Banished to the Negativity Pit

I don't label my politics, but I'm what someone would call on the left. I spent my teenage years when Tumblr social justice was at its height. I learned things, checked my own biases, and I would like to think became a more empathetic person because of what I learnt from online progressive spaces.

The way these spaces have treated Jewish communities over the past 2.5 years has been nothing short of fucking appalling.

The worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust was minimised, denied, justified, or outright celebrated.

Jewish people were immediately told to put their grief and trauma over this to away, because Palestine's pain was more important to talk about.*

Jewish and Israeli people were told they needed to try and understand why armed men raped, tortured, and killed members of their community. Because, you know, the murderous rapists are who we need to have sympathy for here. Anyone can be pushed to the point of, I don't know, murdering a young woman and parading her corpse around a street for men to spit on her dead body. If you really think about it, isn't that actually kind of an understandable thing to do?

When raising concerns over the rising antisemitism that was starting to look a lot like the build-up to that little historical tidbit called The Holocaust, Jews were told they were selfish for raising the issue.

When asking people not to call for intifadas that have historically resulted in thousands of dead Jews, they're told they're taking it all the wrong way.

When Israeli victims spoke of the abuse they received on Oct 7 and in captivity, they're told they need to stay silent because otherwise they risk justifying the genocide of Palestinians.

When 15 people were murdered at a Hannukah festival, there were no social media icons, no surge from progressive groups to find out what support they needed.

To be clear here, progressive groups seem more concerned with antisemitism in the Harry Potter books than they are about the actual, you know, string of dead Jews that have been murdered over the past few years. If you condemn antisemitic representations in diction and then turn around and completely ignore real-life fucking murder, then I'm sorry I genuinely do not think you ever gave a shit about fighting antisemitism, you just wanted to fight Jk Rowling. **

Absolutely fuck everyone who has justified or denied what happened on Oct 7th. There were ways to advocate for both Israeli and Palestinian victims, but the people who should have known better have ensured that Oct 7th wasn't just one day of hell for Jewish communities, but that its been currently 2.5 years of hell that seems to just be getting worse.

And the most infuriating part is the people who did justify Oct 7th will never admit they were wrong, because that would mean admitting they argued that the murder rape mutilation torture and kidnap of a Jewish community was acceptable, and that would break their brains. I mean it. The cognitive dissonance between believing you are someone who cares for human rights, whilst also being someone who justified all of that, is too great. The brain will always protect itself. Its why people are currently doubling down on there being no rapes on Oct 7th. Rape is not resistance, it is not self defence, it is not landback, it is not right of return, it is not decolonisation, it is not any of the shit people tell themselves Oct 7th was. Rape is just rape. It is just men torturing people (mainly women) for no other reason than because they enjoy it. You will never see these people admitting rape occurred, because the second they do is the second they realise just how horrifically they have behaved.

And it's not getting better. Hate crimes and murders of worldwide Jewish communities are rising. Jewish people are looking to leave places like the US, UK and Australia, which were once considered some of the safest places for them to live. A KKK slur (zio) is now common online usage. Jewish people are expected to sever any connection to an important part of their culture (Israel/Hebrew) in order to be treated somewhat civily. The more IDF crimes are uncovered in Gaza, the more worldwide Jewish communities bear the brunt of the anger. Typing 'Jewish' into any social media brings you into an absolute clusterfuck of the most horrific things you can possibly see people say about their fellow human beings.

I am just sick and exhausted and furious and it feels like I'm hitting my fists against a brick wall that is not knocking down. How do you even get people to realise how bad this is????

I am not Jewish. I know full well that Jewish people talking about all of this get ignored. I know full well that a Jewish person standing up for Palestine gets thousands of notes, and a Jewish person standing up for their own people barely breaks 100. I know full well that Jewish people are being smeared as paranoid or crazy or selfish. I know full well that non-Jewish people speaking up about antisemitism is taken more seriously than Jewish people talking about their own experiences.

