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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Texan Jew here. I’m surrounded by a sea of monsters.

    I’ve made documentaries, art projects, and memorials for family members who were in the Holocaust. A few survived (literally, like, 3 of them), but multitudes more were killed. My family and community has praised me for my passionate interest and attempts to teach younger generations the dangers of complacency and compartmentalizing. One of my relatives even helped pass a law adding Holocaust Remembrance Week as part of the curriculum for every grade level in Texas.

    We’ve seen this kind of destruction before, we’ve lived this oppression and violence before. We have discussed how our family might have changed had over 90% of them not been killed.

    HOW THE FUCK IS MY FAMILY AND COMMUNITY OKAY WITH ANOTHER GENOCIDE???

    The self-delusion, what-abouts, stereotypes, and straight-up racist insults.

    “They’d kill us if given the opportunity”
    YOU’RE ALREADY KILLING THEM

    “These are really bad, violent people”
    THEY ARE CHILDREN AND CIVILIANS AND THEY ARE DYING

    “It’s not comparable to the Holocaust. Germany killed 6 million…”

    THAT’S YOUR FUCKING CUTOFF???

    WE GOTTA WAIT FOR 6 MILLION PEOPLE TO DIE BEFORE WE CAN EMPATHIZE WITH VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE??? Where was this sense of calm and nonchalance when Nazis were posting propaganda around town? How many of your kids need to be dismembered and vaporized before you say “this is more than upsetting, this is WRONG”??!

    I swear, I’m probably less than a month away from hearing someone I once respected say “the Palestinian cries out in pain as they hit you.”