If they change the laws of antisemtism I have a feeling I won't survive here.

I see those flags fly on cars, even on their hoods, peoples homes, and I already have had issues a few times of being followed to my car, and while in my car.

When being followed in a car by the way don't go home, just keep driving around aimlessly. Stay away from your neighborhood if you can.

If you are being followed by people in your car from a store, run into the store. Be safe. I am mad at the world so it's a do as I say not as I do right now about that.

If you don't notice you're being followed until you are on the road, pull into the first open business you see. Racist hatecrime types can and will box your car in with their buddies and run you off the road.

If you have phone access (eg you are a passenger), call your emergency services line. They will stay on the line with you and can guide you to an open business or safe place if you're in an unfamiliar area.

If you're white or pass for it, asking them to send the cops is a good idea in this very rare circumstance (usually cops make things worse, but car chases are an exception as they often have air support). If you're not white and don't pass, I suggest asking the emergency services to help you get EMTs or Firefighters instead.

Fire departments are common and staffed overnight in most places in North America, even rural ones.

If you call emergency services: Stay. On. The. Line. Even if you can't talk, leave the phone on and the call running so that the operator and anyone they are sending can keep track of ongoing events.

Absolutely DO NOT GO HOME.

the word zionism should have never left jewish spaces. people took what was already a highly discussed and debated upon topic among jews and turned it into a glorified slur to call us. it is not a word you should be using willy nilly because you're parroting whatever other leftists tell you, it should not leave your mouth if you haven't learned about it's history and complexities from jews who are knowledgeable on the subject. if you're a goy and you tell me you're an anti-zionist, a zionist, or anywhere on that spectrum, chances are no you fucking ain't.

how often do you think about the ashkenazi genetic founder event because i think about it a lot

this is only about 50% understandable to me (i last studied biology at the 12th grade level during covid so if someone wants to help explain the more sciency parts i would much appreciate) but there is much to ponder much to consider

Hi! I majored in bio with a focus on genetics, so I might be of help here! Sorry for the wall of text - this study gets REALLY complicated.

This study details the close genetic link between modern ashkenazi jews and 33 ashkenazi jewish individuals from a 14th century cemetery (this may seem like a small number, but it's actually a large sample when you're working with skeletal remains. The older the remains, the smaller your sample size is likely to be). This link is primarily in the similarity of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages and the prevalence of homozygosity for specific pathogenic traits between both modern and past groups of ashkenazim. This is important, as mtDNA is only passed through what we refer to as the maternal lineage, meaning that it is only passed on by a female parent. mtDNA essentially gives us a direct link to ancient populations - as only one set of mtDNA is passed from parent to child, recombination and mutation events are rare, leaving the DNA more or less unchanged. This is used to trace population origin and migration via what we call a haplogroup, or mtDNA common in groups that descend from specific locations. The other key genetic evidence used here is runs of homozygosity, or genes for which an individual has 2 copies of the same allele, one from each parent. This most often happens when parents are either from the same ethnic background or when they are related. We know both of these things to be historically true of ashkenazi populations for a variety of environmental and social factors - this is the founder effect the study refers to, which is the term used to describe populations descended from a handful of individuals, usually after natural disaster separating groups or an extreme reduction in population size due to war, disease, etc. The study discusses pathogenic traits, in this case autosomal recessive congenital conditions. These traits generally only appear when a person inherits two of the same allele, aka is homozygous for the trait. Ultimately, they are comparing geographic place of genetic origin and prevalence of common recessive traits between ashkenazi populations living ~600 years apart. If they are unrelated, you would expect there to be a significant difference in haplogroups and in the prevalence of runs of homozygosity. If they are related, you would expect the opposite, which is what they found.

Some specific results of interest:

In short, modern ashkenazim are the descendants of a small handful of pogrom survivors who came together from little pockets of ashkenazim living throughout europe after expulsion from the levant. There is a lot more involved in the research than the handful of points I broke down, so please let me know if you want anything else discussed!

