Stand up against “Don’t Say Gay” laws that several states within the USA are trying to push through- they’re insidious.
It’s way beyond LGBTQ erasure. It’s more than than isolating LGBTQ students, teachers, and other members of society and putting them at risk of discrimination, violence, suicide, and disenfranchisement to the fringes of society. “Don’t Say Gay” laws are designed not to protect children from “inappropriate material”, they’re actually a direct effort to prevent the educational process necessary to change society to end discrimination and violence, particularly Transgender discrimination. Only education at a young age can achieve this goal.
Eliminating LGBTQ history and other educational programs and content stops this process dead in its tracks at a key critical moment in our history. It’s an effort to stop Transgender rights from happening.
STAND UP AGAINST “DON’T SAY GAY”! Our future and survival are depending upon it! And this goes way beyond the United States: as one of the most influential countries on the planet, we’re setting global precident too. 
This is my list of sundown towns and regions known for racism in Canada. It is in no way complete, and I will continuously add to it as people submit more entries to me via dm/ask/submission.
If you know of a place that I have not yet included, please reach out and let me know!
Based on my research, this is the only existing list of sundown towns in Canada. I am compiling this in the interest of safety for racialized people.
This website has a clickable map where you can see suspected and confirmed sundown towns by state, as well as information about whether these attitudes are historical or current.
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I am poc too and i am scared for my LIFE when i go to the south. please stay safe.
I am not poc but I know this could save someone’s life. Please reblog and spread the message.
My obligatory addition to this every time it crosses my dash, because I know the link is definitely missing ones in my own (northern) state and there are some in this thread not on the above link either - thread by LeVar Burton with a LOT of replies from people naming the sundown towns near them:
We make jokes about fragile masculinity and it’s funny but like its also the reason men commit so many atrocious hate crimes against women etc. Like I laugh at them but then I remember how scared I get when a man I know genuinely feels his masculinity is threatened and how they often resort to violence as a way of regaining their ~lost machoness~
It is a great petpeeve of mine that many progressive-minded people tend to lump in “white” in the general criticism of homophobic and transphobic behavior.
Being homophobic or transphobic is not inherent or exclusive to white people, and to hang onto this mindset tacitly permits the continuation of these dangerous attitudes in poc communities. Let’s not overlook that in many cases of trans women of color being murdered, the perpetrators are often also poc. This is not only a huge disservice to those victims of hate crimes, but it also erases their struggles as LGBT+ individuals within their respective communities.
I know America is majority white (roughly 61.3% or 76.9% when including white Hispanic and Latinos), so it is easy to connect general homophobia to the white majority, but to ignore the fact that virulent homophobia and transphobia exists in Latino, black, Asian, etc. communities just within the US (and completely excluding the attitudes in other countries) simply allows these toxic attitudes to fester, hidden in the shadow of “white bigotry.”
British actor Jason Isaacs, best known for his role as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films as well as his work in the film The Patriot and the television series Brotherhood, is Jewish. Here’s how we know:
-Jason’s parents are Jews of Eastern European background, and raised him in a tight-knit Jewish community in Liverpool, England. His parents later made aliyah to Israel. [x]
-Jason describes himself as not particularly religious, but very Jewish. During his childhood, he attended a cheder twice-weekly and had very strong cultural Jewish influences. [x]
-After his family moved to London, Jason witnessed antisemitic attacks on their synagogue and a wave of violence in the 1970s caused by the antisemitic rhetoric of the National Front, a white supremacist, fascist political party. [x]
-On raising his two children, Jason has stated he intends for them to be proud of their Jewish background and with Jewish some observances and customs, while also giving them an environment that allows them to question teachings instead of accepting them blindly. [x]
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It’s easy to dismiss the Pittsburgh shooter as crazy or insane, but it is not responsible to do so.
To dismiss his evil as a symptom of insanity is to dismiss the responsibility that society holds. We want to call him crazy because we want to distance ourselves from his evil, we want to see ourselves as above it.
