the nuclear bunker of Spot-the-antisemtism

what the absolute fuck.

"the victims of the nazi holocaust are dead, and the legacy of that tragedy does not reverberate in the form of its victims' descendants"

this statement in and of itself is absolutely batshit insane, and provably false on both counts.

but then we get to the straight-up conspiracies.

"jews [...] disproportionately occupy the upper echelons of business [and] media"

"the powerful jewish capitalists that have the president's ear"

"jewish supremacy is as integral an arm (tentacle?) as white supremacy"

....

so of course, when they're not spouting protocols, they pull their favorite semantic trick:

"antisemitism [is] a collection of truths and lies thrown carelessly together. I suggest anti-Judaism, a more targeted approach that focuses on the contemporary iteration of the religion."

and thus we move from the old, outdated, physiognomy and race science based "anti-Semitism" (since of course "Semite" does not actually refer to "Jew", and jews aren't a race at all, except they kind of are because they're basically uber-white), to the straightforward term "anti-Judaism".

a clean, modern term, to reflect what "Judaism" clearly is: "a very real religion called judaism once existed [... it] has been thoroughly transformed, now existing as little more than a supremacist identity used to justify hierarchy and oppression."

great! so we've redefined what a jew is. we've redefined the term referring to jew-hatred--we've moved from an old, outdated term that doesn't really get to the heart of why we're hating the jews to our new term, one that cuts to the center of justifying our new wave of hatred.

now, there's only one thing left for us to do.

we know that a jew is a capitalist, an imperialist, not just a part of white supremacy but the foundation of it; a jew is everything we hate. "to be a jew is to be complicit." in what, you may wonder? in every societal ill--that is what complicity means.

and thus, our left-leaning, anti-capitalist writer who wants nothing more than to defeat the evil of the jew that "is tied on every level to global capitalism and imperialism", because of course doing that will finally lead to the socialist utopia of our dreams, must naturally come to the obvious conclusion that:

She wrote this quote referring to the plight of Ashkenazi Jews in Europe during the pogroms. The increase of Jewish refugees and immigrants to America during this time would cause anti-immigration legislation targeting Jews. This was her calling on other American Jews to feel solidarity, to have awareness, and to help the Jews in Europe escape from violent persecution.

Here is the full letter it was included in:

“In defiance of the hostile construction that may be put upon my words, I do not hesitate to say that our national defect is that we are not "tribal" enough; we have not sufficient solidarity to perceive that when the life and property of a Jew in the uttermost provinces of the Caucuses are attacked, the dignity of a Jew in free America is humiliated. We who are prosperous and independent have not sufficient homogeneity to champion on the ground of a common creed, common stock, a common history, a common heritage of misfortune, the rights of the lowest and poorest Jew-peddler who flees, for life and liberty of thought, from Slavonic mobs. Until we are all free, we are none of us free. But lest we should justify the taunts of our opponents, lest we should become "tribal" and narrow and Judaic rather than humane and cosmopolitan like the anti-Semites of Germany and Jew-baiters of Russia, we ignore and repudiate our unhappy brethren as having no part or share in their misfortunes- until the cup of anguish is held also to our own lips.”

There is no mention of Jewish people on this poster despite the fact you mention it’s an edit of one from ww2. I do not think I should have to explain why Jews are relevant to ww2.

- 21 different flags for Queer identities, plus one straight ally flag. And then also Palestine, where being gay is at best seen as deeply taboo and at worst is legally punishable by public mob lynchings

- Anarcho-communists, but also just anarchists. You know, to replace the United Nations from the original poster

- Ukraine, sure, that’s great. But it’s weird that the Ukrainian flag doesn’t replace the original’s USSR flag, it replaces the British Raj. Also there’s still a communist flag in the lineup and I’m not sure the Ukrainians feel amazing about that

- Antifacists, Black Lives Matter, sure, all good, and finally,

- Luigi Mangione. Just… that one guy.

So this new solidarity movement is 75% Queer alliance, 10% anarcho-communists, 3% black people, 3% each of two countries whose geopolitical interests are not aligned, 3% anti-fascists and 3% one man who is in jail.

It. Literally. Doesn't. Matter.

Spoiler alert: trans people can be antisemitic!

