What they’ve come up with so far as an answer is ‘islamo-Marxist conspiracy activated by Grand Mufti George Galloway’

unitary object of ‘Judaism,’ nor are they specific to Jews. To use a parallel example, I don’t think you could say that state-sponsored racism is an ‘aberration’ in the history of socialism, but ‘socialism’ doesn’t become some morally untouchable thing bc of that

I wouldn’t go this far with the framing of ‘aberration.’ Jewishness has been allied to settler colonialism, state power, etc. in lots of different ways at various points in history (see: America). The more important point to me is that these dynamics are not inevitable/do not characterize some

Zionism means, as Lapidot says, that there is a moral imperative to change Jewish identity if one wants to claim it, but it does not make Jewish identity (including ‘Judaism’) fair game for solipsistic and ahistorical generalization

most Jews do and think in the world.’ Discourses of Jewishness and Judaism have taken many particular forms, sometimes as a self-applied category and sometimes as a category of emplacement, some allied to the destructive forces of modernity and some in excess to or opposed to them. The dominance of

Judaism as it is expressed in today’s Zionism is constituted by secularism, including when it is put in anti-secular terms. Lapidot is right that ‘real Judaism’ cannot be invoked to make Zionism analytically irrelevant to expressions of Jewish identity, but neither can it be essentialized as ‘what..

religiosity. These are, ofc, exactly the kinds of religiosity that secular, liberal nation-states continually produce. Even the concept of Judaism as a ‘religion’ is a product of Christian discourse- that is, a product of a particular arrangement of power.

This kind of thing is so insanely frustrating to me. The implication of ‘Zionism was “formally” secular’ is that it wasn’t actually secular bc of all the things that were clearly religious abt it. In the same sense, now Zionism isn’t secular at all bc it is animated by a blood and soil fascist…

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The fantasy of the neutral object 🙂‍↔️

The menorah itself- the real, material menorah, is no fetish bc the claims of the fetishist are true. It’s not only dialectics that has power. The physical menorah does too

inherited from Protestantism (‘Catholics are idolaters’), before that from Christian views of Judaism (‘Jews miss the truth of spirit in favor of the golden calf of material ritual’), and before that from the monotheism of the Deuteronomistic school. All very bad stuff and nothing to take seriously

Worth noting that the equation of commodity fetishism and idolatry is already conceptually present in Marx, whose idea of the commodity form as ‘fetish’ (an object mistakenly given powers it does not possess by racialized ‘primitives’) reflects the hierarchizing ontology of absence his secularism…

Researchers at Human Rights Watch Resign Over Blocked Report on Palestinian Refugee Return The departures have roiled the prominent watchdog group over a decision one staffer called “unprincipled and cowardly.” Alex Kane

SCOOP: Two Human Rights Watch employees from the organization’s Israel & Palestine team are stepping down from their positions after leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return a “crime against humanity.” jewishcurrents.org/researchers-...

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Fuck this country and fuck the troops

No! Liberals say this all the time, that ‘wokeness’ went too far and provoked a backlash, that ‘cancel culture’ enabled Trump’s repression, that ‘whininess got us MAGA.’ The NYT is always saying some version of this absurd lie

The ‘gratuitous whininess’ of Limbaugh illustrates the point I was making- that some idea of the left being too complainy resulting in fascism is utterly ridiculous. Fascism has always existed in the US as enabled through the complacency and collaboration of liberalism

One of the most bizarrely ahistorical claims of liberals- that the woke left inventing complaining about culture and politics in around 2008

Being unsafe and feeling unsafe are in fact definitely not separable. Fear, anxiety, resentment, stress- these are all material results of the structures of power for marginalized people

This relies on the Western epistemological hierarchy of ‘reason’ over ‘emotion’- ‘real’ harm vs ‘felt’ harm. The distinction isn’t real. Structures of oppression are laden with affect, and excluding emotions only serves ppl whose emotions r read as not emotions (to simplify, white guys)

This shit is so dumb. ‘Trump is insufficiently masculine’- okay whatever Freak Who Cares About That

cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I exercised self-restraint and didn’t reply the first 7 times u posted abt this but I give up lol

The reason the ‘good genes’ thing in this context evokes eugenics is bc the specific traits the ad is referring to, and that Sydney Sweeney represents in culture (blond hair, blue eyes, big tits), r traits that current supporters of eugenics love

I like this piece but I felt that quote didn’t exactly accord with the analysis that directly preceded it. White supremacist/Christian nationalist bigotry against Hindus isn’t always just abt race, often it’s abt religion, and acknowledging that can be a basis for solidarity as much as race

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