all of those things that you think & then think about thinking

An obsession with deadnames: Transphobes tend to insist on calling trans people by the name they had before they transitioned. Antizionists tend to insist on calling Jewish people who Hebrewfied their name or just changed their name to a Hebrew one, by their old name.

"If you want your own representation so badly, why don't you make it yourself?" *representation exists* "omg why do you have to shove it into our faces all the time??"

"One of the good ones", tokenization on the greater scale of hate - Queerphobes will look for transphobic LGB people to use as tokens, and nothing more. Similarly, antisemites will look for antizionist Jews to use as tokens. And nothing more.

"Your existence doesn't add up with my beliefs, so clearly you just don't exist / you're not who you claim you are"

"Actually zionism is the real antisemitism slash the reason antisemitism exists" / "Actually trans people are the ones giving a bad name to queer people"

"They are coming for us": "Trans people want to turn other people" / "Zionists want to take over the world"

Pretending to care about academic sources but actually disregarding most studies made (studies showing Jewish indiginity over the levant / studies showing the results of transgender healthcare)

"Why would you need to be defended? You are already the most protected group on the planet!"

Obviously a lot of Nazi background for both rethorics.

Pretending to care about children, oh but not THOSE children: Transphobes basic off of "protect the children" because "trans people are trying to turn out children trans", ignoring how untreated dysphoria leads to higher suicide rates among trans youth, or how a trans kid is literally murdered for being trans; Antizionists claiming to care about kids dying but cheering on when Jewish kids are being fucking murdered.

Refusing to listen to the targetted group about their own fucking experience (because clearly they're lying to achieve some secret agenda).

This might be a small thing but demonization of a flag to extreme extents: "The star of david is problematic because it appears on Israel's flag" / being "suspicious" of anything that's colored using the same scheme as the trans flag (or any queer flag in this case)

Hating on an identity trait and/or claiming it's not actually an identity trait, thinking that claiming enough that people don't exist will make it true ("Israel doesn't exist" / "there are only two genders")

Treating an identity trait as an ideology (being Israeli equating to an "evil" ideology / being trans equating to an "evil" ideology)

This one is pretty universal but telling people to kill themselves

Telling people their very existence actively causes harm

Being nosy and not minding their own fucking buisness (antizionists actively looking for posts made by Jews/Israelis to send them hate, transphobes actively looking for posts made by trans people to send them hate).

"Why make it your entire personality???"

you lot are welcome to add more

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"i identify as a toaster" / "it was promised to them 3000 years ago"

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"cis is a slur" / "goy is a slur"

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making the targeted minority physically unsafe to the point they have to research how safe it is to travel internationally to almost anywhere (the answer is no)

"Everything they say is lies" / "Everything they say is just mental illness" to delegitimize any and all speech of targeted group.

A belief that the only good thing the targeted group can do is not exist (and equating that to kindness when confronted)

"Converts can't be ethnically Jewish" "if you can just decide to be Jewish then Jews aren't an indigenous group" / "you can't just call yourself a woman" "you're not a real man because biology"

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celebrating cancer as "proving" their cause: transphobes celebrating trans women/men for getting breast/testicular cancer, "proving" they’re women/men (even tho the rate isn't really higher than cis people / antizionists celebrating "white" Israelis for getting skin cancer, "proving" they’re not indigenous to the levant (even though the rate isn't really higher than in other populations)

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making up people/claim to get mad at: "there are Zionists saying 'how dare black people exist'" / "there are men claiming they are trans women just to creep in women's bathrooms"

justification of sexual assault against the "right victim" (i don't even need to elaborate on that one)

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Hating for "passing privilege": The idea that Jews benefit 100% from white privilege / the idea that trans men benefit 100% from male privilege

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"my grandparents are older than Israel" / "being trans wasn't a thing up until recently"

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"white americans convert to judaism just to be able to live in israel (read: colonize palestine)!" / "men transition into women in order to prey on girls/dominate womens sports/etc."

treating white-passing jews like just cool white people and not acknowledging they have actual history and culture beyond just lighting a hanukia on Christmas / treating non binary people as just cool girls with colorful hair without acknowledging their actual gender identity

"you can tell them (Zionists/trans people) apart by their prominent facial features. but just to be sure i'll need to check your genitals for mutilation"

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Using the targetted group as a scapegoat (by a major side of politics)

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it's been a bit over a year since I finally finished this thing, and the reception has been genuinely CRAZY to me. I still get comments on it regularly from people watching the musical for the first time and that's SO SO COOL... especially since I was never well known (or known at all) in the fandom beforehand

Art of Arthur Lester by @bohemobones on instagram

And that wasn't done on purpose just sort of how it ended up, but Jake recently got an injury so they put him on a Different boat just for a little bit (a sit in the wheelhouse and scout type of boat, instead of the main fishing one) and he only got back to my dad's ship today and he was apparently like Shaking. He was Traumatised.

Dad said Jake kept pulling him aside and going "They were all yelling on there, but in a MEAN way" "They didn't clean... Like at ALL"

Jake experienced what a boat full of old school Aussie fisherman is like. That is the norm Jake. You just happened to be on the all Island boy boat on your first go out. "It was time for dinner and they had FROZEN nuggets" Jake that's what they have on ships that are out at sea for months at a time.

On my dad's boat they are eating fresh fish and coconut milk Ceviche. They're grilling steaks on an open bbq on the deck that probably is not regulation. All the guys have their own special knives to prepare sashimi every couple days. Everyone is happily doing their own work so they can clock out early and set up a movie on the deck. Jake did you genuinely believe that's what every boat was doing.

Hi I'm op and my post blew up in 72 hours (pray it doesn't happen to you). For the most part people are cool and chill but unfortunately I see some fouls on the field and I'm going to hand out a couple yellow cards.

1. Polynesian Orientalism

I made a silly post about a dream place to be, absolutely my intention is for you to go ah I wanna be there... But how are you saying that.

You can be aspirational about it! You can say what a good opportunity, hope that happens to me, or we should recreate that in our own way.

We should probably NOT say ah I gotta get me some Polynesian guys. I gotta go find a Samoan man to adopt me. We should have them adopt all the white boys one by one so they can teach us their mystical ways.

That's a little weird isn't it. We won't say that.

2. I'm being language police here, I don't see any bad intentions with this oopsie just realised people don't know- Maori is a descriptor! So it's not The Maori, it's a Maori person (like it's not The Black it's a Black person)

3. I am not going to answer if my dad is Hot. I get this enough from my friends. YUCK. I will answer if the other guys on the boat are hot ummm I'm gay but objectively they're all tall and do physical labour in the sun for at least 6 hours a day and have tattoos so. Sure. I reckon so

nb stands for not Black, specifically in the phrase nbpoc (non black people of color), this is a racial activism term. use enby to abbreviate nonbinary

as well as this, something I learned more recently is that poly is short for polynesian and to avoid confusion or appropriating terms, polyamorous should be abbreviated as polyam