Not on the best day of your life are your thoughts worth 2 cents.

I’m hoping they take the opportunity to confront the shitty racism and make him a fully-fleshed out character. There’s a chance to go really meta and critique how he (and the black characters) got treated by both Gabaldon and the white characters.

“It’s not religion, it’s culture”

Religion of peace & tolerance tho!!!!!

You’re turning something that us shades of gray into black-and-white, which is something I’ve seen a lot of zionists do, and I think that’s where you lose liberals, who like to keep most ideas fuzzy.

It’s not that being against specific Israeli actions is anti-Semitic. I’d say it’s fairly mainstream among most Jewish people—including a good amount of Israelis—to be against specific Israeli actions. It’s that there is a lot of anti-Semitism in the specific ways a lot of Israeli actions are protested. That’s part of…

DO NOT LET THE GYPSIES STEAL OUR PRECIOUS CULTURE FART NOISES

It’s what makes it really hard to try to talk to my progressive friends about why what they’re saying is actually regurgitating anti-Semitic propaganda. I feel like I have to go through so MUCH basic education about Israeli politics and tension to get through to the understanding that no, I don’t support Netanyahu’s…

As it happens, I’m also Jewish. My family holidays are weird as fuck with tasty as hell food. So, yeah, the parallels are pretty much there, in a lot of ways.

Condemnation of the geopolitical actions of Israel, as a nation-stat,e are not anti-semetic. That said, condemnation of Israel is often used as a smokescreen to engage in anti-semetism and to incite violence against Jews.

I mean, as long as the discussion is about how the racism exists; not whether or not the racism is justified, which is what I was referring to. “Gypped” is a weird one; undoubtedly racist origin (as traced in this great NPR piece I just found), but it occupies a valuable linguistic place and most people have no idea…

The way I’ve heard it explained to me- feminism means standing up for groups that are oppressed (a noble goal! Alright Jezebel, I’m with you).... And the Palestinians are an oppressed group (okay, it’s a LITTLE more complicated than that, but yes Bibi is acting like a bull in a china shop and could be doing a lot more…

To be honest, I think they just know their audience and their audience isn’t all that keen on inward inflection. It’s interesting in regards to Israel because plenty of Israelis are pissed at the Knesset and Netanyahu, especially regards to the expansion of settlements and the catering to the ultra-orthodox. What’s…

A few weeks ago I had to talk to my employees about why we can’t use the word “Gyped”.

This site has been strangely silent about a particular march in Chicago.... They really enjoy discussing anti-semetism in regards to the alt-right and conservatives but bring up anything regarding the left’s issues with anti-semetism and enabling anti-semetic actions in Western countries and it’s absolute radio…

I don’t want to stir the pot (I’ve already gotten banned on Jezebel once due to my disagreement with Jezebel’s general stance on Israel), but DING DING DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER

See also: Jews and Israel

That’s why I spend all day, every day in my basement apartment knitting cat sweaters out of old, dried tampon fibers while gently weeping and watching the opening sequence to Mary Tyler Moore on repeat. Because I’m a real feminist.

This might be the key to everything.

Fuck these crybabies. Give me Jessica Chastain as the motherfucking Batman. Give me Meryl Streep as Indiana Jones, Mindy Kaling as Wolverine. None of this is reaaaalllllllll.