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you arent going to be capable of any meaningful kind of solidarity with anyone if your response to new perspectives or information is to pretend you already knew.
if you cant say things like “i hadnt thought about it that way” or “thats a good point” (or even, god forbid “thanks for checking me on that”) when theyre appropriate, consider whether youre actually interested in developing your understanding or if youre just invested in your political self image.
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Every Jewish conspiracy theory is so much cooler than the reality.
"You've got space lasers" "You've got an underground tunnel system in NYC" no I fucking don't I've got religious trauma and an unhealthy fixation on pickled foods.
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man why do white people have to appropriate our guys its not like y'all dont have your own guys
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Wild that there's still a lot of discourse about whether or not Hamas did this or that atrocity on Oct 7 - if Hamas did everything they were accused of, it still wouldn't be okay for Israel to kill tons of unrelated Palestinians, and if Hamas did nothing besides kidnap around 150 people and murder hundreds of civilians, this would still not be okay
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Not my white ass locked in the duke’s dungeon again because I fucked his favorite jester 😩
I didn’t know he was so territorial over the silly little guy 🙄
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Bloggers who only post screenshots of posts from other social media sites are not reliable sources of unbiased or accurate news btw. This should not be a controversial or surprising thing to say.
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[takes u all gently by the hand] conspiracy theories, misinformation, and reactionary posts are just as dangerous when they are about something you agree with. even more so, actually. be careful not to spread something just bc you think it SHOULD be correct to further your stance on something. that does not make it true.
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"Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism" yeah but accusing Jews of making up hate crimes to derail the conversation around Gaza is. Claiming that the media is controlled by a secret group of all powerful Zionists is. Acting like the Holocaust is something Jews use to get out of trouble instead of an actual genocide that happened within living memory is. Telling us to go back to where we came from is.
"Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism" yeah well a lot of you aren't being accused of antisemitism because you are criticizing Israel. You're being accused of antisemitism because you are being antisemitic and do nothing but evade and double down when it gets called out.
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there are a lot fewer psyops and a lot more very dumb people than you would think, but also: the psyops wouldn’t work if people didn’t fall for them hook, line, and sinker.
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Me: Please don't use antisemitic dogwhistles in your activism.
Leftists on tumbo.hell: Some people? Are antisemitic? To cope???
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By Rachel Schragis
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All of these things are true. Denying the truth of any of them will not help anyone.
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Knew this would fucking happen and it's funny they turned off comments.
Anyways this is what Kissinger has to say about his heritage:
“If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic. Any people who has been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong.”
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I think one the reasons Cinder hates Ruby is because she is afraid of her, maybe? There is that scene in the ending of V7, that shot of Cinder's face as Ruby revvs up her Silver Eyes is haunting.
it’s funny bc up until That Moment cinder is genuinely terrified of ruby. she tries to hide it but it’s obvious—she asks salem to deal with ruby, in the scene where tyrian reports his failure to capture ruby cinder is just there in the background the whole time watching salem like 🥺 bc she desperately desperately wants salem to Somehow Make It Okay, in V5 she’s stewing about salem wanting to leave ruby alive, emerald is openly scared of what ruby might do to cinder bc she’s picking up the fear underlying cinder’s vengeful impulse, cinder wants ruby dead but she tries to arrange it so neo is the one doing the killing and i do not for a second buy cinder’s pretense that she’s just following salem’s orders. she’s scared of those eyes.
and then she gets blasted with a second glare at the end of V7 and…nothing bad happens to her. well it hurts her arm, she’s obviously in some pain afterwards, but comparatively the first time she had half her arm and part of her face melted and the second time her grimm arm just… ached for a few minutes.
and then at the end of V8 she deliberately plants herself in front of ruby and tries to goad her into using the eyes so that neo can get close enough to stab her.
so it’s the CLASSIC cinder move of “not scared anymore, i will now murder the thing that scared me with extreme prejudice to prove i was never actually scared! so there!”
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say it with me folks.
the problem isn't that jews returned to their ancestral homeland after being colonized, exiled, mourning it annually and praying to go home again for nearly 2000 years. the problem is that this return was enabled by antisemitic imperialist nations and accomplished via settler colonialism, which has always been intent on creating an ethnostate and displacing another people rooted in the land.
you got that? good. now please stop trying to use the first sentence of that paragraph like it's a problem you've got to disprove or erase in order to say free palestine. because guess what you're perpetuating if you treat jewish history, liturgy and some of our deepest yearnings as if they are based on massive, conspiratorial lies?
you got it! antisemitism! the exact thing you said you don't like and don't do!
so prove it. show the antizionist jews that you're holding up on a pedestal right now that you can manage to keep your antizionism from straying into antisemitism. ask us questions, ask us for resources. learn from and love your mistakes.
for the sake of god. learn.
