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not-terezi-pyrope · 10 months

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Oppenheimer gets a lot of shit these days for the whole "oh I created this city-destroying bomb but I feel so bad about how it was used" etc etc, and people clowning on him for that, but I wonder how a lot of people on this site who call it a black and white moral choice would react if they were in that same situation, which is to say if their country was at war against the Nazis, and where the big fear was iirc that they were also working on developing the bomb.

Like, okay, nuclear bombs are bad, obviously, but imagine you're some dude in the 40s, you are a scientist rather than a politician or military strategist, you have limited information but your country is in the middle of a catastrophic global war with a massive fascist alliance the like of which the world has never seen. The physics community has just solved the equations and realised that this weapon might be possible, and that it is powerful enough to change the course of warfare forever, and the scientists who had escaped evil fascist alliance are telling you "look, the scientists who discovered this was possible were German, the Nazis are probably working on this and they might be further ahead than we are".

So the government comes to you and says, "we need to try and develop this first, because if not then they will use it to wipe us all out." And you have no reason to believe that's not true, because the science did come from the area of the Evil Fascist Alliance, and your country, your community and friends and loved ones, are already engaged in fighting the catastrophic world-ending war and there have been no holds barred.

I don't know, a lot of people manifest pretty strong principles in hindsight looking at the actual circumstances of the bomb's use by the US military, but given the sort of uses of violence I see advocated here for fighting back against fascists over much lower stakes than "literally World War II" (not judging whether that is correct or not, just observing), I am fairly sure that a large chunk of the people making snarky jokes about Oppenheimer would have built the bomb and handed it over to the US on the spot, perhaps feeling misgivings at the time but feeling it is necessary, then only coming to feel truly bad about it after the fact, following, like... the exact trajectory that I believe Oppenheimer did.

#not-terezi-speaks #oppenheimer #fascism cw #war cw

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transmascpetewentz · 1 month

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adolf was right about you all tbh...

"anti zionism isn't antisemitism!" motherfuckers when they're given the chance to say something without their name attached:

#asks #antisemitism #violence cw #fascism cw #genocide cw #ask to tag #anon hate

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llyfrenfys · 5 months

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"Fascism and Welsh Nationalism", or "Stop Fawning over the FWA you cont"

This is inspired by things I've been noticing around Aberystwyth lately while out and about.

Some mfer is putting up Free Welsh Army (FWA) stickers and I have to keep on pulling them down. Why? You ask.

Fascism.

Because of the not so subtle links between the FWA and fascist movements (of which those links are quite frankly underdiscussed) this post is necessary.

So, starting with the stickers:

This is just one of three identical stickers I've pulled down this last week in Aberystwyth. They appear more to be car stickers than anything else and must have cost a pretty penny to print and/or purchase. They appear to have been bought directly from a website using FWA imagery and slogans - yet does not claim to be the FWA (that I can see, at least). I'm not going to link to it because they don't need any more web traffic. But we will get onto why this is significant in a bit.

Anyway, returning to the stickers - I pulled down the first one off of an electric box on North Road, opposite Vaynor St in late November. I pulled down the second (pictured) also in late November on Penglais Road off the bus stop near the hospital. And in early December I pulled down the third one off of a wall near the Spar at the end of Vaynor Street. Right off the bat we can assume the guy who wasted a lot of money on these stickers lives local to where the stickers I've found so far were. So they're lazy, for one - not venturing much further than their own front door by the looks of it.

Iconography:

I've written about the iconography of the FWA before here but it bears repeating that if fascists approve of your iconography, then that's a sign your movement is already overrun with fascists.

This is the sticker design which I've been noticing about town. Top to bottom we have "Cymru Rydd/Free Wales" which on its own is fine. No qualms with that. But between the Welsh and English text is a symbol. This one:

Now, this was the symbol of the Free Wales Army. Note that I say *was* because the FWA doesn't exist any more. Yet various actors have tried to resurrect its very unsuccessful corpse over the years. These stickers seem to belong to a new organisation which is the latest to try and capitalise on the ghost of the FWA. Now, if you're like me, you'll have already noticed this design is, for lack of a better word, a bit dogwhistley. The angled, blocky, swastika-like stylisation of what is supposedly an eagle, the black and white void of any other features and the very fact it *is* an eagle depicted all seem a bit *too* similar to the iconography of the Third Reich, don't you think?

