🤟🏻 Angry Jewish Cockroach 🫶🏼

Graham Platner is really proving the point about how easily fascists can infiltrate (and take over) leftist politics just by learning the right vocabulary.

"convince your followers that their Oppressor Class (whether real or imagined) is less deserving of human rights" is the oldest and most reliable trick in the book to incite mass violence, and you're not immune to it because you're a Good Person with Correct Opinions. you will continue to be a potential breeding ground for fascist thought until you stop dehumanizing people in any context, regardless of whether they deserve it or not, or how serious you are. there can be no acceptable targets.

“Anything goes as long as it’s punching up” is also the central tenet of antisemitism. Leftists think Jews are the ultrawhite ruling class, worst of the worst of whiteness, and conservatives think we’re a race secretly controlling the world and pretending to be white as a plot to bring down the white race. People who believe the latter are in charge of the US government rn. The nature of antisemitism is that we serve as a misdirect for the people with real power. Whatever issues you care about, people in power will find a way to blame the Jews. I cannot remember the exact quote or who it’s from, but I will paraphrase it anyways. Depending on who you ask we’re communists, capitalists, nationalists, rootless cosmopolitans, white, least white, liberals, conservatives, fascists, anarchists, or whatever other “existential and powerful” threat one may believe exists. But what we never are to these people is human. We’re the monsters who hurt them and so it’s okay to hurt us. The truth doesn’t matter, of course, because they aren’t actually afraid of us. We’re just a safer and easier target, and the lie that hurting us is dangerous and makes a change is easier than the hard truths and dangers one must face to fight real power. As Jean-Paul Sartre said, “If the Jew did not exist, the antisemite would invent him.” Because it is not about the truth, but having a comforting lie that you can make positive change through abusing the vulnerable.

They draw the line at rape allegations *when it happens to non-Jewish women in their own country, to be clear

i don’t care how much they try to distance themselves from platner now, because i will never forget that the nazi tattoo wasn’t enough. that changed my worldview forever and i am NEVER getting over that

the thing about using Bce/Ce isn't that im pretending the calendar isn't based in Christianity, its that i dont want to literally participate in christianity every time i talk about the year. ill use the common calendar for the sake of convenience but im not saying ad because it isnt the year of my lord.

My marriage license came with AD pre-printed on it, and when my rabbi signed to officiate she crossed it out and relabeled it CE and I think that is so iconic of her

Reading the whole Christian bible for the first time and what do you mean the first split between Jesus and the Pharisees is over netilat yadayim? “It is not what goes into a person's mouth that makes him ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes him unclean,” my brother in Hashem you still have to wash your hands before meals

but at what cost

two zuzim

One of the most insane currently popular flavors of antisemitism has got to be the “how dare you evil Jews steal our sacred Christian/Muslim theology/culture/holy sites and bastardize them for your nefarious (((Zionist))) purposes” when the theology/culture/holy sites in question are all in fact taken from Jewish religion, tradition, and culture. This bizarre belief that Judaism belongs to everyone but the Jews.

My favorite is the map telling everyone to use the "real" "pre-colonization" names of various cities in Israel. And they're all either new names for cities that have been there for thousands of years... or the same exact name, but in Arabic.