#stand up against racism

[sleepyfangirl18]

Don't be a safe space for racists.

#racist #not racist #white people #racism #been trying to find this vid for forever! #tiktok #black tik tok #black tiktok #stand up against racism

[racialdiscriminationday]

Everyone has a part to play in fighting racism.

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – also known as End Racism Day – is an opportunity to “recognize the contribution of individuals and organizations that stand up against racial discrimination and the challenges they face”.

The UN says there are three key strands to the fight against racism:

Education: teaching the history of racism, slavery, and colonialism, and learning about human rights tools to fight against oppression, racism and discrimination.

Actions speak as loud as words: Speaking out against intolerance often leads to concrete actions to stop it.

We all are agents of change: We all have the power to tackle racism. What is needed is courage and the will to act.

#End Racism Day #stand up against racial discrimination #21 march #International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination #OHCHR

[multiplicity-positivity]

Aw yeah my daily dose of serotonin blog! Can you make a positivity post for parogenic {or is it paragenic? I'm sorry but they sound similar and I get them confused a lot} systems and headmates? I'd say tulpa for ease of use but I know not a lot of people are okay with that word, me included. If you've already made a post on this then can you link it? Thanks and have a nice day, don't forget to drink water!

- 🔑

Hiya! It’s parogenic - paragenic is a term for systems who formed due to their paracosms, we believe! :3

We don’t think we’ve written a positivity post for parogenic/paromancy systems ever since we learned about the racist/culturally appropriative roots of tulpa language… so we’ve gladly written a post for parogenic systems and added it to the queue! It’ll be up tomorrow night at 8:00PM EST!! We hope y’all like it! >w<

💚 Ralsei and 🌷 Corrie

#in this house we love parogenic/paromancy systems with every fiber of our being!!! #especially those who have stopped using tulpa language #we see you and we SO appreciate your efforts to stand up against racism in our communities!!!

[sharkbaitju1ce]

Schools: "bullying is bad!"

Schools when you stand up for yourself after years of bullying: "heyyy.. so, we can't punish that guy for bullying you for 5 years straight, but we CAN put you in isolation!!!"

#hi im angry rn #like FUCK YOU MEAN i gotta sit in a little room all day for finally protecting myself?? #HELLO??? #ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS RACISM AND TRANSPHOBIA (in my case) #LIKE YOU ARE PUNISHING ME 4 STANDING UP AGAINST SOMETHING YOU TEACH AS WRONG??? DUDE. #rant #fuck you school system

[nightlyponder]

since 4 coworkers volunteering to assist a palestinian cultural event was met with hostility from our director and board of directors, our deputy director (who answers to the director) as been tasked with developing some kind of a policy about community programs and the library's role in them. im not entirely sure what language will be used in this policy, i think the whole thing it's ridiculous and racist. she has to have it drafted by the next board meeting (late February).

im wonder if the ruling from the icj will have any effect on what the library decides to do with the employees (and community) who obviously disagrees with them and if it'll affect the policy in any way.

i imagine there'll be some language about international "conflicts" and how we aren't supposed to choose "sides" blah blah blah. but if the international community rules to recognize that palestinians are victims of genocide in the court of law, what will our board and director do when confronted with that legal ruling?

#jericho.txt #because it will not publicly look great if our 'this library represents everyone' institution with an anti racism policy #stands against palestinians and the ruling from the icj #we allow for community comments in the board meetings so they can be confronted directly if the community wants to #and they could use the ruling to back them up

[falllpoutboy]

z🔚aya’s silence on the sag aftra and wga strikes as both a marvel actress and a tv star and producer is why we should never worship celebrities

#either she’s dumb enough to not know what’s going on or she’s ignorant to it all which is a bad look for her x2 #i genuinely can’t stand her now #it’s bad for her because she’s built her brand on social issues and activism but when it really counts she’s not there #do you know what she’s posted about since both strikes started??? #playing tlou 2 with hunter sch4fer and a perfume ad for lancome #meanwhile actors and writers who are her peers have been out in the hot LA sun striking and standing up against the studios #now her and tom are vacationing in portugal and i never want to hear the words zendaya and activism in the same sentence again #she’s literally piggybacked off the guiliana rancic racism controversy and never said or did anything noteworthy ever again #youd think someone who has starred in marvel movies and has been cgi’d would stand up against the use of AI that the studios want to replac #replace her and the rest of them with #she was there for blm and for the 2020 election but for something that affects her directly to be silent about is crazy