Their design choice is no accident. It is a design which appeals to fascists while also has enough Welsh cultural reference for apologists to hide behind with a plausibly deniable reason for why their eagle Looks Like That. The white eagle is a reference to the 13th C. poem Mab Darogan, in which Myrddin prophesises that "a king shall come with heroism from among the Welsh people" and that "generous men shall be reborn of the lineage of the eagles of Snowdonia". The eagle could have literally been drawn in any way. But it rather specifically was drawn like this. That choice is not accidental.

Now this new organisation which is trying to reanimate the corpse of the FWA (we'll call them EW) has incorporated the FWA symbol into their sticker. An endorsement of the failed so-called 'paramilitary' organisation on their part, to be sure. EW also have included a different style of white eagle on their sticker as well - which is blatantly stolen from Wikipedia (the copyright is expired, but 0/10 artistic effort on their part even so). Also not to nitpick but the eagle on the sticker is grey not white so that's also a fail.

Artistic criticisms aside, the sticker is loaded with dogwhistley iconography all round. The Celtic knot border isn't necessarily problematic, however, fascists and/or neo-nazis love to slap Celtic knots onto things because they associate Celticity with whiteness. The colour scheme may also be a coincidence, but it does remind me of the fascist symbol which is the 'Flag of Kekistan" which uses the same colour scheme.

Why does this matter and who were the FWA?:

The FWA were a Welsh nationalist (supposedly 'paramilitary') outfit which formed in Lampeter in 1963 and disbanded in 1969 (just 6 years of activity). They took a lot of their cues from the IRA and were effectively fanboys of them. The group was never really considered a threat and mostly consisted of middle-aged men playing paramilitary dress-up. They did claim to be funded by the IRA and that they had dogs trained to carry explosives. Their claims remain unproven.

HOWEVER - and here's where things get sticky. A lot of the issues the FWA were publicly concerned with were and are actually valid issues (e.g. the drowning of Capel Celyn, the Aberfan Disaster etc.). The problem is that fascists or fanboys of fascists love to get their foot in the door by addressing genuine issues. But what happens is that invariably a minoritised group is blamed for the existence of said issue and naturally that leads to discrimination and violence.

The police started to get a bit antsy with the investiture of then-prince Charles as prince of Wales and the possibility of the FWA doing some terrorism. So some of the FWA's leaders were arrested just prior to this. The group officially ended in 1969.

The nationalism advocated for by the FWA was of the 'blood-and-soil' type. Not just your common or garden nationalism (which still has issues but given context is perfectly able to exist in a non-fashy way). And that's why the idolisation of the FWA in years since is sus. It appeals to romanticised nationalist notions of brave men in uniforms helping free Wales - when in reality they did little terrorism and little to actually further the Welsh nationalist cause. In fact, the leadership of the FWA fell apart after they started to disagree on whether their actions were damaging the cause rather than helping it.

Julian Cayo-Evans founded the FWA and ran it with Dennis Coslett and Gethin ap Gruffydd. Gruffydd went on to found other youth nationalist organisations after he left the FWA due to disagreements with its direction - e.g. he founded the Patriotic Front in 1964 which was later outlawed by Plaid Cymru in 1966. It goes without saying names like 'Patriotic Front' are deliberate nods to other, similarly named fascist organisations like National Front.

