duck, duck, goose

But I also think dungeons and daddies has an incredibly high saturation of the mountain goats songs! Which is weirder because most people do not know who TMG is (just compared to Hozier). I want to know if there is something about the theming, fandom overlap, or the specific lyrical style of John Danielle that speaks to dndads fic writers.

This man did not have some special enmity for the jews. He simply did not care enough to do anything to protect us. Especially not when he benefitted from our suffering. This was most people. What you, as a goy, should be learning from the holocaust is absolutely under no circumstances, “I would have saved jews”. If that is your lesson, if that is what you think to yourself when you think about the holocaust, I can almost guarantee you that you wouldn’t have. What you SHOULD be thinking is this: A whole nation of people fell for propaganda based on deep hatreds present in society for centuries. These hatreds were exploited and weaponized to enable the rise of fascism and the genocide of the jewish people. This spread beyond just one nation. All the places the nazis conquered were eager to surrender their jews to concentration camps. A continent decided the jews were not deserving of life, and the rest of the world turned away jewish refugees, leaving them trapped under a regime who wanted to exterminate us. You have to remember that you are no different from any of these people. Not the poles and french who eagerly helped the nazis get us out of hiding. Not the germans who voted for hitler, for “economic reasons” or for hate. None of them. They’re all just as human as you are and, therefore, you are just as susceptible to propaganda and bigotry as they were. If you sit and tell yourself in the safety of your world, “I would have saved jews” you probably wouldn’t have. If you want to be the person who would have saved jews what you actually have to do is recognize how the holocaust happened. The historical trends, hatreds, politics, and propaganda that led up to its occurrence. You have to be able to understand all those people who turned their backs on jews in need. And then you need to take active precautions to make yourself resistant to propaganda. To set up strategies to ensure you don’t fall for it in the future. And make plans to resist when they come for the jews again. And make sure those plans include resisting before hand. And to that end, let me ask you something. Are you engaging with your jewish friends and neighbors about jewish causes and how you can support them? Are you learning about jewish oppression from other jews and learning the best ways to notice and fight antisemitism in your community? Are you following various jewish organizations and listening when they discuss what you can be doing? Are you reading a wide variety of jewish perspectives on anti-jewish oppression and hate, including ones you disagree with? Are you actively fighting back against antisemitic rhetoric when it happens around you? If you’re generally answering no to these questions then you probably wouldn’t have been helping us during the holocaust. Cause if you’re not doing any of these things, then you’re not an ally. At best, you’re a bystander. And those who stand by and do nothing are not friends to our community, and are not people we can trust to help us when it matters. Because if you don’t bother when the personal stakes for you are low, why would anyone trust you to act when there’s real danger. And. One final reminder. Well, I’ll let garfield say it

18,000 is a pretty big number, so let’s put it in some context. You probably don’t know 18,000 people. That means that if you’d help Jews, statistically, no one else you know would. Caesars Superdome (where they held the Superbowl this year) seats 83,000 – only 5 people in that giant crowd would have helped. There are just over 30,000 students at Columbia – two people (or maybe only one) who would have helped Jews, against how many at the student protests?

I know it’s comforting to think you would have helped Jews. And who knows? Maybe you, whoever is reading this, would have. It’s not impossible. But the number of people who think they would have helped is orders of magnitude bigger than then number of people who actually did.

To all the goyim out there who learned about the Holocaust and imagined what they would have done, I want you to understand that Jewish children generally don’t (because we know that every possible answer is deeply upsetting to a 9/10 year old). But something that Jews do think about is “would this person hide me?” Would this person risk death everyday for months or years for me? Would this person lie repeatedly to armed and very intimidating men for me? Would they be willing to risk themselves? Their families? When there are extreme penalties for hiding me, rewards for turning me in, and virtually all of society is telling them that they’d be morally correct for doing so, would they still hide me?

I have goyim in my life that I believe would do so. I have goyim in my life, people who I consider friends, that I don’t think would. It’s not a small ask, and I don’t hold it against them that they’re not willing to take a bullet for me.

But to tie all this back to OP’s meme, there are people at pro-Palestinian rallies who are throwing Nazi salutes. If you’re not fighting back against them, what makes you think you would have fought actual Nazis? There are people posting signs with antisemitic slogans. If you’re not tearing them down, what makes you think you would have opposed Nazi propaganda? There are people advocating for the ethnic cleansing of half the world’s Jewish population. If you’re not opposing them – not just thinking, “well I don’t agree with that” but actually working to prevent that from happening, then what makes you think you’d do anything more against the Nazis?