[gayravi]

hey to the anon on ao3 that wrote a fic and gifted it to me amongst others with this note:

i seriously, genuinely hope you get absolutely fucked

#youre sad and a pathetic and i wish you all the worse <3 #if you're seriously conflating a discussion about LITERAL RACISM to 'uwu let me pull a gotcha on ppl standing up against racism' #then i wish you a very unpleasant fuck you #txt

[gwyoi]

God i feel so bad for Jessie gender. She’s one of my favorite trans creators and she was vocal about not using the #sayhername hashtag for Brianna ghey and keffals and other white people dogpilled on her saying she’s trying to police peoples speech. Now because of all the hate she’s taking a break from social media and it’s like. god

#even white creators who stand up against racism in the community are run off it ducking sucks #gwon

[ivy-and-vines]

I need to vent about a professor, here’s the email report explaining it all:

Dear Dr______,

I have never been one to complain, though I felt it necessary to bring to your attention, one professor, ________.

The first few classes of his Sociology of health and illness course were bearable, and I felt I could push through his teaching style and personality. In all honesty, even if I agreed with his opinions (which I absolutely do not), I didn’t care for him harping on with only his personal views, rather than educating the class in fact.

My tolerance was tested to its limits on Thursday, September 20th, when I was singled out, spoken over, and purposefully embarrassed in front of my peers by none other than professor Ianucci. He started his lecture with questions and statistics on why poorer and minority communities had worse health throughout their lifetime, and often died earlier. I felt as though I had taken a blow to the stomach when he insinuated that poor communities were essentially lazy, and lacked self discipline. His lack of empathy, and sharing opinion as fact to such an impressionable class, was more than shocking.

To quote him, “poor people eat fast food and crap because they lack that self discipline, you don’t NEED that stuff”, to which another student answered back, “if I can play devil's advocate, aren’t healthy foods way more expensive?”. He responded with the most pompous eye roll I had ever seen and said, “But who’s fault is it if they CHOOSE to eat fast food? Theirs. Ive seen people in the ‘hood’, with better cars than me. They just don’t use their money well.” This was my breaking point. I'm going to include word for word what happened:

Abbie (Me), after being called on: “I can’t say I disagree with people just being handed things, of course some work needs to be involved- though people in poverty don’t have access to proper education- “

Him, across the table now from me: “Girlfriend, you have a whole world in your palm, an iPhone!!”

Me: “but these people don’t have access to iPhones-“

Him, laughing mockingly: “I’ve worked in those neighborhoods for years, they got nicer phones than me, nice cars too.”

Me: “you think I haven’t been the one living in those neighborhoods?”

Him: “Then you know, they all got iPhones don’t they-“

Me: “no. you’re generalizing “

Him, raising his voice: “yes they do, and you’ve seen it! I know you have”

Me: “are you trying to embarrass me?”

Him, rolling his eyes and putting his hands up: “no! I just know that they don’t use their money wisely because they eat crap and have iPhones and fancy cars!”

Then he walked away. I had tears in my eyes from how embarrassed, and belittled I felt. I understand that professors may like to playfully argue to make a point, or have you seen something from a different perspective… but this was not that in the slightest. I felt as though I had just been bullied on a playground, even by the fact that he addressed not only me, but looked for students approving glare. There were only a few. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the end of it.

In our power points from our textbook that he shares with us, there were about two or three slides regarding “every day racism”, which he brushed off as a ‘theory’, as well as slides about how minority women are more often the victims of domestic abuse and being ignored in the healthcare system. He’s often said, “I know what the author of the textbook would say, but I don’t agree so whatever”, as well as calling things like social services a “Left-wing agenda”.