Legacy and The Present:

FWA's only legacy is the sycophantic fanclub which ressurects the corpse of the FWA every few years to parade it around and relive the 'glory days' of paramilitary cosplay. But aside from functionally being useless, their iconography and politics are still very much under the fash umbrella and that must be resisted at every opportunity (hence why I'm tearing down their stickers - I don't want fascists to feel welcome here). Part of why people may turn a blind eye to the FWA/sympathise is that they may not be aware of the history of the FWA or see the dogwhistles laden in their work and symbols. Some may even just assume without any other context that they're just another Welsh-language preservation group and may even support them without realising the deeper nature of the organisation beyond just preserving the Welsh language.

Which brings me back to EW. I'm going to put the rest of this under a cut, I do encourage reading the rest though and reblogging to get the word out that

It is always morally okay to tear down fascist propaganda

If you see some in your town, don't hesitate to let fash know they aren't welcome here.

EW:

So, onto the latest in a long line of paramilitary wannabes who idolise a long-dead organisation from the 60s.

The EW website seems... sketch. Lots of banners and sections asking to 'donate now' and 'take action' (with money). So right off the bat this looks like a cash-grab.

Secondly, from their own 'About' section they claim that the Welsh Independence movement has "become inundated with authoritarian Marxist entryists who regard Welsh independence as merely a vehicle for furthering their own political agendas". Which is pretty bold stuff coming from an organisation trying to do The Exact Same. There's also a LOT of emphasis on youth involvement and youth nationalism.

There's also a lot of ahistorical claims in the About section too. E.g. on the prophecy of Myrddin "From this legend derives the very name of Cymru’s greatest mountains, with ‘Eryri’ meaning the ‘Seat of the Eagles’ in Cymraeg." - this is contested as there is no one agreed upon etymology of Eryri. To claim that this is The Etymology suggests that they picked this one just because it conveniently fits the version of the mythology they're presenting. They also claim that "Owain ap Gruffydd, would adopt three such eagles as his royal coat of arms" - this is blatantly incorrect as Owain ap Gruffydd lived before the Age of Heraldry and the three eagles are actually later attributed arms.

In EW's FAQ there's a section on supporting their organisation - with one paragraph saying that you can buy stickers instead "If you aren’t eligible or willing to commit to becoming an activist". Lol at 'if you aren't willing to fully commit to our FWA fanboy club you can put up some stickers instead'. Also the button to buy stickers suggests you pay via paypal "We’ll accept quick payments using PayPal and will have them shipped to you First Class" - which *totally* sounds legit (what do you bet they ask people to pay via 'friends and family instead of through business means?).

And... that's it. There's very little else on their website. It *looks* like they're trying to be a movement, but appear to lack substance (and money, judging from how many different Donate Now buttons are plastered all over the site). A hollow organisation blatantly bending history and mythology to fit their narrative, proudly using symbols designed to appeal to fascists while asking people to trust them with the future of Wales?

Dim diolch.

For further reading on why we should guard against fascism in Welsh language revival and independence, see my other post here.

Reblogs welcome for an antifascist independent Wales.

#cymraeg #cymru #free wales army #fwa #eryri #eryr wen #antifascist #annibyniaeth #welsh independence #welsh #fascism cw #neo nazism cw #white nationalism cw #long post

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queerbaitesque · 6 months

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what angers me the most about the italian gov's unwavering support of israel is that they're justifying it with "we need to protect the jewish community" from "islamic fanaticism" when these are the same people who cosplay nazi generals and have busts of mussolini in their homes and refuse to celebrate april the 25th (the day we celebrate the liberation from nazi occupation) because its "too political" and who continue to allow marches to mussolini's home in his honor every year (<- im fully aware the current gov isnt the only one allowing that and if you're wondering how i feel about the previous "leftist" governments allowing it too i feel nauseous)

#fascism cw #nazism cw #antisemitism cw

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kulay-ng-banaag · 2 months

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While I'm keen on doing comparative studies on a certain parallel period in ID-PH history, I fully intend to do so with the utmost gentle care and due respect. Even if I were to create a Historical Hetalia story set in that particular time, I refuse to be careless in handling it.

So imagine how disturbed I am because some Hetalians have the audacity to make IndoPhil ship jokes about being royally fucked by corruption and dictatorships. Frankly, Indonesians are not in the best state of mind rn, and even Filipinos are shaken by the disk horsing of political analogies.

