feels good to come back to tumblr after months and proceed to ignore every single anon ask in my inbox like woo i do not need the racism
nor the antisemitism either
and i def do not need that specific intersection of them where people into my inbox to yell about how im not a real jew
feels good to come back to tumblr after months and proceed to ignore every single anon ask in my inbox like woo i do not need the racism
nor the antisemitism either
feels good to come back to tumblr after months and proceed to ignore every single anon ask in my inbox like woo i do not need the racism
it’s been an AGE but quarantines got me back on tumblr
[id: photo of a tall shelving unit packed nearly full with board and card games]
rearranged our games shelves to make space for the inevitable new things we’ll come back from gencon with 🙃
i like oliver. that’s about it.
lmao there’s literally zero reason to assume one way or the other that tessa thompson would care at all about calling her queer, she has literally not called herself bisexual, pansexual, queer, or any other label, but given that she’s explicitly expressed her love and support and “vibrating on the same frequency” as janelle monáe who does explicitly, specifically, call herself a queer black woman it’s pure projection for y'all rando yts on tumblr to decide that it’s some kind of hate crime to call her queer instead of bisexual.
like… also you could call her none of those things because she hasn’t called herself any of those things and there’s zero reason to decide label choices for a real-ass person but if you’re going to stick a label on her that she hasn’t publicly stated for herself y'all are 100% projecting your own hatred pretending that she’d clearly be offended by one extremely common term over the other.
i dont believe the people saying its impossible for them to not use amazon for 2 days
if for some fucking reason you ABSOLUTELY cannot avoid ordering from amazon (which once again, i do not believe you) fucking order from like, Wish
Also maybe it’s INCONVINIENT for you guys not to use amazon… that’s still not an excuse to use amazon anyway. Strikes are supposed to be inconvinient and will always be inconvinient.
me: one can convert to a religion and join a culture but people can’t change their ethnicity, and there are some things that converts who dont have jewish lineage will never experience ans cannot speak on. they dont have generational trauma from the holocaust, they dont have jewish features appearance-wise that theyve been mocked for. i dont know how to explain that you cant change your ethnicity.
converts who have no respect for ethnic jews or the culture theyve converted into:
(edit: this is ok for goyim to rb btw)
uh this argument always sounds uncomfortably like race science to me. are people adopted into jewish families not jewish, and if not, what does that say about your views on family and heritage? are jews of color who don’t have traditionally ashkenazi features exempt from antisemitism? there is no universal jewish experience & your conception of ethnicity shouldn’t be based solely on genetics
first of all idk how u get “traditionally ashkenazi features” from “jewish features” but ok!
i am literally trying so hard to understand what you’re trying to say bc literally all im trying to say is you cant change your ethnicity (or race). a white person can’t just one day decide theyre a different race. i couldnt just wake up one day and decide im ethnically australian. a goy can’t change their ethnicity to jewish. this isnt race science this is just common sense
in that case can you please clarify what you mean when you say “jewish features” because i’m pretty sure there’s no such thing? it’s impossible to reliably identify jewish people via phenotypical traits because we have no universally shared features, and implying that all ethnically jewish people are recognizably jewish in appearance is in fact reminiscent of race science. race and ethnicity are different things (and i sincerely hope that you meant aboriginal australian here bc i don’t know how to explain that nationality is a different thing altogether). i am both white and jewish; i have a larger than average nose and curly brown hair but so do plenty of goyim. jews of color frequently have their judaism and/or ethnicity called into question because of their race.
also the notion of converts being, like, jewish lite makes me uncomfortable as well. there are plenty of ethnically jewish people who were not raised jewish or who weren’t even aware of their jewish lineage until later in life, and it’s hard for me to see how they’ve had a materially different life experience than converts (who due to the nature of conversion tend to be quite devout in their faith—certainly moreso than me as a more or less secular jew). we make conversion very difficult to undertake for a reason.
furthermore, there are plenty of diasporic jews with no generational trauma related to the holocaust. conversely, i am patrilineally jewish and wouldn’t be considered ethnically jewish by an orthodox shul, and yet i am a direct descendent of holocaust survivors. so what exactly is the ineffable universal experience that you consider ethnic jews to possess (since you only listed two things here)? how do you propose we reliably differentiate them? are children of gerim raised in the jewish faith ethnically jewish? do you consider babies adopted into jewish families to be jewish or not?
yeeeeah ive talked about this before but this entire line of Discourse (from op) is so fundamentally hostile to jews of color lmao. also it’s wildly disingenuous to pretend that they have no idea what you’re talking about when the tags of people reblogging this are filled with people talking about how their Curly Hair And Big Noses are defining Jewish Looks like… east asian, south asian, latine, black jews dont exist and look nothing like ashke or sephardi/mizrahi jews but are still just as jewish despite not having “jewish features” lmao
Anonymous asked:
thank you!! <3 it feels especially pressing lately to make sure our community has plenty of people speaking up, i always hope that if people can feel less alone seeing that other jewish people (and especially jews of color) are out here being Unabashedly Jewish it will help them feel more community.
