My husband is making mole and the whole house smells warm, rich and delicious - finally. There were many phases before “delicious” and I believe my hair has picked up all of them.
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My husband is making mole and the whole house smells warm, rich and delicious - finally. There were many phases before “delicious” and I believe my hair has picked up all of them.
Dems have *always had the Black vote. White people, otoh, failed everyone.
Yep. My dogs are giving me life right now. People, otoh, are a Sartre quote.
Thanks. That made me misty. I don’t want to slap you, fwiw.
Quiet today because I just want to slap everyone, sooo, best hold my tongue.
The people who do the “but what about” after a hate crime against Jewish people,are showing you that they too also hate Jewish people. And they’re probably gonna gaslight you if you call them on it, but still call them on it
This week in Ottawa, Canada, a woman was stabbed at a store because she’s Jewish. The man who attacked her had a social media pattern of extreme antisemitic content. Don’t respond “but what about…” Check in with Jewish friends and colleagues. We are not OK. Shabbat shalom feels insufficient.
Yeah, you can fuck of with this bullshit.
"Upgrade?" The Felon Administration is putting pressure on the Holocaust Museum to 'upgrade' the US response to Nazi Germany during WW2. They will whitewash the awful part of history when America turned away fleeing Jews. Many had to return, resulting in death.😢✡️ abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
The only good thing about having giant tits after the age of fifty is that you can rest them comfortably on your refrigerator shelves.
“Jews think they’re the master race” bruh we haven’t shit right since we escaped Egypt literally who are you talking about
It’s giving: “the Jews will not replace us” vibes.
I think you missed the follow-up: bsky.app/profile/joff...
Can confirm :) bsky.app/profile/joff...
I was a nyc “club kid” during the golden age of hip-hop so I got to see a lot of close-up, small venue shows, and rub elbows w. ppl like Moby, who used to spin in the basement of Mars, etc. but still… Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels, Shea Stadium (which ofc doesn’t exist anymore) - Historic.
I am by no means asking you to look away from Israel, and what is happening in Gaza, but I am asking why you *choose to spend so much time looking abroad, as opposed to looking at the very real problems that are pervasive in your own community.
All right, a white person living in Scotland, which was also built on the transatlantic slave trade, so, you too face serious issues w. racism, both institutional and societal. Sexism? Same. Sex assault, equally bad and all throughout your police force. Child poverty? Horrible… Do you see now?
Yanking the chains of Zionism, just who the fuck do you think I am? Who do you think any of us are? You are clearly _not_ a member of our community if you think that’s what is happening here.
Well then here you go: bsky.app/profile/mala...
There are almost zero exclusively Zionist or anti-Zionist spaces in the diaspora. It is near impossible to target *just* Zionists if that’s your goal, we don’t self-segregate along those lines. If you want to shoot a rabid Zionist there’s a good chance you’ll hit a Jew donating amply to the WCK too.
I’ve said this before but one of the things that freaks out a LOT of Jews is this: there is no amount of money or activism we, as private citizens, can do to dissuade, for example, a gunman who has decided that the best way to advocate for Palestinians is to shoot up a synagogue.
I point this out because there is a certain type of person for whom literally no amount of Palestinian allyship will ever be enough, the goalposts will always move, because they don’t actually want safety and peace for Palestinians, they want a whipping boy (Jews) they can scold
This reply is in response to a progressive rabbi who has been outspoken on Palestinian rights and a ceasefire since the war began
Waiting for that acceptance of their antisemitism. Surely it’ll be any moment now…
Of course Christian Atheists can’t understand how Jews can exist without a relationship with God. When they were practicing Christians, they couldn’t understand how Jews can exist without a relationship to Christ.
Because your models are incorrect.
Unlimited access to guns=white supremacy White supremacy=antisemitism
Fyi, @lamegandalf.bsky.social is not the OP. You’ve been referring to him. I have not.
Paranoia? Hardly. You’re peddling a very old trope. Or trying to, anyway. www.counterextremism.com/anti-semitis...
It’s getting rather regular now. Good times, good times.
It’s the conspiracy theory that is antisemitic, in and of itself.
This is a gross misrepresentation of what Emily said. Why are you doing this, Millie?
Me, for two days straight: I think it is always bad to do ethnic cleansing, no matter who is being cleansed "Progressive" gentiles, for two days straight: why do you love genocide so much?
Jewish atheists: God isn’t real but that’s not my business Christian atheists: God isn’t real and I’m going to make it everyone’s problem
Nope bsky.app/profile/joff...
