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Feral Philosophers and Devious Dentists

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Black lives matter. Read the previous sentence carefully; there are no ifs, ands, or buts.
The name's Maws Enderteeth (toki pona: "uta Mase"), I don't bite unless you're being antisemitic. I will convert to Judaism or die trying, but rabbis don't grow on trees around here so don't hold your breath. I love learning, please correct me when I mess up so I can keep learning. I'm probably more awkward than you, but definitely in no position to judge.
mid-20s - he/him or it/its - white
No DNI, but I will ask that religious Christians please ask permission before following me. I will block overt Christians who follow without permission. This is a simple boundary and you may inquire about it, but I will not negotiate about it.

An Incomplete Guide to Recognizing and Unlearning Antisemitism

Ok first of all, disclaimer: I'm studying to convert, but I am not Jewish yet. I will not pretend to be speaking for Jewish people, merely collecting and boosting their voices to help other gentiles learn, especially if you're like me and tumblr posts are very easy to absorb information from.

Since I just discovered my antisemitism tag is almost empty if you use the search, and you need to open my blog website in browser to really see it, I decided to go through it and collect good educational posts about antisemitism.

(Update: you should be able to follow this link on mobile as well as in browser or this link if you're in browser and prefer to read on my forever under construction theme, both should show you all my posts with this tag without tumblr's infamous search getting involved)

This list is far from comprehensive, but should contain a lot of useful information to get you started. These are things I've learned and collected over the years, and hopefully will continue to update and fill with Jewish voices. To my knowledge, every post and video except my own is written by an actual Jewish person.

If any of the links seem broken or mislabeled, or if you are Jewish and think information provided is inaccurate or would like to append something, please let me know.

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

no sir, i’m not plural. sir, it is a mystical technique taught to me by my ancient forefathers to protect me against psychic invaders. my mind has been splintered and compartmentalized in order to confound the any and all supernatural perversion. any other suggested cause is purely hearsay. i must reiterate, sir, it is only by coincidence that one of my many facets seems to resemble this gentleman “David Strider” you seem utterly convinced I’m familiar with. Surely, it must be the will of some divine providence that smiles upon the both of us.

The 'cartoon wardrobe' thing where a character in an animated thing only ever wears one outfit doesn't bother me. That's just their design. 'But what about laundry' just isn't a particularly interesting detail to care about.

But if you have a character with one of those Always Outfits, and then there's a timeskip and they show up again a bit older than before, you have to give them something new to wear. I'm willing to ignore laundry, but I've never met a 15-year-old who wants to wear the same thing she wore when she was 12. Laundry isn't an interesting detail. How the character has changed over the timeskip, and how that can be represented in their design, absolutely is.

Hell, it can't even be the same outfit, becuase there's simply no chance it would still fit. The only way to explain the continued use of the costume is if this character intentionally chose to buy a larger version of exactly the same thing they were already wearing every day three years ago to wear every day now. That's an incredibly specific character beat. And it's not one that makes sense for most of the characters who do this. You're already making new art! Just toss two hours of wage at a designer to give them a character-appropriate new fit as well! You can keep the theme colour!