#tw genocide

STOP USING RENTRY!!!! STOP! USING! RENTRY

Don't support that zionist owned website

unless you support what the israel government is doing, (which, if you do, get off my blog) do not support Matt and Sarah, the owners of rentry

theres already a post about this on tumblr but since ive been seeing rentries around lately, i felt like this was still needed, along with the fact i have a bit more information about it

they get profit from the ads, and dont give me the excuse like "im using an adblocker!!!!" if you leave the link publicly on your blog or profile or whatever people who dont know about rentry will click it anyways and give them money

please use alternatives such as carrd, strawpage, text.is, shrubs.cc, txto, and more if you go look (P.S. fluffle owner is a zionist, and ive heard allegations that she doesnt believe that NPD is real and shown weird behavior towards systems in the past, along with allegations of abuse, racism, and grooming since 2024)

some screenshots i have decided to take out later on after reviewing this post due to privacy, so i apologize for that

matts bullshit

sarahs fuckery (also she works alongside matt which means shes compliant with his actions)

she approved of these urls for negev, a known zionist in the rentry community, and approved of the urls /netanyahu /GreaterIsrael

theyve also leave proudly zionist rentries up (refer to 1st img), yet for some reason took down a resource rentry??? (second img)

matt also demoted a propalestine admin shortly after the admin spoke out against him (i wont share screenshots of this due to privacy) which is a bad look

hes AWARE of the complaints yet he chooses to ignore it. HE CHOOSES to be ignorant. people have TRIED to talk to him

matt has outwardly welcomed zionism, yet never has never said a single word about supporting palestine. he has called supporting palestine "pro-war".

"The deal, coming after weeks of painstaking negotiations in the Qatari capital, promises the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in phases, the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel and would allow hundreds of thousands of people displaced in Gaza to return to what remains of their homes. It also would flood badly needed humanitarian aid into a territory ravaged by 15 months of war."

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not only because you are intentionally targeting an oppressed minority with your vitriolic "jokes", but because the usa, the country in which i live, has raised the fucking alarms that theres a possible trans genocide that might take place

and since i take testosterone, a heavily monitored and controlled substance, my name is on a fucking list somewhere, meaning i am actively in danger if there is a trans genocide

so fuck off with your "its hyperbolic" horseshit. you sound exactly like the people who called the people comparing trump to hitler, "crazy".

Well for one thing, you (or the West for that matter) didn’t create the word genocide, it was coined by a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin. In his book, the Axis Rule in Occupied Europe he showed his research of the way the Nazi occupied Europe and narrated how he thought the crimes the Nazi committed against the Polish during their occupation came down to 5 main policies that displayed their will to completely destroy the Polish nation which included:

1) The mass killings of Poles

2) Bringing “serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”,

3) Planned deterioration of living conditions "calculated to bring about their destruction

4) Implementation of various "measures intended to to prevent births within the group" such as promotion of abortions, burdening pregnant women, etc.

5) Forced transfer of Polish children to German families

He used these instances as proof for the Nazi plan to completely terminate the Polish identity and these markers are still used by the Genocide Convention as proof of genocidal intentions. He also used this word to describe the atrocities that Nazi committed against the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Lemkin also spent the rest of his time advocating for an international convention to stop the rise of “future Hitlers”, and on December 9, 1948 the U.N. authorized the Genocide Convention, which had many of its clauses based on Lemkin’s own research and proposals.

Also this is a very narrow idea of racism and discrimination. Anti-semitism was rampant in American and Western society years before Hitler came into power. I mean in 1942, American literally turned away a boat load of Jewish people seeking refuge. People didn’t look at Jews and think “Oh man they look just like us, so their murders must be important and we have to create a word that describes their condition and the crimes being committed against because we care sooooo much about them”. In reality, most people didn’t really given a shit about all of the Jews being murdered, only when America and the West was being directly threatened by war did they retaliate.

While I have negative thoughts regarding how Three Houses presents its themes (in fact I think it's arguable that there even are any that remain consistent for the entire game no matter the route), there exists one topic that comes up very often in the game that I feel is worthy of discussion and awareness, including how the fandom has chosen to react to it: dehumanization.

In a simple definition, dehumanization means to treat an individual or group in such a way that deprives them of human qualities; this includes inhumane conditions or treatment.