Can you all just start fucking having some fucking empathy for Jewish and Israeli communities who have been facing the worst 2 years of their lives. Fucking please. It is not that fucking hard to feel empathy for lots of groups at once. To empathise with both Palestine and Israel, Muslims and Jews. Empathy for all is part of what brings us away from just being animals and makes us human.

If you can't do it, it is not an issue with Jews or Israelis or Zionists or the IDF, it is an issue with you.

*I am not saying Palestinian pain isn't important to raise awareness of, and the people fearing what the IDF would do immediately after Oct 7th were right to raise it. I'm saying asking Jewish communities to take on the trauma of Palestinians, when they were still reeling from their own inter-community trauma, was wrong and unhelpful. I wouldn't ask Palestinian communities to have centered the trauma of Oct 7th either. Trauma is not a competition and everyone deserves to have their respective pain treated fairly.

Liberalism believes that certain values are universal, and strives as much as possible to treat everyone equally. Illiberal leftism, on the other hand, is based in its core on dividing people into categories and treating them differently. Proletariat and bourgeoisie. Kulak and Bednyak. White and black. Oppressor and victim. Ally, and enemy.

Which leads us to the shock that liberal jews worldwide felt after October 7th. Because while we assumed that leftist would apply their values equally to us, in reality they were never going to, because we were never part of the good groups. We were not, in their eyes, deserving of the same values. And even though we had always been their allies, they saw us as enemies.

"should not be allowed to leave"

holy shit can you try to sound any more ominous

Presumptive Democratic congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier's opposition to interracial relationships has earned her words of approval from a surprising source—David Duke.

The former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard turned Louisiana lawmaker said he agreed with her desire to keep the bloodlines pure.

“Well, I think that people have the right to preserve their particular heritage," Duke told the Washington Free Beacon after being reached by phone. "And if she's concerned about preserving her heritage if it's Somali, or whatever she is, she's certainly got the right to do that."

Chevalier's position on interracial relationships stems from a now-deleted social media post from September 2019 in which she criticized black and Arab men for "fetishizing ugly colonizer women." Chevalier, who describes herself as "Afro-Latina" and has said she operates "within the black queer feminist lens," is not Somali.

Duke and Chevalier have more in common than may meet the eye. Duke's insurgent 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign—where he was effectively the GOP nominee—caused an uproar in the national Republican Party, which ultimately supported the Democrat (the famously corrupt Edwin Edwards, who won). Chevalier's extreme left-wing views, including those on race, are today causing similar ferment and embarrassment among Democrats, but so far, the national party has yet to disavow her.

The political journalist Mark Halperin on Monday quoted an unnamed "Democratic Party stalwart" fretting that, "Chevalier is our David Duke. She is poisoning the possibility of a Democratic majority."

Duke has in the past found common ground with far-left Democrats over their shared hatred of Israel. In 2019, he called Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.)—who, unlike Chevalier, is Somali—"the most important Member of the US Congress" after she accused Jewish lawmakers of dual loyalty to Israel.

Duke has in the past justified his position by arguing "I want to see the continuation of my heritage go on" and that "I think most black and white people in America believe that way."

In his call with the Free Beacon, Duke said he also found much to like in New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose support of Chevalier was pivotal to her primary victory.

"I think that the new mayor of New York was a step forward," Duke said, even while noting his disagreement with Mamdani over immigration.

"I do believe that there are bigger fish to fry, and I do believe that the immigration policies we talk about were orchestrated by the same elite that has given us these wars.

"His views on Israel are critical, because there's no more important political issue than the fact that a tiny minority of America … the oligarchs of the Jewish people, that they are controlling our foreign policy," Duke added, echoing the antisemitic rhetoric he has espoused over his decades in public life.

In the past, Duke has called Jewish people "a blight" who should "go into the ashcan of history." And much of his public commentary today remains focused on Jewish control of governments and official institutions.