Of course racism always goes hand-in-hand with bigotry, and our LGBTQ+ communities are also in real danger right now, thanks to our current administration. So you can add them to the millions of citizens that the Gaza crowd doesn’t give a fuck about. 3/3
All that energy expended on yelling into the void does fuck-all for Palestinians, and even less for the ppl in their own communities. It’s actually insulting (to American minorities) when you really think about it. So carelessly racist. Inadvertent assholes are still assholes. Shame on them. 2/3
OK I’ll say it. White Americans who make #Gaza their raison d’être, while Black ppl are starving and dying because of institutional racism and budget cuts and Brown ppl are getting beaten, kidnapped and imprisoned - those ppl are the *real racists. Every mad-online moment is wasted on bullshit - 1/3
Umm, where, pray tell, do you think European Jews come from?
I wouldn’t know. I quit Facebook over a decade ago and I’m only on Insta for the tattoos. But the folks here are…not nearly as nice as they’re supposed to be.
Whatever. I’m not here to frame or blame. I’m just here to clear up misconceptions about my own community, and that’s it.
You do you. But the OP is responsible.
Agreed, but the OP isn’t going to do that, so it’s on you.
Then do the work. Don’t ask other people to do it for you.
You can fuck off with this. Attacks on Jewish institutions outside of Israel, are attacks on Jewish people everywhere. This is a hate crime. Take your politics out of the equation.
I have/have had cousins in Israel who were there before it was Israel.
Ummm, yeah. But if we talk about being Jewish on Bluesky, people immediately show up to call us evil genociders, which is not exactly warm and cozy.
Yep. This is so _not_ kosher.
This. Unfortunately.
We already know the answer, it’s Jenny McCarthy.
I’m going where any normal, compassionate person should go with you at this point. So you’re a white person living in…America, Canada, Europe - which one? *I’m not trying to dox you here. Just making connections
We’ve been through this already, bud. I accused you of ignoring Black and Brown Jews, and then I accused you of ignoring Black, Brown and other minority people in your own neighborhood.
Ah, ok. My bad. Sorry for poking my schnoz in.
No, that conflation doesn’t come from us. Don’t put that on me. I will however point out that you are/have been doing microaggressions all along, and just because you’re not aware of doing it, doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
Are you a diaspora Jew?
You did it again. Let’s switch it up, shall we. Let’s invert your inversion, in a sense. You’re a white person, no?
Dude, what? You already know that I’m here to represent my own community. I don’t know what “all people” have to do with anything, I only know that we, as a group, should not be charged with these duties, no less in such an aggressive manner.
See, now. No. This doesn’t sit well with me. Apologies to @jsx.bsky.social for jumping in again, but it very much seems like you’re holding him (and all of us by extension) responsible for everything - answers, fixes, the whole shebang - and that is not okay.
It seems like the other way around for me. I said from the outset that I’m only here to talk about diaspora Jews. And you keep pretending we’re not an ethnicity 🤷🏻♀️
No, Jesus. It’s not about religion.
I mean, no, not exactly. You do have to be Jewish. I honestly don’t know anything about the Palestinian right of return, but I’m guessing it’s not fair or good. I do know (quite well) Palestinians *in Israel, and know that none of us are okay with anything about the situation and/or the regime.
Yeah, still incorrect. There’s a whole process that goes into making aaliyah and you can’t just be a complete rando. But miss me with the rest. I’m not here for the hostility.
Though, tbf, Kahanists feel differently and would probably change the rules if possible. But I don’t believe they’ve gone there yet. Not to my knowledge, anyway.
Correct. That is incorrect. It has nothing to do with whiteness, or really with religion, for that matter.
I don’t want a pat on the head, I want you (and the rest) to stop projecting your bullshit on us and go do things that actually help ppl locally, because those ppl *are suffering and in need of real help and, you know, right fucking there, just outside your door.
No, I have no reason. That’s not what I’m here for. I’m only here to correct misconceptions about diaspora Jews and that’s it. Nothing else.
I’ve got Raffi stuck in my head. I’m a classically trained vocalist and I’ve got Raffi stuck in my head. *If you respond to this post w. any form of Raffi lyrics I will find you. I will find you w. my bananaphone, shake your sillies out, steal your apples and bananas and go chill down by the bay.
It’s a legacy thing _many_ Jewish families, by the way, mine is no exception.