I'm not against drawing IndoPhil where Piri comforts the other at all, but insinuating that Himaruya stopped drawing IndoPhil in canon because they're both "busy from twin elections" (twinning in results where the winners are the worst options) is like saying Himaruya stopped drawing Russia because he's busy doing war crimes.

Instead of considering that maybe Himaruya """doesn't draw certain characters anymore""" because he has nothing onhand at the moment that is NOT centered on certain world events that he knows better not to touch on. And even if he could do that, that would only further legitimize why (Axis Powers) Hetalia is righteously hated.

It's upsetting how there are Hetalia fans in 2024 who are still too comfortable with casually building headcanons from not just racist attacks, but also on abuses of power with reverberating consequences, both in real-time. People would rather cope with making jokes that are more patronizing than funny, instead of learning to sit with people through their grief and despair.

EDIT (02/17/24): I’m sorry but I gotta say it — y’all could have just said IndoPhil depressed af rn, but NO it had to be “indophil corruption soulmatecism” and 2p indophil the worst 2p iteration in real life. That’s like saying you ship GerIta because they both had fascist bosses.

We don't have to Hetaliafy every single thing that happens in order to make sense out of it, because sometimes Hetalia is just not the medium for that job.

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pyreshe · 1 year

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I have said it before and I will say it again: you CANNOT "be neutral" or claim "I'm not taking sides" or "both sides are bad" or w/e WHEN IT COMES TO FASCISM.

fascists are going to hear your silence as enablement and support and your friends who belong to marginalized communities will see and understand that you consider not rocking the boat or hurting bad people's feelings as more important than their ACTUAL LIVES.

you saying you're not taking a side isn't just a pathetic cop-out, it IS taking a side

#this isnt abt my mutuals or a vague on any of yall i just saw smth that got me HEATED #how the FUCK are u gonna be an alt ww2 history rp blog and pull some 'im not taking sides uwu' crap??#LIKE WHAT?#nazi ment cw #antisemitism cw #fascism cw

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fictionkinfessions · 3 months

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Hi. I'm a fictive of John Gaius from The Locked tomb, and I'm sorry.

I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I was a piece of shit, but I don't have to *stay* a piece of shit, because people can change. So here you go. Here's me just throwing words out there to process and work through some stuff.

To be honest? I wasn't a great person to start off with. Back than I wanted to believe that everyone would do the same in my position, but looking back I don't think it was *just* that.

(And yeah, it wasn't really a position that gave me a lot of time for rational thought and considering the consequences of my actions. But still, pretty sure that's the worst anyone's ever done it.)

Even before everything went to shit? I was a manipulative, underhanded, ends-justify-the-means kind of guy. I was convinced that the way to fix anything was to do it my way, because I was going to save humanity or die trying. I was a pretentious fuck who thought I was above everyone else.

I believed the only thing wrong with people getting hurt was that the wrong people were getting hurt, and I believed that I was the supreme arbitrator of acceptable targets. I wanted to be judge, jury, and executioner, but in the end I was only ever an executioner.

I wasn't some inherently evil irredeemable monster. I was a smooth talking guy who thought that if I just did everything my way, I could make things perfect, and who cares about the cost of utopia? In other words? I was a fascist.

I hurt people. Some of it I intended from the start. Some came later. But all of it was still things I did, my actions, my choices. I was coerced sometimes, yeah, I was under duress, but I still chose those things. I still committed to things I could have backed out of, knowing they would hurt people.

And there's nothing I can say that will guarantee you won't hate me for my source actions. There shouldn't be. If you don't get to decide whether or not you forgive someone, that's not forgiveness. But I figure I should start with this: I'm sorry.

Back than, I never really apologized. An apology means admitting you were wrong, admitting you hurt people. It means baring your soul. It means going "do you forgive me," and with real forgiveness there's always the possibility of a no. That's the point. Being vulnerable. And that scared me.

