Here’s a direct link to the article, since people in the notes are going “Oh, it’s just a screenshot”
My rabbi: I don’t know which pride flag to use for you.
Me: oh- you don’t need to wo-
My rabbi: So I bought all of them.
YALL ARE LIKE “oh so sweet” BUT LIKE THERES A LEATHER PRIDE FLAG AND HE LIKES THE LOOK OF IT AND IS TALKING ABOUT HOW PRETTY ALL THE FLAGS ARE AND HOW CREATE THE LGBTQA COMMUNITY IS. HE KEEPS ASKING ME WHAT THE FLAGS MEAN AND I DONT KNOW HOW LONG I CAN HOLD OFF BEFORE HE JUST LOOKS IT UP HIMSELF.
I DONT KNOW HOW TO TELL THIS 60 SOMETHING YEAR OLD MAN THAT HIS FAVOURITE FLAG IS BDSM RELATED
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Very good very important addition
Please note that while I’m not a lawyer, I have had to testify in legal cases, and the “I don’t know, I’m not an expert” line is what you’re told to say by the lawyer any time you’re asked questions outside your area of expertise. Was such-and-such safe? I don’t know, I’m not an expert in such-and-such. Did you see anyone who you suspected of being undocumented? Nope, but then I’m not an expert in undocumented immigrants, so I wouldn’t even know what to look for.
This has the great advantage of actually being the truth. How the hell am I supposed to know? I’m not an expert, and it’s not like I’m going around asking people, and if I did I wouldn’t expect a real answer anyway. I know so many people who are legal residents and even citizens but people just assume they’re illegal because they have an accent or look foreign or whatever. Me, I assume everyone’s legal.
Every child I know under the age of 10 is unbelievably chill about gender and tbh I’m jealous
Me, teaching a pagan kids class: “A lot of people think that the deity Loki might be genderfluid, do any of you know what genderfluid means?”
8 year old, rolling his eyes like that’s the stupidest question he’s ever heard: “Everyone knows what genderfluid means”
Little sister: *walks into the kitchen looking incredibly masc*
Me: “Nice outfit, a lot of afab folks have to work really hard to look that masculine.”
Little sister: *takes headphones halfway off and gives me a blank stare* “Why? Is clothing gendered or something?”
Me: “No, but a lot of people will assume things about your gender based on your clothing”
Little sister: *Puting her headphones back on as she walks away* “Oh, cool I guess.”
9 year old that I babysit sometimes: “What’s that flag on your shirt?”
Me: “It’s the nonbinary flag. It means that I’m not a boy or a girl.”
9 year old: “I know what it means, have like 5 nonbinary friends, duh.”
I’m fucking begging the terfs in my notes to read literally anything about children’s gender development.
“It’s because kids aren’t old enough to know that gender is based on sex” Buddy two-year-olds can distinguish people based on secondary sex characteristics, the cis-binary view of gender isn’t hard to grasp. It actually takes children until about age 6-7 for their ideas about gender to be less based on gender stereotypes and more on their individual experience with gender, and for them to recognize and respect gender variant people. So like the fact that y’all’s idea of gender never got past the complexity of a toddlers is not my fault or my problem.
Also, I know very few parents who actually enforce trans and nonbinary acceptance with their children. The majority of kids are still being told by their parents that “boys have penises and girls have vaginas” it’s just that most kids today have enough gender-variant friends, caretakers, and tv role models, to establish individually that that is false and that gender is more complex than that. This isn’t evil trans people brainwashing your children, this is intelligent children developing critical thinking skills and coming to their own conclusions.
some USAmericans really have no idea how fucking hard it is to obtain a visa, how “filling out the papers” can literally take years, how skewed the process is, how it favours white immigrants and disfavours immigrants of colour. if it was so easy, people wouldn’t be trying to enter the country illegally, risking their lives to get their family to a place with better living conditions.
Things I Wish Goyim Would Stop Doing:
- Stealing our culutre, sayings, philosophy, religion, stories, folklore, etc basically stop doing culture appropriation
- Saying terms like Judeo-Christian or Judeo-something
- Casting non-Jewish actors for Jewish roles in plays, shows, musicals, movies, etc
- Deciding that you get to determine what is and is not antisemitism
- Lumping us with white people and our heritage, history, people hood,
culture
, philosophy, and such under the umbrella of white
- Speaking over us
- Ignoring the fact that we too struggle with harmful shit from white societies that we internalized like for example white euro-centric beauty standards
- Ignoring just how much we have to hide and cut off if we want to even a little bit fit in with white society things like plastic surgery, long term harmful hair treatments to make our hair straight, changing our names, just a few examples
- Saying Jews instead of Jewish people
- Claiming we are in any way European or originally come from Europe
- Pretending that what little so called Jewish representation in media/pop culture isn’t heavily whitewashed and grossly antisemitic with almost nothing for Jewish women, disabled Jewish people, queer Jewish people, and Jewish people of color.
- Making fun of our languages and the way we talk/how we talk
- Acting like many of us don’t deal with antisemitism on a daily basis
- Acting like antisemitism is hatred and discrimination on religious level only and ignoring the fact that is more commonly on hatred and discrimination on a racial level.
- Letting antisemitism slide
- Creating stories where “what if the nazi won” bullshit
- Comparing everything and anything under the sun to the Holocaust and Nazis
- Telling us we should take it as a complement when you use stereotypes about us that have been used to kill us ex. Jews are rich bullshit
- Acting like all Jewish people are super duper rich when in reality most of us are really very much not, a very large amount of the Jewish population are actually very poor, and for pretty much our entire history Jewish people becoming super duper rich was like really really fucking rare
- Secret lizard people jokes
- Jewish people control the world secretly, ZOG, and other antisemitic untrue conspiracy theories
- Acting like we have a lot more power then we actual do
- Pretending there are a lot more Jewish people then there actually are we only make up .2% of the world population currently only 14 million Jewish people world wide
- Making “Jews are crazy” jokes when we are really dealing inter-generational trauma some which from trauma that has occurred centuries ago
- Acting like we wanted to be in Diaspora and choose this
- Saying x group “is the new Jews”
- Painting all of us with broad strokes and using the worst examples as to be fully and wholly representative of all Jewish people
- Holding up certain Jewish people to “prove” that antisemitic stereotypes are true
Start answering people’s invasive questions with “does it matter?”
Watch them explode lmao
I F*CKING KNEW IT!!!
That orange assh*ole is always doing something evil to distract from something even more evil!
My mother was literally JUST asking me yesterday what I thought he was doing that he was trying to distract us from. Now we know.
Everyone who is old enough to vote - register to vote and actually vote! We have to get these people out of office before they kill us all.
If you work too many jobs/are in school/are sick or disabled/think for any reason something might keep you from getting to the polls, in most states you can register to vote by mail. This is a great way to make sure nothing happens to keep you from voting. Millenials together with you Gen Z guys that are old enough to vote now outnumber Baby Boomers, but you have to vote!
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