When you get sick of the world not ending so you decide to take matters into your own hands.
This is also why there’s such a push with American Christians to recognize Jerusalem as the capital and also why they don’t really care about the environment. They’re basically a death cult that thinks they can accelerate the world towards the book of revelation
The Vice President of the United fucking States is a huge proponent of this
It sounds funny, but they are literally trying to use Jews to trigger the armageddon, which they believe would cause all the Jews to die. Bullshit or not, its deeply rooted in antisemitism.
it’s so funny (sad) how many people in the notes are like “THIS ISNT IN MY BIBLE WTF” like have y’all ever heard of Revelations…..how do u follow a book you don’t even know the content of
To everyone who’s reblogged this as a “funny post”, please stop. Here is why.
I mean he’s definitely a fascist authoritarian like Hitler. Personally I don’t like the way these Hitler analogies are used, not only because it’s trivializing but also because it sets Hitler up to be some kind of devil, like the Ultimate Worst Ever to be compared to, when he wasn’t even that special. He happened to be sitting on a confluence of situations that allowed him to have an unusually high body count, but he was building up on millennia of antisemitic rhetoric and hatred to commit genocide. Overemphasizing the horror of Hitler helps cover up the pogroms, purges, Inquisitions, slavery, and other myriad crimes that European Gentiles committed against Jewish people for millennia. It also gives people the false sense of security that the evil was defeated with him, particularly to Americans with their hero complex about WWII.
I think Bolobolo’s main body of supporters are making a very calculated and rational choice here. They know they’re not the people who will be worste hit by the kind of dictatorship he advocates, and that they’ll be put in a better position to exploit marginalized groups. Most German goyim were fine under Hitler, after all, prior to his wild incompetence with starting wars on two fronts and losing. It’s not mysterious that Bolerono gets so much support, it just means a whole lot of Brazilians are being evil uncaring assholes. Those fuckers know what they’re doing.
Wikipedia also tells me the Nakam caused zero known deaths and were incompetent buffoons whose murderous plans were, most likely, sabotaged by other Jewish people or their own bumbling ways. Why would their existence be an antisemitic talking point? The Nazis killed six million Jewish people, is that an anti-white talking point? Do you think the actions of the Nazis generalize to all white people, and that white people should be killed as a result? Murderers–including inept would-be murderers in the Nakam’s case–exist in every group of people, but I can’t help but notice their actions are generalized to their racial/ethnic group only when they belong to marginalized groups.
And when I say “whiteness,” I include concepts such as white-passing, conditional whiteness and functional whiteness. I am no longer going to discuss Jews in terms of whiteness.
First of all, confident assertions about the whiteness of Jews as a whole, certain kinds of Jews and/or a particular Jewish person relies on treating race as biology and geography, which is diametrically opposed to the purpose of using the phrase “people of color.”
Secondly, a lot of those “white Jews” live under a particular set of circumstances that only applies to a narrow segment of Jewish people, a segment that is deeply assimilated into mainstream American culture, all the way down to internalizing its most toxic attitudes and behaviors. The issue of Jews and assimilation beyond stringent halachic observance is a conversation worth having, but not like that.
Calling most Jews white because they’re lighter than a brown paper bag relies on an understanding of racial oppression that uses the Black American experience as a control group or a measuring stick, which I’ve repeatedly expressed my frustration with. If we go by that, every non-Black and non-Native group who willingly came to the United States is white. That sounds really ignorant when said out loud, doesn’t it? Ignores a lot of history, a lot of struggle, a lot of intergenerational trauma, doesn’t it? Yeah, exactly.
If I can be real for a second, I notice strong parallels between antisemitic stereotypes and anti-Asian ones, and I don’t believe that’s an accident. I remember when there was real, earnest discussion about whether East Asian people should be considered honorary whites and therefore exempt from anti-discrimination policies, particularly college admission. (And, when I’m feeling cynical, it comes with an added dose of, “See? They hate, fear, and exploit Black people too!”) No, this was not on Tumblr. This was in reputable media sources.
Thirdly, my experience with gentiles who are convinced of the whiteness of Jews is similar to Eric K. Ward’s. There’s something distinctly regional about it because most of the people I’ve encountered who are intractable about the whiteness of Jews are from New York and Chicago. I wasn’t particularly surprised by what happened at Chicago Dyke March, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar thing happens in New York, Los Angeles or DC. I’d be more shocked if it happened at the Albuquerque Dyke March. Not saying that they love Jews in Albuquerque, but places like NYC and Chicago maintain a certain brand of antisemitism that masks itself as resisting injustice. Not saying that these places are more antisemitic, just that the expression of it is different and often unacknowledged and unexamined. In my neck of the woods, antisemitism is more like–well, you remember Charlottesville.