I was a master of the sunk cost fallacy. I got so used to picking the lesser evil that I refused to acknowledge it was still evil, and than I started defining "lesser evil" as "evil less harmful for me specifically." I guess you can probably see where that went.

They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I'll be more specific: road to Hell is paved with self-righteous conviction, and the refusal to admit you're doing the wrong thing, and the need to convince yourself of your good intentions.

Anger is like a fire; it needs fuel. I was angry. I was fueled by the desire to hurt the people who'd hurt people. I saw myself as some kind of divine arbitrator of justice. I never let go of grudges, not even after generations. I just fed that fire because I couldn't live with myself if I had to stop and think.

Once I stopped justifying everything, stopped trying to feed that, than I had to stop and think. I realized I was, to put it kindly, a piece of shit. So I tried to be a better person. It was a pain, it was a hard journey, it was trying and trying and trying for something I only half believed was possible.

I had to believe everyone could change, could try, could grow. Because if that wasn't true, than what hope was there for me?

To me, the main thing that keeps people from changing for the better is they don't even try. Whether it's because they think they're doing the right thing, or change isn't possible anymore, et cetera.

Ironically, enough, whether you're capable of redemption has nothing to do with who you are or what you've done. It's whether you think you can change. And doing that might cost you everything, but if you think it's impossible and never even try, than you've already failed.

To any sourcemates reading this: I'm sorry I hurt you. I hope you're happy and safe and this universe is treating you well. I understand if you don't forgive me, or you don't trust me. If you never want to see me again, that's fair too. But one bonus of screaming into the void is that you're not really expecting it to answer, and when it does it's sort of a pleasant surprise.

So if you never want to see me again, block this anon tag and move on with your day. I'll keep on screaming. You keep on living your life. This is a new life and I'm doing my best to change.

And that's all I can do.

So. Yeah. Cheers.

-🐮⌚🌇

#fictionkinfessions #fictive #johngaiusfictive #lockedtombfictive #apology #prevabuse #mod party cat #manipulation cw #death cw #fascism cw

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andthebeanstalk · 1 year

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The trains in Fascist Italy did not actually run on time. The Nazis were not actually tactically brilliant masters of efficiency and organization.

Be careful what you believe. Sometimes, it is literally fascist propaganda persisting into the present day.

#original #nazis #nazism #nazis cw #fascism cw #mussolini #italian history #german history #anti-fascism #i am angry today

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lizardsfromspace · 2 months

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I'm glad that weird ass movement of tech people who wanted to bring back monarchy mostly disappeared. I mean it's horrible bc most of them just became garden variety fascists instead of deradicalizing but can you imagine exposing them to X-era Elon Musk

#fascism cw #politics

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not-terezi-pyrope · 6 months

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If I must discuss it; the Palestinian genocide is bad, obviously, and Israel is an (arguably) fascist (definitely) apartheid regime that is responsible for the current attrocities. I won't be talking about it much because it's extremely distressing to me (yes, I know that that's a privilege, but it's a privilege that everyone should have, not one that should be taken away from individuals on social media whose impact on the situation is essentially non-existent. If it helps to hear, yes, I have privately been pretty upset about these events even if I haven't been liveblogging them).

But here is my post acknowledging what is happening and "spreading awareness", although it's pretty much a drop in the pond on tumblr at this point. The real fight is in the political mainstream. Even as a card-holding government disliker, I sort of can't believe the extent to which our elected officials are practically across the board defending an ethnic cleansing right now. It's been a real eye opener for sure.

Do what you can if you can, but most of all try to stay safe and sane. Hoping for better times.

#gaza #israel #palestine #Gaza war cw #Politics cw #Genocide cw #Fascism cw #Not-terezi-speaks

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transmascpetewentz · 4 months

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Was talking abt this with my family and decided this needed to be a post on the webbed site:

A fundamental way that antisemitism operates that makes it so difficult to remove from leftist spaces is by taking the broad scope of problems in the world and finding a couple that can be vaguely tied or related to Judaism in some way, then taking "this is tangentially related to Jews" to mean "Jews are 100% responsible for this." It's particularly this sentiment that I see echoed in most of the antisemitic posts that I see on the dash.

