You know you’ve had that one coming a while now.
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Fair is fair.
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If we’re talking sunlight as the best disinfectant, that gif should be reversed…
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You’re right! However, I can’t find one like that, so offer this even more…suggestive version:
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gasp it’s the schroomer porn!
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was gobbled 
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De-enhance!
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What? How?!?
(Which, the “wiz” part brings the all-important pee-part of said tape into the conversation.)
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God I love this place. Lol
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It is far easier to change something to a form more true to it’s nature than to remake it entirely.
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(Gimme my) Nickleback.
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Why is Boing Boing giving this low grade trolling effort oxygen? If you hadn’t I never would’ve seen this, and been the better for it (it’s not like I’m ignorant such trolls are out there doing such troll-y things)
How about sharing some other awesome stories of representation in media? Or just some good behind the scenes stories of this film?
Please quit supporting these folks with our attention spans.
We ignored racists for a few decades, believing that they’d go away. They did not, in fact, “go away”, as many white people claimed that they would. Their movement grew, and has now pretty much completely colonized the GOP, and are actively working to overthrow the government and if they get their way, they WILL cleanse the United States of all “undesirables”.
We need to push back against them, not ignore them. Like any other bully, that’s how they are dealt with. Ignoring them does not work, especially for the most marginalized and vulnerable among us. YOU might not be on their hit list, but many people who regularly post here are. Those of us with more privilege SHOULD be the ones pushing back the hardest against these fuckers, because they CLAIM to be speaking on behalf of people with privilege… If you’re white, and are okay with these fuckers speaking for you, then by all means, keep silent and ignore it. But if you reject what they stand for, then you need to let them know that by speaking out against them.
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The dude has a million followers on Twitter. He and his opinions are by no means inconsequential. If they don’t matter to or impact your life, fine. But please don’t criticize others for making sure they’re known.
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You see that Ken Burns joint? Nazis got plenty of sunlight. People don’t care about us.
Antisemites are getting more and more attention these days, and it doesn’t seem to be hurting them. Kanye got suspended from twitter for a day.
I’m not saying it’s better to let it slide. Definitely not.
I’m saying I’m a pessimist, and I’m not sure if there’s really much of any way to deal with antisemitism. I mean, education helps, but it feels like a wine cork stemming a dam that keeps cracking every day.
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I saw it. It confirmed what I’d read elsewhere: lots of downplaying or ignoring in the bulk of the American press of what was going on in Germany under the Nazi regime until late 1939. During that same period, Nazi-aligned Americans like Coughlin, Lindbergh, the America First Committee and the Bund were able to spread their own normalising propaganda about Germany without a real countervailing narrative from most mainstream media outlets.
No-one is claiming that calling modern-day American bigots on their dog-whistles or outright hate speech is a panacea. Pretending it isn’t happening, however, is tantamount to normalising it and minimizes the current and future impact on its targets.
The Holocaust Museum in Washington DC was established in part as a rebuke and belated corrective to the willful ignorance that was happening in the U.S. prior to 1939 re: fascist regimes. Some stats from their Web site:
Visitors to the Museum
Since opening in April 1993
- Total: More than 47 million
- Demographics: Currently 24% school children; 12% international; approximately 90% non-Jewish
- Dignitaries: More than 100 heads of state; more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 132 countries
- Members: 175,637
Visitors Online
- Websites: In 2021, 28 million visitors representing 238 countries and territories (58% international visitors)
- Holocaust Encyclopedia: Available in 19 languages; in 2021, visited by 21.6 million people worldwide
- Facebook: 1,562,777 fans
- Twitter: 342,136 followers
- Instagram: 163,812 followers
- E-mail Community: 836,000 subscribers
- YouTube: 74,500 subscribers
So yeah, education helps de-normalise anti-Semitism and bigotry, whether it takes place in a big building on the National Mall or in a public TV documentary seen by millions or on Web sites or in schools.
This topic exists because too many people here accept the premise that just ignoring expressions of racism and fascism will make them go away. That’s just another form of defeatism.
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The current situation sucks, for sure. But i don’t have it in me to give up and let the assholes win. I owe that much to my kids, both biological and professional. Once more, into the breach, dear friends.
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Honest and sincere question here:
Are we undoing the deplatforming of Former Guy by reporting widely on everything he says? It was such a win when we got him off Twitter, but now every outrageous thing he says over on Truth Social gets reported here and everywhere anyway.
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When he says something truly dangerous, that cannot be ignored. His daily musings about how great he is don’t reach nearly as wide of an audience these days, so deplatforming is doing something at least.
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The press and the public largely ignored Trump’s bigotry for decades and look where that got us.
I figure if he’s going to rile up his followers to commit antisemitic hate crimes we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the growing threats.
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