Blessed be the Cheesemakers

claiming bosnian muslims are levantine 😂😂

And it's so fucking ridiculous because like. It's a fucking statue. People are getting away with murdering Jews all over the world right now and the thing you're choosing to cry over is a statue that has already been replaced and appropriate consequences meted out to the people who broke it.

Anyway, imagine if the world had gotten as upset over the murder of over 1,000 Jews and the destruction of entire Jewish towns as they're getting over a chunk of plaster.

"It's a fucking statue, it's been replaced"

The act, however, is still online. The IDF can't un-upload the clip. The international damage wasn't caused by the broken statue, but by the posting. These are two different problems, and fixing one does not fix the other.

"And for some reason, Jews on this fucking site can't stop self-flagellating about it"

We're not self-flagellating. We're calling assholes assholes, same as we did when ISIS or the Taliban destroyed the religious iconography of others. We're being morally consistent and we urge you to give moral consistency a try. The IDF (rightly, IMO) calls itself the most moral army in the world. Holding it to its own stated standard is the minimum required for the claim to mean anything. Demanding that it not behave like ISIS, the Taliban, or any of the desecrators in our own history is a very @#$%ing low bar to clear.

"...even when they knew that antisemites are going to use said self-flagellation against any Jew they don't like.

Yes, my clueless friend. That's one of the reasons we condemn it. It was an unforced error. It was shooting Am Yisrael in the foot. It was a gift to Jew haters that they'll use to generate more hate. We're not pleased about that. It's weird that you don't understand why.

"imagine if the world had gotten as upset over the murder of over 1,000 Jews and the destruction of entire Jewish towns as they're getting over a chunk of plaster."

A thousand Jews were murdered. Entire communities were destroyed. The world's response to this was and remains obscene. But people are getting away with murdering Jews is not a counter-argument to soldiers who desecrate religious icons on camera should face serious consequences. Crimes should not be committed against Jews is not in conflict with IDF soldiers should not emulate the @#$%ing Taliban and ISIS.

Anon doesn't seem to understand why this so violated Jewish values.

Anon, two things can be true at the same time:

Violence against Jews is unacceptable to Jews.

Violently destroying the religious iconography of others is unacceptable to Jews.

Most Jews have no difficulty holding these two ideas simultaneously in mind - without any cognitive dissonance - because it violates our values and ignores the parts of our history when people desecrated our sacred places. That's why they rightly condemn this behavior. Interestingly, Anon can't hold these two ideas simultaneously in mind.

someone urinated into the ballpit while it was empty and posted it in the tag

this is not a joke

if they’re the same people, explain this:

If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.

Because what’s being said—“attack helicopter” “identify as” “spiritually israeli” “it was promised to them 3000 years ago”—that isn’t the punchline; it’s the setup.

What actually amuses them is getting to imagine the target of the joke being upset by it, hurt, miserable, ugly tears and snot bubbling from their nose as they whine and cry.

That’s the punchline.

Why were all those so-called humanitarians silent during the killing of innocent Iranians by the Iranian regime?