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Dehumanizing people whose political opinion is different than yours, regardless of if you view the opinion as abhorrent, is a key aspect of fascism. And it also leads to another key aspect of fascism which is thinking its okay to wish death upon those whose political opinion you disagree with.

This is happening at an alarming rate to jews, zionist and antizionist, and even non zionists. Jews who aren't zionists still get the accusation of being a zionist thrown at them and all the fascism that comes being being a zionist, when they aren't even a zionist. And ofc zionist jews get people being fascists towards us too.

There are so many political opinions which disgust me, but I still view the person who has that opinion as human. Dehumanizing people is never good, even if they are a terrible person, they are still a person.

And this is not to say that you have to be friends with people who's political opinion you disagree with. I'm not. You can and should surround yourself with people who respect you and that you like. Not dehumanizing a person doesn't equal being friends or liking them.

People also need to realize that by unfairly targeting jews with fascism is fucked up. A) because fascism bad but also because B) we've seen this story before and how it plays out. It never ends well for us. And ofc we are going to be on high alert FOR GOOD REASON.

Who's a cute giant living grove?

However they do NOT want to tell this to buyers who say things like “I will not be buying yarn, pearls, or other animal byproducts from Etsy if this is the case” because it’s such a bizarre, arbitrary rule about something already legally regulated so if you have historically bought animal byproducts, like leather, silk, wool yarn, or pearls from Etsy you too can pester them by telling their “buyer” support page you will be looking for a different place to purchase those items on while the policy stands

It’s so arbitrary they could get rid of other items people buy. A blanket ban doesn’t make any sense. ESPECIALLY considering their lack of enforcement in regards to resellers and knockoffs

They could have created stricter regulations (like you have demonstrate it’s an Indigenous-owned business or that the item is secondhand). They could have even released anything explaining the need for this decision. This is just so bizarrely arbitrary in a way that is also unethical.