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Digital home of a slightly opinioned and burned-out teacher and writer.

New policy: No more arguing with Christianists, especially the ones who think that missionizing is a good thing. Autoblock on sight.

EDIT: Addendum: Antisemitic atheists too.

Less a DNI, and more just an exasperated sigh at this point, yes, I vet new followers for my own safety and I will automatically block missionaries, Christian apologists, antisemitic atheists, antizionists, Nazis (WTAF are you following me in the first place?), and TERFs.

I wonder why your we ❤️ terrorism rally drew a police presence?

‘Every tool in their arsenal’ is so very on-brand. Because…aside from any question at all whether it’s acceptable for police to do this to a ‘protest’ advocating for a terrorist organization, it’s definitely not ‘every tool in their arsenal’. The pigs all have a particular tool right on their belt that didn’t get used, for starters.

Doesn’t make it right, doesn’t make it wrong for that matter…but these ‘allies’ thirst so desperately for martyrdom status without martyrdom actions.

On native-land.ca the only “indigenous territory” in the Middle East is “Palestine”

Unlike every other indigenous territory they show “Palestine” has the exact same “traditional borders” as the current state of Israel- including the Golan Heights which was not actually part of the British mandate for Palestine (I made a mistake- that’s no the Golan my point still stands though the historic borders of ancient Palestine thus is not (like why don’t they include any of Jordan in the supposed Palestine when Jordan was part of the mandate for Palestine))

Also note how supposedly there are no other indigenous people in the region. No Kurdistan, no Assyria, no Druze region.

This indigenous advocacy group is working to further the aims of a colonial empire.

Colonialism is ok when arabs do it

It gets worse if you look at the source page for Palestine, unfortunately.

Also zooming out, how on earth are caucasus blank. Like no one cares about Armenians? Armenians aren't an ancient ethnic group with ancient connection to their land? Armenians aren't an ancient ethnic group--indigenous to the caucacus--that were colonized by Russia and genocided by the Ottomans? Really? This map is bullshit.

And jews are indigenous to Judea; the Romans renamed it Palestine. When. they. colonized. Us.

Also Siberia and Central Asia (looking at it again all of Asia where is Tibet) feel strangely empty to me?

And what about Crimea? Crimean Tatars are an indigenous people.

Or you know Tatarstan?

What's funny is that for The Hausa of Nigeria they cite the Joshua Project which is an evangelical site focused on conversion of all non evangelic christian people

For reference here is what they say about the Hausa

Idk about you guys but really???

Yeah, even ignoring the massive red flag that is the anachronistic palestinian claim... You can poke holes big enough to sink an aircraft carrier on their claims, and their coverage is more spotty than service in a horror movie.

Where the hell are the Circassians, for example?

Almost every reblog with a comment I’ve gotten on this post has been some variation of “aside from the “Palestine problem” they’ve left out [insert Eurasia indigenous group]”

There is a serious issue with the quality of information provided by this supposed valuable decolonial resource.

If you are upset about this and want to make your feelings known on this matter as an indigenous person, ally or researcher you should send an email with your complaint and provide potential resources to

research@native-land.ca

I don't care what you believe, "Zionazi" is antisemitic. To compare Jews period to Nazis, as well as people who believe Jews should have their native homeland to Nazis, whose very ideology was based on slaughtering and ridding the world of Jews, is antisemitic.

exactly. it’s also a straight up antisemitic slur popularized by david duke and the kkk.

And if an account uses “Zionazi”, “Zio”, and “Nazi” to exclusively refer to Jews regardless of them being Zionists or not then you should run the other way. Especially if that account pretends to be Jewish (and has a history of faking being a Jew). They’re trying to get you to equate Nazism to Jews, which is something that antisemites have tried to do for decades post WWII. They want Jews to be labeled as Nazis so that they can Uno Reverse the Holocaust victims. They want to turn Jews into the "Bad Guys" that universalization has done to Nazis so bad.

And here's the thing.

A whole lot of people yearn for this because they want to put words to their feeling that Jews are sus. That Jews have too much money. Political power. "Influence."