For the last question of class, he asked, “Why do people work eighteen hour shifts? Isn’t it unhealthy?” So, quite a few people raised their hands. Though he had to pick on me. In a raised tone he says “No,” pointing at me, “Abigail, answer.” This is when I was rage filled, this was purposeful and directed just at me. So I answered, “Of course it’s unhealthy, but people are desperate for the money”. He chuckled. “The people pulling 18, 50, even 100 hour shifts don’t need the money, these are wall street bankers pulling these shifts.” I could’ve easily disagreed, but I didn’t feel like having him speak AT me, or arguing further when I was already crying.

After class I ran to my promise coach, Linus, and not only did he comfort me, but he helped me drop the class completely. This could’ve been the end of it, it was dropped and left my life. Though I refuse to tolerate any student who’s brave enough to speak up to feel as awful as I did by him. I know I am not in a position to dictate an instructor's work here at ___, but I do feel I have a responsibility to report him, and this incident. It would pain me greatly if no action is taken against ________.

Mr. ____ is a bigot, a bully, and refuses to let any student have an opinion other than his, as witnessed by both this incident as well as how he treats the class in general. He knows nothing of his students' life, and if a more privileged white girl was so utterly offended, I can't imagine how the students of color felt. It pains me to think that there are people like this educating such young, impressionable minds. I’m lucky enough to have been brave enough to speak out and pull out even more of his true colors. I truly do hope you see this issue as I do, and I do wish for action to be taken against him. I am not here to be belittled, but to be educated.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read my email, and I hope to have provided enough detail to express just how deeply I am hurt, and angry about this incident. I appreciate your time greatly.

#me #racism #poor #poverty #professor #personal vent #incident report #college #BLM #standing up #against #bigots

[unspokenstydia]

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#back in the tags because i am SCARED and riddled with rsd but also full of rage #can’t overstate how unnecessary it is to relentlessly insert dob’s name into every conversation about arden #or to equate her rejection of this role as a statement on the behalf of future asian american actresses #with his decision to turn down the movie and leave his story be #or to split the commendation evenly between her brave and difficult act with the solidarity of liking some tweets #the weight of their choices will never be the same #this is such a seemingly minor thing—but aren’t they all? #this is such a seemingly small thing. but i’ve seen it all too often and continue to see it and it’s infuriating that even when #the conversation is about her. there are people who want to make it about someone else. #and want to speculate about whether he actually declined the movie out of allyship #when there is an asian-american actress who literally did decline and stand up against the racism inflicted upon *her* #// #anyway the bar is below hell with most of the cast but to see people pick up crumbs and turn them into treasure is . driving me up the wall #lana: on keeping a notebook

[mashpotatoe]

im a white jew, i was born in israel,

ive lived there all my life and was brought up in an environment that fosters racism driven by nationalism, nationalism driven by racism.

in israel, they teach you jews and muslims (though usually, they just say arabs) have always been enemies, the same way the US deems the entire middle east as a inherent war zone, ridding them of the responsibility for perpetuating war in thst region.

they tell you "were the fair and humane side who strives for peace! its the arabs who never accept the offer!"

i remember the first time i began doubting that sentiment was in fourth grade, when we were having a discussion in class about the character of Saul from the Torah. the teacher was talking about how Saul, the first monarch of the Kingdom of Israel, used to fight the Philistines, and when she added that the Philistines were the natural enemy of the Israelites, she asked the class what group of people is their modern equivalent to which everyone very eagerly replied "Arabs!" and nevermind that there in that same class sat two arab boys, one of whom sat next to me, who i looked at and thought "but he isnt my enemy? hes just a boy in my class."

they teach you to hate arabs. sometimes they say it outright. sometimes they say it more carefully, or make a distinction between good and bad arabs, those who are with us and those who are against us.

in a state based on the idea of (white) jewish supremacy, they teach you jews are naturally superior. they use the conspiratorial narrative of "jews controlling the world" to their favor, giving their own watered down explanation for why antisemitism exists, saying that it must be driven by jealousy.

the zionist movement always used antisemitism to its advantage, either for reinforcing the notion of jewish supremacy or appealing to the real pain and trauma of generations, people who survived the holocaust, connecting them to stolen land where they are "guaranteed" safety ergo granting "justification" for the suffering of others.

its using peoples real pain that makes fear mongering so effective, and when the israeli population grows up being told all of their neighboring countries want to kill them, they quickly get defensive of the "only land where they can feel safe", but the only explanation ever provided for Why these neighboring countries are considered enemies is because theyre arabs.

and when it comes to palestine, it isnt even recognized as a country, nor identity. just a threat. ive talked to many people who are genuinely unaware of the occupation, and they arent willing to believe it either, because the media narrative has successfully shifted the blame on hamas. because "how could it be us? we want peace! its the terrorists who make us look bad! and their children, they grow up to be antisemites*, might as well get rid of them too!" they never stop to think what environment these children must grow up in to develop these "radical" ideas.