The former Klansman has spent decades in public life, running notable failed campaigns for president and governor of Louisiana. He also ran to represent the state in the Senate and House. In 1989, Duke managed to get himself elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives, serving in the job until January 1992.

In December 2002, Duke pleaded guilty to felony mail fraud and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. In 2006, he spoke at an infamous Holocaust denial conference held in Iran where he asserted that the Nazi use of gas chambers to kill Jews had been a myth, according to Fox News.

In 2005, Duke received a doctorate from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management in Ukraine.

"I am a historian. I have a legitimate Ph.D. from the largest university in Ukraine," Duke boasted in a recent radio broadcast.

It wasn’t just a pact of convenience. Rockwell seemed to genuinely revere black nationalist leaders, who had built a much larger and more organized movement that he would ever manage. Rockwell told other Nazis that Elijah Muhammad’s followers were “admirable human beings in spite of their color.” The Nazi leader told Haley he admired Malcolm X’s courage — and even wished to launch a joint “back to Africa” speaking tour with the black leader. “He must think I’m nuts!” was X’s reply. Malcolm X would ultimately break with the Nation of Islam and disavow all the ideology that may have once aligned him with Nazis and the KKK. After making the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, he returned believing that the United States’ various ethnicities truly could learn to live together. In 1965, he was shot to death by radical Nation of Islam members. Like so many other political figures of the 1960s, Rockwell would also be assassinated before the decade’s end. Gunned down outside a self-serve laundromat, Rockwell was murdered by former American Nazi Party member John Patler. Rockwell’s father, when told of the shooting, reportedly said he wasn’t surprised at all.  Unlike X, however, Rockwell definitely experienced no spiritual awakening about racial unity before Mauser bullets tore through his head and chest. In a speech to a UCLA in May 1967, only four months before his death, Rockwell told a loudly derisive audience that Jews were warmongers, profiteers, liars, communist conspirators and traitors.

https://nationalpost.com/news/the-weird-time-nazis-made-common-cause-with-black-nationalists

Hate is trending these days, isn't it? First, I want to state my position on JKR: I am a trans guy and I support trans women. To me, trans women are women. Period. I also fully support women's rights. But I do not support extreme views. Any extreme views. I do not support views or actions that are intended to harm people. Thus I do not support JKR's views on transgender women. I also do not support the views of people who hate J.K. Rowling just because of her views. I hope everything is clear with this.

Nobody is perfect. We are biological creatures. Look at our internal organs - it's gross. Why do we think that our inner worlds are better? Each of us has "good" and "bad" sides. JKR has a thing for transgender women, but she helps people with multiple sclerosis. To hate her and wish the worst for her is to hate those people who benefited from her charity. Better wish her understanding of the problems of transgender women. Sometimes people change for the better.

Next. What people have created throughout history is unique and important. We produce what no one else in the world can. No, not only plastic. We produce culture. We create stories. We produce art. We create lives. We live in a multiverse of fictional worlds that we have created for ourselves and for other people. Every one of them is valuable. Losing any of them is a tragedy because each one is unique and impacts other stories, even if sometimes it's not obvious.

Most people before us were homophobic, transphobic, nationalistic, treated women like property and animals like things without feelings. Some of them owned slaves and killed other people. But we all live in the world they created. With all its good and bad. Many of our parents are transphobic and homophobic, but they created us. Many writers, artists, scientists, philosophers, etc. held views that are problematic by modern standards. But they have shaped human literature, art, science and philosophy. Now all of it is ours to enrich with our own stories. We do not start from scratch - we stand on their shoulders.

JKR created Harry Potter fandom. But Harry Potter fandom is not only JKR. It's not her views on trans women. It's much more than that. It's the story she told, and millions of other stories. Including stories of transgender women. I'm sure there are fanfics written by them and fan art drawn by them in the fandom. Do you hate them too?

