I'm about to use language I don't normally use on my "professional" platform, but because my fandom interests often bleed over I'm gonna say this the once and yes please do reblog and run and tell everybody I said it:

I'm not arguing with nobody about niggas existing in the ancient and current Mediterranean anymore!

🤷🏾‍♀️ period. The Mediterranean ≠ White. White people did not invent boats or trade. People have existed and were doing plenty of things outside of Europeans the entire time. I need y'all to let go of that bias. If YOU can get somewhere, WE can. No matter where you go on this planet, we may be a minority, but odds are we will be there.

If the idea that Black people existing is going to cause you defensiveness you're unwilling to question (historical, fictional, or whatever) I request you gone head and block me. This is not the space for you. I'm not arguing. I don't have the patience to entertain devil's advocacy over our existence and proper depiction. I shouldn't have to. If you want to argue racism on the side of racism (and no, you don't have to intend to do so, in order to still do so) I am going to treat you like that's what you are doing. 🙏🏾 Thank you.

Leftists excuse their antisemitism support for Palestine by saying they do so because Israel receives financial support from the United States.

If that's so, then explain to me why they don't oppose Saudi Arabia, which equally receives US financial support, equally fights with its neighbour's, but unlike Israel, instigates these fightings and has an abysmal human rights record.

ancient roman epigraphy is very funny because in the early empire the aesthetic criteria are so strong and cemented that even a humble slave will be able to commission a neat and professional-looking headstone but the farther into late antiquity you get the more you lose that aesthetic sensibility and everything gets progressively messier and more disorderly until you end up with fourth century ce senators putting up honorary inscriptions that a first century slave would've refused to accept

what is it about the european psyche that makes it so that they have to implode themselves over jews existing every one hundred years. like is it a curse or a vitamin deficiency or what

Beth McCarthy gives trans fan new name

"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor:
Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

• ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
• ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
• ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
• They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
• They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
• ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
• They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.)
  I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later.
  
  But the community is fighting back.
• Protests are happening every day.
• Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
• Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
• Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
• Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
• Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
• Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
• Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
• Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
• Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed.
  
  THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.”
  
  -Grant Boulanger

Even if Khazar theory was true, it would still mean jews are indigenous to the levant.

For those not familiar, Khazar theory is a largely abandoned theory that Ashkenazi Jewry is mostly made up of Khazar converts to judaism. Khazars are a multi-ethnic conglomerate of mostly Turkic peoples. Its largely abandoned as ashkenazi jews have been proven to have levantine DNA.

In judaism, when you complete conversion, you become fully jewish in every sense.

Yes, converting doesn't change your DNA. However who is considered jewish or not isn't determined by DNA.

For example, if a woman converts to judaism and has no jewish DNA, when she has a child, that child is considered jewish. In judaism, your jewishness is tracked through your lineage, which includes anyone who converted, not DNA.

It is up to jews and jews only, who is considered a jew. Only we get to define what makes a jew a jew.

The idea that only jews who have levantine dna are indigenous is a direct attack on jews determining who is and isn't jewish, as it is implying that those who convert are not jewish in every sense like judaism states they are. It is imposing a foreign system onto us.

"But clownie, doesn't that mean people could just call themselves jewish to claim indigenousness to the levant?"

No. Because to be considered jewish in every sense, you have to go through conversion. If someone who isn't jewish wakes up one day and starts calling themselves jewish without converting, they are not jewish. They are a cultural appropriating arsehole who is lying about being jewish and is not considered jewish by jewish law.

The conversion process is central to how jews determine jewishness. We have laws in Judaism for that. We have defined who is or isn't a jew.

Whilst Khazar theory is false, hypothetically speaking if it was true, they would still be indigenous to the levant since they are still jewish in every sense.

getting mega frustrating terf comments on my post and it's maddening bc they're flat out just wrong + stupid. they utterly refuse to do ANY research and spread complete misinformation about vaginoplasty as a way of trying to fearmonger and judge you out of getting one. so im gonna make a post about it.

THEY'RE LYING! VAGINOPLASTY IS NOT AN ""OPEN WOUND"". it is a real sexual organ. dilation is completely normal and was invented for cis women first anyways- a ton of them have to do it, it's no different just because it's happening to a neovagina. vaginoplasty is a very well-researched surgery that has been done over and over and improved like crazy over many many years. there are even multiple ways to do it now, using several different types of tissue for the creation of the vaginal canal if you want one. anyone seeking vaginoplasty, your vagina will be just that! a vagina! a very real, beautiful, working body part! the body is an amazing thing in that it will accept this new body part and figure out how to take care of it like any other. isn't that so cool? isn't it amazing how adaptable the body is, that it can just learn how to work with new parts like that? i promise you, your vagina will be real, it will work like any other vagina, and it is a very beautiful thing. the fearmongering around bottom surgeries has to stop.

it’s really fucked up that there are women who like want to live in a rural place with a garden and chickens. don’t they know that’s supporting colonialism. luckily i have a gender identity and live in my parents’ $750k home in a massive suburban development so i am exempt from the concept of stolen land, generational wealth, and stewardship