Not ALL Jews, probably. Just the bad ones. There's just a cabal of bad ones doing bad stuff.

Or maybe they've seen too many Jews they feel like are "bad ones." They've had to ask themselves too many times whether this one will turn out to be A Zionist. They finally noticed that they feel weird about all Jews by default.

But they're not willing to recognize that as very blatant bias, the absolute definition of bigotry. That's major cognitive dissonance and takes a ton of humility and backtracking. It's so much easier to proceed from what they already "know."

Which is that Jews have become the new Nazis.

And Nazis are a global problem that needs to be wiped out.

The endgame of Holocaust inversion is Holocaust planning.

It's also important to note that the whole "Jews = Zionists = Nazi" and "Zionism = Nazism" line of reasoning is straight out of Hamas's 1988 charter.

I've linked the charter below, but here are some choice quotes: "Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts." "In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised." "In their Nazi treatment, the Jews made no exception for women or children." "Arab and Islamic Peoples should augment by further steps on their part; Islamic groupings all over the Arab world should also do the same, since all of these are the best-equipped for the future role in the fight with the warmongering Jews."

"There is no way out except by concentrating all powers and energies to face this Nazi, vicious Tatar invasion."

Hamas has, since the beginning, equivocated Zionists with Jews and used both terms interchangeably. Because both terms are the same in their rhetoric, when they refer to one or the other as a Nazi they mean the same thing. Simply changing their charter to only say Zionist in 2017 does change the fact that the whole foundation of their movement, its rhetoric, and beliefs is "Jews = Nazis".

Now, couple this with the fact that many of these antisemitic blogs, but especially stoptheantisemitism, have started calling all Jews they don't agree with Nazis.

Originally they just called Zionists genocidal settlers and colonists. They then moved on to using slurs from the likes of the KKK and Neo-Nazi communities (e.g. "Zio", which escalated to "Zionazi"). All of this was to see where the line was with their followers and if they'd reblog very clear antisemitic hate towards Jews. But notice that over the past few months, and especially now, they call any Jew they label a Zionist a Nazi.

This is straight out of Hamas's playbook, it's out of the KKK's playbook, and it's out of the Neo-Nazi playbook. You get your audience comfortable with villainizing Jews by labeling them something else and calling that label "evil". In this case it's "Zionist" and "Zionism". You then give some excuse of "Not all Jews are evil Zionists, just these ones" but never talk about non-Jewish Zionists and, of course, label anti-Zionist Jews as evil Zionists when they disagree with you.

This is even more insidious when the person pushing this is pretending to be a Jew themselves because that lends a level of "authority" on the manner.

So now you have an "authority" who is getting their audience to hate the very thing they're pretending to be by saying their act is the only good one and labeling all others as bad.

You slowly build their trust up and over time you get them to accept more radical and extreme rhetoric. This is why no matter what we say about them pretending to be one of us their audience won't accept it. They've spent the past year building up this whole story that anyone calling them out is "evil" and lying and that they're the "good one". This eventually has their audience agreeing with outright antisemitic conspiracy and statements such as "Jews = Nazis".

This is especially bad when the "authority" and their friends say that they're fighting antisemitism but their math on that is:

Zionism = Antisemitism = Nazism Zionist = "Bad" Jew = Nazi

As such, you've never seen these accounts actually fight antisemitism outside of this formula above. That's why they don't talk about synagogues being firebombed, Jews being attacked on the street, and so on. Because the rhetoric they're trying to push is that Jews are Nazis, and Nazis deserve to be harmed. They're taking the universalization of the Holocaust and Nazis and doing a "soft denial" by inverting it and applying the label of the perpetrators of the Shoah on to their victims.

It's Holocaust Inversion and it's something that antisemites have been doing for decades.

This entire tactic is the same thing as the Nazi Bar story that goes around every once in a while. The Pro-Palestine movement needed to recognize and kick people out just like the bartender did with the Nazi that pretended to be nice and polite so that he could ingratiate himself and make the bar a Nazi bar, but instead they talked the talk and here we are over 500 days later with someone going "Jews = Nazis" and people are going along with it.