What you, cancel culture guys, want is to erase human history. Thus destroying the foundation of the present. And ultimately putting an end to the future. Censor all the inconvenient moments. Close eyes, shut mouths, put earplugs in ears. Burn books. Remove all inconvenient people. Witch hunters did the same. Nazi did the same. I know who you are. The worst enemy of humankind.

HP fandom - don't let cancel "culture" discourage you. Don't let it destroy worlds. Live and create.

Food blogs: #Vegan #EatGuiltFree

Food blogs: Casual ableism ❤️

Food blogs: Let me sell you my religion

Food blogs: One serving - fewer calories than you'd feed to your toddler

Food blogs: One serving (smoothie bowl edition) - more food than you've eaten in one sitting in your entire life

Food blogs: #Healthy #Raw #Sugar-Free (contains large amounts of artificial sweeteners)

Food blogs: It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.

😭

ETA BECAUSE I FORGOT IT AND RAN INTO IT INSTANTLY:

Honestly I think if I have to see one more recipe/food blog that's like:

"Nice" cream 😊

Blatantly in opposition to anyone consuming any oils in any amount for any reason

Telling you to eat literally poisonous plants (I saw an apricot pit butter. Oh my god. Oh my FUCKING god.)

Nutritional yeast in EVERYTHING

Chia seeds in ALL the desserts (and the ice cubes too!!!)

Mushroom powders in ALL the drinks, because they're ✨Ayurvedic✨

"Oh my gosh, store-bought [food] is so bad for you! 🥺 Here's my recipe for HEALTHY [food]!" AND IT'S THE EXACT SAME INGREDIENTS AS STORE-BOUGHT

"[Non-NA Country] Authentic Cuisine!!" and it's ESPECIALLY FOR NORTH AMERICA-NATIVE INGREDIENTS LIKE SPECIALIZED ONES NOT JUST CORN OR POTATOES BUT SHIT YOU DON'T F I N D ELSEWHERE

Agave nectar, xylitol, coconut sugar, maple syrup (and I LOVE maple syrup, don't get me wrong) as the only sweeteners for anything ever because that nasty cane sugar 🤢 is so gross 🤢 you must only use these ✨healthy✨ alternatives 😊 that mostly aren't tested for long-term effects with extremely heavy use 😊 Surely nothing could ever go wrong!!!! I've never heard the term "in moderation" in my life!!!!!

Recipes that are so unsuited to be raw vegan gluten-free oil-free sugar-free that they're NOTHING BUT SUBSTITUTIONS. MY DUDE THIS IS THE RECIPE OF THESEUS. THIS PIZZA CONTAINS EXACTLY ZERO PIZZA INGREDIENTS OR COOKING TECHNIQUES FUCKING PLEASE

✨ Cleansing ✨ Grounding ✨ Holistic ✨ Leveling-Up ✨ Goddess ✨ Buddha ✨ Natural ✨ Feminine Healing ✨

Not a long addition but like god I am so concerned for some of these food bloggers. "This food makes me feel incredibly sick, it's so ✨cleansing✨! I eat it every day! If I don't have it I literally can't absorb anything, my gut is so weak!"

Like girl... girl, no. It sounds like you have a food sensitivity, or maybe it's just too much of something or too high of a concentration for general human consumption. Or maybe your gut has been wrecked by some illness or something, or you're lacking vital nutrients. Please go to a doctor (A REAL ONE NOT A VEGAN DETOX CLINIC), get an allergy test done, something!

Ohio immigration attorney Shayan Parsai said in a June 5, 2026 Friday sermon at the California Usuli Institute that Jews use the Wailing Wall as a pretext to "sneak closer and closer to the Al-Aqsa Mosque" and are trying to remove it. He asserted that the Wall was never important in Jewish history, and that Jews pray and "wail" there because they are digging beneath it in an effort to enter the Al-Aqsa compound.

Parsai said: "These are not believing Jews. These are psychopaths" who have engaged in the "rituals of child sacrifice and child cannibalism" for centuries, both in the United States and "back home."