Franz Kafka was a real person who died not too long ago, and just because a trans person relates to his writings doesn't mean they can claim he's trans. It's not the same as relating to a fictional character. You can't 'headcanon' an actual person. I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman. He was an actual person, not a fictional character you can project on. An treating Franz Kafka like a fictional character you can project any label onto and separate him from his actual life is dehumanization and *also* antisemitic.

It's no different than queer people co-opting Anne Frank's memory and erasing her story to just herald her as a "bi icon" when she never had the chance to live long enough to label herself. Queer gentiles need to stop dehumanizing Jewish people and turning them into blank slates they can project onto.

I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman.

At some point relatively recently, people seem to have come to the conclusion that you can't empathize with a character (or real fucking person, in this case, and I cannot stress how gross that is) unless you're just like them. "Oh, I, a nonbinary person can identify with this cishet man? He must actually be nonbinary!" "Oh, I, an autistic person, can identify with this Ambiguously Quirky™ person? She must actually be autistic!"

Being able to relate to a person--real or fictional--who isn't just like you is a good thing. It's good that you see yourself in the writings of a cisgender man! Maybe it will teach you that cis people aren't the enemy. It's good that an autistic character resonates with NT people! Maybe they'll gain new insight into their autistic friends and family!

It's called empathy, and it's so important to understand that you are going to see your experiences reflected in people who are unlike you. Those connections are important. Deciding that Kafka must be a trans woman because you're a trans woman is missing the entire fucking point. It means that you do, in fact, have some things in common with a cisgender man, and conversely, it means that cisgender men have things in common with you. To flatten them out so they're just like you is missing out on so much of what they have to say.

People are beautiful and rich and layered and the fact that we can connect with other people and share experiences despite how different we are? That's the whole fucking point. That's what makes life worth living.

Because we've seen that before. We see it very often because it's a fundamental premise of some incredibly antisemitic forms of Christianity, and when it turns out that we're real people with real opinions and real beliefs and real feelings who don't just exist to validate someone else's perception of who and how we could be, people don't just abandon their pretense at allyship, they get violent.

It's also a common failing in how the Holocaust is taught. People like to present this lens of "it was random violence that came out of nowhere and could've happened to anyone. It could've happened to you! Imagine if you'd been one of the victims! That would've been a tragedy wouldn't it?" And the thing is, that's bullshit. If you were just a random German citizen at the time? You would've been one of the perpetrators. And it was a tragedy in and of itself; it doesn't become a tragedy by imaging a scenario in which people who were perfectly safe would've actually been potentially in danger (never killed, of course, because Holocaust education is also commonly sanitized, which is a different rant).

Edited to take out a rant that was in drafts and got added to this by mistake, but. Well, the Tl;dr, since that's been reblogged

No, but everything in his writing that gets commented on is something that speaks to feeling out of place in society, or something that conveys emotional or social vulnerability.

So for someone to say “because of these things I think she was a trans woman teehee!” they are implicitly 1) denying that any other aspect of identity might cause these feelings, and 2) asserting that if someone feels these things, they must be a woman.

Ignoring his Judaism AND implying that men can’t feel alienated or vulnerable and if they do they must actually have been a woman. Doesn’t seem very respectful or deconstructing of gendered norms to me.

We all know that’s bullshit because if you did spend all your time writing “Free Palestine” comments underneath everyone’s posts — more than just Jewish people would be complaining.

(And by "insanity," I mean RACISM.)

One of the characters is a janitor at Catholic school the protagonist attends. This janitor is clearly Jewish - his last name is Manberg and he wears a chai necklace.

He is a minor antagonist in the film -he’s been working with a side character, a nun who he trained as a demon hunter since she was a child. It’s clear this nun doesn’t like him too much and he’s exploited her over the years due to her supernatural abilities.

He’s also stolen children - demon children, who he did not realize were children but innocent children nonetheless.

Sure he’s not the MAIN villain of the movie but with everything else going on: a wealthy couple who want to turn the school into a for-profit child prison, the protagonist’s supernatural abilities and her delinquency being inherently tied to being a Black girl in the foster care system after her parents died in a tragic accident, a trans male character at an all girls school and a mean girl character who isn’t all that mean…it seems very unnecessary.