Yiddishe Lebn; Wissenschaft des Judentums; Queens and sometimes queens; Zionismus des Geistes; Folk Music--even some shoutouts to my brothers and sisters and non-binary kin of all Jewish ethnicities, but usually this is Ashkie and Germanophone-centric.
"Dear reader, while you are allowing the German to be skinned alive I bow my head in admiration and amazement before this Semitic people, which has us under heel. Resigned to subjugation to Jewry, I am marshaling my last remaining strength in order to die peacefully, as one who will not surrender and who will not ask forgiveness."
Wilhelm Marr, The Victory of Judaism over Germandom (1879).
"The Jew —who, as everyone knows, has a God all to himself—in ordinary life strikes us primarily by his outward appearance, which, no matter to what European nationality we belong, has something disagreeably foreign to that nationality; instinctively we wish to have nothing in common with a man who looks like that; a man whose appearance we must hold unfitted for artistic treatment—not merely in this or that personality, but according to his kind in general—neither can we hold him capable of any sort of artistic utterance of purely human essence…"
Richard Wagner, “Jewry in Music” (1850)
"To be sure, there might be now and then a Jew who seems less wicked than the others…If there are also instances, where white parents give birth to black children, so can one Jew be born accidentally of an Israelite, lacking the the Jewish facial characteristics, odor and haggler’s disposition."
Hartwig Von Hundt-Radowsky, “The Jewish Mirror” (1821)
Why do fascists think we want to “debate” them (as if that were even possible) rather than break their faces?
the lengths people go to in order to defend cultural appropriation reveal what we knew all along: they were racists to begin with.
someone seriously asked me if i thought i was better than them for decrying cultural appropriation (full disclosure: my culture was the one being appropriated). the answer was yes, because i am actually trying not to be a racist.
More non-Jews probably have Jewish things tattooed on them than actual Jews. If you’re a goy and don’t think this is a problem, then you are the problem, you anti-Semite. Cultural appropriation is theft.
Does simultaneous hatred and fascination accurately describe how people deal with the Other? I think this is especially pronounced regarding Jews. It’s okay for non-Jews to obsess over Jewish history (though not our history in Israel/Palestine, of course) and our religion and culture, but they never really like current incarnations of our religion or our politics. This seems roughly parallel to the idea of “token” minorities, how it’s okay to like individual Jews or black people or whatever, but not groups of them; liking Jewish history allows the goy to defer liking actual living Jews, or deflect claims of anti-Semitism.
has anyone analyzed how the ueber-masculinity of sports has probably contributed to the football racism in e.europe?
whatever. fuck sports.
i refuse to watch or post links to that disgusting performance art piece. the only thing i want to contribute, besides agreement that europe and scandinavia have nearly always been racist and essentially invented racism and notions of race, is that, to my knowledge, most forms of censorship have been concerned with protecting political power, rather than seeking to end racist or sexist depictions in media.
i don’t know of any historical precedence, until germany’s attempts to atone for the holocaust (austria still refuses to admit to its role), for this form of “censorship” — which should really be called “not being shitty human beings.” the fact that anyone, of any political stripe, would compare fascist control with a genuine mission to end oppression via more socially conscious and respectful art is beyond me.
tl;dr — i wouldn’t call it censorship if you care about upsetting systems of power/oppression; i’d call it progress.
"Oh you didn’t know? The burden of making things right and moving on is laid at the feet of the victim, not the perpetrator. We are the bad guys for pointing out that they did something awful and that asking them to even acknowledge, or least refrain from having huge parties in the streets and bank holidays for repugnant acts. We’re raining on their parade by asking that they not revel in their evil. It is OUR job, never theirs. We should be grateful for anything they give us and we’re whiners because we don’t accept it with a smile. The oppressor and the aggressor doesn’t have to do anything, it’s our job. It’s like they shit on our heads and we’re supposed to say, “Thanks for the hat.” Don’t bother engaging these ignorant people. They sleep well at night because they don’t have to cope with the knowledge that their sweet grandmother was in a concentration camp and lost her whole family in the ovens or gas chamber. Or that your grandmother was called nigger so much that when she was three, she thought that was her name. You see, it’s our job to apologize and exculpate the murderers, the criminals, and the scum of the earth who did these things. Basically, this heaping outrage upon outrage. Don’t bother. In their heads, it’s the Jews who are at fault for winding up in the gas chambers and blacks are at fault because they didn’t move fast enough to escape the whip for being too slow to pick up cotton. Let these moral cretins (all due respect to children with iodine deficiencies) roll around in their cesspool of immorality. Don’t dignify this abject stupidity and appalling notion that we should apologizing them for declining to move on from horrific acts just because they no longer care, assuming they ever did."
Amidst a talk over whether or not Germany should have a Veterans’ Day celebration.
