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Pokémon Professors: Pokémon... So wise... If only they could speak... What wisdom would they impart to us foolish humans...
Rotom Dex: ZZ-ZZ-ZZ HOT DIGGITY PAL BINGO CARD ZZ-ZZ-ZZ
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UK: Labour reinstates Jew-bashing councillor
Labour has lifted the suspension of a councillor who Guido revealed had written a string of anti-Semitic social media posts. Ilyas Aziz was suspended in May after calling for Jews to “relocate” out of the Middle East, comparing Jews to Nazis, sharing multiple anti-Semitic Rothschilds memes and a “drinking blood” blood libel slur. Cllr Aziz now says:
“Can resume my Labour Party activities now that my suspension lifted. Thanks to all who stood by me in difficult times.”
This wasn’t a one-off retweet, Aziz is a serial offender and the sort of person Corbyn’s Labour evidently want in their party. Expect more anti-Semites to be welcomed back in…
UPDATE: Stephen Silverman from the Campaign Against Antisemitism told Guido:
“Away from the glare of public scrutiny, Labour has quietly lifted the suspension of yet another virulent antisemite. Once again, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the openly-expressed hatred of the Jewish people merits no more than a slap on the wrist in a party that refuses to allow any transparency around its internal disciplinary processes. Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party is not fit for Jews or those opposed to racism.”
see more The New Antisemite: http://ift.tt/2j8LN5N
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alt righters doing shit like “armed march” on jews brazenly in 2017 and yall are still doubting that jewish americans need protection
This is exactly the nature of antisemitism: it’s cyclical. After the last pogrom or the last mass expulsion of Jews, eventually, memories fade, some Jews start to re-assimilate (how lucky for us to be assimilated, to the extent that we even can be!) and Jewish oppression appears to be “over.” A small minority of Jews are able to move up the ranks socially and economically (often to be used as front-facing middlemen by the ruling class), and then when popular discontent reaches a critical point and the ruling class needs a scapegoat, we are massacred. Rinse and repeat.
A great zine that explains these issues, and calls for integrating awareness of antisemitism and mechanisms to combat antisemitism into leftist organizations, is the past didn’t go anywhere.
It’s very accessible, a wonderful primer. Some representative excerpts:
Antisemitism’s job is to make ruling classes invisible. It protects ruling class power structures, diverting anger at injustice toward Jews instead. But it doesn’t have to be planned out at the top. It serves the same ends, whether enshrined in law or institutionalized only in our minds; whether it’s state policy, popular ‘common sense,’ or acts of grassroots movements like our own.
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Anti-Jewish oppression has been around a long time - it became government practice in Christian society about 1,700 years ago and only stopped having official Vatican approval in 1965. But when anti-Jewish oppression isn’t at its most brutal, it can be really hard to see. How come this oppression can seem so invisible?
Partly it’s that it allows Jews success. Many oppressions rely on keeping a targeted group of people poor, uneducated, designated non-white, or otherwise ‘at the bottom.’ Anti-Jewish oppression doesn’t depend on that. Although at many times it has kept Jews in poverty or designated non-white, these have been “optional” features. Because the point of anti-Jewish oppression is to keep a Jewish face in front, so that Jews, instead of ruling classes, become the target for peoples’ rage, it works even more smoothly when Jews are allowed some success, and can be perceived as the ones “in charge” by other oppressed groups.
Partly it’s that it moves in cycles. Because it can allow Jews to ‘move up,’ antisemitism is cyclical: Attacks come in waves; but each time things calm down and Jews are able to blend in or succeed in society again, it gives the appearance that antisemitism is ‘over.’ In some of the most famous examples of anti-Jewish expulsion and mass murder (ie, medieval Spain or modern Germany), just prior to the attacks, Jews appeared to be one of society’s most successful, comfortable, well-integrated minorities.
Some other excerpts I’m shamelessly grabbing from this post (where I first learned of this zine from):
And frankly, most leftists don’t even want to have this conversation. I bring up antisemitism with your average leftist, and y’all immediately get your backs up, and start derailing to talk about Israel/Zionism/AIPAC, or to talk about that famous/celebrity Jew you’ve seen on TV, or the derivation of the word “antisemitism,” or you just come right out and say “Jews aren’t oppressed anymore, just like how Irish people in the US used to not count as white people but now they do UwU.”
If you laughed at Jews did WTC at any time within the last 16 years (hey, me too) please, please reblog this post or reblog this post sharing the same information.
And thank you to everyone who shared my angrypost about getting banned from that antisemitic communist discord, which was very heartwarming, sorry to harp on this again but this is way more important information, heh.
April Rosenblum’s pamphlet is really excellent, though I have some nits to pick with it. I have an issue with her saying that “maintstream Jews cry antisemitism” which itself is an antisemitic canard, as if Jews of all sorts don’t experience this oppression, and instead cynically try to “play a card.” She should know better than that. I also take issue with how she divided some sentiments in the Israel-Palestine columns, since some in the middle column are not “oopsies” but actually antisemitic (ex, all Nazis comparisons.) It also is of limited use outside the USA, where the spectrum of Jews who are considered white - and therefore, treated as such - is different. It still remains one of the most excellent zines on the subject. I wish people took it more seriously. Alas, I don’t think anyone but us reads it, or cares about its contents.
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This show does not screw around, and I love it.
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that’s one way to start the year
@callmemonstrous what did u do
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I’m just saying
so here’s our favorite adoptive space dad Bail Organa in Revenge of the Sith:
and here he is in Rogue One:
meanwhile, here’s Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith:
and here he is after the exact same amount of time:
I’d like some of whatever Bail is having on Alderaan and exactly zero of what Obi-Wan is having on Tatooine
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its cos he white
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shout out to all the people who aren’t for whatever reason going out with friends to celebrate the new year, to those who are staying in, to those who won’t be seeing fireworks. i hope you have a lovely new year’s eve anyway.
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The feud between Stuart Semple and Anish Kapoor > every piece of art by Banksy
During lots of fighting scenes (in Rogue One : A Star Wars Story), did you have some cuts and bruises or did it just all went fine?
A little context:
Also:
There’s one reported occasion that confirms him being an efficient martial artist. According to news reports by Hong Kong news channels in the late 1990s, Yen was at a nightclub with his then girlfriend, Joey Meng. Inside the nightclub, Joey got harassed by a troublesome gang who had taken an interest in her. Yen warned them to leave her alone but to no avail. As Yen and Joey left the club, the gang followed and attacked Yen. According to the news, Yen beat up eight members of the gang who were hospitalized. This incident is still known in Hong Kong to this day – with people bringing it up in discussions concerning real fights as well as when comparing the practical fighting skills of various Hong Kong martial arts actors.
Damn!!! I knew this was a dumb question but i didn’t know he was that good.
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Mike’s Tweet was the only thing that made me smile yesterday.
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“Every cool celebrity you loved dies and the Nazis are trying to take over again!”- 2016, basically.
A VERY BRAVE NOG STAND UP TO A SCARY LIZARD MAN