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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Yes, exactly that. There's a clear chain of nudging and shifting the Overton window of competence and legitimizing the nationalist-Evangelical right and mainstreaming hate speech and everyone who doesn't buy or defend it seems to remember the responsibility goes back to Reagan, but W was the immediate proof of concept. And now people feel warm and fuzzy about him because he disapproves of 45? That's a low bar! Anyone with a fragment of conscience or a halfway functioning awareness of ethics should disapprove of 45! The pat on the head is not worth the wars.
(While writing this comment, I ran into this comic. It rings true to me. I remember the rhetoric at the time.)
I let my hatred for 43 go when he got in the helicopter to leave Washington, but maybe that was a mistake, since no one else remembers what he did, or how responsible he is for where we are.
I think it was fine not to hate him as you did when he could do harm on the scale of a president, but I don't understand how that has transmuted into this belief that he was harmless. I wanted him prosecuted for war crimes. I still do. How did historical memory get this short?