Nope. You quite literally could not do that. First of all, I’m one of the minorities in the neighborhood. Secondly, I am active locally vis-à-vis grassroots orgs, etc. Plus I’m part of the Black-Jewish alliance and have been, well, forever - because it’s a legacy thing in my family.
Isn’t it obvious? My point is that while you’re spending all this time being mad online, you’re ignoring minority voices in your own neighborhood.
Leave the goalposts in Israel. These clunky pivots around Black and Brown people are making me wonder why you’re really here. Hours and hours of debate, an account that seems to be solely focused on Israel. Where’s your concern for minorities in your own country?
Here: bsky.app/profile/mike...
Okay, but the way you gave it was full of projection and devoid of any acknowledgment of Black and Brown Jews whatsoever.
Yeah, no. It’s actually incredibly complicated and your simplistic analysis is erroneous in such a way that it feels, or comes across as willfully ignorant.
This is incorrect. Please stop Jewsplaining. Thx.
You white colonialists have no business dictating what countries are real or not. Sit on your pile of corpses and shut up
He commented and then blocked. What a brilliant mind. What a loss.
There are people who can step back, take another look at what they’ve said about complete strangers, and accept the possibility that they could have been incorrect in their assumptions. It happens. But apparently not with Andy.
Andy, please stop. This isn’t about Israel. This is about you (and others) speaking for a community that is not your own. You are the ones who are making us into a monolith. Not us.
And just so we’re clear; this is why the Duck guy was annoyed with your use of that moniker.
Oh really? “It boggles my mind that so many in the Jewish community are content to lie about us Gentiles who criticize Israeli wrongdoing. They are doing massive damage to Jew-Gentile relations.” Who’s “the Jewish community” then?
I’m friends with Joel. We have the same views here, as do most of us, which is what I’ve been trying to tell you. bsky.app/profile/joff...
Ok, and? This is the first time you’ve mentioned it. The ADL does not speak for diaspora Jews. Certainly not anymore. Same goes for DSA, AIPAC, and some others - all of which have been compromised by religious zealots who think very differently than the vast majority of us.
You may be hearing it often, but you’re not hearing it from us and you know that.You literally posted the video of the Patinkins saying as much - we don’t want this. We don’t want any of this. Stop pretending we do.
What’s worse is that there are scores of “Andys” out there, who think that lecturing diaspora Jews online somehow makes things better for people in Gaza.
Yes it is. I’m so tired of white people who speak for entire minority communities because they’ve read stuff.
NO 👏 ONE 👏 IS 👏CONDONING 👏 THE 👏SLAUGHTER 👏 OF 👏ANYONE 👏 Which is why this is so wildly off-base: “so many in the Jewish community are content to lie about us Gentiles who criticize Israeli wrongdoing”
Oy vey
I don’t think you’re wrong because you’re a gentile. I think you’re wrong because you’re a gentile speaking on Jews that you don’t know. It’s really as simple as that.
I’m a Jewish person talking about my Jewish community and you are not. So how is it that my answer is very false and yours is written with substance?
What are you saying is ideologically inconvenient to concede, please be specific, Bryce.
I have scrolled up, more than once. Your understanding is flawed, Bryce.
You’re being disingenuous, that is not the comparison that was made. Knowing this, I think we should move on to that lot of people who are uncomfortable, who might those be?
The only contortions I see are you bending over backwards to make it seem like he was talking about himself, when he clearly wasn’t. So you haven’t explained anything, least of all the reason for all of your odd bending.
Can you make that make sense for me?
Now, Bryce, I have eyes. I may not be able to see what _everyone_ has been telling you, but I can see that @jsx.bsky.social has been telling you that their own personal beliefs and experiences are not what you perceive, and your response has been: akshully, he’s wrong about himself.
I just read through as much of this conversation as I could (there are blocks in the chain) and I haven’t seen anything like that. Would you please point out where that happened? Thx.
Umm, what? The only one doing damage here is you. You obviously know nothing about our community, so whatever is boggling your mind, you can miss us with it. If you actually knew any of us, you’d be aware that all of the political parties have thrown us under the bus - we never wanted any of this.
I’m not saying these things didn’t happen or that the State of Israel isn’t responsible for doing some bad shit. I’m saying that none of it happened in a vacuum, other groups were involved and have been all along.
To be totally honest, I pretty much live off of hummus when I’m in Israel. And I tend to eat it (with my Palestinian friends and family) at a *café, not a disco.