But his violent act is a symptom of a larger problem. The vast majority of people do not commit mass murder, but the fact of the matter is that many people in our society do hold the same sorts of antisemitic and xenophobic ideas. The Pittsburgh shooter knew other people who hated Jewish people and refugees, and it helped him feel justified in his beliefs.
The fact of the matter is that although this is an extreme example of antisemitism, antisemitic acts have actually been on the rise in the United States and abroad.
We have white supremacists and neo-Nazis marching in the streets. Do you really believe this is the work of one isolated madman?
People frequently invoke the Holocaust when speaking of large-scale discrimination in the modern era, and at first glance, this might even make sense. After all, if people are subject to abuse for an arbitrary aspect of themselves that they cannot change, if they are threatened with death due to these characteristics, surely the comparison is apt? No.
There is only one Holocaust. There will only ever be one Holocaust. It was a specific moment in time that transpired as the result of countless years of oppression and discriminatory practices, coupled with a political climate that bred it like an opportunistic infection.
No one but Holocaust survivors are Holocaust survivors. No one but Jews are Jews. No one but the Rroma are Rroma. No one but the Nazis are Nazis. No one but Hitler is Hitler.
Comparing anything to the Holocaust, no matter how terrible, does nothing but minimize the real, actual human tragedy of the Holocaust. Real, human lives, human stories, human hopes, brutally taken, murdered, ripped apart. Families, gone. Towns, gone. History, culture, gone. Lives, gone.
Millions of real people died in the Holocaust. All you do when you use Holocaust rhetoric to support your faulty arguments is to disservice them and all those who survived them. Stop using dead Jews to support your faulty rhetoric.
Only decades ago, the population of Jews in Yemen numbered in the tens of thousands. Today, only about a hundred remain. The rest have fled to other countries that were more hospitable to them due to a combination of antisemitism, war, and the ease of making aliyah.
The few remaining Jews of Yemen have recently been told to convert or leave the country by the Yemeni Houthi, who seized control of the capital of Yemen in January 2015. The slogan used by the Houthi rebels includes the phrase “damn the Jews,” raising concerns about the safety of the last remaining Jews of Yemen.
Houthi leaders claim that the slogan used does not come from a place of antisemitism and ill will towards the Jews of Yemen, but a place of hatred towards Israel. The ultimatum the Houthi rebels have given the dwindling Jewish community in Yemen, however, paints a different picture.
The Jews of Yemen have lived in the region for roughly 2,500 years. After the birth of Islam in the seventh century, the Jews in the region had a weak but mostly peaceful relationship with the Muslims living alongside them, though pogroms did break out from time to time.
In the 1800s, situations started to take a darker turn for Yemen’s Jews as a series of decrees placed harsher restrictions on Jews and Jewish orphans were removed from Jewish communities for Muslim families to adopt, essentially tearing young Jews away from their people, culture, and heritage. Violent antisemitism in the form of riots and pogroms took place following the creation of Israel, and emigration of Jews from Yemen turned from a trickle to a flood.
Violence and oppression has become commonplace and expected by the Jews of Yemen. As their numbers have dwindled, they have become only more vulnerable to the effects of antisemitism. Multiple cases of murder, beatings, and forced conversions have become the lived reality for the Jewish community in Yemen, and with the recent ultimatum from Houthi rebel leaders, the situation looks all the more dire.
A lot of goyim say “but it’s 2015!” when I talk about modern antisemitism, and it makes me incredibly uncomfortable.
You’re right. It is 2015. That much should be obvious.
But the fact that it’s 2015 means incredibly little about anything else other than the fact that we’ve moved a bit forward in the inexorable progression of time. That’s all it means. It says nothing about bigotry or hardship or antisemitism. As time progresses, it doesn’t follow that people will become less bigoted or less antisemitic.
