Who Even Knows Because I Sure Don't

Stuff like this always makes me remember how sensationalized the ​“hide your kids, hide your wife” video was, also known as the “bedroom intruder meme” 🗿.

“Conflating religion, race and ethnicity is a critical issue with serious consequences in that it obscures the role of racism, white privilege and white supremacy in the historical and contemporary oppression of people of color,” CONREPA said.

CONREPA then said that “The majority of Jewish Americans in the United States identify as white" and that Jewish psychologists of color "already have a home in each of the existing EPAs [Ethnic Psychological Associations].”

“EPA seats were intended to address underrepresented groups within APA. Jewish psychologists are not underrepresented within APA.” CONREPA went on to describe antisemitism as a form of religious discrimination. This is not exclusively the case; as antisemitism refers to the targeting of Jews as a group, it can compass religious discrimination, racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination.

"Already have an existing home in each of the existing EPA's"

Reminds me of this quote from Einstein

All it takes to respect and want the best for Palestinian people, including an end to the violence they're subjected to, and support for their self determination, is a recognition of their humanity and inherent equality, but in the ideological framework of some of these people, being human isn't enough - you must also be pure and free of any kind of possible wrongdoing.

In some people's minds, it's ok to hurt the bad guys, good even. And the thing that makes the bad guys bad can be inherited from ancestry. So they need to prove that the side they support is inherently good, and the side they don't is inherently bad. They need to trace this goodness or badness throughout all of history to demonstrate this.

It's a fundamentally racist way of thinking. It's inherently violent.

It hasn't occurred to some that neither of these groups is inherently bad or good. That neither possess any kind of intrinsic quality of purity or sin. They don't consider that they should be evaluating people's actions as individuals over their membership in either group.

we’ve been telling leftists for years that they’ve recycled the right wing evangelism and authoritarian politics of their parents into a “leftist” version that informs on why so many leftists will so easily swallow authoritarian ideas and actions and lies and i for one am getting sick of being gentle with them about this bs

like we’re literally at the point where leftists will swallow ahistorical shit and conspiracy theories with the same ease their parents will swallow bs from fox news or qanon

i’m seeing propaganda and outright lies about jews and palestinians every single day and it’s not trumpers parroting this nonsense but 20-something leftists, and these 20-somethings are using these lies to dehumanize jews and palestinians alike — because why would only being in the region for a few hundred years make it suddenly ok that palestinians are experiencing a humanitarian crisis of horrific proportions, and why would you lie about jewish indigeneity to the land of israel if you weren’t convinced that indigenous = good and righteous while not indigenous = bad and evil

and don’t even get me started on how this is all coming through the lens of western political theory and western definitions of race/racism

we’ve been telling leftists for years that y’all are disturbingly susceptible to propaganda, to authoritarianism, etc, and you people just keep on leaning into it

I think a bit part of why this is happening is because some of these ideologies are thought of as "cool" and so people jump on board without any understanding of these ideologies or their histories.

To be frank, the amount of genocide denial from leftists I notice, as a Buddhist, is insane. Especially from people citing Noam Chomsky. I'm tired of telling people that the Cambodian genocide happened, for example. But there are even more cases.

What especially bothers me is the accusations towards other ideologies of imperialism because Marxist ideology is notable for its imposition as a Western ideology onto non-Western cultures.

But even with that aside, there’s just an ironic lack of thought and effort that goes into dismissing anything you dislike (or even anything that’s just kind of … middling quality?) with a single-syllable buzzword, and over-saturating comment sections and online spaces with “slop slop slop” all the time.

“Slop” is also slop. There’s just no “Them” feeding it to you. You are swallowing regurgitated antisemitic memes, and devaluing everything around you, of your own volition.

some paintings on judaism and jewish life i’ve made in 2020 and this year