hi, gentle reminder that you can reclaim slurs for yourself but not for the entire community! Please don’t say g*y when talking about other fags, it is a harmful word that has been used against the queer community to hurt mlm, use less harmful words like cocksucker, faggot, queer, and fairy! Thank you ✨
how long until someone takes this one seriously I wonder
To everyone who read g*y as goy, you know what sure new discourse just dropped, calling people goy is homophobic now and you must call non Jewish people fags that’s the rule I’m sure we can wrap the slur discourse enough to lead to that conclusion
Honestly as a blind person I’m so tired of seeing fictional blind characters who don’t use white canes or other guides. “They have special powers so they know what’s around them” or “they’re confident enough to not need a guide” are common tropes, and I’m tired.
Are people scared that using a white cane will make their blind character seem weak? They can’t use a cane because they’re so special that they already know what’s around them, and other blind people who use guides are inferior because they’re not special?
I’m tired. Give your blind characters white canes and other guides. Let them hold onto their friends, let them have guide dogs. Don’t make white cane users feel ostracized for not being “strong enough” to go without.
Another thing that pisses me off is when a sighted character comes up with the fantasy equivalent of braille and teaches it to the blind character. Braille was invented by Louis Braille, a blind man, in 1824. The blind character should be the one coming up with it.
tbh "culturally christian" feels like a very very western concept. like the assumption anglosphere/western europe christians, who have hegemonic power, have the same culture, ethos, etc as minority christian groups without hegemony from regions that are not globally hegemonic? like at least the antitheists are consistent lmfao
Sorry anon – from now on, when I say that “France passing laws which ban head scarfs on the grounds that they are inherently religious - while simultaneously nationally recognizing multiple explicitly Christian holidays on the grounds that they are secular - is an example of culturally Christian prejudice against any form of non-Christian secularity”, I’ll make sure that I specify that I mean French cultural Christianity, and not the cultural Christianity of the persecuted Christian minorities living in Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea.
“won’t somebody think about the Coptic Christians!” 👁️👄👁️
I understand it can feel bad to work so hard to leave something and be told “hey, there are a number of ways people regardless of belief or membership of a Christian church benefit from and endorse a society built by and for the hegemony of Christianity over minority cultural religious norms”. I’m sure it especially smarts to be told “Christmas is explicitly Christian” even if you yourself are secular, and telling people from another cultural-religious context that “it’s ok” they can come to your Christmas event because yours is secular, they are required to participate in the office secret Santa or the office Christmas party, is all a form of Christian evangelism whether you are actually Christian yourself or even ever have been.
Requiring people to take time off work for Christian holidays but forcing them to use their leave days for their non-Christian holidays is discrimination that privileges people who celebrate Christian holidays regardless of belief.
So when we discuss cultural Christianity, we are saying nothing about your personal character. We’re saying that you can be a part of changing this. Organise in the work place so that everyone who celebrates Diwali(regardless of religious conviction) will automatically have the time off for example, check your friend when they aren’t taking no for an answer because your Jewish friend didn’t want to come for a Christmas meal…
Your association with Christianity isn’t some kind of original sin, it’s not what anybody is saying, only that there are things you may never have considered because of living in the dominant cultural context.
reblog and put your “soap and candles” gift in the tags, like the simple thing someone can get you if they don’t know what to get you that you will always be excited about
imo. if you’re an adult and are afraid of becoming an older adult out of some worry that you will lose your joy and sense of self . it is a good idea to make friends with/follow/generally be around people in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and up. nothing quells the reflexive “oh god i’m going to be getting older” thing more than hanging out with people who are older and are just as weird as you, have just as much fun, and are often very happy and fulfilled
my most antitheist opinion is that hell is like. a cartoonishly evil thing to believe in and insanely abusive to teach children about
“No, I didn’t threaten my children with torture if they disobeyed me, I just told them that an omniscient force forever watching their every move would torture them eternally if they ever disobeyed me!”
Hi, yeah this is because the concept of hell that most people have literally comes from cartoons. “But it has to be based on something” yeah it’s based on Dante’s Inferno, which was a fan edit of the Torah made by an Italian nerd.
Hell is just the state of being separated from G-d in the afterlife, it’s not a place. The “torture” of hell is being denied everlasting life and the embrace of the Almighty.
Please don’t lie. Or rather, don’t pretend that the concept of Hell has no basis in Judaism. From Rosh Hashana 16b-17a:
It is very, very clear that Gehenna is a thing in the Talmud, and not only that- it’s clear that eternal hell is a thing as well! And don’t try to tell me that this is simply the absence of god- there is a very clear usage of the metaphor of burning across this whole section of the Gemara. Not to mention the more explicit punishments mentioned in, for example, Gittin 57a:
Maybe you’ll tell me you’re from a denomination that doesn’t hold of the Talmud or this idea of Gehenna, and that’s wonderful, there are quite a few such denominations. But don’t pretend that this is something that Dante made up one day completely separate from any kind of Jewish belief. Practices that are abusive when done by Christian parents are just as bad when done by Jewish parents.
It’s fairly rare in my experience for Jewish folk to teach this as non-metaphorical. I cannot think of a single Jewish person of my acquaintance, of ANY denomination, taught this as literal truth. And tbh it’s kind of a weird way to read the Talmud.
Ever heard of Orthodox Judaism?
Have you actually ever MET an orthodox Jew? Been to one of their services? Sat in at yeshiva to talk about these things?