Antisemitism has existed for thousands of years, and it didn’t suddenly arrive on the scene with the Holocaust, and it definitely wasn’t just as suddenly extinguished when the survivors were liberated. A bloody history stretching back millennia … it doesn’t go away over night, and it doesn’t go away in seventy years.
And sometimes, if you’re unlucky, it doesn’t merely fail to vanish entirely. It rears its ugly head again and lets you know just how far we’ve come isn’t nearly enough.
When I try to speak about antisemitism, all too often the response I get it “but X group has it worse!” Instead of listening to what I have to say about very real antisemitism that I have witnessed or experienced, people try to silence me by telling me that another group experiences more-injust injustices than Jewish people.
Whether another group has it worse than Jews is not relevant in discussions of antisemitism. Even if it is true (and please, research the facts before running your mouth), the fact that other groups are persecuted has nothing to do with the suffering, oppression, and murder of the Jewish people. Silencing Jews who talk about antisemitism does nothing to help anybody, much less he other groups you are supposedly trying to champion.
If your “answer” to antisemitism is to tell Jews to stop being Jewish, you are entirely missing the point.
Jews should have the right to live Jewish lives, without fear of being oppressed or murdered by gentiles. You are asking Jews to give up their heritage, religion, ethnicity, and very identity to escape persecution they shouldn’t have to experience in the first place.
And it’s not like separating ourselves from our Jewish identities ever stopped gentiles from persecuting us anyways.
It’s not actually any of your business “how Jewish” someone is or what part of the world their family hails from or what that person’s views on Israel are.
It’s not actually your place to decide whether or not someone is Jewish or to tell Jews what they must be like to be a “good Jew” or what their political views must be to be accepted by society. It’s not actually your place to decide whether or not a Jew is wrong in calling something you did or said antisemitic.
It’s just not and it never will be. A Jew is a Jew, and it’s not your place to decide what Jewishness is or what forms of Jewishness are acceptable, and it’s definitely not your place to decide what constitutes antisemitism or make excuses for it.
Now kindly stop speaking over Jews when it comes to Jewishness, Judaism, and Jewish problems, and start listening.
If you believe Jews are to blame for their own suffering and oppression, then explain to me why children so young they couldn’t dress themselves, much less be responsible for or complicit in some kind of Jewish conspiracy, had to die and be tortured and experimented along with their parents and grandparents.
Infants, toddlers, school-aged children. Why did they have to die? What harm did they cause gentiles by playing in the streets and suckling their mothers’ breasts?
They didn’t have to die. It’s just one part of the horror of every action of any Jew, regardless of age or ability, being demonized. Even if Jews were responsible for the horrors inflicted upon them, there would be no reason to inflict these horrors upon a child.
If you blame Jews for their own suffering and oppression, you are the one standing idly by as children are gassed and thrown into the incinerator. You are the one assisting the “physician” injecting boiling water into the bowels of purposefully-frozen Jewish victims. You are the one celebrating as thousands are forced to convert at threat of exile or death just to maintain the homogeny of your society. You are the one who ignores the screams of thirty thousand people with lives and hopes and families, murdered in a one-day pogrom.
If you look at the pain and the millions dead and lost to the Jewish people and say that it must be our fault, that we must have done something wrong, things wrong that endured for centuries that even the youngest children are guilty of, then you are the one encouraging our oppressors. You might even be the one administering the poison or spitting at us in the street or tearing our children from us for experimentation and murder.
If this seems grotesque, that’s because the suffering that’s been exacted on the Jewish people for millennia is more brutal than any nightmare you could ever have, and it haunts us to this day.
It just means that they don’t want antisemitism to follow them every time someone hears their name. You can change your name from something obviously Jewish to something not and still identify as wholly Jewish.
And it’s certainly not the place of gentiles to criticize Jews for making the hard choices goyim don’t have to.
If you think antisemitism doesn’t matter because of how small the total world population of Jews is, consider that antisemitism is the reason that the modern Jewish population is so small in the first place.