* what they mean by antisemite is really just antizionist, but the term anti/zionist isnt practiced in local dialect, being a zionist is treated as a given

any jew who stands against israels oppression is dubbed a self hating jew, but the biggest contributors to antisemitism is the people in charge of an ethnostate, because at any moment they could decide who is not white enough to be jewish, who is too jewish to be white, who stood against the current coalition government and who is an obedient dog.

israelis arent a monolith, but many of them have been won over, convinced its an "us v them" situation, when in reality it could never be the "us" that "loses"

the israeli government was waiting for an event like the massacre on the seventh of october to declare war, to have the so called "right to defend itself", so they could initiate the final steps of an ethnic genocide and displace, if not kill, all remaining palestinians. under the guise of bringing peace.

it isnt too late to call for a permanent ceasefire, to end the occupation.

please contact your representatives, attend protests and rallies if you are able. palestine will be free, and the flowers will rise again.

[racialdiscriminationday]

Reflecting on the journey towards equality.

“If we do not occupy this great avenue in which we all can recognise ourselves from our human identity, we will not achieve the dream looming on the horizon, which is the dream of dignity for all people,” said Epsy Campbell Barr, former Vice-president of Costa Rica, and a member of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.

Every year, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed on 21 March, the same day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against apartheid "pass laws" in 1960.

“The history goes back to South Africa, where apartheid placed Black people at the bottom of the rights ladder in that country,” Campbell Barr said.

By proclaiming this International Day in 1966, the General Assembly urged the international community to reinforce its efforts to combat racism and eliminate all forms of racial discrimination. This year’s theme focuses on “A Decade of Recognition, Justice, and Development: Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent”, in reference to the International Decade for People of African Descent, which has lasted from 2015 to 2024. 

“People of African descent are the victims of the worst human tragedy that humanity has experienced for a long enough period of time to have consequences in the present, and that is the transatlantic trafficking of African people and their subsequent enslavement.“

EPSY CAMPBELL BARR, FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA, AND MEMBER OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has served as the coordinator for the International Decade, overseeing various activities from the Fellowship programme for people of African descent, the enhancing of the anti-discrimination database, the preparation of annual reports for the Secretary General, to the promotion and awareness raising on the International Decade, including through the organization of regional meetings around the globe to further advance the objectives of the Decade.

“The relevance of the International Decade is that globally, nations agree that there is a human group, people of African descent, who are at a relative disadvantage that is great enough to prioritise action for 10 years,” Campbell Barr said. “If people of African descent are not recognised, if people do not understand that we are part of the population, if they do not understand the conditions we are in, if they do not put the issue of systemic racism, anti-Black and anti-Black African racism, as a central issue, it is impossible to achieve justice and development.”

“The International Decade has to be understood as part of the global agenda of the United Nations, it has to be understood as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is necessary to insert the International Decade in the great promise to 'leave no one behind'. But in the case of people of African Descent, it is 'don’t keep us behind,' which is a very different thing,” Campbell Barr said. 

A second International Decade

Martha Liliana Meza Castillo, a Colombian Black woman, sociologist, journalist who specializes in conflict, peace, education and human rights, has worked with Black communities in Colombia in the context of the armed conflict in this country. By her own initiative, she promoted the International Decade to inform Afro-descendants about their rights and how this tool could be useful to them.

“A second International Decade is important because it is necessary to continue working in the fight against racial and systematic discrimination and injustice, even if it sounds repetitive and they say that we are victimising ourselves. It is a reality that we are living, and as a society we still have a long way to go, especially in terms of justice and the recognition of the historical contribution that people of African descent have made to societies,” Meza Castillo said. “We have to continue on this path to achieve the objectives of a more just and dignified society.”

