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links within this thread:

https://t.co/87kYpZ4LJr

http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b015-i208

https://t.co/FpxrGYd5dJ

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-17/curious-origins-irish-slaves-myth

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2018/0316/No-the-Irish-were-not-slaves-in-the-Americas

https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.xhxaucbu2

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/white-debt.html

in addition to this great thread, i recommend reading “how the irish became white” by noel ignatiev.  i do expect a lot of fighting against these facts because these lies and myth are so ingrained and now have become a part of the community and the sense of self and pride of irish people. 

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Nothing but love for them this valentines day

Words cannot describe my love for them

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Nothing but love for them this valentines day

Words cannot describe my love for them

#chicago fire #Cindy and Christopher #cindy herrmann #christopher herrmann #plouch #trudy platt #randal mcholland #mouch #Joe cruz #chloe Cruz #stellaride #stella kidd #kelly severide #valentines 2023 #hoping this ages #season 11 is rough #so we'll see #my love for them is ageless tho #fav couples for sure

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Happy valentines day to our fav Chicago fire bromances

And of course the absolute gal pals

I love them. I think they're neat

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Happy valentines day to our fav Chicago fire bromances

And of course the absolute gal pals

I love them. I think they're neat

#chicago fire #tony ferraris #harold capp #brian otis zvonecek #joe cruz #crotis #christopher herrmann #mouch #randal mcholland #wallace boden #violet mikami #sylvie brett #stella kidd #darren ritter #blake gallo #valentines day 2023 #hoping this ages well #queueue #hoping im still watching lol #season 11 is rough so far so we'll see

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My soul hurts

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Christmas Tree by Boris Groh

This artist on Instagram // Facebook // Behance

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Working girl

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someday we'll find it

#the muppets #rainbow connection #forever reblog

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someday we'll find it

#the muppets #rainbow connection #forever reblog

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So let me get this straight, in Monopoly if you give one player more money to start out it’s “unfair” but if you do it in real life it’s “capitalism”? 

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this thread is more affirming than 95% of "self care" materials

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I love this sm

Working girl

#star trek #star trek tos #nyota uhura #beautiful art

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What I mean when I say "toxic monogamy culture"

the normalization of jealousy as an indicator of love

the idea that a sufficiently intense love is enough to overcome any practical incompatibilities

the idea that you should meet your partner’s every need, and if you don’t, you’re either inadequate or they’re too needy

the idea that a sufficiently intense love should cause you to cease to be attracted to anyone else

the idea that commitment is synonymous with exclusivity

the idea that marriage and children are the only valid teleological justifications for being committed to a relationship

the idea that your insecurities are always your partner’s responsibility to tip-toe around and never your responsibility to work on

the idea that your value to a partner is directly proportional to the amount of time and energy they spend on you, and it is in zero-sum competition with everything else they value in life

the idea that being of value to a partner should always make up a large chunk of how you value yourself

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Do you have any advice for dealing with antisemitism within the scriptures?

1. Contextualize the text.

2. Recognize the ways these verses have been used to hurt our Jewish siblings in the past.

3. Use the Double Rule of Love.

It's important to realize that the Bible was written, edited, and redacted by Jewish people. What we are reading is an interfamilial fight that us Gentiles are not a part of and should not contribute to. Every time the text says something about "the Jews" we have to remember that the people writing those words were themselves Jewish people, so don't mean "every Jewish person," but rather "the specific group of people with whom I disagree."

When we interpret the text, we also have to recognize that these words have been used by Gentiles out of context to (literally) demonize Jewish people and justify their persecution, oppression, and genocide. That impact should influence how we interpret the text and cause us to come to very different conclusions that our forebears did.

And our best method to do that is to use the Double Rule of Love. St. Augustine explained that in order to interpret the text properly, your interpretation has to help you love God and love your neighbors better. If your interpretation leads you to hate others, it's wrong. Simple as that. So when we read these texts that have historically been read to hate and to hurt our Jewish siblings, we know that is a bad interpretation of the text that sits alongside hundreds of good interpretations we can choose from instead.

Or, put another way: We can contextualize the text to see that there is a particular power dynamic at play that is foreign to us. We can recognize that we have misinterpreted that power dynamic in the past to hurt people. And we can interpret the text in a new way to help us love our Jewish siblings instead.

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I can't remember if I've posted about this before, but tonight I was reminded by a class of a thing that I think may be helpful for some folks.

Because converting is *so* permanent and irreversible, and one should take it at least as seriously as entering a marriage (with the understanding that there is no divorce, only alienation), I think it's honestly a good idea to wait until you've had a major fight with your Judaism before you complete your conversion.

It's the same principle as wanting to wait until you've been sick with the flu together or had a major life setback or are lost at 2 a.m. on a road trip with your fiance before you actually get married. In that case, you want to know (1) what does this scenario bring out in them? (2) what does this scenario bring out in you? (3) how do those things interact with each other? and, most importantly: (4) how do you resolve it together?

With Judaism, it's easy to fall in love with Torah. It's easy to fall in love with an idealized version of your community. With the rituals and the liturgy and the music and the ruach.

It's harder to learn a point of halacha that hurts deeply and to be forced to reconcile what you know in your bones is right with the reality of the words of Torah and its interpretation by the rabbis. It's harder to meet your congregation in love and tochecha when they have fallen short of their vision and failed you in important ways. It's harder to force yourself to engage in mitzvot that you don't see the point in or that are boring or repetitious or do not spark joy.

And until you know how you will react when (not if) that happens, until you know how you will resolve it - or if you will even want to - you aren't ready to commit to something you can't just take off.

Sometimes it sucks to be a Jew. Sometimes Torah is more yoke than honey. Sometimes you're just not feeling it. And that's okay! That doesn't make you an imposter or a bad Jew; it makes you human. But you still need to address it, because that day will come.

I love being Jewish with all my heart, but there are parts of Torah that are like a knife in my soul. For me, the way I resolve it, is that those things in particular are the shards my neshama was sent to liberate the sparks from. We live in a broken, unredeemed world, and sometimes you should feel that, acutely. That is part of being a Jew, that you are sensitized to the world and its suffering. But it should still, in the end, lift you up. It should not break you, and you should not have to cut off major pieces of yourself to fit the role. Hitting that wall and feeling that pain before you immerse in the mikvah can really open your eyes to what kind of Jew you want to be - or if you actually want to carry this burden as well as taste its sweetness.

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