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I had this interaction on Reddit a couple of days ago, on a post about the story of a Holocaust survivor. That was all it was, just a video about a Holocaust survivor’s story. First came this (deleted now):

Then a long list of links to Jewish-related Reddit posts from him, then-

Jean Paul-Sartre, 1944:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”


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Here’s the video in question. And… you know, that first string of garbage wasn’t even it, the first comment chain beneath this video involved a Holocaust joke, a few comments down and there was more deleted outright fascist-sounding stuff. All because a Jewish person was talking. I’m only part Jewish but man I’m always appalled to see things like this, out in the open, intimidating and disconcerting.

Do watch the video if you can. Suzanne Ripton (who is still alive, as far as I know) deserves so much better than to have her story shouted down.

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lexaproletariat:

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transgirlnausicaa:

i’m absolutely fucking peeved at this hilariously stupid comic

what the fuck does this even mean

the author’s position is “antifascists are just as bad as fascists because of their use of violence” and is trying to prove that point by appealing to authority via a Churchill quote, and tries to shoehorn in the current events news that Trump put the White House’s bust of Churchill back on display (it was removed from display by Obama in order to make room for a bust of MLK Jr).

it’s, by all accounts, a clusterfuck. 

Didn’t Churchill admire Hitler at first?

Wasn’t he himself a huge racist?

Wasn’t he kinda a huge dick?

Like I’m on mobile so I can’t link sources but he wasn’t as admirable as you think lol

yeah churchill was a racist imperialist shithead

Churchill made comments to the tune of “they deserve to die” in response to the Bangladesh famine. Just like with the famine in Ireland, England was exporting food from Bangladesh during the famine. 

Honestly, if you think about it, aren’t the fascists the real antifa? /sarcasm 

“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.” -Winston Churchill

Staunchly believes in eugenics, supporter of hitler before the war broke out, supported the russian white army fully aware of their wide pogroms and pushed for political aid to be given to them.  Did little to nothing about the famine that was more or less entirely preventable if not able to save millions of lives with action taken.  The fact that this absolute devil of a man is celebrated as anything other than a war criminal is a disgrace.  Idk who’s implying who’s admiring him though on top of that it seems like all the commentators are definitely in agreement that he’s horrible.  

Isn’t the red panels artist an actual nazi or something like that?

Yeah, pretty much. Red Panels is an “alt-lite” comic that tries to make Nazi sympathy sound reasonable. It’s basically just the “politically correct” version of those old A. Wyatt Mann cartoons. Oddly, it’s a perfect illustration of the point that Churchill was making: contemporary fascists (like the cartoonist) do tend to avoid the label “fascist.”

Anyway, Churchill was a genocidal eugenicist, so he makes a natural ally for contemporary fascists. It almost makes you wonder why they go to the trouble of misinterpreting him, when they could just pull from him honestly.

Isn’t this the same person who did that utterly disgusting “We weren’t going to put you in concentration camps but then you started punching us” comic? :(

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eretzyisrael:

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

January 27 marks the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era.

From 1940 to 1945, more than 1.1 million men, women and children were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. 90% of them were Jews. All were innocent. Today, we remember

Never Again.

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sarah531:

Maus was first published in December 1980, making it 36 years old now give or take. Happy birthday Maus.

Here are the two pages that stuck with me the most.

It’s January now. The other day my grandmother told me she cried when she first saw pictures of the Holocaust, because she had married a Jewish man. I believe her. With him she gave birth to a daughter, who later gave birth to me.

After she told me that, she cheerfully repeated her favorite antisemitic conspiracy theories to me, the Rothschild conspiracy and so on. She said she wanted to give Donald Trump a chance. He’s really not our President, on account of us all being British. “He’s hired neo-Nazis to share his throne,” I told her. “Literal neo-Nazis.” I tried to get her to at least look into it. I don’t think she will. “You’re very much like me, you know,” she said before she left. “Like me when I was younger.” She volunteers her time for UKIP sometimes. They’re a far-right British political party in which racism, homophobia and antisemitism runs rampant.

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is one of the most famous, most heartbreaking and most horrifying deceptions of the Holocaust that I can think of. The page on the left is the opening scene, in which Spiegelman recollects an old conversation he had with his father Vladek, a concentration camp survivor. “I fell, and my friends skated away without me.” “Friends? Your friends?” Vladek answers. “If you lock them together with no food for a week, then you could see what it is, friends!”

The page on the right is about Anja Spiegelman, Art’s mother, and what happened to her. She was imprisoned in Birkenau, but was sometimes able to intercept packages from Vladek tossed over the wall for her. One day, a Nazi guard caught her receiving a package, didn’t see her face, but chased her into one of the buildings. Anja’s friends hid her, the guard searched, but didn’t find anything. That evening, the guard lined up the women and said to them “The prisoner I chased this afternoon will now step forward… if you know who she is, push her forward or you’ll all suffer!” No-one pushed Anja forward. The guard tortured all the prisoners, made them “to run, to bend, to jump until they couldn’t anymore,” but still no-one pushed her forward. Then you could see what it is, friends! The torture continued for days, but still, still, no-one pushed her forward.

I think about those women a lot, come close to crying sometimes even. They don’t have names or human faces, not in the novel and not in history, and I imagine all of them are dead now. Their story and their heroism is over and done with in two pages. They probably never thought it’d be written down at all. They didn’t push her forward.

I would like to be like those women.

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Not enough people talk about the fact that all the main players of The Producers (Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel) were Jewish. (And that Mostel’s character’s name, Bialystock, came from a Polish city whose Jewish population was almost wiped out during the Holocaust.)

Basically, there’s crappy modern-day satire like The Interview, and then there’s The Producers.