According to Meza Castillo, there was not enough support by the government and the International Decade was promoted by word of mouth among Black communities in Colombia, which was very useful, with people saying: “at the UN there is a mandate for us now, the government has to start fulfilling it.”

For her, the International Decade inspired the inclusion of an ethnic chapter in the negotiation of the peace accords in the South American country.

“I believe that the International Decade inspired these communities to demand from the government a place, a space and a leading role at the negotiating table, to achieve recognition of the disproportionate impact that the ethnic communities have endured during the armed conflict and the demand of no repetition,” Meza Castillo said. 

“A second International Decade is needed because people of African descent remain the poorest amongst the poorest, because political representation systemically excludes people of African descent, because racism remains systemic, and because we need to redress the consequences of enslavement that are manifested today in the lives of millions of people of African descent.“

EPSY CAMPBELL BARR, FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA, AND MEMBER OF THE PERMANENT FORUM ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT

For Campbell Barr, in various countries, the International Decade has made it possible to advance specific public policies based on the recognition of people of African descent, both through the implementation of affirmative actions and specific awareness-raising campaigns.

“In terms of justice and development we have not made any progress, because the judicial systems are the same, because the colonial structure still places Black people in a real denial of rights,” Campbell Barr said. “For example, in the over-representation of Black people and Black youth in the prison system, the injustice against Afro-descendants where we can see the triple punishment for being an Afro-descendant.”

“They are punished because all their rights are taken away and they are then in a situation of exclusion. This situation of exclusion makes them much more vulnerable to criminal networks and illegal activities for which they are literally kidnapped and because the justice system already has a subjective burden to place them in a situation of greater vulnerability due to their racial ethnic identity,” Campbell Barr said.

According to Campbell Barr, there has been no progress in terms of development, as the data and social and economic indicators of many countries continue to show that people of African descent are at the end of the line.

“It is important to give a stronger voice to the diversity of Afro-descendant voices in development debates because racial discrimination also takes away people's voices and it is necessary to listen to the voices of those who historically have not been able to say what they think, put forward their perspectives and bring to the debate their energies and that spiritual, emotional and cultural logic that is so necessary,” Campbell Barr said.

Informing other struggles

People protest against racism and demand justice.

“I think struggles are absolutely intertwined. What we are striving for is a new pact, a pact that gives equal dignity to all people,” Campbell Barr said. “The efforts we Afro descendants make have an impact on the inclusion and rights of the most excluded sectors of the population, and everything we do makes sense for these groups, for indigenous peoples, for women, for people with disabilities, for migrants.”

There is no way to understand the struggle against systemic racism without understanding the social, economic, and cultural structure that ranks people based on their diverse identities, she added.

“Our struggle is the struggle of all people who are demanding dignity, that dignity that we deserve just because we are people,” Campbell Barr said. “Let's not fool ourselves, let's not try to imagine that we could survive in a structure of discrimination by saving some and leaving the rest out.”

#21 march #stand up against racial discrimination #systemicracism #fight racism #International Decade for People of African Descent #ohchr

[ibtisams]

The student protests for Palestine have been an amazing show of solidarity and support and seeing the way that so many young people are willing to stand up for their values is admirable when so many others stay silent. But this is all to say that we are entering a pattern of glorifying these white “martyrs” from the global west to put all of this effort and resources and media coverage into instead of the actual cause they are fighting for.

I saw the same thing happen with Aaron Bushnell, when his self immolation was being talked about more than the actual genocide in Gaza (which went against everything he said he was self immolating for in the first place).

And again this happened with the prisoner from the US who worked 136 hours just to be able to donate his $17 check to Palestine aid efforts. In response to this, people wanted to help him and ended up raising over $100,000 in a gofundme for him. This feels almost satirical, as every gofundme to help Gazans evacuate Palestine and get to safety has a goal of less than $100,000 and most of them are not even close to reaching it.

And now, there are more and more posts on how to get aid to the college student encampments, and the “urgency” of getting enough bail funds for the students who have been arrested during them. Talking about Palestine itself and getting resources to Palestine has almost been put on the back burner in favour of making all Palestine related news about college students in the United States.

