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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
ladylolalilly
rimonoroni

God, as somebody that grew up in a largely jewish community, holocaust denial is like... so fucking weird.

Because I don’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t terrified of swastika’s, including when I was so young that I didn’t even know what a swastika was.

Because it’s such a strangely specific feeling to be born in the wake of a tragedy so massive that you can still feel it’s reverberations and were born with a weird sense of survivors guilt that will shadow you forever

Because when we were younger and our parents refused to tell us exactly what the holocaust was, we would trade our grandparents horrific experiences like they were scary stories across the camp fire, repeating them over and over to ourselves and eachother so we could figure out what it all meant.

Because I’d see those books with grey photos of Auschtwitz prisoners on the cover and feel like they were looking straight fucking at me.

Because every single Yom HaShoah you’d hear grade school children get up and say “my grandmother was the only one left of her family” or “they barely got out before it started” or “they managed to hide in an attic for months on end” or “my great grandmother managed to jump off one of the trains with her daughter in her arms” or “my grandfather has numbers on his arms but he won’t talk about it” or “my great aunt was shot just before the liberation so she couldn’t get out,” like it was normal.

Because we were always taught to run if we were in a group of non-jews that started making nazi jokes, to laugh along and then take the fuck off to stay safe.

Because the question always lingered over our heads, “what if it happens again? what if it happens to us?”

.... and them some stupid fucking college age white trash dickhead stands up and says “it didn’t happen” or “it wasn’t that bad” and I just can’t... fathom that? Like how the fuck wasn’t this part of your life? How is this not etched into your bones?

And its because it’s not. Like people didn’t grow up with this shit, some people can afford to deny the holocaust and deny antisemitism because it won’t hurt them.

It’s just... fucking wild.


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transrav
apricops

hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)

callmebliss
alternativeulster

my controversial opinion is that real progress in the north won't be achieved until the world decides to consider the native irish people a white indigenous population like the sámi

alternativeulster

the decision to call the fighting here "catholic vs protestant" is literally to make it seem like a religious disagreement rather than a fight between the native people of the land and their colonizing oppressors

alternativeulster

the complete lack of infrastructure in primarily irish areas as well as the total suppression of the irish language should genuinely be considered a human rights abuse internationally. why isn't it?

unbidden-yidden
nabulsi

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As Eid Al Adha is falling on the last few days of Pride Month this year, Eid Mubarak to all the lgbtq+ Muslims.

Remember that your queerness and diversity is a miracle from Allah SWT and that you were created perfect.

Whether you are celebrating alone, celebrating with family, celebrating with friends, or not celebrating at all, I hope this Eid Al Adha finds you all safe and at peace inshallah.

🐑 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🐑

naamahdarling
venuselectrificata

something that rly creeps me out…..occasionally ill see videos or articles for christians or christian missionaries that say something like “what you need to do is make friends with non christians and really get them to trust you and THEN you start preaching to them and bringing them to jesus” and that is….man how much would it hurt to know that the only reason someone’s hanging out with you is to convert you to a religion you were never interested in. maybe this is a real friend, someone you really really feel like you connect to, and all of a sudden you cant hang out with them without being scared they’ll bring out the jesus stuff.

venuselectrificata

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charlie youre blowing my third eye WIDE open

jessicalprice

hahahaha like a year ago I tweeted “Christianity’s attitude toward Jews resembles nothing so much as the attitude of a man toward a woman who won’t fuck him” and people got SO MAD at me

memetrash-coyote
leidensygdom

btw, happy pride to all ace people who aren't sex-positive and/or have very strict boundaries about things/aren't up for sexual topics/talks and such

(happy pride to the rest of aces too!)

I just feel like there's so much push to make aces more... "likable" by saying "well a lot of aces ENJOY sexual stuff, they just don't wanna have that themselves!". And like, that's valid! But I guess some of us aces aren't as easy to market to allos and we also deserve to be around, y'know :'')

I've been pushed a lot/labelled a prude/told I was "boring" because I didn't want to get into explicit conversations, RPs or draw certain things, and like. Nah. I'm fucking tired of that. Some aces are okay with these topics, some aces aren't, but if you claim to accept and understand asexuality, you need to respect all of us, not only the aces you think that are "more fun" or "more natural".

so yeah. happy pride to all aces, even those people deem unnatural!

thepallaspalace
notoriousmasc

i want more autistic rep that is just genuinely not smart. like not infantilized or like every disabled stereotype ever put to film i mean like, autistic people that aren't savants at anything and are just awkward talking to people and they dont get academics very well and they jump to the wildest conclusions possible and theyre really into random shit that theyre not even good at but you still love them because theyre chill and nice. more of those please i need more incompetent untalented autistics like ME

so true
ysabelmystic
slutdge

anyways controversial onion here but no sorry i dont give a shit if i see homeless people using drugs right infront of me as i walk down the street, if you want to complain about it you can go sit in your house and be grateful that you have one to feel better

slutdge

I will never validate any complaint about the unhoused tbh, "they go to the bathroom in the street" because they dont have anywhere else to go, "theyre an eyesore" where do you want them to go? look the other fucking way then, "they should just go to a shelter" clearly youre unaware of how unsafe shelters are and how much autonomy they take away from you theyre practically a slaughterhouse for people, "they should just get a job" ok I challenge you to see who wants to employ you when youre clothed in rags and have no home address, you also cant open a bank account when you have no home address, "theyll spend any money you give them on drugs" dont give a shit, im still gonna give them the change in my pocket because withdrawals are deadly. I will never side with someone when they complain about the homeless. Ever.