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nah
You could just as easily argue that Holocaust victims were LITERALLY separated from the rest of humanity as part of the process of dehumanization, and that recontextualizing their suffering as one of many human atrocities is an act of reclaiming and honoring their humanity
The entire idea of Jewish exceptionalism is a key component of antisemitism. I don't want any part of it.
I keep seeing comments on threads about the children in camps. "Let's airdrop them soap and blankets." "Is there a charity for these children?" "Can I bring them toothbrushes?"
Do people not realize that this isn't a matter of a LACK of RESOURCES. It's a PUNITIVE POLICY.
Do people not realize that this isn't a matter of a LACK of RESOURCES. It's a PUNITIVE POLICY.
Most of these kids arrived with toothbrushes. That were taken away. They arrived with medications. That was taken away. They arrived with clothes. Those were taken away. If we airdropped supplies they would be confiscated.
It is important to CBP that immigrant children suffer. And it is self-reinforcing. Children who are dirty, who are acting out, who smell bad, who are covered in their own shit are easier to see as subhuman. As "bodies."
"White supremacy is a protection racket; it offers security on one hand and a lethal threat on the other." bostonglobe.com/ideas/2019/03/…
Why would the son of a Holocaust survivor spend his adult life aiding and abetting a white supremacist autocrat?
Because collaboration with white supremacy is a survival strategy -- especially for white-passing minorities like light-skinned Ashkenazim.
Because collaboration with white supremacy is a survival strategy -- especially for white-passing minorities like light-skinned Ashkenazim.
It's not a survival strategy that WORKS, longterm, of course. We saw evidence of that on Wednesday when Cohen gave his testimony. But it can be very appealing to some.
wow wow wow ok I just found the earliest instance of time travel to the past and it's a Journey To the West fanfic written in 1640
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supplem…
this is amazing
this is amazing
This novel sounds like the trippiest Inception crackfic imaginable
It's frustrating to me when pieces like this decline to differentiate between *people with mental illness diagnoses* and *people with violent inclinations* - they are NOT the same thing. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
A mental illness diagnosis does not predispose a person to violence. Nor does a history of violence imply the presence of mental illness.
Keeping guns out of the hands of people with mental illness diagnoses would not necessarily do anything to change the rate of gun violence in this country or the rate of mass shootings.
So, some months ago @apexart asked me to curate an art show on the topic of my choice. I chose time travel.
I wanted an opportunity to think about time travel more, because I've been fascinated by the history of that concept for a long time. Alone among plot devices, it came into being somewhere in the early-to-mid 1800s. Before that, no one thought about traveling to the past. >
World mythology, folklore, drama, epic poetry and literature had established basically every trope long before the Enlightenment. But not this. Before 1836 or so, time travels only one way in the human imagination. It sometimes skips or stutters, freezes or fast forwards. >
so my mom and I are on the phone after someone opens fire in a shul and we're having the conversation we've been having since Nov 2016 which is "Is it time to leave now" >
When you're Ashkenazi you grow up with the idea in the back of your head that you oughta keep a bag packed and one eye on the exit bc things might get really bad really quickly. You hear stories. You meet people with stories. >
Like my aunt who was the only one of her high school friends to get out of Belgium in time. Or the gentleman I struck up a conversation with once who told me about driving out of Vienna with his family when he was 4. >
Multiple people are asking me whether it wouldn't concern me if the US, or Israel (??) became less demographically homogeneous. For the record, I'm all for it.
here's what I think: I think ethnonationalism needs to be over, like the divine right of kings, and that inevitably it will eventually BE over, as long as we don't destroy technocivilization within the next few generations.
The idea of a nation as a "people" with a "shared origin" is over. It's done. It's a poisonous relic of the past.
Thinking a lot rn about how to be true to Jewish history and identity in a way that doesn't feel like appropriation to Black friends.
Too often we play Holocaust vs Slavery: Who Had It Worse, which is a bullshit game, and often devolves into The Irish Were Slaves Too And You Don't See Them Complaining.
And too often, in general, Jews insist on the uniqueness of the Holocaust (see: Richard Cohen) as if suffering makes us special, as if it didn't happen to other people too, as if it won't happen again, could happen again, to anyone.
"The Nazis, he said, had forced Jews to wear a certain type of insole in their shoes with Hebrew writing on them, “so that every step they took, they would be violating their conscience" <<--- Is this even true?????????
I've never heard of this, can't find any reference to it. He says he read it in a book. Anyone know wtf this came from?
I'm interested bc certain Christian groups have a vested interest in using the Holocaust as a metaphor for Christian oppression, and if they're making shit up I'd like to know
Christ finally a piece on Trump voters that addresses racism as a motivational ideology theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"The paper quoted G. D. Miller, a “59-year-old oil-and-gas lease buyer,” who explained that “the way I understood the Klan, it's not anti-this or anti-that.”
"Trump embodied his supporters’ most profound beliefs—combining an insistence that discriminatory policies were necessary with vehement denials that policies discriminate and absolute outrage that the question would even be asked."
