plantpuppy:

I told my therapist that a lot of the grieving with friends and bringing food to share has felt like sitting shiva. So my therapist told me that, as a Jewish woman (“I’m not sure if you knew I was Jewish-” “YEP I WAS PRETTY SURE YOU WERE”), she’s wearing all black for a week exactly because she feels like sitting shiva

71% of American Jews voted for Clinton, and while my brain hurts just thinking about the 24% who voted for Trump—a candidate riding on and welcoming the support of unabashed white supremacists, who see Jews as race polluters hell-bent on destroying Teh Whitez, or at best as “parasites"—this is such an important statistic to note. American Jews are disgusted and terrified by the thought of a Trump presidency.

I know it’s very edgy and en vogue to dismiss Jewish concerns as “hyperbolic” or “exaggerated,” because pervasive, latent antisemitism in most countries—INCLUDING VERY MUCH our own United States—tells people that Jews are, by nature, “people who whine too much.” And therefore it is easy to dismiss any claim of antisemitism or any worries Jews have. Antisemitism is self-perpetuating in this way. If you believe that Jews are, by default, dishonest or exaggerating claims of antisemitism, then you will have a hard time ceasing to be antisemitic.

But please try to apply the same principles of human decency and historical hindsight to us for a moment. When Jews are afraid, we are afraid of what might happen to us and also of how antisemitism functions as a kind of gateway drug to so many other kinds of racism and xenophobia. Where there is antisemitism, there are always other problems. Where antisemitism and the concerns of Jews do not get taken seriously, you end up with persistent, sticking xenophobia and persecution that can bubble back up over and over no matter how many Kumbayas are sung and how many people pat themselves on the backs for having a neighbor who is different from them. I am afraid, as a Jew (besides being a woman and a queer person) because Trump’s election validates and mainstreams what Americans like to think of as “fringe” antisemitism on the right.

This is dangerous to Jews, and therefore it is dangerous to anyone who isn’t the right kind of straight white Christian. So stop telling women and POC and queer people and anyone who isn’t Christian to just “put aside your differences” and “learn to tolerate different opinions” and “work together” with a Trump presidency… and “don’t worry, he won’t REALLY be able to do all that stuff.” Because my people are the canaries in this coal mine, we have been for so long, and you need to take our advanced warnings seriously for once.

thewinddrifter:

Yep.

I’m posting this to warn people in North Carolina, Muslims and Jewish peeps (Muslims and Jews of colour especially), all people of colour  and queer people (lesbian, trans, gay, non binary, agender, asexual, all of you) to please be safe wherever you are on that date.

If you do not feel safe, please stay at home or with friends. Do not attempt to engage them or incite them to violence for your and your friends and families safety, please. Do not give them a reason. 

If you want to organise a counter protest, that is fine too but please, always be safe. Organise the protest on secure channels where it is safer and away from potential fascist infiltration.

@trans-mom @himteckerjam @maxiesatanofficial @punkbutch @iavenjqasdf @planeswalker-princess @splendidland please help boost this.

everypaneofglass:

kat2107:

v1als:

A quick note based on my post-Brexit experience in the UK – in the time period after the election, your biggest threat will not be Trump and his government. It will be your newly validated bigot neighbours. After Brexit, hate crime shot up by 60% in the UK nearly overnight and it still hasn’t returned to its pre-Brexit level. I imagine the same will happen in America. Be careful. No matter who they are, Trump voters are not your friends. Be safe. Your biggest enemy right now is the neighbour you went to church with and the people you pass on the street every day. Lock down. Go to ground if you have to. Look out for one another. Please, be careful.

THIS is what you can do tight now if you are white and desperate in America right now: 

- Cook your Latino, Black, Native, LGBT, Muslim and Asian neighbours a casserole tonight. I can assure you, they are much more afraid than you today and maybe they should not get out of the house. 

- Offer to take them or their kids wherever they need to go when they have appointments and maybe school.

- Go over and say hi, say: I know you are scared. How can I help you?

- If you see a woman wearing a hijab on the subway, sit next to her and smile.

- If you see a man wearing a turban, a kippah do the same. 

- Watch out for your kids non-white class mates. 

- If you see someone hollering racist shit at another person in the streets and it feels relatively safe. CALL THEM OUT ON IT.

It is not that more people suddenly are racist. But many people suddenly feel validated and allowed to abuse others. Those people? Are cowards! As soon as someone stands up to them, they shrink back into their little holes!

RACISM IS A PLANT THAT GROWS IN FERTILE DIRT. 

iF YOU NIP IT IN THE BUD OFTEN TIMES IT WILL WITHER AWAY. 

Wehret den Anfängen! 

I was actually coming home to make a post about this very thing this morning.  Possibly the worst thing about Trump’s election is that it has legitimized and normalized the bigotry and hatred he built his campaign around.  People who supported him did so because they supported those ideas and now, with his election, those ideas have been validated.

While that’s absolutely going to lead to a lot of overt violence, you’d better believe that it’s going to lead to even more lowkey bigotry.  People are going to be testing these waters, seeing how much bigotry they can get away with out in the open.  That’s why, in addition to the things above, it’s more important than ever to push back against that kind of lowkey hate when you hear it.  

In your home, in your school, in your workplace, in your “friendly” spaces, people are trying to find out “who’s with me”, they’re trying to figure out “us” and “them” and that’s how they’re going to do it.  By saying things and seeing who agrees, who pushes back, who stays silent. I know it’s so hard to stand up to people you like, people who you want to like you, people you have to spend time with pretty much every day whether you like each other or not.  I know it is, but I can’t stress enough how important it is right now to not let bigotry go unchallenged.  Be smart about it and keep yourself safe, but please please please stand up if there’s any way you can.

sadspockpanda:

Asshats: Why can’t you just accept Drumpf as president and not attack/slander/belittle him. Show some respect.

Me, remembering how Fox News and Drumpf have been dragging Obama since 2008 over bullshit/for no real reason:

goddessofidiocy:

bbc03undercover:

valerie-an:

do you ever want to gently float up to someone and whisper “this isn’t a debate; i am actually educated on the subject and i’m telling you you’re wrong”

Originally posted by digg

animatedamerican:

inquisitivespirit:

protectnevillelongbottom:

littlepumpkinprincess:

fiercefatfeminist:

fiercefatfeminist:

It is our duty as feminists to protect and respect women in Hijabs

Now. More. Than. Ever.

Question: if I see someone pull off a Hijab, what should I do? I know there are reasons they are worn so I want to if i should stand in between them and who did this, should i protect them from view somehow, or something else? This has been happening a lot so I feel it’s something everyone needs to know.

Good question! I cannot correctly and effectively answer, as I am a white, non-Muslim person; however, I will reblog in case any of my followers can answer. 

I asked my Hijabi friend, so here’s one Hijabi’s answer: 

“my opinion is, definitely try cover them or give them something to cover themselves with. And perhaps shoo off the person, without putting oneself in danger! God forbid, if that happened to me, I would like someone to come and comfort me and give me something to cover my hair with and then help me report it to the cops “

(Followers, if any of you are hijabi and would like to expand on this answer or offer alternatives, please do.)