So Youre A Gentile Whos Realized We Have A Problem: Now What?

So You’re A Gentile Who’s Realized We Have A Problem: Now What?

Tumblr likes to spin its wheels and spend time yelling at each other, so here’s a nice comprehensive guide. Five Things You Can Do Now That You Know We Were Serious About The Antisemitism:

1) Accept that if you’re in this to be an ally, you’re going to have a tough road ahead of you. We’re traditionally very wary of outsiders in our spaces because when we welcome them, well … this happens. In fact, if you want to convert to Judaism, you traditionally get rejected three times, just to make sure you’re serious and not shitting with us. Expect wariness. Expect to get your feelings hurt, because a lot of us are very raw right now. Stick with us anyway–once we know you’re not just bandwagoning us, you’re going to end up with a lot of friends who are relying on you. Nobody said allyship was easy.

2) Learn about Judaism. Note that I DO NOT MEAN LEARNING WITH INTENTION TO CONVERT. We don’t proselytize and it would be against Torah for me to even suggest it. What I mean here is, you can’t call bullshit if you don’t know what we’re about. Some good basic resources are The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch; My Jewish Learning; and for a strict Orthodox standpoint, Chabad. You’ll find that some things in these sources contradict each other. That’s pretty par for the course in Judaism; we don’t have a single dogma or point of view.

3) Consider calling a local synagogue and asking if they have volunteer work for a gentile ally. Introduce yourself, explain (briefly) what got your attention, and offer your services–to stand outside during services, to walk folks to and from shul (this is particularly important in Orthodox communities, where driving on Shabbat is forbidden), hell, to help stuff envelopes for whatever vigil or service they may be holding in memoriam. Anything will help.

4) You may wish to make a donation to a local synagogue or Jewish charity. I strongly recommend the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), which is a Jewish charity focused on combating antisemitism. Jews traditionally give monetary gifts in sums of $18, which corresponds to the numeric value of the word “chai,” or “life.” The last time this happened I made a post about this tradition and got accused of being a Nazi because of the whole 1-8 A-H thing, so let’s just nip that right in the bud: yes, we know. It’s a horrible coincidence. We’re not giving up a few-thousand-year-old tradition because of some dipshit with a bad moustache. If you can’t afford $18, consider moving the decimal over and donating in multiples of 18, like $3.60. Your meaning will still be perfectly clear, and anything helps. If you wish to make a donation in memory/in honor (which many synagogues appreciate), I suggest either choosing the name of one of the shooting victims–giving tzedakah, or charity, in their names is considered a great mitzvah and a blessing to their families–or using the phrase “am Yisrael chai.” It means “Israel lives.” Although the country in the MENA region is called Israel, this is not what the phrase refers to–the traditional patriarch of Judaism was named Jacob, and renamed as Israel following a wrestling match with a messenger of G-d. To say “am Yisrael chai” is to say his people, that is, the Jewish people, live.

And on that note …

5) In the coming days and weeks, you’re going to see a lot of people making this about Israel or Zionism. Please tell them to shut the fuck up. Israel, Zionism, and Jews are three completely different, albeit related, things. To wit: Israel is a geopolitical country situated on the site of our ancestral homeland and currently headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Zionism is the belief that Jews deserve a safe homeland; and Jews are a group of people spread across six continents and most countries who are united by a common group of ancestors from the Levant (the part of the world now occupied by the geopolitical entity known as Israel). Saying the victims of this shooting had anything to do with the political situation in Israel would be like saying I, personally, am responsible for Vladimir Putin because I have a Russian ancestor. I speak exactly two words of Russian, have never been to Russia, have no family left living there (and haven’t for four generations), but I’m totally responsible for Russia. You see how ridiculous that sounds? The same applies to Jews and Israel. Please, please, PLEASE do not conflate this event with Israeli politics. I’m not saying Israeli politics aren’t a topic worth discussing–I’m saying this is not a discussion they belong in. Don’t let the powers that be (or the alt-right sleaze that sucks the dicks of the powers that be) distract from the topic at hand, which is “out of control guns meet out of control xenophobia and antisemitism,” by throwing OMG ISRAEL AND ZIONISM AND GLOBALISM into the mix.

And finally: yes, gentiles, this is okay for you to reblog. In fact I encourage it. And I will answer any questions you have to the best of my ability, if they’re asked in good faith. Please just follow the most basic tenet of Judaism, which is: don’t be a dick.

If you’re ready to stand and help, now is the time.

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@fujoshi-receipts

i remembered that i, unfortunately, used to have an aarinfantasy account (ewww) back in like 2013 so i logged into it today to try to delete it. while i was at it i also took the opportunity to grab a few screenshots with receipts of how absolutely :) wonderful :) fujoshis :) are :)

uhhhh tw for homophobia, transphobia, pedophilia, rape and the usual fujoshi creep bullshit it gets really bad

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ive come to a conclusion.

i believe the reason why fujoshi are…. increasingly transphobic, using terf rhetoric and saying that trans men cannot have a say in the uwu fujo discourse is because as ive seen (though this may not be true.. in the past i hadnt really been super zoomed in on the discourse) trans men are the most active men in said discourse. since that is the case, they have taken to trying to invalidate them before they have a chance to speak against them, so that they feel as though they face less opposition. its a pretty sad state of affairs.

with that being said, however, know this: trans mlm, you have every right to talk in this discourse. you are not a straight girl. you are not a fake man. youre a real man and you have every right to tell fujoshis that this is gross. and if fujos give you some real shit about it, you can site the fact that fujos have also been writing fetishistic yaoi content on trans men as well. i could even give you some screens of some of the gross, transphobic yaoi i saw back in the day, and some that ive seen recently. all mlm are victims. dont let them silence you. - mod shouto

why zackray is bad: a masterpost

a big masterpost debunking common arguments zackray shippers use, and also explaining why fictional ships CAN in fact harm real people.

obvious tw for pedophilia, abuse etc.

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listen for the last fucking time. suicide baiting is intentionally and directly encouraging a person to kill themselves, when they are in a vulnerable state of being actively suicidal. it is not saying “die”. it cannot be done in code. it as a direct and overt action towards someone who is already in a dangerous and suicidal position.

you cant suicide bait thousands of people at once. “(x shitty group) go die” is not a death threat OR suicide baiting by any sense of the term. it isnt even targeting a particular person, its thousands of fucking people. 

like quit diluting the severity and importance of the term by screaming “SUICIDE BAITING!!” at someone who offhandedly says “go choke” “pee your pants” fucking whatever. take some deep breaths i promise youre gonna be ok

my take on an anti-zackray flag

first 3 colors represent ray, last 3 colors represent zack, red and black in the middle represent anger and separation