It's one of the reasons, imo, why the west is so focused on Israel as opposed to the situation in the Congo, Sudan, or Ukraine. All four of these situations suck and are very clearly, to any person observing, bad. However, only one of these awful situations where war crimes are being committed is one that I hear about every day, that I am told if I so much as block some tags relating to it that I am a bad person. And that's the one where people can blame The Jews for it.

Despite Russia currently committing what I would call a genocide against Ukrainians, many westerners who preach anti-colonialism are completely silent or worse. I thought that silence meant you are directly complicit? Odd, huh? Does this principle of being against historical imperial powers committing genocide against colonized people not apply when the colonized nation has more than three times the relative Jewish population compared to the colonizer?

Yep. And many of the most prominent antisemitic antizionists are completely pro-Russia because Russia claims to be against quote-unquote "western degeneracy," which is literal Nazi shit. As a Russian who regularly speaks out against slavophobia/russophobia/anti-Russian people sentiment on the left and the right, I am horrified by westerners' complete disregard for human life and basic moral principles to defend my country's genocide.

And this idea of blaming all tangentially-related problems on Jews isn't just showcased in how much people focus on Israel, but also in who gentiles tend to call "zionists" and the attributes that they prescribe onto anyone who is labeled a zionist. Zionism is a political movement with historical basis in Judaism, but the actual definition of zionism is irrelevant to the critique I am about to make. My issue is with how some gentiles define, or don't define, zionism.

I have said this before, but when some leftist gentiles are asked to name a few qualities that all zionists share, they might give a list that's something like this: they are pro-Israel, they support Israel's genocide of Palestinians, they are completely anti-Palestine, and they do not have nuanced takes on I/P. Of course, this is a batshit insane and very ahistorical take on zionism, but I would have less of an issue if these gentiles would stick to that definition and only call people zionists if they shared all of those qualities.

Instead, these same gentiles who claim that all zionists share these opinions will claim that any Jew, convert-in-progress, or ally that doesn't hate Jews is a zionist. This circles back to my first point about how antisemitism takes anything where Jews are involved and turns it into "Jews are The masterminds behind this." And that's exactly what this is. The label of zionist being applied to a non-zionist turns their views from nuanced and neutral to racist and genocidal in the eyes of antisemites.

The idea that all Jews one doesn't like must be behind some child-murdering conspiracy is an antisemitic one, no matter how real the child murder happening in Palestine is. Random Jews, even Israeli Jews, are not responsible for the actions of their government (which is being backed mostly by gentiles overseas, btw). Stop fucking taking any instance of a bad thing being tied to Jews or Judaism and blowing it up into calling Jews the masterminds behind it. There is no global conspiracy, no matter how much you wish there was for your daily dose of emotional support antisemitism.

Reading Comprehension Questions:

What do you think that OP means when they say "The Jews" with both the "t" and "j" capitalized? Is he using that language seriously, or is he trying to get another message across?

Is this a post about Israel and Palestine, or is this a post specifically addressing antisemitism within the pro-Palestine movement on the left? Additionally, does OP give any meaningful indication of his views on I/P within the post?

Why does OP talk for two paragraphs about the situation in Russia and Ukraine? How is OP more qualified than the average Tumblr user to have an opinion on Russia?

Why is OP, despite not being Jewish, making a post about this subject? How might OP be more qualified than the average gentile to make a post about antisemitism?

Does OP blame Palestinians for antisemitism on the left in this post? Does OP single out any specific ethnic or racial group as opposed to just gentiles?

Have I sat with and mentally answered to myself the above questions before I clicked on OP's page to send him an anon telling him to kill himself?

#wentz.txt #antisemitism #israel and palestine #obligatory disclaimer: i'm still converting to judaism so please listen to actual jews instead of just taking my word for this #fascism cw #long post

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