Certified Clown Enjoyer

Emily Wilson has inadvertently created a fascinating new way to categorize basically any visual media ever made

Its become a moral purity thing. If you purchase from a company doing something bad, you are deemed complicit in the bad thing because you spent $5 on shampoo.

“I am as far as I know the most typical Western Jew among them. This means, expressed with exaggeration, that not one calm second is granted me, nothing is granted me, everything has to be earned, not only the present and the future, but the past too — something after all which perhaps every human being has inherited, this too must be earned, it is perhaps the hardest work.”

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

he literally did in the fourth one when he's asked if he likes cars more than women

@edithsweetithh

"Israeli businesses need to leave Palestine and stop colonizing it through economic means"

The friend I lost last year, who said stuff like "voodoo and hoodoo are not for white people" and "I don't think you should study Appalachian folk magic if you're not from Appalachia" told me Lilith was a Christian creation to uphold the patriarchy and that her being "the personification of child death" was a Christian lie.

I just find it so fascinating that people just can't seem to grasp the idea of "hey this very very old culture came up with a mythological explanation for why sometimes children die suddenly seem for seemingly no reason." Seems like the kind of things a lot of cultures might come up with!

Also, don't forget how Anything* A Jew Creates Automatically Belongs To Real People.

"...the daily experiences of Jews underline how deeply implicated most Germans were in the gradual yet dramatic process that led Jews toward 'social death'—their sub­jection, their excommunication from the 'legitimate social or moral community,' and their relegation to a perpetual state of dishonor. As the regime disenfranchised Jews, robbing them of their economic livelihoods and social integration, many Germans approved and more looked on, bol­tering, and sometimes preempting, the regime’s cruelties. Well before the physical death of German Jews, the German 'racial community'—the man and woman on the street, the real 'ordinary Germans'—made Jews suffer social death every day. This social death was the prerequisite for deportation and genocide."

Apologies to everyone reading this and having a dawning revelation of horror. It's all very

i’d also like to point out that people have overthrown their oppressors without rape & desecration. rape & desecration are not a requirement for liberation. (it’s also clear that some people don’t imagine that liberation also includes women.)

It fundamentally dehumanizes women to think rape is a legitimate political tool, because women’s bodies are basically seen as land or a resource to be conquered. Nothing more. With that video of the dead, raped woman paraded through the streets, half of the people cheering that on only see her body as a win for their political ideology—they don’t see that body as having belonged to a human being. The other half? Well, I think it’s like you said: they’re just celebrating complete brutality against women, because they like it.

Don't try to give me that "Oh, the reason we care so much about Israel and not other human rights violators is because Israel is a a US (or UK, or European) ally and we send them weapons and tax money!" You know who else is a US ally we send money to for security cooperation? Fucking Pakistan. You got anything to say about them sending thousands of Afghan refugees back over the border to starve under the Taliban? Or their blasphemy laws? No? We don't give aid to the UAE or Saudi Arabia because they sure as shit don't need it, but we do sell them weapons and cooperate with them on intelligence and security. Any thoughts on the Saudi bombing and blockade of Yemen that was creating the world's biggest humanitarian crisis a few years ago? Or the UAE funding and arming the RSF's civil war in Sudan, including their Darfur genocide (the sequel), which has now overtaken it? Not to mention the abuse and enslavement of migrant workers! You want to set up an encampment at your university demanding they divest from the UAE or stop taking money from Qatar? It's all dirty fossil fuel money anyway! Don't you want to harass your political representatives and threaten them with death if they don't promise never to take money from Gulf Arab interests, and always to vote against weapons sales to them?

I am BEGGING people to redirect even a little bit of the heat they aim at Israel to the UAE.