On April 25, 2024, Shayan Parsai, an American-Iranian resident of Columbus, Ohio, was arrested during an anti-Israel demonstration at Ohio State University.

Shayan Parsai: " They sneak closer and closer to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Wailing Wall is nothing in Jewish tradition.

"They wail and they kiss that wall because they are digging under it, they are going over it, and they are going inside it. When they crush the Al-Aqsa Mosque... And I pray that Allah never allows this to happen, I pray that He intervenes by whatever miracle necessary. But they are trying to remove it and they will desecrate it. I promise you.

"These are not believing Jews. These are psychopaths who engage in the same rituals of child sacrifice and child cannibalism as we have clearly seen for the last hundred years and has been made plain as day to you, here in the United States and back home in our holy sites."

video (I don’t like this account nor agree with its politics and don’t follow it, but to preserve this for the record):

fun historical fact: the libel that the Jews would destroy Al-Aqsa started with Hitler’s ally, Grand Mufti Husseini. it was also a pretext Hamas used for the October 7th massacres.

the child eating blood libel is, of course, medieval.

Awww it must be so rough having people destroy all of your sacred cultural objects :-( Quite frankly the Shawshank Jews would have every fucking right. I said what I said. if u cared that much about it maybe u should have used it for something besides trying to humiliate and deliberately harm other people lmao

Its AWFULLY convenient that somehow Al Aqsa is just The Most Sacred Place Everrrr when they built this shit on purpose to harm jews and then cry huge crocodile tears about how sacred it is when we rightfully demand access to our native fucking heritage that was there thousands of years beforehand.

Its like building a church on top of a native burial ground called the Fuck Indians Forever Church and then screaming and pissing and shitting and vomiting that its MY MOST SACRED TEMPLE when natives are like "what the fuck" lmao. Then ofc followed up by "oh yeah also indians eat babies." Sir I somehow get the impression that u are not a serious human being!

Muslim sacredness is apparently inviolable while our own, in our own homeland, on our own native cultural grounds is treated as fake, colonial and demonic. We built the Fuck Indians Forever Church, how DARE u disrespect our sacred church! Also, you eat babies.

Its grotesque as fuck to accuse us of cannibalism and child sacrifice while demanding total deference to a site built over Judaism's holiest place - again - on purpose, specifically to harm us. Im sick and tired of having to tiptoe around everybody else's feelings about the shit that they stole from us lmao.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy to put that at the beginning of your posts, guys.

"White people won't care about this post-" well NOW they won't, because instead of just presenting the information/experience/etc., you subtly called them all racists.

"The cishets will ignore this-" I'm not even cis or het and I understand why they would ignore it, if you're coming out the gate swinging like that.

"Americans won't give a fuck about-" and now neither will I!

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

who care how someone says Ms.

"oh but it's pronounced like miz"

shut the hell up, it doesn't mean crap

"oh but it's common knowledge that it was part of a feminist movement"

in USAmerica maybe, not in any other country in the world

English isn't the default language, heck, it's not even the first language of most people on the world!

it's the most spoken SECOND language, and trust me, they don't have time or care to teach the difference between Ms. and miss and Mrs.

because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter crap

what do matter is EVERY OTHER PART OF GRAMMAR

and if you dare to be like

"oh but how about history class"

but I fricken told you so

over ⅔rds of the non native english did not know

like sure, i wouldn't expect someone speaking english as a second or third language to know every construction, but getting upset that people are talking about constructions in english you don't know in a post about the english language that is in english is kinda weird. like there are obviously people in the thread who care about this, what space would you expect them to use for this conversation otherwise?

in relation to this conversation in particular, i think the non-native english speaker perspective is important, but it can be expressed more constructively. coming into a conversation acting like the entire matter is of zero value and if you don't know something then it is inherently meaningless is not constructive. notice how like the third reblog references a tag by someone who speaks english as a second language. also, i'd argue there is value in knowing history of places other than the one you live in, especially important social movements like the feminist movement, but not being taught that in school is understandable (and you also have no power over that)