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btw did you guys see how the hannah arendt prize committee tried to revoke masha gessen's prize after gessen, a jewish journalist, wrote an essay about how zionists and zionist-sympathizing gentiles, particularly in germany, wield accusations of antisemitism to shut down anti-zionist jews... an essay in which they specifically quoted hannah arendt several times

related but the amount of (well-meaning, ostensibly anti-zionist?) posts I've seen on here lately about how you should never ever ever invoke or even mention the holocaust in relation to israel's occupation of palestine strikes me as... very bizarre. if not outright counterproductive. because I keep thinking back to gessen's essay (which I realize I never linked) and how one of the core things they point out is that anti-zionist jews are routinely accused of antisemitism by israel and its allies for, as israel puts it, "trivializing" or "de-singularizing" the holocaust if they (meaning anti-zionist jews) compare any form of genocide to the holocaust in any way, let alone make specific comparisons to what's going on in palestine and e.g. the warsaw ghetto. which isn't to say that there aren't many ways it can be antisemitic to invoke the holocaust, only that "it is always inherently antisemitic to even talk about the holocaust and palestine in the same breath" is literally a page out of the zionist playbook.

a major argument gessen (and others) make is that painting the holocaust as a singular event immune to all comparison (1) obscurses the conditions that birthed it (which in turn helps absolve its perpetrators; they mention a holocaust memorial panel that got shut down for "trivializing" because it talked about the german-led genocide in colonial namibia as a precursor to the holocaust, specific how germany used similar violent tactics in both instances) and (2) makes it very difficult to prevent other forms of genocide from happening again. which is one place where gessen cites arendt's thinking on the banality of evil, and how it's a disservice to cast the holocaust as a flash-in-the-pan event carried out by uniquely and otherworldly agents of evil rather than a particular kind of mass violence whose scale and tactics can be repeated by anyone willing to use them. because recognizing those parallels is key to shutting them down

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weiszklee

Gessen's New Yorker article

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust

Their speech after they got the prize in spite of the criticisms

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2023-12/masha-gessen-rede-hannah-arendt-preis-english

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klapollo

i am quite honestly very exhausted with this starbucks feminism that preoccupies itself with the centering of rich white feminine women in the neoliberal capitalist lens and typically no one else.

criticizing buying 100 stanley cups is misogynistic. criticizing taylor swift is misogynistic. margot robbie not getting nominated for an oscar is misogynistic. saying you dont like pink is misogynistic. not wanting to wear makeup is internalized misogyny. not liking romcoms or romance novels is internalized misogyny. thinking self-infantilization on the basis of it being an inherent trait of your gender is bad is internalized misogyny. these are the most pressing manifestations of misogyny. can we spare a thought for any woman not waiting in line at starbucks.

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gerardpilled

sad reality of the fanfic-to-published work economy is that the weirdest people are willing to do it. that's why there's now hundreds of shitty no plot cishet hate-to-love enemies-to-lovers books that are ex reylo fanfic. and it's not even good. that's because the people who wrote book-quality steve/bucky and kirk/spock fic are too normal to think to themselves "i should get this porn published". they're too busy working in local government offices

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monday again. let's get this brea-

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Anonymous asked:

When Trump wins, enacts Project 2025, and ends social security, thousands of disabled and elderly people are going to die. I'm disabled and rely on social security to exist and I'm going to die.

i could be unkind to you right now but i won't

let us assume your panic is warranted and this worst-case scenario is plausible. your survival is not a zero sum game with that of palestinian children. they are not dying so you can keep your social security. do you understand that? this is exactly what i mean by joe biden using the election as a bludgeon to continue his genocide. biden is hoping you will be too worried about your rights under trump to oppose a genocide. this is a false binary and you should reject anything that pits your life against that of other human beings. you have eleven months before the election. you can sit here and fret about your social security, or you can call for a ceasefire to stop the hundreds of disabled and elderly palestinians joe biden is killing as we speak. are you going to use your time trying to protect the vulnerable or are you going to use it to condemn them to certain death?

the mistake is to assume either you survive or palestinians do. in fact if more palestinians die, joe biden's re-election will become less and less likely by design. its just how the world works. your future is linked, just not in the way you think it is. if they survive, you survive. if they die—well, your chances are worse, and your survival will be in a much bleaker world where genocide of unwanted populations is widely accepted. this is the nature of solidarity. it strengthens, it doesn't weaken.

you have a choice. either you can let this election threaten you and scramble to protect yourself alone, or you can use this election to threaten biden to protect yourself and everyone else too.

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I documented multiple cases with @EuroMedHR of Israeli soldiers abducting blonde children from #Gaza claiming they might be abductee Israelis.
As Israeli forces are nearing my area of refuge, I just actually told my brother’s wife to dye her blonde daughter’s hair black! [@/MahaGaza on X.]
response to Maha Hussaini's report: "our families used ash to protect light-skinned children from being stolen by white settlers. In Palestine, they're dying children's hair to stop their children from being stolen. Removing children from an ethnic group to be raised by oppressors is one of the markers of genocide" [@/ 1KarenWyld on X.]
Journalist Maha Hussaini says that she has documented cases of Israeli soldiers kidnapping blonde children from Gaza claiming they might be abductee Israelis. (Illustrative photo) [@/ QudsNews on X. 01/07/24.]

I recently posted about this on my page. Thankfully a mutual of mine sent this to me. I addressed some of my perspectives about this horrifying and ongoing/developing story -which I will update here once I see Maha Hussaini or her fellow journalists sharing their documentations.

I just want to make sure that this is continues to be addressed/spoken about. This is beyond horrifying, and I hope those children are safely brought back to their families and loved ones -free from the IOF -because this is just insidious.

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You know things must be going bad, when Obama has to come save his ass again.

the experienced Yemen bomber has to come in and help the amateur

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