fataldrum:

oodlenoodleroodle:

smallswingshoes:

euryale-dreams:

littlegoythings:

aka14kgold:

aka14kgold:

I’m super not-okay with that Mike Dawson “Why Did They Come” comic. If you’re a graphic artist in the U.S.? You know damn well what Maus is. Goyische graphic artists do not get to use the mouse-cat analogy for people fleeing their countries due to oppression, especially if those people aren’t Jewish, and certainly not if the text of the panel that does involve Jews absurdly downplays what was actually happening.

Like, you can make the exact same point without appropriating a seminal document of the Shoah’s aftermath.

Oh, it’s even worse than I thought. It says “Apologies to Art Spiegelman and Don Bluth.” Nope. Nope nope nope, you don’t get to rip this off. Make the same point and just change the fucking mice/cat thing – it’s not that hard.

Goyim don’t get to use incredibly important allegories of Jewish oppression at will. This shit needs to stop.

“Apologies, but plagiarism and also a barely veiled appropriation of the Shoah”

This makes me really uncomfortable. I mean… the whole Jews-as-rats imagery used in Maus was explicit reclamation of an intensely antisemitic trope and… It’s just not an okay thing for goyim to imitate.

Ever.

Plus when I saw the comic one of the panels was instantly recognizable as a pogrom and… it wasn’t okay.

^^^^

The comic on Dawson’s tumblr has like 44,000 notes, and this post has like a thousand. 

Please boost Jewish voices. 

This comic is some fucking bullshit. Maus is an incredibly powerful work, you don’t get to steal its look to make your work seem more important.

theboywhoreadsbooks:

My reading choices do not define my level of intelligence.

iamdragoonthegreat:

abbiehollowdays:

emptyinkbottle:

If someone looks uncomfortable when you hug them, please stop hugging them.

If someone shuffles away when you stand beside them, don’t move closer to them again.

If someone shrugs your hand off their shoulder, don’t fucking put your hand back on.

Don’t be an asshole.
If someone says they don’t like to be touched, I don’t care how much it “offends” you. Stop touching them.

Stop.

Even if they’re family. Especially if they’re kids.

Their body, their rules. At any age, and no matter your relationship. Teach kids their body belongs to them, and foster the same respect for the boundaries of others. A person’s will should be absolute when it comes to their own body.

kaity–did:

There was a little girl in church, about 5, and her parents obviously let her get dressed herself that day because she came waddling in with the puffiest coat on in the summer in North Carolina. She comes and sits in the pew in front of us. 15 minutes into mass she turns around and hands my husand an orange. Her parents are mortified.

“Savannah not again!” They sold! (Again kills me)

They appologize and she turns back around. A few moments later she goes to hand me an orange but her parents grab it from her before she can.

Savannah is determined. She reaches her tiny fists into her puffy coat and pulls out two more ornages. She begins to distribute them. Her parents are now beat red and in shock.

This small child proceeds to laugh a laugh I can only call manical (in a Catholic church) unzip the inner line of her coat and releases what had to have been 20-30 of those little kid oranges into the pews.

WE EAT Savannah yells cackeling

The priest can no longer contain his glee

The entire church is dying with laughter

She felt like Jesus on the moutian with the baskets of fish that day I’m sure.

Children are amazing.