*ǵerh₂os-tashen

As with shame, sometimes people experience it when it is baseless/maladaptive/counterproductive, but then *that's* the problem, not the grief or shame

I think that's a bit imprecise for an ethnoreligion, but I assume very few religions, ethno- or otherwise, have as a tenet "our deities don't think we're special" and even fewer have "our deities hate us"

(To be clear, I don't think Emissary specifically is reading Akiva in bad faith or through a lens of assuming a Jew would automatically be racist)

But if someone has decided (because he's a self-identified Zionist, because he's Orthodox, because his name is Akiva Cohen, or whatever) that he's ok with racism against Palestinians, I can see how they would read him as endorsing

But this isn't the first time he's pointed out that there's a broad consensus among Israelis that their treatment of Palestinians is necessary for the security of the people, and I haven't personally seen him *endorse* that explicitly

Akiva didn't learn to read the room until he was 40 and he has a tendency to launch into thought experiments/hypos as an intellectual exercise without making it clear that's what he's doing, and I think people often get the wrong impression about what he actually believes

My first thought

Does she mean the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or the tentacle of the Elders of Zion that controls the levers of American political power?

Are these people who are overcorrecting?

Yeah, opposition to antisemitism lo these 80 years has been pretty much entirely downstream of "the Nazis were antisemites." Bigotry being prejudice plus power, it's difficult to see antisemitism as bad in its own right

Also I'm pretty sure 100 beers is more alcohol than I have consumed since the end of the first Trump administration

I probably could do it, I just shouldn't

(No small children, no real concrete responsibilities beyond my job; it would mean doing laundry and buying groceries buzzed, but that's all in walking distance)

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One of my favourite midrash on Purim is the claim that everyone stopped taking the emperor’s edicts seriously after the one ordering women to obey their husbands.

i did not realize how load bearing the elementary school visits from holocaust survivors were for holding back the tidal wave of casual antisemitism. holy shit the vibe shift on this happened fast

(That is, replacing Yiddish terms *specifically* with Hebrew ones, even for post-exile items and practices)

In my formal Jewish education, such as it was, there was an undercurrent of "Ashki minhag is diasporic, innovative, fake; not-Ashki minhag is Israeli, traditional, true." So sufganiyot/נ-ג-ה-פ svivonim/carob/making a point of using Hebrew instead of Yiddish terms was a return to Correct practice

Adams might deserve that, but Iran doesn't

Obviously it's the normal people who I think are correct here.

That makes it sound like you think the smear campaign is her fault

The thing is both normal people and people who refused to vote for Harris are accusing the other ones of "letting Trump win"

These same people had no problem understanding this when it came to Trump voters who claimed not to be racist

personally I think if the Maine primary voters choose Platner, we will be entirely justified in judging them as people who, at the least, are fine with anti-semitism.

And to be clear, if this is or was "just" commitment to the bit, that's also bad. When his response to "you seem to be doing a lot of Nazi shit, are you a Nazi?" is "heh heh heh … am I?" the actual answer doesn't really matter

So it's possible that he *was* a dumbass edgelord but his response to being called a Nazi for, y'know, innocent dumbass edgelordery has been to defiantly lean into it

No one could accuse you of secretly loving Platner, that's true

I suppose technically "it's bad that he did this without asking first" doesn't *necessarily* mean "… because we would have said no," but it's extremely strained to read it as "if he had we we would have said yes"

Pretty sure Meidas Touch does too

I don't think "antisemitic" is an insult in this context

(That's not to say it's correct, though with no context about this person I'm inclined to believe it is. But I think a good-faith but erroneous assessment is different from an insult)