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i think the worst thing to come out of this site are the ‘NAZIS ARE TERRIBLE. they WILL KILL ALL JEWS in COLD BLOOD, LET THEIR FAMILIES DIE IN FRONT OF THEM, and start the HOLOCAUST 2.0!! also reblog to make a jew feel safe.’ formatted type posts
ways to make a jew feel safe and comfortable:
-let them celebrate their holidays openly around you and encourage them to express themselves religiously. if they invite you over for a holiday, go!! they’re making an effort to let you learn more about them.
-consider any different diets they might be on (ex. kosher or even if it’s passover) when you have them over at your house. a little goes a long way with this one
-if christmas is around חנוכה that year, feel free to send them a חנוכה card!! it’s not really as big of a holiday for us but we do appreciate the effort put into making us feel included :)
-educate any of your friends that might make antisemitic jokes. even ‘grammar nazi’ jokes. standing up for jewish people goes further than when theyre just around. antisemitism isnt something that only exists when a jew is in the room.
-understand that, if they practice judaism, their beliefs arent like yours, and that that’s ok! a lot of people forget that not everyone is either a christian or an atheist whenever the topic of religion comes up. (but also remember not every jew practices or believes in judaism!!)
-if they tell you to warn them before you talk about nazis, do it. It’s really easy just to give someone a heads up before you talk about people who want them dead, especially if they’re openly jewish or a holocaust survivor descendent.
ways NOT to make a jew feel safe and comfortable:
“NAZIS are EVIL. they will KILL ALL THE JEWS. that’s just BAD. they will MURDER EVERY SINGLE JEWISH FAMILY. NO JEW IS SAFE. anyway reblog to make a jewish person feel safe and loved 🤗”
also if you can goyim reblog. and if you’re jewish and want to add on feel free!
hey by ‘if you are a goy reblog if you can’ i meant ‘i highly encourage you to reblog this because i have seen too many posts that make me and other jewish people very uncomfortable and they are, to be honest, entirely surface level and exhausting to see over and over again. not only that, but they are also annoying to us because they dont make us feel safe at all, and reblogging posts about how bad nazis are isnt actual activism or showing real, substantial support for jews. if youre serious about being there for your jewish siblings actually take part in their lives. make sure they’re comfortable. make sure you make casual antisemitists uncomfortable. dont just reblog posts about hating nazis, your posts dont do shit. supporting your jewish friends by even doing something as simple as what i listed above does have an affect of us. your posts about you hating nazis mean absolutely nothing unless you care for and acknowledge Actual Jewish People’s problems and challenges. otherwise, they’re surface level bullshit and do not contribute whatsoever to improve our safety.’ :) :) :)
I would add one more point because I see people on my dash do it a lot and I really genuinely love it:
When someone who isn’t Jewish says some bullshit about “Judeo-Christian,” or something where you’re pretty securely sure it’s wrong but you don’t know enough about Judaism to correct them, the following phrase:
“Maybe you should ask an actual Jewish person before you claim that.”
There are four or five goyim I follow who I’ve seen this from, and it always makes me feel like I am surrounded by people who actually have my back—they’re calling out antisemitism without adding more misinformation to the mix. (And 100%, you use this phrase, a Jew WILL be by shortly to confirm or correct what’s been said.)
god i love Katara because she’s both incredibly compassionate and Big Mad And Ready To Fight, & those two (seemingly very different) things come from the same place!
her anger comes from her deep well of compassion and empathy; she cares so deeply, burningly much about people that she can’t let unfairness or injustice stand.
I really really like that because we too often think of love as a passive thing, and think that loving people need to be soft and unaggressive and gentle. But Katara? Katara sees love as an action, love as a force that motivates change and justice, love as a thing that requires fighting what’s cruel or unfair.
anyways i think that’s a neat message in a world that really needs active love!
i really think you can do worse as a motto than “what would katara do” because sometimes the answer is “offer deep love, compassion, and healing to those around you” and sometimes the answer is “challenge yr teacher to a fistfight out back of the school for being sexist.”