In contextual terms, most of the time it does not end up solely interpersonal. It is a component of various atrocities against groups of people, including discrimination, colonization and genocide.

One aspect of how Three Houses uses this term in its storytelling is the rejection of and criticism of dehumanizing language. Of course, to make that claim, examples of its existence and its eventual dismantling is needed.

You also see this in person-to-person context, regarding Dimitri referring to himself and his enemies as monsters, Felix calling Dimitri a boar, and so on.

We see the conclusions of these very prejudices in various ways. Many times they are clumsy, yes, but that's a bit of a different conversation. Regardless of writing quality, the intended end goal is for discrimination on the basis of origin to be condemned and done away with. It's the primary goal of Claude's route, as well as a natural goal that comes as a result of Dimitri bringing the truth of the Tragedy to light. Many individual character stories tackle this issue as well.

But there's two other groups who partake in this very dehumanizing rhetoric. The first is Those Who Slither in the Dark.

Beasts. That's a commonly used word for dehumanization. To compare beings of personality, life, compassion and values to monsters or animals, with no comprehensible thought.

The second group I think of uses the same words.

It would be simple to say that they're written to say these things in context of "freeing humanity from non-human beings", but in truth, it's not as simple as one race of beings being called something other than human. It's the denial of humanity for Rhea, as well as Seteth and Flayn by extension.

This is a series of games that have featured many races of people, all of which have these very same qualities that we call humanity. We call it that because we ourselves are human in real life, so of course we can only define what makes us human by the terms of our own race of being, as our only comparable living creatures are not on that level of awareness, feeling or emotion.

But the non-human characters in Fire Emblem are capable of that. That includes the Nabateans. They are not human, but they have humanity. It is an undeniable fact from how they're written, since they're portrayed as people first and foremost.

And as covered, denial and deprivation of humanity from one group of people toward another is textbook dehumanization. A tool of discrimination, oppression and genocide.

By denying the Nabateans/Goddess Children humanity, the essence of emotions, ethics, morals and compassion, she justifies taking part in continuing their genocide that was started by Those Who Slither in the Dark and Nemesis.

Now you may ask, what about her classroom ask about simply stripping Rhea from power? Or how she lets Flayn and Seteth flee?

Genocide is not just the act of extermination, that's merely the ninth stage. Arguably, Edelgard and Hubert engage in many different stages. Classification (us vs. them/Humanity vs Beasts/Children of the Goddess), Discrimination (denial of civil rights vs. stripping Rhea of any power or influence), Dehumanization (already explained), Organization (the planning of a people's destruction vs. Edelgard saying she seeks to obliterate Rhea and the other Children of the Goddess), Polarization (proganda spread by hate groups vs. Edelgard sending her manifesto to all of Fodlan), Preparation (identification due to values or ethnic traits vs. Edelgard able to identify Seteth and Flayn as Nabateans at all), Extermination (mostly carried out by Nemesis already, but Edelgard still seeks to kill Rhea), and Denial (denying the existence of any wrongdoing vs. Edelgard writing history in her epilogue as freeing humans from the tyranny of beasts).

Nothing that Rhea has done will ever be reason enough to treat these people as less than fellow sentient beings who deserve rights, respect and dignity, just as humans would. And the writing, clumsy as it may be, supports the view that Edelgard's actions and feelings toward Nabateans (ones that honestly extend to other draconic/non-human groups if a few of her lines in FE Heroes are to be taken as compliant with canon) are just as bad as those done towards the various marginalized ethnic groups in Fodlan, like those from Brigid, Almyra and Duscur. To further corroborate this, the word 獣 (beast) in Japanese is used for all of these groups in the game: Hubert talking to Petra, the Slithers talking about humans and Nabateans, the kingdom soldiers talking about the people of Duscur, and Edelgard talking about the Nabateans.

Downplaying or flat out ignoring this is far too common in the FE community. It is not about something as simple as discourse at the end of the day; it's about language, ignorance, and the lack of willingness to even push back against those who would deny, or even revel in/justify these actions. There are entire sub-groups of fans who do this, on top of harassing others off of platforms for differing views of 3H's story. This isn't a case of making some people up to get mad at, there's an entire discord server dedicated to hosting this kind of behavior, many of it tagged as such on this blog: