionally overlap with things that can be harmful.

Basically, Benrey canonically said “I’m not human” and I sorta took that and ran with it cus I love monster designs, not out of any malicious/antisemitic intent.

But more importantly than any of my preferences, I support my jewish friends and community here on tumblr and irl, and don’t want to fall into anything to unintentionally harm people. Their comfort is more important than my interests.

Last, I want to point out I have like... 15+ ‘benreys’ that i use for different arts, different aus, and whatnot- and my actual design of my main benrey literally changes all of the time. He’s had everything from antennae to frog eyes to unicorn tails just depending on how I’m feeling, I don’t have a set design for Benrey. I know it is not Jewish people’s job to correct me; It’s my job to do my research and avoid caricatures, but if there’s anything else that’s harmful that I missed, please tell me. Again, I’ve done research, but there’s a lot of conflicting information even from the jewish community (like on fangs+claws).

And as far as bubby goes, cus I know it’ll be brought up most likely- I don’t really draw him, but a while ago I gave bubby sharp teeth, but I don’t do that anymore. Kinda realized it was wrong after I started seeing more posts going around, and realized it didn’t make any sense? lol. I havent really posted anything with him in it lately tho so. The only nonhuman characters i hc to be that way are Benrey and Tommy; Bubby and Coomer are completely normal people as far as my designs go. I don’t hc Benrey with stuff cus he’s a villain, it’s only because he literally says ‘I’m not human’ and I like to draw creatures

SO: TLDR ive done my research and will be changing my designs. My art does have some things I can do better- and I will do better from now on. I’m going to fix Benrey’s skin/blush tone and change some other features of his. But if anyone who’s jewish (and isnt an anon) genuinely feels uncomfortable I am willing to change my designs further. I firmly support the jewish community and want to do better if I can.

#antisemetism mention

[ohboy]

i feel really disconnected from being jewish due to being raised by one previously jewish but athiest parent who didn't really want anything to do with religion the older he got and a parent who was raised catholic and never fully converted but still raised me as jewish from a very. idk. outsider perspective.. so i've got this really weird connection to my religious identity especially since i've been raised in such a zionist section of it that essentially said if i didn't support israel and the idf i was antisemetic.... i just wish that like. things were different in the way i was raised ig idk idk idk. there's certain parts of judaism that people mention and i'm just confused cause i've never heard of it before

#felixpost #when i get older idk if im going to stick with reform judaism. if i can even do that #vent #negative #religion