My Personal Hell

ethnicity = shared cultural characteristics including but not limited to language, food, music, dance, religion, and shared ancestry; learned through cultural transmission; can be changed throughout one's life provided that the ethnic community one is trying to join accepts them

race = a bullshit system of human categorization based solely upon looks; literally invented by europeans trying to sort humans like we are all different species; can also change over the course of someone's life if the necessary conditions are met (see: my great-great-grandparents being marked as non-white "Hebrew" immigrants in 1904 and then passing away right as Eastern Ashkenazi Jewish people began to fully assimilate into whiteness, eg the post-war period; also see the treatment of SWANA Muslims before and after 9/11); also a legal system in the US wherein those deemed "white" receive certain privileges denied to others based upon race science

nationality = one's country of origin and where they hold citizenship; those are sometimes the same and sometimes not; see for example a naturalized US citizen whose nationality might be both Dominican and American

now. why would someone get race and ethnicity, in particular, confused? you see, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, the word "race" both referred to the bullshit system and also to ethnic groups. additionally, in the post-colonial context, some ethnicities are based upon the system of race that was imposed upon settler colonies (for example, Black Americans, who were forcibly removed from their original ethnic communities and, in a show of remarkable resilience, created new and beautiful cultures). this has led to a lasting confusion on the two concepts.

you may be wondering: tzipi, why are you posting this?

because i need you to know that ethnoreligious groups are real. and i need you to know that jewish people are an ethnoreligious group with subethnicities (like Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim, Persian Jews, Ethiopian Jews, etc). but that none of these groups are the "real Jews." and that we do, in fact, meet the definition of a distinct ethnic group with some similarities and differences across the many subethnicities that are contained within our ethnicity. we accept converts, who then become ethnically jewish, because ethnicity is not all about blood ties. AND ALSO. someone can be ethnically jewish without being religiously jewish, because they may share in the cultural practices that jewish people do and (usually, in this case,) have jewish heritage. such a person does not need to be Israeli to be ethnically jewish. "Israeli" is a nationality, not an ethnicity, at least right now.

we’ve talked about ai psychosis, and now we’re starting to understand ai addiction. when do we start seeing ai dementia? your brain craves novelty and productive struggle. if you offload all of your cognitive tasks your synapses will die off and you will not have cognitive function anymore

why have we reached the point where seemingly half of everyone you talk to is casually using ai not only at all, but specifically for tasks that no one would have considered a material struggle three years ago. I’m sorry, you use claude to come up with responses to text messages? you have to ask chatgpt if a movie you want to see is on netflix?? are you okay???

pretty much every single thing you can "use ai for" is something that would take 2 extra seconds to do manually.

you already need to review any legit work "it does," you ideally utilize your friendships and grow closer to people by communicating with them and asking advice (be it on how to analyze/answer a text, what to do in a moral dilemma, etc), you can get more enjoyment out of designing or writing something yourself as a fucking hobby.

meanwhile: circassians, bosnian muslims, albanians, serbian muslims, macedonian muslims, pomaks, tatars, bashkirs, chechens, ingush, avars, karachays, etc. all muslim groups in europe.

annnnd most of them look fucking european bc guess what…they’re indigenous europeans who converted to islam. aka the converts you all think ashkenazim are.

just interesting 😂 since idiots usually think jewishness isnt an ethnicity but being a muslim somehow is. explain indigenous asian and european muslims then 😂 talk about white muslims then. no? hmm

The seven stages of genocide:

1.) Give the people 3 weeks to evacuate and send them maps of escape routes.

2.) Drop thousands of leaflets, send thousands of SMS, and make calls to warn the population before an area is bombed.

3.) Focus on military targets that are intentionally placed near civilian areas to maximize casualties. But still achieving the lowest civilian to combatant ratio in any urban war in history. Lower than the Raqqa siege against ISIS.

4.) Allow humanitarian aid to enter the area you’re attacking. Provide humanitarian aid yourself. Provide electricity as well. Let the USA build a temporary port. Makes sure there is no famine.

5.) Kill barely 10’000 people within the first 60 days (at least half Hamas) in a state with a population of over 2 millions. In the most dense city. Despite having one of the most advanced militaries in the world.

6.) Allow the population to continue accessing the internet despite the fact that it is advantageous for your enemy.

7.) Make sure Palestinians can safely evacuate and guard their escape routes with tanks so the Palestinians don't get bombed by their own government:

Just to be clear, I think all civilian deaths on both sides are tragic, but the narrative of a genocide being committed by Israel is just wrong. This is a military conflict against a brutal terrorist regime which tragically led to many deaths. Hamas kidnaps babies, women and Holocaust survivors. Choose your words more carefully.

If you want to see how a genocide looks, check this: