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hi, i'm sorry if this has been asked but in your powerpoint you said that the tumblr sj community is guilty of antisemitism. what kind of things has it done? also, i love your blog!
debigotizer said

I’ll take this one since I’m the blog’s resident Jew.  Oy vey, where do I start…

  • SJ community loves to police Jewish identity and silence actual Jews when they talk about their own identities.  This usually happens in context of either “Are Jews White?” or “Jewishness is just a religion” conversations.  In reality, Jews are an ethnoreligious group that ethnically originated in the middle east, and while some ethnic Jews have light skin, it’s actually due to centuries of forced assimilation in European and Slavic countries through rape, which is a big reason why Jewishness is matrilineal.  Furthermore, there exist Jews who do not look white at all.  There are black, brown, and asian Jews who are all ethnically Jewish, and these conversations erase them.
  • “Jewish privilege”.  Fact: It’s not a thing.  It’s actually a very common anti-semitic trope that says that Jews run everything so they are not oppressed.  Jews are oppressed, and face anti-semitic violence.
  • “Anti-semitism is not just about Jews, there are other semitic people.” While yea, there are other semitic people, the term “anti-semitism” was created by Germans in the 19th century to refer specifically to the hatred of Jews because it sounded more scientific.
  • Blaming anti-semitic violence in Europe on the actions of Israel.  I see this literally every single day on this site, and it’s very upsetting.  Jews that live in the diaspora are not responsible for Israel’s actions, and especially should not be suffering at the hands of white people in Europe under the guise of anti-zionism.  
  • Finally, and this is a big pet peeve of mine.  The only people I ever see reblogging posts about anti-semitism are other Jews.  Even a lot of my non-Jewish followers will reblog posts about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. but ignore posts about anti-semitism, and that as a Jew makes me feel unsafe. 

That’s enough for now.  If you’re interested in learning more about Jewish identity and anti-semitism, you are welcome to check out my personal blog: yochevedke.  I discuss that stuff a lot.  

-Yeva

a little gintama headcanon
couchpotatoh

After Otose meets Gintoki in the graveyard and brings him back home, he develops a habit of sitting at the snack bar right before opening time. Because he doesn’t know what to do with himself, because he’s lonely, because he thinks Otose is lonely—who knows? But every twilight he comes down from his apartment and sits at the bar and watches Otose open the shop. It usually takes an hour or so before customers stream in—they spend the time before that drinking in silence, with the occasional conversation.

Two weeks after Gintoki moves in, he’s at the bar as usual. Otose has just opened the snack bar and they’re sharing a bottle of sake, waiting for the regulars to stream in.

Otose: Your hair is getting too long, Gintoki.

Gintoki: What? I don’t need fashion advice from a hag like you.

Otose: I could cut it for you, if you want. I used to cut my husband’s hair.

Gintoki: I have a natural perm, Gran. Your husband was one of those straight-haired guys right? Didn’t he look like Oguri Shun? Oh sorry, wrong generation—Kimura Takuya, right? He had Kimura Takuya hair? Like the only thing that resembled Kimura Takuya was his hair? My hair’s completely different, you know. Just because you can cut his celeb-like hair doesn’t mean you’ll know how to cut mine. Look at these curls and tangles. It’s impossible. No way, no way.

Otose: All hair’s the same after a while. Anyway, I was just going to trim it, not give you a whole character image change. With those dead fish eyes you’ll never look like Takuya-kun anyway. But it’s better than looking like a poodle, like you do now. The only good thing about poodles are how they’re always at the right height for kicking.

Gintoki: …

Otose: It’s just hair, Gintoki.

Gintoki: …I haven’t cut my hair since the war.

Otose: So isn’t now a good time to do it? Sounds like it’s been far too long since your last haircut.

Gintoki: Fine.

Otose: Wait here, I’ll get my scissors.

Gintoki: Just don’t smoke when you’re cutting it. My hairstyle’s yankee enough without singed tips.

IF I TOLD YALL IM PLANNING A TRIP TO FURGUESON TO BRING WATER AND OTHER SUPPLIES
blackproverbs

Would yall help me raise some money?

My friend and I are trying to go this weekend and if you live in Chicago you can go too.

We want to bring gas masks and water.

Freaking monks from Tibet flew all the way here to support. If I’m in Chicago, why can’t I?

blackproverbs

You all can click on the donate button on the homepage of this Tumblr.
Blackproverbs.Tumblr.com

Later I will give y’all a physical location you can meet me and donate water or whatever before we leave.

hlmn

i get a lot of feelings about zura’s and gintoki’s relationship lately and i happen to be overflowing with them today

look at that zura who basically became takasugi version 2.0 when gin ‘died’

who wanted to destroy the world. why would he care about protecting jackshit

idk i get this feeling that he changed not because he was angry at the world for taking away gintoki like takasugi was angry at the world for taking their teacher

more like he remembers gintoki’s promise of being to one to cut him down if he ever changes. this was probably a last ditch attempt to try to make him come back from wherever he went to.

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