Fourth, the majority of concepts and frameworks that dominate how we talk about racial justice are by and for people who are insiders to US history and culture, even if their experience of it is a horror show. Make no mistake, lots of folks on this website decry US-centrism as a way to shut Black Americans up when we talk about our experiences with antiblackness. Even so, there is an awful lot of projecting US racial dynamics onto non-US contexts, ignoring the historical, political and cultural distinctions of US racism. Don’t get it twisted. This doesn’t make other countries into some post-racial utopia. It just means that the how it functions and who it targets does not neatly map onto the US context. (Though everybody seems to have it out for Black folks, including other Black folks.)
Fifth, and this is where I’m gonna lose you if I haven’t already, I honestly believe that whiteness and Jewishness are antithetical to one another.
To be white is to own every place you go to. To be a Jew is to wander in search of home. To be white is to always be on the VIP list. To be a Jew is to never forget that we were strangers. To be white is to ignore the past. To be a Jew is to remember, remember, remember. To be white is to be a god to be obeyed. To be Jewish is to struggle with God.
Take whiteness away, and what is left? Whiteness is a blank sheet of paper. Whiteness has no center. It has neither roots nor wings. Whiteness rules the world (for now), but it sold its soul.
If (when) whiteness goes away, there will still be Jews.
[image description: a tweet by @jessewente that says, “colonial states separate children from parents because they know it works. it destroys and traumatizes for generations. it’s an attack on the future as well as the present. it’s not a partisan issue, it’s a colonial one.” end id]
* Hiding the children with Christian families, to be fair, helped save their lives but the intent to erase the children’s Jewishness after the danger had passed is also clear–the Vatican literally said baptism “cancels the Jew,” holy shit
I am so not qualified to talk about the Jewish concept of g-d or even whether there’s just one concept of it, so if anyone Jewish wants to talk about it feel free. I can talk briefly about the Christian God, but keep in mind I used to belong to a fairly conservative Protestant sect heavily influenced by U.S. Evangelical Christianity so this likely doesn’t represent all Christians. I mean my old sect, the Korean Presbyterian Church, recently declared Catholicism a heresy I can’t with these fuckers 😂
Much antisemitism below
So in the version of Christianity I’m familiar with God is a unity and Trinity at the same time, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He is heavily gendered, translated with exclusively masculine titles such as King. Not so much gendered pronouns though, since Korean doesn’t truck much with them. Jesus, the Holy Son, is considered to be the Messiah and the fulfillment of prophecies by the Jewish prophets and holy books. (I’m still embarrassed about ever believing this, ouch.) Jesus is considered human and divine at the same time, a concept so tricky–much like all this Trinity stuff–that historically they literally had to kill people who didn’t believe it.
The Virgin Mary is NOT a part of the divine and we were taught nothing about there being anything feminine in God. It’s a big beef my particular sect, and probably many Protestant sects, have with Catholicism that Catholics over-exalt Mary. Some even accuse Catholics of worshipping her as a goddess, which I have seen no evidence of but may not be that far from the history of Mary taking over local goddesses as Christianity spread. But at least we let her have sex after she had Jesus, I think most Protestants believe she had Jesus’s brothers and sisters the good old-fashioned way with Joseph. Evidently Catholics believe she and Joseph never had sex and the siblings of Jesus mentioned in the Bible were cousins or step-siblings, something that had me completely agog when I first heard it.
God as I was taught is all-good, all-powerful, and all-knowing, a trilemma I struggled with until I couldn’t keep up my faith anymore. I’ve since come to think God could be at best two out of three, but from talking to Jewish friends they hardly grant one out of three which is, like, a pretty harsh grade to give the creator of the entire universe lmao. I’ve also been taught Scripture is flawless and perfect and to be read literally, so the pronouncements of God are not to be questioned ever. Like, not the genocides, not the slavery, not anything.
Re God’s shady past, it was a pretty common line in my church that the God of the New Testament was a kinder and gentler one than the God of the Old Testament, and that Jewish people worshipped the, I guess, cruel and barbaric pre-makeover god who ordered slaughters and kept His people to an unbearably harsh set of laws while our God was kindly and full of love (but still homophobic as hell because the Old Testament suddenly becomes super important then and only then). The event that perpetuated this huge character growth in God was evidently the coming of Jesus/a.k.a. Messiah, because now our sins were all forgiven as long as we accepted Jesus as our lord and savior so we didn’t need animal sacrifices or all those technical laws anymore. Yeah, again, I’m embarrassed I ever believed any of this.
So those are the headcanons of God from my old corner of the Bible fandom. It’s far from universal but fairly widespread, and I believe very damaging between its cultural appropriation, antisemitism, and regressive attitudes toward women and queer people.
