Any protest where people are saying there is “one solution” or, worse still, a “final solution” to the Jewish Question Israel where those saying it aren’t immediately ejected?

It’s an antisemitic protest. No exceptions.

What I find interesting about this post are the responses I’ve gotten to it which, in addition to minor hits to follower count (which I expected, as that happens whenever I address antisemitism that isn’t explicitly blamed on known right-wing actors), netted me a bunch of anons saying: “Zionist.”

I’m condensing it all down to that one word, as there’s variation in how it was imparted, but that was the takeaway.

Leaving aside that I, very intentionally, do not discuss my personal opinions on Palestine or Israel on this blog, let alone share any identity vis-a-vis Zionism in any direction (as I’ve exhaustively reminded folks here)…

Guys, “straight-up calling for a second Holocaust is antisemitic” isn’t a position with any relation to Zionism, whether for or against.

It does not condemn or support the protests themselves. It does not suggest that protesting in favor of Palestinian rights or statehood is an issue. It does not take a position on student demands to divest from any companies. It does not claim that anti-Zionism is inherently antisemitic, that one cannot criticize the Israeli government without being antisemitic, or that being pro-Palestinian is antisemitic. It doesn’t say anything about Palestine or Israel at all.

Nothing about the OG post says anything beyond: “If at your event you publicly align with people who are openly calling for a second Holocaust, your event is antisemitic.”

Which it is. And that’s pretty straightforward and clear. As I said in my tags, it’s not even a close call.

And it says something deeply troubling that so many people think it is.

That gazebo is so fucked

Are you sure gazebo is the correct word?

Are

you 

sure?

idk why you’re confused, that poor gazebo needs help

This has hit my dash three times… that final reblog made it worthy.

I only liked this for the gif

Um. Tumblr. Where did the rest of my bio go Tumblr. This is quite an unfortunate cut off Tumblr. Tumblr wtf

Please go

Please go

The Rosetta Stone on the Deep Space Nine Promenade, written in English, Klingon, Vulcan, Ferengi, Bajoran and Cardassian

I'm losing my fucking mind at some of these businesses

Tom Servo's Used Robots. Spacely Sprockets.

Fucking. Milliways and the Sirius Cybernetics Corp.

motherfucking Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems

Cavor's Gravity Devices.

THE BANZAI INSTITUTE.

(snicker) Chez Zimmerman.

PANCHO’S HAPPY BOTTOM RIDING CLUB.

Pancho is doing a grand service, allowing poor unridden bottoms to be happily ridden. Thank you Pancho.

PSA: There is no such thing as a "white Jew"

There are Jews who have European backgrounds and *some* of them have benefited from eurocentrism or being white passing, but in moments of crisis or need the social tides that create white privilege have never seen Jewish people as part of that group. Whiteness is a social category which has changed with time and attitudes and, at least for now, it has never and still doesn't include Jewish people.

Continuing to use the term "white Jews" is ignorant at best and harmful at worst. Even converts once converted are othered and can no longer rely on any previous white background to save them if they are identified as Jewish.

[ Non-jews please reblog]

“AI generated art won’t hurt that many artists, see, photography didn’t kill painting!” Except it actually did greatly reduce demand for painters, and the thing is, AI generation can also replace a great deal of photographers.

“They’ll still have to pay artists to further develop the generated work”

MOST of the jobs available to illustrators are just static images. AI generation has already rendered them heavily obsolete. “It can’t replace the human imagination” Yeah it can, people are already mistaking AI images for creative original works. *I* am mistaking AI images for creative original works that would have blown me away at one time.

“A lot of what it generates can look fairly plain and derivative“

Literally what most employers want. Look at how many video games have the same classic dragon design or how much advertising has deliberately generic anime style characters.

“It draws from existing images, so it isn’t even really generating anything new” We’re talking about tens of thousands to millions of images for some requests. There will be some that you can trace back to a source but the vast majority are impenetrably distinct, at least as much as any human artist drawing from general inspiration.

“It looks bad though, it’s full of weird mistakes when you look at it closely” That was only true for a few months, tops; almost every generator can now produce character art indistinguishable from the quality of a professional and the nature of algorithmic learning will continue to improve the process forever.

“Employers will pay extra for a human touch” They already avoid doing that at every single possible turn that they possibly can and are already willing to sacrifice an enormous degree of quality just to avoid paying union wages alone.

Guys, please just accept that AI art generation IS going to ruin the market for the majority of illustrators and concept designers. A lot of industry professionals have switched to it or just given up.

