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Life-Altering Invention of the Day: The Sprayracha is a thing. A thing that actually works. Holy schnikes.

[worldsbestever]

file under: things I need.

ATTENTION HARKNESS

hot sauce in a spray bottle > my distaste for ongoing sriracha overhype

there is no such thing as overhype when it comes to sriracha

i mean sure some people are annoying about it but it is literally the world’s most perfect condiment.  i can’t think of a savory food item i’ve eaten lately that i did not dip in or drizzle sriracha over

Gritty Mermaid Reboot: Actual Forms of "Self Care:" →

forwhenifeellikesharing:

Exercising regularly, paying your bills on time, staying informed, cultivating meaningful friendships, brushing and flossing regularly, having healthy adult relationships with your parents (and siblings) in whatever capacity you can, reading more, setting short- and…

Truth.

conversations I have on gchat with my boyfriend

7 minutes

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As I’m continuously horrified by the wretched state of the Tumblr Judaism tag, I’m going to make a series of educational posts about Judaism using visuals from Drake’s “HYFR.”

As you can see, Drake is using his Jew-scarf to make out with the Torah (Jew-book). This is done because according to Jewish lore, if your lips come into direct contact with the word of G-d shit will get real.

Now, the Jew-scarf is sometimes referred to as a tallit. Tallitot differ in size and color depending on a Jewish person’s age and mastery of basic conspiracies. Drake’s is white because he’s only progressed to the level of “brainwash the goyim through music videos.” As he gets more cunning, he may eventually don a tallit made entirely out of glitter and the blood of Christian babies.

A common exchange about tallitot may go like this:

Rivkah: I love your tallit! Where’d you get it?

Drake: It’s my mom’s old tallit from the eighties.

Rivkah: Oh, vintage! So adorable.

Drake: Thanks! *leaves*

Rivkah: That is the ugliest effin’ tallit I have ever seen.

To be continued!

i’m gonna reblog every post in this series because education is important

edjewcation for the goyim ppls

fuckyeahdavidmitchell:

guss-it

(Source: differentplanet, via cosmopolitan-fascist)

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‎”Applicant should not want to ‘save Detroit’; nor to do lifestyle counseling, massage, prescribe herbs, homeopathic remedies, etc., nor use muscle-testing, pendulums, tuning forks, etc.; nor should you be planning on going on months-long trips to China, Thailand, Belize, or wherever people are going nowadays. We are looking for someone who wants to stick around and do lots of acupuncture.

— 

Best. Job. Description. Ever.

(and if you live in SE Michigan and want an affordable acupuncturist that won’t do these things,  I cannot recommend DCA enough.)

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Anti-Jewish oppression has been around a long time - it became government practice in Christian society about 1,700 years ago and only stopped having official Vatican approval in 1965. But when anti-Jewish oppression isn’t at its most brutal, it can be really hard to see. How come this oppression can seem so invisible?

“Partly it’s that it allows Jews success. Many oppressions rely on keeping a targeted group of people poor, uneducated, designated non-white, or otherwise ‘at the bottom.’ Anti-Jewish oppression doesn’t depend on that. Although at many times it has kept Jews in poverty or designated non-white, these have been “optional” features.

“Because the point of anti-Jewish oppression is to keep a Jewish face in front, so that Jews, instead of ruling classes, become the target for peoples’ rage, it works even more smoothly when Jews are allowed some success, and can be perceived as the ones “in charge” by other oppressed groups.

“Partly it’s that it moves in cycles. Because it can allow Jews to ‘move up,’ antisemitism is cyclical: Attacks come in waves; but each time things calm down and Jews are able to blend in or succeed in society again, it gives the appearance that antisemitism is ‘over.’ In some of the most famous examples of anti-Jewish expulsion and mass murder (ie, medieval Spain or modern Germany), just prior to the attacks, Jews appeared to be one of society’s most successful, comfortable, well-integrated minorities.