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saving these tags from @spacelazarwolf
Written by a Gazan author:
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So I've seen a few too many people on twitter talking about The Kiss Scene from the new Scott Pilgrim anime. People saying it's fetishistic and indulgent, people calling it male gazey, etc. And while the kiss itself is certainly a bit exaggerated, I felt like writing a bit about why I disagree, and why context is important, like it always is. But it basically turned into an extended analysis on the metatextual treatment of Roxie Richter. So bear with me. It's a long post.
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What really matters about this scene is not the kiss itself, but what precedes it. Not even just the fight scene just before it, but what precedes the whole anime series, really. And that's the Scott Pilgrim comic book, and the live action movie. Because in both, Roxie is a punchline.
She's a joke. Her character starts and ends with "one of the exes is actually a girl, I bet you didn't expect that." Jokes are made about Ramona's latent bisexuality, the movie especially treating it as funny and absurd, and her validity as a romantic interest is entirely written off by Ramona as being "just a phase." There's a fight scene, she's defeated by a man giving her an orgasm which implicitly calls her sexuality into question (come on), and the movie just moves on. It sucks. It really, really sucks.
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The comic fares a little better. It never veers into outright homophobia like the movie does, and while the line about Ramona having gone through a phase remains, Roxie actually gets one over on Scott when Ramona briefly gets back with Roxie. But Roxie is still only barely a character. Like all the other evil exes, she's just a stepping stone towards the male protagonist's development. She barely even gets any screentime before she's defeated by Scott's "power of love." But Roxie stands out, since she's the only villain who is queer, or at least had been confirmed queer at that point (hi Todd). In a series that champions multiple gay men in the supporting cast, the single undeniable lesbian in the story is a villain. She's labeled as evil, made fun of, pushed aside in favor of the men, and then discarded. Her screentime was never about her, or her feelings for Ramona. It was about the straight, male protagonist needing to overcome her. And that was Roxie Richter. An unfortunate victim of the 2010s.
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Fast forward to current year, and the new anime series is announced. Everybody sits down to watch the new series expecting another retelling of the same story, and.... hang on, that straight male protagonist I mentioned just died in the first episode. And now it's humanizing the villains from the original story. And there's Roxie, introduced alongside the other evil exes in the second episode, and she's being played entirely straight, without a punchline in sight. No jokes are made about her gender, no questions are made of her validity as one of Ramona's romantic interests. The narrative considers her important. In one episode, she already gets more respect than she did in either of the previous iterations of Scott Pilgrim. And this isn't even her focus episode yet... which happens to be the very next one.
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The anime series goes to great lengths to flesh out the original story's villains and to have Ramona reconcile with them. And I don't think it's a coincidence that Roxie gets to go first. While Matthew Patel gets his development in episode 2, Roxie is the first to directly confront Ramona, now our main protagonist. This is notable too because it's the only time the exes are encountered out of order. Roxie is supposed to be number 4, but she's first in line, and later on you realize that she's the only one who's out of sequence. She's the one who sets the precedent for the villains being redeemed. She's the most important character for Ramona to reconcile with.
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What follows is probably the most extensive, elaborate 1 on 1 fight scene in the whole show. Roxie fights like a wounded animal, her motions are desperate and pained. Ramona can only barely fight back against her onslaught. Different set-pieces fly by at breakneck speed as Roxie relentlessly lays her feelings at Ramona's feet through her attacks and her distraught shouts. And unlike the comic or the movie, Ramona acknowledges them, and sincerely apologizes. And the two end up just laying there, exhausted, reminiscing about when they were together.
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Only after this, after all of this, does the kiss scene happen. Roxie has been vindicated, she has reconciled with the person who hurt her, the narrative has deemed that her anger is justified and has redeemed her character. And she gets her victory lap by making the nearest other hot girl question her heterosexuality, sharing a sloppy kiss with her as the music triumphantly crescendos.
It's... a little self-congratulatory, honestly. But it's good. It's redemption for a character who had been mistreated for over a decade. And she punctuates the moment by being very, very gay where everyone can see it, no men anywhere in sight. Because this is her moment. And then she leaves the plot, on her own accord this time, while humming the hampster dance. What a legend. How could anything be wrong with this.
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