Human artists absolutely do have valuable creativity that can’t be replicated but that has never ever been what the industry looks for. It looks for marketability alone, and marketability most often means broad, inoffensive, flexible appeal; exactly what this technology produces in an infinite, infinite volume to pick from.

Yeah uh, I saw an article on AI in French (my birth language) from a local Management big name professor, and that issue is spilling out of art real fucking fast. The tone of the article was so very peppy and eager and happy, and … and all I could see in my mind’s eye while reading the article was the loss of jobs, the displaced people, the perspectives for abuse and totalitarian things, the sheer fucking dystopia springing on it’s AI-generated own in my mind’s eye.

Almost a year since that post, and boy oh boy am i glad I ditched website creation and went into teaching.

the job is tiring and demanding, but I still am happy with my choice. Not only am I more useful to society, I am also more secure in my perspectives.

BREAKING: A man kidnapped, raped, and tortured a Jewish woman in Paris to “avenge Palestine”.This is what your protests are encouraging.

Remember everyone! Rape is not resistance!

It has never been and will never be.

@shhdontlook So I tried to track this down from a more neutral source, but everything I found was pretty right wing.

That said, I did find this source in French:

I speak absolutely zero French, though, so no clue on the quality of this reporting.

All that said, the various right wing news sources I found did all seem to have written their own articles about this instead of running copypasta articles, which is more frequent when something is overblown, misconstrued, or false.

Hello, French here !

First off, good choice of source, Le Parisien is a reliable news source, fairly objective and good on facts.

The victim was quite litterally extracted from her abuser's home, said abuser having sent messages to the victim's mother claiming he aimed to prostitute the victim, and that he wanted to avenge Palestine.

Charges of sequestration (AKA holding someone against their will) have been set aside due to being "insufficiently characterised" which, in the French legal system, could mean :

The charges of death threats based on religion have been included though, which is the bare fucking minimum really.

Last I heard, charges of rape were still under investigation (AKA tests have been ordered), and I don't know if we'll have more details soon or if the victim will want this to stay quiet so she can start to heal.

According to some sources, he was using drugs (which has been added to the charges held against him) so that may impact things as that is usually a cause to increase the sentence in French law ... unless, apparently, you are tossing one Sarah Halimi out a fucking window after harassing her with antisemitic insults for months. Me, angry and bitter ? Noooo, what could possibly give you that idea ?

@shhdontlook here are some more French sources, since they are apparently needed :

Hope this helps

I'm going to react to the tags pointing out that the Columbia students are part of the ruling class :

Yes, but they don't want to admit it (yet) and so go into hypocritical moralizing grandstanding. We had (and still have, really) something similar in May 1968 in France, with kids of the bourgeoisie and rich famillies losing themselves into pseudo-Revolutionary delusions. Can you guess where those kids are, now ? Well, they're retiring or retired right now ... after being saved from their own academic failures by their families and nepotising all the way to well paid positions in companies, NGOs and (for those that actually managed to study at least a bit post 68) high administration or political offices.

And they are separated in roughly two categories :

He do be putting on the teacher hat on the reg, it's great

Do people just think "How to shame Israel..." and then turn off their brain and stop thinking?

So uh ... I'm not too sure how to explain that but ... starting from your end goal and arranging things along the way to justify it is fine when you do worldbuilding, but it most certainly is NOT when looking at reality, the modern world and history. That conspiracy theory was just ... plain insane. Also, the Eastaboo/Russiaboo bias is strong there. "oh Russia was just rebuilding from suffering sooooo much, meanwhile the EVIL WEST was doing COLONIZATION, and the UK was about to start another Holocaust and the US were bad too and I don't know wtf France was doing but I'm sure it was EVIL"

All while denying the agency of both Jews and Palestinians as they are both puppets in the Evil Western Plans ... I'm certainly not an authority on this as I'm not Jewish, but I can't help but feel like taking the antisemitic canard and changing who the "evil global puppetteer" are isn't helping shit.

And that's not even getting into how they deny Jewish indigeneity and disregard the wish of many Jews to go back to the land of their ancestors, to which they have a deep cultural tie perpetuated over **litteral millenia**

This is just ... all over the place, and it's all insane.

hot take incoming: revolt and revolution doesn't create a fair and equitable society. it creates a power vaccum, which is terrifying because it is incredibly fertile ground for all sorts of warlords, aspiring tyrants, paramilitary extremists, and imperial powers to swoop in and start doing atrocities over it. You can put a new society in a power vaccum, but so can anyone else, and most of those potential outcomes are going to be horrifying, not to mention to the hellscape interim period.