Also the difference comes in to place with the Bible as well. Jewish ppl tend to follow the god of the Old Testament, all powerful, all knowing, vengeful, jealous, and law abiding. Many of the rules Jewish people ahere to come from the Old Testament, observing the Sabbath, not eating of unclean things like pork. God was something to be feared and have limited to no access to. They also follow the Torah.
Whereas Christians tend to weigh heavily on the New Testament. Christians believe in Jesus, and once he died for our sins the veil from the Old Testament ripped in two clearing the way of god and mankind to become one hence the Holy Spirit. God in you. Though most Christians believe in Jesus and what he did and talked about his two rules, many like to dip into the Old Testament to pick up rules that no longer apply because of what Jesus did. Christians use these rules to okay racism, control over women, slavery, kill homosexuality, killing people who aren’t Christians etc. Christians come from the word Christ as in Jesus Christ.
But a few Christians called Red Letter Christians (which I am) only adhered to Jesus spoken word via the red lettering in the New Testament of the Bible. Jesus gave only two rules 1. Love thy neighbor as thyself. 2. Believe in Him. Never during his time on earth did Jesus condemn homosexuality, control over women, slavery, killing because a person isn’t like you, nor racism.
Is that concept of Judaism something told to you by someone who is Jewish? Because Jewish people I know seem to believe god is a punk-ass bitch and they need to fistfight him, more or less. Jewish people have literally put him on trial multiple times, so mainstream modern Judaism seems very different from the characterization of following an all-powerful, jealous and law-abiding god. And for that matter, most Jewish people’s relationship to the commandments doesn’t bear much resemblance to the legalistic adherence to archaic rules that many Christians characterize them as, aided by the Christian Bible itself.
I am so not qualified to talk about the Jewish concept of g-d or even whether there’s just one concept, so if anyone Jewish wants to talk about it feel free. I can talk briefly about the Christian God, but keep in mind I used to belong to a fairly conservative Protestant sect heavily influenced by U.S. Evangelical Christianity so this likely doesn’t represent all Christians. I mean my old sect, the Korean Presbyterian Church, recently declared Catholicism a heresy I can’t with these fuckers 😂
Much antisemitism below
So in the version of Christianity I’m familiar with God is a unity and Trinity at the same time, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He is heavily gendered, translated with exclusively masculine titles such as King. Not so much gendered pronouns though, since Korean doesn’t truck much with them. Jesus, the Holy Son, is considered to be the Messiah and the fulfillment of prophecies by the Jewish prophets and holy books. (I’m still embarrassed about ever believing this, ouch.) Jesus is considered human and divine at the same time, a concept so tricky–much like all this Trinity stuff–that historically they literally had to kill people who didn’t believe it.
The Virgin Mary is NOT a part of the divine and we were taught nothing about there being anything feminine in God. It’s a big beef my particular sect, and probably many Protestant sects, have with Catholicism that Catholics over-exalt Mary. Some even accuse Catholics of worshipping her as a goddess, which I have seen no evidence of but may not be that far from the history of Mary taking over local goddesses as Christianity spread. But at least we let her have sex after she had Jesus, I think most Protestants believe she had Jesus’s brothers and sisters the good old-fashioned way with Joseph. Evidently Catholics believe she and Joseph never had sex and the siblings of Jesus mentioned in the Bible were cousins or step-siblings, something that had me completely agog when I first heard it.
God as I was taught is all-good, all-powerful, and all-knowing, a trilemma I struggled with until I couldn’t keep up my faith anymore. I’ve since come to think God could be at best two out of three, but from talking to Jewish friends they hardly grant one out of three which is, like, a pretty harsh grade to give the creator of the entire universe lmao. I’ve also been taught Scripture is flawless and perfect and to be read literally, so the pronouncements of God are not to be questioned ever. Like, not the genocides, not the slavery, not anything.
Speaking of God’s shady past, it was a pretty common line in my church that the God of the New Testament was a kinder and gentler one than the God of the Old Testament, and that Jewish people worshipped the, I guess, cruel and barbaric pre-makeover god who ordered slaughters and kept His people to an unbearably harsh set of laws while our God was kindly and full of love (but still homophobic as hell because the Old Testament suddenly becomes super important then and only then). The event that perpetuated this huge character growth in God was evidently the coming of Jesus/a.k.a. Messiah, because now our sins were all forgiven as long as we accepted Jesus as our lord and savior so we didn’t need animal sacrifices or all those technical laws anymore. Yeah, again, I’m embarrassed I ever believed any of this.
So those are the headcanons of God from my old corner of the Bible fandom. It’s far from universal but fairly widespread, and I believe very damaging between its cultural appropriation, antisemitism, and regressive attitudes toward women and queer people.
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