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Hello, French here !

First off, good choice of source, Le Parisien is a reliable news source, fairly objective and good on facts.

The victim was quite litterally extracted from her abuser's home, said abuser having sent messages to the victim's mother claiming he aimed to prostitute the victim, and that he wanted to avenge Palestine.

Charges of sequestration (AKA holding someone against their will) have been set aside due to being "insufficiently characterised" which, in the French legal system, could mean :

not enough evidence (unlikely)

procedural fuckery makes it impossible to keep

some chucklefuck judge dropped it in a similar case based on some argument and including it in this case, with that precedent in place, would weaken it

The charges of death threats based on religion have been included though, which is the bare fucking minimum really.

Last I heard, charges of rape were still under investigation (AKA tests have been ordered), and I don't know if we'll have more details soon or if the victim will want this to stay quiet so she can start to heal.

According to some sources, he was using drugs (which has been added to the charges held against him) so that may impact things as that is usually a cause to increase the sentence in French law ... unless, apparently, you are tossing one Sarah Halimi out a fucking window after harassing her with antisemitic insults for months. Me, angry and bitter ? Noooo, what could possibly give you that idea ?

@shhdontlook here are some more French sources, since they are apparently needed :

Hope this helps

BREAKING: A man kidnapped, raped, and tortured a Jewish woman in Paris to “avenge Palestine”.This is what your protests are encouraging.

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I'm going to react to the tags pointing out that the Columbia students are part of the ruling class :

Yes, but they don't want to admit it (yet) and so go into hypocritical moralizing grandstanding. We had (and still have, really) something similar in May 1968 in France, with kids of the bourgeoisie and rich famillies losing themselves into pseudo-Revolutionary delusions. Can you guess where those kids are, now ? Well, they're retiring or retired right now ... after being saved from their own academic failures by their families and nepotising all the way to well paid positions in companies, NGOs and (for those that actually managed to study at least a bit post 68) high administration or political offices.

And they are separated in roughly two categories :

ruthless, merciless, soulless ultra-capitalists that have come to see the working class as basically beasts of burden that exist to make them money

self-absorbed ideologically rigid snobs that look down on anyone that doesn't share their idea (class contempt for poorer people optional but BOY do many of these people love that option) and work really hard to force those ideas on society without a care for how they affect people or how beneficial they are or even how applicable to reality they are.

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He do be putting on the teacher hat on the reg, it's great

Hi:) i dont know if this question is too personal but are you still teaching and what subjects did you teach?

Hope your day is nice:)

Not at all!

I am not formally teaching, but I still routinely put on the Teacher Hat in chat :D As for subjects, I specialized in high-school level science and math, but ended up doing a lot of general studies at that level (history, English, etc), as well as helping ESL international university students with their writing and analysis skills.

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So uh ... I'm not too sure how to explain that but ... starting from your end goal and arranging things along the way to justify it is fine when you do worldbuilding, but it most certainly is NOT when looking at reality, the modern world and history. That conspiracy theory was just ... plain insane. Also, the Eastaboo/Russiaboo bias is strong there. "oh Russia was just rebuilding from suffering sooooo much, meanwhile the EVIL WEST was doing COLONIZATION, and the UK was about to start another Holocaust and the US were bad too and I don't know wtf France was doing but I'm sure it was EVIL"

All while denying the agency of both Jews and Palestinians as they are both puppets in the Evil Western Plans ... I'm certainly not an authority on this as I'm not Jewish, but I can't help but feel like taking the antisemitic canard and changing who the "evil global puppetteer" are isn't helping shit.

And that's not even getting into how they deny Jewish indigeneity and disregard the wish of many Jews to go back to the land of their ancestors, to which they have a deep cultural tie perpetuated over **litteral millenia**

This is just ... all over the place, and it's all insane.

https://www.tumblr.com/horizonsstandstill/747955722126589952?source=share

That's some next level holocaust revisionism holy shit

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And just like the Rapture, it will never actually happen. But the long lasting scars left by people chasing that Perfect Glorious Revolution as they destroy and sacrifice themselves and (mostly) others WILL remain for a long, long, long time.

hot take incoming: revolt and revolution doesn't create a fair and equitable society. it creates a power vaccum, which is terrifying because it is incredibly fertile ground for all sorts of warlords, aspiring tyrants, paramilitary extremists, and imperial powers to swoop in and start doing atrocities over it. You can put a new society in a power vaccum, but so can anyone else, and most of those potential outcomes are going to be horrifying, not to mention to the hellscape interim period.

To create a fair and equitable society you need to know civics, administration, diplomacy, and yes, statecraft. Yes they're boring and unglamorous and icky and gross. But i promise that you need them. They are mandatory. Not optional.

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@former-leftist-jew the buzzword salad really sells it and gives it the feel of authenticity.

And just to clarify, and because of Poe's law : I am not being sarcastic. It's pretty sad, but a lot of Leftist discourse nowadays, especially about Israel, is a string of conversation-ending buzzwords underpinned by a complete rejection of nuance in favour of thoughtless manicheism (and that comparison feels pretty insulting to the ancient religion of Manicheism).

“Noooo don’t be mean to the Jews!!!! They’ve just been soooo brainwashed 🥺 they were raised in a cult and fed propaganda 🥺 you need to help deprogram them 🥺” Have you considered Shutting The Fuck Up?

Do you think other groups talking about bigotry against them only do so because they’ve been lied to and tricked into thinking it exists? Or do you believe them when they talk about their experiences? Why do you treat us differently? Why is it so hard for you to admit that antisemitism is a real and massive issue (especially in your leftist/queer/etc spaces)?

It’s simultaneously demonizing and infantilizing us. