BATMAN TAROT: XIII - Death.

Jason Todd

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The Bible makes a lot more sense when you realise they took out the part where the whole reason the Devil became a bad guy and tempted Eve with the apple was because Satan was traumatised as a child when God trained three evil apples to push the Devil’s parents off a cliff

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Being an Adult is really interfering with my Video Game time, sucks man

Gender of the day: Pareve, but not kosher for passover

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Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 19b

“i could fix him” “i could make him worse” well i’m a lesbian and i’m about to make him my bestie

one of the most annoying breeds of Extremely Online People are white ex-4channers who became leftists but still act like 4channers but w/ sjw buzzwords thrown into their shitty humour instead 

CRAZY to think abt the overtly Jewish themes in early comics, I mean superman is Moses, diana is a Golem, and Batman just straight up a matrilineal jew. All written by Jewish writers. And people just IGNORE that.

when i was making this post, i was only focusing on dc, since it is in relation to these comics that i have seen and experienced the most antisemitism. but as this reaches a broader audience, yeah! lets talk about it all!

lets talk about how captain america, an irish immigrant who grew up poor and ill, channeled his experiences into empathy and understanding and positive action, was made by jewish men to dunk on hitler.

lets talk about how the first marvel and dc comics were mocked up in "yinglish," a mix of yiddish and english commonly spoken in jewish quarters. lets talk about how the format of the graphic novel as we know it was pioneered by an Auschwitz survivor

lets talk about how the first superman comics were clark picking up hitler and stalin, and dumping them at the united nations to be prosecuted for his treatment of defenceless and downtrodden people the world over

let's talk about why x-men resonated with so many people who fundamentally share an understanding of oppression by discriminatory systems, across time and cultures. written by the sons of jewish immigrants.

lets talk about how comics by their very nature were crafted to imbue empathy and understanding, and challenge the very foundation of unjust institutions. and lets talk about the fact that this is a jewish art form. blending the power of language with the impact of visual elements. made that way by jewish people who had something to say.

not to mention the fact that the reason jews built the comic book industry from the ground up was because american traditional publishing, marketing, and newspaper companies often had antisemitic quota policies and wouldn't hire jews.

so jewish people looked at a new, avante garde, fun, different kind of entertainment that had even been founded by a jew, and saw potential. jewish artists and writers positively flocked to the burgeoning comic book industry because they were quite literally blocked out of everywhere else.

so of course they wrote about fighting oppression, fighting those who willfully discriminate against others, fighting against hate and prejudice and ignorance. all of those things are what spurred on the comic book industry in the first place.

So a fun fact about me is that just this week I lectured on this very topic, and as much as all of the points here are very important, I actually had a much wider claim.

In short, superheroes are prophets.

No, like, legit. Prophets.

The rambam talks about the principles of prophecy in Guide to the Perplexed, and there are several orders of prophecy. The first order is shared by all of them, and it is, in short, the fact that a prophet must be someone who sees evil and feels the need to stop it. God is on their side, that's vital, but they don't need to talk directly to God, they don't need to have visions, all they need to do is save someone. Prophecy is not a talent, according to the rambam. It is an action.

(this is a somewhat edited paragraph, as I'm contrasting the english translation with the Hebrew translation with my dad's knowledge of the original Arabic text and finding it lacking.)

My lecture went into great detail showing parallels between different comic book characters and people from Jewish history (specifically moses and superman, david and captain america, and my personal favorite, "Other One"/Elisha Ben Abuya and magneto). But beyond that is my claim that we learn something very important from the first Hebrew - Abraham himself. Because his task is not only to create a people and teach them what is righteous and to deal justice (again, an action), but also that all people may learn from his example - see above, "inspiring of greatness". The prophet must not only serve his own people, but also the whole world.

This is why superman's motto includes not only the "american way", but also "truth" and "justice". This is why captain america becomes nomad when he is disillusioned post watergate/rebels against his own government in the winter soldier. Because there is a universalism inherent to the Jewish hero that requires that we not only help ourselves but also everyone we could possibly help (this is in the mishnah as well).

And with magneto, I claimed that what makes him a villain (an anti-villain, but a villain nonetheless) is the very fact of his interest in his own people alone. He cares for mutants and mutants alone, and even though his interests at times align with those of all of humanity/the marvel universe, if they don't he does not hesitate to turn on those he might have teamed up with previously.

I didn't say this in the lecture because I didn't have enough time to research it properly, but I don't think it's possible to imagine a world in which we have comic book heroes that in any way resemble our own in an alternate history where Jews weren't the people behind the concept of the superhero. Whereas christians value speech, self-sacrifice, and forgiveness, Jews value action and change.

It's not just that our superheroes are Jewish.

It's that they can't not be Jewish.

And this is why any time somebody turns superman into a christ figure I look at them crooked. You think that superman is in any way the type to sacrifice himself? He is the savior not because of his powers of speech or getting people to follow him. It is because he inspires greatness in others, and above all else, because he gets shit done.

China: Uyghur tech  entrepreneur held in solitary confinement for 2 years

Uyghur tech entrepreneur Ekpar Asat has been held in solitary confinement since January 2019, according to information shared with his family. It is believed that his prolonged isolation, malnutrition and lack of access to proper medical care has caused his health to dramatically deteriorate. Convicted without any known trial on charges of “inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination” and sentenced to 15 years in prison, there are grave concerns for Ekpar Asat’s condition and wellbeing.

Ekpar Asat is a Uyghur tech entrepreneur, media founder and philanthropist dedicated to helping older people and children with disabilities. He founded a popular social media app that featured information on a variety of current affairs and cultural topics. He went missing in April 2016, after which he was later convicted without any known trial on charges of “inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination” (煽动民族仇恨、民族歧视) and sentenced to 15 years in prison. His family only found out about the trial through communications between the Chinese authorities and a few US senators in December 2019 and January 2020. He is currently detained in a prison in Xinjiang’s Aksu Prefecture.

Ekpar Asat was finally able to communicate with his family in January 2021 for the first time since 2016. Based on this communication, his family reports that his health appears to have deteriorated. During the three-minute video conversation with his family members in late January 2021, he was seen to have lost a lot of weight and looked pale with black spots on his face. He told his family members that his health was declining both physically and mentally.

It is estimated that up to a million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim people have been held in the “transformation-through-education” centres. The Chinese authorities had denied the existence of such facilities until October 2018, when they began describing them as voluntary, free “vocational training” centres. They claim that the objective of this vocational training is to provide people with technical and vocational education to enable them to find jobs and become “useful” citizens. China’s explanation, however, contradicts reports of beatings, food deprivation and solitary confinement that have been collected from former detainees.

Take action now - call on the Chinese authorities to release Ekpar Asat

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idk literally anything about esports but I always love hearing that the non binary furry is still kicking it

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