OMG thank you so so very much for unpacking this! This is so well explained, and you highlighted a lot of interesting points. Thank you thank you thank you

I have never disbelieved claims of anti semitism in leftist spaces but I never really saw it. Kinda just assumed I had picked decent people to associate with.

Anyway sucks to find out that I was wrong about that.

i am begging tumblr to humanize jews in the same way yall will humanize palestinians; reblogging palestinian poetry, reblogging palestinian art, reblogging palestinian photos. but jews? when's the last time you read jewish poetry? admired jewish art? acknowledged the diversity of jewish dress and culture?

when's the last time you looked at an israeli as a person? not as a symbolic monster, not as a creature of genocidal intent, but as a fucking human being with a wealth of experiences?

I think one of the worst things a story can be is unproblematic.

Nothing makes a story more unreadable than being able to see the author squirm apologetically for the story they actually want to write—wringing their hands and imploring the reader please, please don’t be mad, I know it’s ideologically questionable but I need you to not be mad at me!

For example: a Good King™️. It’s one thing for a story to present a fictional monarchy and ask me to root for it. It’s another thing for a story to say, hey, I know what you’re thinking—but don’t worry! I can justify this premise! I have introduced a lot of convoluted self-aware political justifications for why my king is good and likable without actually asking any risky ideological questions! These characters aren’t actually problematic! Don’t be mad at me!

Commit to the bit. Apologetic, defensive writing designed to bypass obvious criticisms often winds up offending me far more than stories that are just kind of surface-level problematic. If I’m gonna be a hater you cannot stop me; the more you insist that a character is actually a good oil tycoon because of all these exceptional situations and beyond my reproach, the more I resent you and hate your stupid book.

the sad/funny/fucked up irony is that the more an author seems desperate to create unproblematic worldbuilding and unobjectionable characters who have all the right attitudes, the more likely it is that they’ve inadvertently created some hideous implications far worse than simply writing about characters who aren’t right about everything

like great! now you’ve just reinvented ecofascism or made racism true or made proxy medieval Europe less xenophobic by, uh, removing the Jews

additional info about "I Got It from Agnes:" It's NOT just about passing around an STI within a friend group!!

The song mentions how one of them got it from her father and heavily implies it to have been initiated by the daughter, who is spoiled by him and gives her everything she wants: "She got it from her daddy, who just gives her everything."

There is also a heavy implication (it happens, it's just. not outright stated within the text) that at least one of them got sexually assaulted by the group's dentist while under general anesthesia for dental work: "Our dentist even got it and we're still...wondering how."

And of course there's a line in there about beastiality.

So this definitely earns a place in the problematic playlist on those merits alone!!

I also would warn that while it does include bisexuality and queer sex, which is great for something so old, I'm...pretty sure that, lyrically speaking, the queerness is intended as introductory "wait something is wrong here" as the song gets more and more – how shall we say – problematic.

As for Werner von Braun, it – along with many other of Lehrer's pieces, including the aforementioned We Will All Go Together When We Go, as well as So Long, Mom (I'm Off to World War III) – is intended to be scathing, satirical political commentary. Werner von Braun, as Anon mentions, actually discusses an actual Nazi, Werner von Braun, who helped spearhead rocketry in Nazi Germany...and whom the US accepted as "reformed' and allowed to immigrate to assist in American rocket and space program development. I have to emphasize here that Tom Lehrer is Jewish and that the song is fundamentally about how a Jewish man does not think we should trust Nazis and thinks it disgusting and existentially dangerous that the United States was allowing a Nazi access to high-level state secrets during the Cold War. So I don't think it really belongs on this playlist in particular unless we're purposefully including works that antis would be up in arms against just because it talks about certain subjects while daring to be sarcastic about it, which...honestly, yeah, I consider that a valid reason to include it if we're going that route. But if so, it's not problematic because it aims to rehabilitate a Nazi, because that is expressly not what it is trying to do.

We Will All Go Together When We Go additionally includes terms that were at the time broadly considered acceptable for Inuit and Khoekhoen peoples but are now racial slurs or at least racially offensive, so I would warn for that.

