#antisemetism

Modern rhetoric:

Innocent video in insta then the comments 😒

Huh, that's a really interesting question. I think the answer is kind of... no.

I like to think of myself as open-minded, but highly suppressed non-fiction is naturally gonna tend to be some VERY fringe, offensive stuff.

Actually, this is a good opportunity to elaborate on something-

I think that when we suppress works written by bigots, religious extremists, pedophiles, animal abusers, etc, we betray a really bleak, pessimistic view of humanity. Here’s why:

That belief is based on the idea that the average person is so helpless, so easily manipulated, that merely encountering something hateful or depraved will short-circuit their moral judgment and convert them.

And listen: I get it. Sometimes it can be hard to look at the world around us and retain your faith in other people.

But I just don’t think the answer to bad ideas is to hide them away like cursed objects, as if ordinary people have no conscience, no judgment, and no ability to say "this is disgusting, and I reject it."

I believe that most people are better than the censors think they are. Human beings aren't empty vessels for the last thing they read. They are thinking, judging creatures. They can weigh, refuse, condemn, and choose for themselves.

✨️Is this Jew a filthy zio or not?!✨️

He wore a bracelet with a 🎗...

It better not be about the hostages that were kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists on October 7...because these hostages were zionist dogs who deserve to be kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered! And only an evil colonialist genocidal demon would want to show support for these hostages and their families!

Did he watch the hamas gopro footage from October 7? Was he horrified? Did he cry? Was he angry? Was he worried about family he might have in Israel? Did he post about the massacre? About Kfir and Ariel and Shiri Bibas? About Evyatar David? About Shani Louk?

If yes, than thats a big no no - he is a filthy, conniving, greedy, bloodthirsty zionist vermin that must be excommunicated and exterminated.

But if he was screaming "globalize the intifada" and "death to israel" with us on October 8, tearing up posters of the hostages and drawing 🔻 and other nazi symbols and slogans on synagogues...this means he is a ✨️good jew✨️ and we can treat him like an actual human...unless he steps out of line, of course.

Oh this character is canonically Japanese? Oh there's no real Jewish-Japanese population? There is in this fic! There's a hot rabbi in this one and his name is Bakugo Katsuki. Oh look at that Wade Wilson is always down to attend a Chabad event even tho they force him to wrap tefilin because he knows there will always be good there.