It's exactly what I saw a decade ago with the pseudoscience movement and the Avocado Wolfe effect (using benign memes and health advice that slowly escalated into outright pseudoscience and anti-vaxx rhetoric).

People need to recognize this pattern and understand that they have been bamboozled by an antisemite and someone who hates Jews. That's why they've gone after me and others. And it's okay to admit you were tricked and/or wrong about something. We've all been there. But please, listen to us and recognize the signs.

Holy smokes, Batman.

How the fuck do you get the governments of the PRC, ROK, and Japan to agree on ANYTHING. Fuckin amazing he united East Asia in their hatred of his stupid fucking trade wars.

Well, turns out no one who actually knows economics wants trade wars!

Especially since trade wars can turn into live fire wars real fast.

this is exactly what i mean. so many fake and insincere converts are out here purposely to be bad actors and spread misinformation and abject hatred.

if you eat pork and celebrate christmas sincerely in your own home, like this idiot, you are not a jew. you did not have a sincere conversion.

if you go celebrate with family to spend time with them? i mean traditionally eh but it depends on the situation. if you get a christmas tree though?? WHAT

the pew research poll argument is bs btw. conservative/masorti jews keep kosher. many reform and secular jews dont eat pork and shellfish, some dont mix dairy and meat. others are vegetarian to easily keep kosher like SEVERAL reform rabbis i have known. however when you convert, you are agreeing to take on the mitzvot. idgaf what movement you’re in, eating pork? really? no.

that could be taken as a purposeful bait btw, especially when paired with the caption.

this type of shit makes our real, sincere converts look bad and i am so tired of it.

I grew up a goy whose family had four main food groups: beef, pork, microwaved veggies with Velveeta, and potatoes.

I LITERALLY GAVE UP HALF THE FOODS I KNEW HOW TO COOK WHEN I CONVERTED NINE YEARS AGO.

And with only two exceptions of two bites each, I haven't deliberately* eaten pork since.

I'm reform.

FUCK that "less than 1/5." Pull the other one.

* read your ingredients panels, y'all, you'd be fucking amazed what pork will turn up in.

Yeah let’s call a Jewish woman a fascist for knowing the reason Israel is eligible for Eurovision.

Literally the only other times I’ve talked about Israel are a) asking about Israeli children’s safety and b) discussing a HOLOCAUST education trip I’m going on.

For reference this is the only interaction I’ve had on this subreddit.

The person I’m responding to is basically saying Jews control the EBU

But I’m the fascist here

To be fair, it's really hard for the mods and posters to make coherent points when they're THAT high on their own farts

If your goals basically amount to "after The Revolution everything will be great because people will all have the Good Ethics and work together in my Perfect System and the Evil People with Bad Morals and Bad Behaviour who are making this world bad will be gone (killed/imprisoned/exiled/all converted to agree with us when they see our Perfect System)" then that's just fascism. I hate to say it but you've put a gay socialist hat on fascism.

The MAGA people are still gonna be around in your Perfect System and a very large proportion of them are still gonna be Like That. We can discourage antisocial behaviour through laws and education and changing cultural norms, but if plans for future society involve [group I'm opposed to] magically not being part of it so the Good People can Do Things Right, well.

✨No Bad Guys Here✨ - how do you want to enforce that.

Honestly, I think this concept of The Revolution is to some leftists what Armageddon is to some Christians: an easy excuse to not try and grapple with difficult problems like hunger or poverty or injustice or climate, because any day now the Great Reckoning will come and wipe the slate clean.

Montana Tucker and Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib showing supreme compassion and patience, including to a guy who calls her a Nazi to her face, then calls Ahmed a “collaborator,” and accuses him of being paid and invokes “30 pieces of silver,” all of which is unashamedly antisemitic and racist.

(I’m sorry for not uploading the video directly, I tried three times and tumblr kept saying it couldn’t process the post? but please give them a listen if you can!)

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