To create a fair and equitable society you need to know civics, administration, diplomacy, and yes, statecraft. Yes they're boring and unglamorous and icky and gross. But i promise that you need them. They are mandatory. Not optional.

Oh god, this takes me back to that time I was talking to an otherwise sensible person who is absolutely a leftist, and generally a great person. And then, out of nowhere, they tell me they're voting for Trump because "only by destroying the country will the communist revolution happen".

I had absolutely no idea what to say to them, and still don't.

The Revolution truly is the Rapture for leftists.

And just like the Rapture, it will never actually happen. But the long lasting scars left by people chasing that Perfect Glorious Revolution as they destroy and sacrifice themselves and (mostly) others WILL remain for a long, long, long time.

“Noooo don’t be mean to the Jews!!!! They’ve just been soooo brainwashed 🥺 they were raised in a cult and fed propaganda 🥺 you need to help deprogram them 🥺” Have you considered Shutting The Fuck Up?

Do you think other groups talking about bigotry against them only do so because they’ve been lied to and tricked into thinking it exists? Or do you believe them when they talk about their experiences? Why do you treat us differently? Why is it so hard for you to admit that antisemitism is a real and massive issue (especially in your leftist/queer/etc spaces)?

It’s simultaneously demonizing and infantilizing us. Some of us are Evil Wicked Sinners, and some of us are Poor Lost Souls. And the Poor Lost Souls will be led astray by the Evil Wicked Sinners unless you, a Good Pure Righteous Christian Leftist, help us See The Light. And when we push back, when we say you are wrong, you’ll get angry and hateful and violent. Suddenly, we were never a Poor Lost Soul, just an Evil Wicked Sinner in disguise. Suddenly, you can justify any manner of cruel or hateful behavior against us. Same old shit that’s been happening for centuries, just with a fresh coat of paint.

Leftists: "Men can't mansplain to women what is and isn't sexist because they haven't walked a mile in a woman's shoes!"

Leftists: "White people can't dictate to POC what is and isn't racist because they haven't lived a day in their skin."

Jews: "Okay, well, since Oct 7 I've felt--"

Leftists: "OMG, another whiny Jew playing the 'antisemitism card' to shut down rightful criticism against a literal racist white settler colonialist apartheid genocidal terrorist state. What, are you a secret Zionist?? STFU, Zionazi!!"

@former-leftist-jew the buzzword salad really sells it and gives it the feel of authenticity.

And just to clarify, and because of Poe's law : I am not being sarcastic. It's pretty sad, but a lot of Leftist discourse nowadays, especially about Israel, is a string of conversation-ending buzzwords underpinned by a complete rejection of nuance in favour of thoughtless manicheism (and that comparison feels pretty insulting to the ancient religion of Manicheism).

still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

"but it's part of my religion to evangelise"

🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆 infinite jaguar attack

"but we need to go to Ethiopia (one of the oldest christian countries in the world) to make them the right kind of christian!"

🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆

jaguars

"but..."

🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆 jaguars

"but missionaries bring schools and hospitals to poor countries" that's called humanitarian aid and trying to use humanitarian aid to get religious converts is actually SUPER fucked! hope this helps 🐆🐆🐆

@soup-mother I'm sorry, but I think your post is wrong. It is cruel, and mean, and so, so very bad. Why should jaguars have to do all the work ? Why can't crocodiles and other predators also do their part ?

Why only Jaguars ?

Fuck it, I see this all over my feed, so I'm gonna join in.

If this gets 500 notes, I'll try to go outside once a day. ✔️

if this gets 1k notes, I'll start working on my book again. ✔️

If this gets 2k notes, I'll ask a teacher to call me by my chosen name. ✔️

if this gets 3k notes, I'll get more serious about learning Russian and French. ✔️

If this gets 4k notes, I'll get more serious about singing. ✔️

If this gets 5k notes, I'll ask to get a bass.(electric instrument(NOT THE FISH))

doing this on this blog cause it gets more attention and shit.

Welp, time to stratagize which teacher to tell.

You know, I probably should have swapped number 2 and number 3.

Guys, I'm not getting a fish.

I did not think we would ever get to 3000 fucking notes. thanks

NO FISH! I AM NOT GETTING A FISH! FUCK YOU!

@benzel babe, these people keep on telling me to get a fish :(

Is this just going to be what I'm know for now? F I S H??????????

GUYS! 4K AND 5K WERE JUST RANDOMS ONES I CAME UP WITH BECAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE LEAVING IT AT 3K, STOPPPPPP!!!!!

Play the fish, coward

The Musical Fish demands my help. I shall provide.

Call it horseshoe theory or red/brown alliance, different branding for the same product

Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops