#fellow goyim put up or shut up challenge

[melancholic-pigeon]

I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice this but it IS super weird to see so many leftists

get told they're being rampantly antisemitic

fact check (which is a good instict!)

realize they've been hitting Antisemite Bingo with every post they make

...and instead of going "oh shit, I didn't realize it was that baked into all of society, I really need to listen to more Jews about this and do better not to perpetuate hatred towards them"

they go "well, I do all of this, and I'm a good person, so those filthy Jews Zionists must secretly control the media!"

It's especially weird when they know better than to do this to any other minority, but somehow when it's Jews it's acceptible as long as you call them Zionists before hate-criming them.

This is probably why the denial is so high, though. They HAVE to believe leftist antisemitism isn't a problem, because if they believe it's a problem then THEY are the problem, and that interferes with their mental image of themselves as Righteous Revolutionaries.

#it's very tiring #fellow goyim put up or shut up challenge #leftist antisemitism #don't be awful to each other

[melancholic-pigeon]

I just. The bar is so low, guys. It's so fucking low. "Don't tell violently marginalized people they're wrong about their own experiences of marginalization and violence, and if you do and are called out on it, don't double down and act like you're being victimized".

That's it.

How are we still finding new, exciting ways to miss that bar every second of every day?

#fellow goyim put up or shut up challenge

[melancholic-pigeon]

*Deep inhale*

*Slow exhale*

Dear fellow goyische leftists:

Why are we so invested in goysplaining antisemitism in leftist spaces to Jews who call out leftist antisemitism when we could be spending that time rooting out the antisemitism in our leftist spaces?

Why are we so invested in shouting "nuh uh, we're the good guys" instead of actually doing good?

Who do we think we're helping?

It's getting bleaker and bleaker out here and I'm getting more and more disillusioned. I know we're not okay. None of us is okay. None of us knows how to deal with not being okay and we're all screaming meatsacks flailing around in the dark mostly trying not to punch each other in the face, but none of us (me included, I'm not happy with my dickishness levels at all) is willing to unclench our fists or stop windmilling our arms at every opportunity.

I don't know what the solution is. I have ideas on how we got here, but I don't know how to get us out. I don't know how to make things better. I know I don't want to make things worse. I'm trying my best with what I have, and I need to do better (seriously, dialectical thinking, it makes a difference if you remember to practice it on purpose).

Regardless of the reasons, we all need to do way, way better by our Jewish siblings. You, me, all of us.

If we want our movement to be the one that condemns antisemitism, we have to actually condemn antisemitism instead of making excuses for why it's not antisemitism when we do it.

That's all I have right now, really.

#fellow goyim put up or shut up challenge