So leave the ways that are making you be what you really don't want to be
After shutting Twitter down for the day, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch informed me that he had seen a Trump-defending, America First-ing user deciding to respond to his critics by identifying and tagging the Jewish ones. I am not on Twitter and therefore have not been able to see if this was a neo-Nazi triple-parentheses thing or just a lot of hashtags or does it matter, really.
I've been following the reponses to Pence's fucked-up Evangelical Zionist Holocaust tweet, of which this thread and this article seemed especially on point. I just disagree with the latter's classing of Defiance (2008) among dubiously inspirational Holocaust narratives because it's not a story about implicitly non-Jewish "people who saved Jews during the Holocaust," it's a story about Jewish resistance—Jews who saved themselves and other Jews—and while we can argue about whether the not-at-all-Jewish Daniel Craig should have played Tuvia Bielski, the fact remains that his character is not a righteous gentile, he's a very angry Polish Jew. I don't think that's "inspirational," I think that's necessary. (Even if I just now thought of Jason Isaacs as Tuvia and if I could have gotten him and Liev Schreiber in the same movie? Oh, man.)
Tonight begins Tu B'Shevat, a holiday which my family has never especially celebrated. It's a bit hard to plant trees in January around here, especially since it was snowing earlier today. On the other hand, I have always liked—even just to hear about—the part where the Tu B'Shevat seder is structured around the Tree of Life which is the Kabbalistic pattern of the Sefirot. On the yet other hand, while I like quite a lot of dried fruits, I can't really eat nuts.
I will not be listening to the State of the Union address. I will read about it afterward. I am sure it will be horrifying. I plan to do something constructive with my night instead, like write about a movie with Ida Lupino.
spatch informed me that he had seen a Trump-defending, America First-ing user deciding to respond to his critics by identifying and tagging the Jewish ones. I am not on Twitter and therefore have not been able to see if this was a neo-Nazi triple-parentheses thing or just a lot of hashtags or does it matter, really.I've been following the reponses to Pence's fucked-up Evangelical Zionist Holocaust tweet, of which this thread and this article seemed especially on point. I just disagree with the latter's classing of Defiance (2008) among dubiously inspirational Holocaust narratives because it's not a story about implicitly non-Jewish "people who saved Jews during the Holocaust," it's a story about Jewish resistance—Jews who saved themselves and other Jews—and while we can argue about whether the not-at-all-Jewish Daniel Craig should have played Tuvia Bielski, the fact remains that his character is not a righteous gentile, he's a very angry Polish Jew. I don't think that's "inspirational," I think that's necessary. (Even if I just now thought of Jason Isaacs as Tuvia and if I could have gotten him and Liev Schreiber in the same movie? Oh, man.)
Tonight begins Tu B'Shevat, a holiday which my family has never especially celebrated. It's a bit hard to plant trees in January around here, especially since it was snowing earlier today. On the other hand, I have always liked—even just to hear about—the part where the Tu B'Shevat seder is structured around the Tree of Life which is the Kabbalistic pattern of the Sefirot. On the yet other hand, while I like quite a lot of dried fruits, I can't really eat nuts.
I will not be listening to the State of the Union address. I will read about it afterward. I am sure it will be horrifying. I plan to do something constructive with my night instead, like write about a movie with Ida Lupino.
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I liked that tweet stream, especially the bit at the end about the duty of Christians to educate themselves about what Revelation etc actually says. A Catholic lecturer I was listening to recently was talking about how widely read Left Behind was (most popular series after Harry Potter and Twilight), and how if Christians didn't want that to be THE interpretation, then they were going to have to start engaging, because it wasn't going to go away. (And it's some horrifying shit, as you know.)
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The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation which was basically 300+ pages of WRONG ON THE INTERNET aimed at all this.
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The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation which was basically 300+ pages of WRONG ON THE INTERNET aimed at all this.
I'm so glad to hear that exists.
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It never occurred to me before, but he would have been perfect.