potologie:

*feels intense dirty capitalist pleasure over acquiring a new material object* my father karl will forgive me because I have a retail kink and kinks are protected even under communism

nilesfreeman:

my brain when i try to exit my mid-day fantasy daydream to focus on real tasks:

lexa-el-amin:

truer words have never been spoken

otatma:

particularlyparasitic:

watchingthedetective:

wendynerdwrites:

Western popular concepts of Jews that people here take as the extent of our tribe:

The reality:

Boys from the Jewish population of Yemen, which has been around for 2500 hundred years but has been slowly massacred over the past few generations.

The Lemba of South Africa and Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe in particular has a large and VERY long history with their Jewish Community)

The Abayudaya of Uganda, some of the great Jewish musicians

The Beta Israeli of Ethiopia

Igbo Jews of Nigeria

Cochin Jews of India 

Baghdadi Jews

Kaifeng Jews of China, who go back to the 7th or 8th century. Unfortunately, during the 20th century much of their culture was almost wiped out and the Kaifeng are currently working to rediscover their Jewish heritage and culture.

Jewish Children in Puerto Rico (Jews have been in Puerto Rico since the 15th century, many fleeing from the Inquisition)

The Beit Shalom Choir in Japan

Kosher comes in all colors, from all over the world, and in a variety cultural groups. We’re a small portion of the human population, but we have EVERYONE. We are all members of this tribe.

Because stereotypes are bullshit.

Boosting because you sure as fuck won’t see this in any Western textbook. 

Shoutout to the regularly erased JOC

mygoodrabbit:

everythingeverywhereallatonce:

crying-elf-lass-deactivated2020:

veeranger:

veeranger:

one of the first laws that needs to go when we abolish the police nationwide is loitering laws. there’s absolutely no reason the state should be able to arrest and fine me for like. existing in public.

and it goes without saying that these laws are used to target black people as well as the homeless

And laws against sleeping in cars. Not only is it used to target homeless people who may have no choice but to sleep in a car, it is also very dangerous and promotes driving while tired.

loitering and vagrancy laws are rooted in the black codes that were enacted mainly in 1865-6 following the civil war explicitly as a means of arresting free black people and incarcerating them as a source of involuntary unpaid labor to replace the institution of slavery that had just been abolished

To learn more about the history of the black codes, I recommend the documentary Slavery by Another Name, which is available on Kanopy for free if your local library has access to the service.

bakwaaas:

‘no ❤️’ is so powerful