It think it is valuable to recognise the selflessness and importance of these protests, and getting these students resources but what is MORE important, and what these people are truly fighting for, and protesting, and make a statement about is PALESTINE. We have unsurprisingly reached the point where there are people who care much more about the white people fighting for the cause from the comfort of living in the global west than they care about the Palestinians undergoing a genocide in Gaza. It’s become almost blatant racism, the way people begin to drop everything the second a white/usamerican person does something in regards to helping Palestine, but will not put the same effort into a Palestinian IN Gaza who is telling their story or asking for help. I respect anyone who has done absolutely anything to help Palestine, but I hope people are starting to see the pattern of how the media gravitates towards the “white saviour/perfect martyr” instead of the first hand accounts coming from those in Gaza.

Anyway FIND A GOFUNDME AND DONATE TO HELP FAMILIES IN GAZA ESCAPE GENOCIDE

#if you read all of this thanks #if you read all of this and didn’t unfollow me thanks x2 #👍

[deliciousmicroplastics]

body hurts and barely slept and my team thinks this racist thing isn't racist because somebody pulled up an incomplete answer on google i don't want to go in today

#or tomorrow or ever #get me out of there get me out of there get me out of there get me out of there #i just really want to ring the wake up alarms on everyone to the racist overtones in the ways this guy gets treated #it doesn't have to be a dedicated hate movement or against every Black person but that's where we're at there #also this is the guy who would never stand up for me and indeed doesn't listen to me or believe anything i say and ignores my contributions #op #thursdays why are you Always Bad #antiBlackness / #racism /

[sayruq]

Statement: Student organizations in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the Student Intifada in the United States

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful… We, the students of Gaza, salute the students of Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, and dozens of universities across the United States who are rising up in solidarity with Gaza and to put an end to the Zionist-U.S. genocide against our people in Gaza. As we remain under the bombs of occupation, resisting Nazi genocide, grieving for our martyred colleagues and faculty, and witnessing the destruction of our universities, we welcome the examples of solidarity offered by students facing arrest, police violence, suspension, eviction, and expulsion in order to demand that their universities end their complicity in the Zionist-U.S. genocide and renounce their support for the occupation and the war profiteers that arm it. We have seen hundreds of students arrested across the United States as they work to transform their universities into “Popular Universities for Gaza.” Students, faculty, and staff are disrupting university operations and making clear that while universities in Gaza are being bombed, university business cannot continue as usual in the United States. These actions come as university administrations collaborate with members of Congress to discredit conscientious student activists and faculty, expel students, ban events, shut down student organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine, and condemn activists working to end the Nazi genocide. At the same time, these same universities invest in the same companies that profit from the continued sale of weapons to the Zionist regime to continue its genocidal offensive. Our students – and our educational system as a whole – in occupied Palestine are subjected to ongoing genocidal aggression: our universities destroyed and bombed, our student organizations banned, and our student leaders subjected to torture, assassination and mass imprisonment. However, in Palestine and around the world, the student movement has always been a driving force of our struggle for liberation. When we see videos and images from American universities today, we are reminded of our history of student struggle as well as the student uprisings of 1968, which challenged imperialism from Vietnam to Palestine and reshaped the face of Europe and the United States. Now, in 2024, the student movement is once again leading the way. From here in Gaza, we see you and salute you. Your actions and activism matter, especially in the heart of the empire, in the United States. As members of Congress agree to provide $26 billion in additional weapons to bomb our people and continue the Zionist-U.S. genocide, you are taking meaningful action to shut down the war machine on your campuses. It is clear that a new generation is rising that will no longer accept Zionism, racism and genocide, and that stands with Palestine and our liberation from the river to the sea. Your global student solidarity is breaking boundaries, and it is time to smash the US imperialist war machine. From Gaza to Columbia, to Ann Arbor and Berkeley, our hands are joined to end Nazi genocide and achieve our collective liberation.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #students for justice in palestine #palestinian students #columbia university #gaza genocide #genocide #intifada