— “The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere”, a pamphlet about antisemitism and the need to integrate fighting it into ALL anti-oppression efforts (via scarfmouse)

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Freibiergesicht: Assimilated German Jews & Antisemitism →

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One of the things that’s frustrating to me about the discussion that took place in that big tumblr fight is the fact that a bunch of people with social justice/activism oriented outlooks are completely unwilling to consider a contextual understanding of how modern conceptions of race and…

My feeling is that anti-Semitism is racism but white Jews have white privilege. This is my conclusion that I have come to after a lifetime of being white and Jewish. I can’t look at this tumblr fight because I also feel like non-Jews don’t get to talk about anti-Semitism and Jewish racial identities ever. That said, I also don’t enjoy white Jews who derail conversations about white privilege in particular with discussion of anti-Semitism, especially when the discussion is about current white privilege and white Jews bring up historical anti-Semitism. This does in fact happen. It happened in my class two weeks ago.

Assimilated white Jews in Germany were not white in the social construction of whiteness of the time. Maybe they are still not. None of this is making me want to go to Germany, btw. :(

On doing too much “research” for my white privilege paper via reading shit online

I keep following links that intermingle academic and non-academic sources, including casual forums where academics, activists, and “online activists” meet and I have to say, you know, it’s so juicy, literally made popcorn reading this stuff. Next semester, I’m doing my next paper on this.

But anyway, so, right now, I’m drawing some sketchy parallels: the slimy thing that happens in anti-racist white spaces that develop mostly in insular vacuums divorced from people of color — justifying it as they do because it’s racism 101, they need not to trigger/enrage POC with their attempts at “understanding,” it’s for white people to educate white people about their white privilege, etc. — happens the same way in “online activist” spaces that reference each other and nothing “real world” because it’s all based on popularity and in-group agreements that are often largely insane.

Specifically, I’m reading comments to Tim Wise posts. I have problems with Tim Wise, mainly with his white male privilege overly-debate-reliant, pseudo-scientific “where’s the evidence?” logic/rationality intellectualization BS. Also, much of his stuff is boring and obvious, to me. But I have to admit, a lot (not all: Tim Wise and white anti-racism in general was a big deal at the first college I went to and that school was like 95% white so I could’ve been annoyed just by them alone to be honest) of my distaste for Tim Wise originally came from livejournal users who said that Tim Wise spoke over and for people of color.

I’m not going to defend Tim Wise because I think those livejournal users are/were probably right in a lot of ways about him and the rest of the anti-racist white types. But I just cracked up because in reading these comments, a bunch of people who I was like, “huh, I bet these are LJ people,” turned out to BE LJ people. And now tumblr people, most of them. And seeing the other not-LJ people on these forums come in contact with this sort of emotionally manipulative, guilt-tripping style of social justice engagement (i.e., “you need to step off. You just told a queer woman of color that her experiences were not valid”; “stop using the tone argument against me”; “it is not my job to educate you/it is not white people’s place to speak about racism”; “sorry I am being so emotionally driven about something that is so fucking close to me”; “that’s fucking gross”; ad nauseum) is so educational.

I have no love for most of the people in these other forums either, honestly. AV Club-style of engagement cracks me up but these people are also full of themselves, often wrong, and apathetic. There’s just something especially hilarious about largely ignorant 20-year-old coddled kids who go to school and live at home coming into contact with everyone else and throwing a fit when their insane logic and ideas are not received well. Or like, when no one agrees to the rules of LJ “safe space.” Or like, when people who know more than them and may be smarter than them treat them respectfully and engage with them but don’t let their bullshit stand based on LJ/tumblr codes of shit like “don’t question someone’s stated identity/don’t invalidate someone’s experience if their experience falls into certain identity politics fads/stop talking if someone mentions depression/suicide/anxiety/triggers.” I don’t know if my finding this hilarious makes me a terrible person, because I don’t disagree with a lot of these unofficial codes of conduct found on LJ/tumblr actually. But I see how they’ve been manipulated to let idiots say dumb things too many times, basically.

Also, see this: http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9541195.html

Several parroting LJ children with undergrad degrees, or not, complain about this (report on) a study’s lack of “control group.” So glad you went to high school and know about “control groups.” Actual person involved in research academia says “it’s a longitudinal study, it doesn’t need a control group like that.” Every discussion on LJ or tumblr or anywhere with a strong code for discussion without any deferment to, like, what is like a basic fact or not has this problem. “So-and-so said this. This person is homophobic.” “Well, no, see, they didn’t.” “UM, AS A QUEER WOMAN, you need to step off.” See, even me saying this is totally fucked up and gross, right? But fun!