The fact that Judaism is trending because of both the wave of bomb threats on synagogues and Bradley Cooper's Antisemitism Adventure (his huge fake prosthetic nose, and him basically stealing the story from a Jewish man) is so infuriating and so exhaustingly typical.
The fact that I see Judaism trending on Tumblr and immediately think "oh no. Something Bad is happening to us." We're never trending cause it's fucking good. I never get to be excited, it's just cold dread.
The fact that Antisemitism is getting worse everyday and the only ones who ever talk about it are other Jews. The fact that no one else fucking cares. The only ones who support us are other Jews. Even when gentiles talk about Nazis or white supremacists they don't want to help us. We're just their prop, the canary in the coal mine and the perfect victim.
The fact that everyone's uncomfortable with Jews still being here. Reminding them of things they'd rather forget.
The fact that it'd be easier for them if we were all dead. Then they could tell stories about our people, dressed in offensive caricatures, without us making a fuss.
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legitimately insane how to some people, "we should wipe out this ethnic group that we've violently constrained to a ghetto because they're just genetically more violent and dangerous" is a reasonable and justifiable statement but it's Nazi Rhetoric to say something like, "it's bad that Israeli civilians are being killed but acknowledging that as tragic includes acknowledging that the almost daily state-sanctioned murder of civilians by the Israeli government is also tragic and unacceptable"
btw guys speaking of Nazi shit - can we check in, alongside what's been done to Palestinians in the last 75 years, what's the Israeli government's take on the Azerbaijani government's newest round of ethnic cleansing of Armenians? oh are the Israeli government's actions maybe not determined by Jewish identity, but by a commitment to colonial supremacy which puts them on the same page as other violently genocidal states like Azerbaijan, the US, and the UK? god can you Even Imagine?
(framing speaking against Israeli war crimes as inherently antisemitic requires understanding the Israeli state as representing all Jewish people, when it doesn't even represent all Israelis.
framing Israeli war crimes as synonymous with Jewish identity is pretty fucked up if we're being honest. I don't think that controlling water and power and movement for a captive population and shooting children dead for throwing stones is an inherent value of Judaism, any more than I think the torture carried out at Guantanamo Bay is an inherent value of Christianity - in both cases they're atrocities carried out by a far right genocidal government using religious identity as a shield.
Calling statements like "Israel is committing genocide against the people it's displaced" inherently antisemitic is doing more to further the idea that all Jewish people are associated with Israel than saying "the Israeli government is doing war crimes," which is a statement of fact about a country that exists and does war crimes. Is criticism of Israel as a nation often used as cover for antisemitism? Absolutely. Does that mean the Israeli government isn't doing literal war crimes repeatedly, on record, while talking publicly about scrubbing an ethnic group off the map? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh well in the last 48 hours they've definitely cut off water and power to almost 600,000 civilians and allegedly used white phosphorus against civilians so in an extremely factual and unambiguous way yeah man those are Literal War Crimes whoever does them.)
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What your Twitter ?
with the amount of times ive posted it im not helping anyone find it anymore. Plus i wouldnt accept anyone anyway
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something something mike realizing one of the reasons he started doubting his relationship with el is the fact that they met by accident. and yes, she might have needed someone back then. but she doesn’t need him. it could’ve been literally anyone. and right now, he isn’t sure if she needs anyone at all.
something about how will needs mike. how he trusts him more than anyone else. how he goes to him first and says “please don’t tell the others, they wouldn’t understand”. how he calls his name and searches for him and looks him in the eye immediately when in danger. will doesn’t need just anyone. he needs mike.
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okay….. what on earth was that tess death?? the scene leading up to it with tess convincing joel to continue with ellie was almost perfect (it would have been 100% perfect if they didn't leave out the line "there has to be enough here that you feel some sort of obligation to me" which is way better than the line they chose and makes more sense!!!) but the death???? man, in the game she says "i will not become one of them" - the ferociousness in the way she says it and the emotion in that scene just makes sense for her - and the whole purpose of her being left behind was to go out in her “own way” and that felt really grossly and unnecessarily done and taking away from that choice.
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The rumor about returned gifts, since two informants separately revealed it to him, sounds like an invented event to assure Chapuys of Jane's honor and to neutralize the earlier rumor about Henry's presenting her with gifts. Considering the Seymours' social status and political ambitions, surely they would not have permitted their female relative to refuse presents from the King.
Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship, Retha Warnicke
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my hottest of hot supernatural hot takes is that i don't even consider cas's love confession canon because in my mind dean and cas have been canonically and lovingly suckin and fuckin since at least season 5. it was just happening offscreen
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I don't know how the fuck I've still not written a fic titled If You Were Church (I'd Get on My Knees) because it's a practically tailor made fanfiction song title, from one of my favorite Fall Out Boy songs, and somehow I have not used it. I feel like I have failed as both a fic writer and a Fall Out Boy fan.
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