[dykefaggotry]

honestly i think a HUGE part of the issue is that most of the left doesn't really understand antisemitism

after wwii it became wildly Unpopular to be blatantly antisemitic. obviously, it still happened. but the result of this is that instead of antisemitism being studied as a historical and pervasive form of oppression that has been around for thousands of years & has many many precedents BEFORE the holocaust.... it became:

something just simply Rude to say or do. if you're a polite liberal/conservative or a leftist, it's just something that is socially unacceptable. there is no real weight to this.

something when FIRMLY believed is ONLY held by people like nazis and white supremacists. who, as we know, are The Enemy and none of us can ever be like them at all ever by the virtue of... not being them. no need to watch your own behaviors, bc you are not a nazi! only nazis could ever be Actually antisemitic

something that erupted out of the ground in germany in the early 20th century, culminated with the holocaust, and ended after. antisemitism did not exist before that and it was solved after when the saving grace of the united states and england liberated the jews from the nazis out of the goodness of their hearts

however absolutely none of this is true. antisemitism stretches back thousands of years and it has not, for the most part, been only "fringe" conspiracy theorists and white supremacists who perpetuate it

antisemitism has been, by and large, presented as very logical. throughout, again, the thousands of years of history of antisemitism, very regular people have been antisemites. and most of them had reasons they felt were perfectly logical and understandable and most of all just. jews were trying to kill their children, of course they hated them! jews were purposefully trying to keep them poor, of course they hated them! jews believed Wrong Things and were morally and spiritually corrupt, of course there was something wrong with them. jews betrayed their country, lost them a war that ended with their husbands and brothers and sons dead, and now were living among them and taking advantage of social benefits out of the goodness of the hearts of the german people, of COURSE they hated them! and the nazis themselves were backed up by science at the time. scientific racism was THE science at the time. charles darwin was a scientific racist. it was all very logical.

and did jews actually do these things? no. but these people saw enough proof that aligned well enough with their morals and their beliefs and their fears & so to them it was completely logical and justified. it wasn't a fringe theory that only an insane person would believe in, or something impolite. it was true to them. to their morals, to their fears, to their core beliefs. it was true.

and so now we see a LOT. a lot of leftists being dragged ass first into antisemitism. because they don't even think they CAN be antisemitic. THEY aren't nazis and THEY aren't white supremacists, of COURSE they aren't antisemitic. but... well. the jews are doing things that go against their morals. they're doing things that validate their fears. the jews are violating things that go against their core beliefs! so of COURSE it is LOGICAL that they should hate them. of course, it is still rude to say "the jews are evil" so it gets replaced with "zionist". (and before you ask yes i am anti-zionism and do deeply believe what israel is doing is unjust and cruel) but even that is slipping.

it is getting all the more popular to go that one step further and instead of just making posts like "spam the hanukkah tag because the Zionists need to learn what their religion stands for" that are blatantly just replacing "jews" with "zionists", they are logically moving to being mask off. if zionism is wrong and half the world's remaining jewish population lives in israel, what about the rest? aren't they suspect? would they not ALL commit atrocities if given the chance? aren't they all racist for believing they're an ethnicity? aren't they all complicit? aren't they all threatening our deeply held leftist beliefs? it's a little weird and everyone has been too quiet for too long bc it's been rude to say but now you can get 300k notes for posting blood libel so why would you keep quiet anymore?

why WOULDN'T you just say "thank god someone finally said it i was worried about stepping on toes" when someone makes a post full of antisemitic conspiracy theory. why WOULDN'T you say "i don't care if all of israel gets bombed and every single person dies after this lmfao they deserve it"? (which would wipe out, again, half the world's population of jews- many of whom living there are anti-zionist and actively protesting their government. or. you know. children.) why WOULDN'T you make posts about how jewish identity is just nazi aryanism? why wouldn't you make posts about how the jews are privileged in america bc they run hollywood and the economy? why WOULDN'T you say the star of david is a hate symbol to you now and that you mistrust anyone using it? or that you find anyone speaking hebrew suspect?

these are all perfectly logical. to you. and YOU are not a nazi or a white supremacist. so it can't be antisemitic.

#antisemitism #long post #yall are just fucking exhausting and im going to go on a blocking spree in a moment but truly and deeply #just fucking think for two seconds about what you say