The Old Dope Peddler, on the other hand, while satire, constitutes a different class, as its satire comes from its making fun of even older, sentimental songs about dying occupations, romanticising the times through those specific jobs.

I'll end my rambling by suggesting a Lehrer song of my own: I Wanna Go Back to Dixie straddles the two aforementioned categories by parodying songs' romanticizing the antebellum American South and just. really emphasizing the underlying racism both within those songs and within a culture which unironically produces and listens to these songs!

Goyische leftists will use Stalin's face as a symbol of anti-homophobia, anti-racism, anti-transphobia, etc, without so much of an ounce of critical thinking. Literally I've seen a white leftist with a tattoo of Stalin's face on one thigh and a tattoo of Mao's on the other. Like????? The level of cognitive dissonance never ceases to astound me. So many Western leftist ideology boils down to "The enemy of the USA and NATO is my friend" which is.....such a dangerous ideology.

Yknow I really do not like ppl trying to use the murder of a young trans girl that very much occurred in the context of long term transphobia and persistent failure to protect abused children in the UK to legitimise the very recent and largely performative push back against what is largely an anti semitic game with very little in the way of transphobia which has not had a significant enough impact to play a part in the murder.

Youre all tacky

psa b/c of all those posts about Taika Waititi being the first person ‘of Māori descent’ to win an Oscar: there’s…not really any such thing in te ao Māori. If you are ‘of Māori descent’, i.e. if you have Māori whakapapa, you’re Māori. Some people to whom this applies might not identify as Māori, but that’s definitely not the case for Taika Waititi. 

Describing him as ‘of Māori descent’ rhetorically removes him from the current existence of Māori as a people and his activity as a Māori storyteller, and it just…sounds weird. In general the phrasing “of [X] descent” is used in Western media to both separate Indigenous people and other POC from their cultures and existence in the present and to tie [usually white] people to cultures they aren’t an active part of, and you should always ask why it’s being used. 

This is really good to know! I don't keep up with much pop culture news, so I wasn't aware that they were saying that. They do the same with his being Jewish, too, despite his being actively, proudly, and vocally a Māori Jew.

I do want to expand a little on your last point, which I think is a really important thing to note: I wouldn't be surprised if a part of it were to relegate our cultures to the past, as dead and lost things, rather than living, growing things. We're still alive: we're not people tangentially related to an extinct culture who bring nothing more than a few fractured, exotic things for them to play with. They can't honestly claim us. Saying "of [X] descent" rather than "is [X]" isn't exactly a genocidal tactic, but it sure does feel like a way of insisting their genocides worked.

LGBT people who don't give a fuck about "iconic" gay media on the basis that it's racist, transphobic, antisemetic, or ableist aren't ignoring their history; history ignored them, and prioritizing their safety and listening to their stories going forward is always gonna be a more valuable use of your time than defending some dead dudes.

Keep in mind that the consequences of asbestos use are almost exclusively shouldered by the institutionally marginalized. Asbestos insulation that is safely tucked away inside the wall, for example, does not pose a significant threat to the people who live or work inside that building. It is the plumbers, carpenters, electricians, and other workers who need to open up walls who will be exposed to the carcinogen.

The EPA is permitting the use of known lethal building materials because the use of these materials only threaten the lives of people the ruling class already considers disposable.

From the article:

According to Fast Company, the EPA’s recently released report detailing its new framework for evaluating the risk of its top prioritized substances states that the agency will “no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments.”

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Good news, everyone! Apparently once it’s in the air, the ground, or the water, a toxins aren’t important or dangerous enough to consider being monitored or regulated! Time to guzzle down some all-natural lead smoothies and build oil pipelines through indigenous land and anyone who complains is obviously a (((globalist)))! Standing Rock doesn’t have to worry about the pipeline ruining their water and all the citizens of Flint, Michigan are magically healthy!!

solidarity always 💙

is there a non antisemitic fandom anywhere or 

the torah fandom?

do you…do you mean judaism

Is there fanfiction? 

Midrash?

babe it’s the talmud obvs don’t you see all them headcannons?

Reblog if you’re Jewish, bitter, or just really hate Poland