דער פֿאשיסט, ער ציטערט הערט

[sovay]

That moment when you put on the Dead Milkmen's "Punk Rock Girl" to get it out of your head (where it got stuck via the transitive property of "The Great Boston Molasses Flood" after reading the recent research about the molasses flood in question) and then, because of the way your iTunes is organized, realize a few songs later that you are listening to Partisans of Vilna: The Songs of World War II Jewish Resistance and, all right, you probably love Hirsh Glik rather more than the next person thanks to beta-reading A Verse from Babylon more than ten years ago, but don't you think he would have been all right with anti-fascist songs not being so directly relevant again? Yes, I know he didn't write "Yid, du partizaner"—that was Shmerke Kaczerginski—but he's got two songs on the album and "Zog nit keyn mol" is still on mental rotation. This even before I found out that a protest to which I am strongly thinking of going on Wednesday has a Jewish resistance faction. That's cool. (Even if I can tell I am not their target demographic by the fact that I didn't type it out "#JewishResistance" because it makes no sense to me to use hashtags in contexts where they do not actually function as metadata.) I hope somebody has already made a golem sign. These days I am rather in favor of golems that protect as many kinds of marginalized people as needed.

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[phi]

I think they do serve as, maybe not metadata, but more highly weighted in the in-Facebook search algorithm.

I made a donation to A Jewish Voice for Peace in my dad's name just to piss him off,but then the Boston organizer very earnestly invited me to join the local chapter and now I'm planning to go to their organizing meeting tonight in Harvard Sq.

[kore]

I hope somebody has already made a golem sign. These days I am rather in favor of golems that protect as many kinds of marginalized people as needed.

Where is Jack Kirby when we need him? -- altho someone updated that cover of Cap punching Hitler in the face to Ms Marvel punching Trump in the face, which was great. Chris Evans does sound about ready to punch out Trump on Twitter.

[dhampyresa]

These days I am rather in favor of golems that protect as many kinds of marginalized people as needed.

YES.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

We will have to build our Golems with words,
As in days of old, what powers a Golem is faith and desperation,
And those we have in plenty.
May a time come when all the Golems can rest, and we can live in peace.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

On a side note, I'd never heard that Dead Milkmen song before. It's very catchy. ~sweet sticky death is a-comin' my way~

Also, thank you for telling me about Hirsh Glik. I'd somehow come this far without hearing about him or reading any of his stuff. He, in turn, got me onto "Shtil di nakht iz oysgeshternt" which I'm listening to now. Never knew about Vitke Kempner, either. All these people whose heroism is important, who I haven't heard about till now. High time.

[gwynnega]

Somewhere I have an LP of Partisans of Vilna. I do wish it didn't seem so relevant at the moment.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

I saw The Dead Milkmen live in 1991 or 92, along with the Cavedogs and Mojo Nixon. The Dead Milkmen were very good live, but everyone was overshadowed by Mojo Nixon, who was really fun live.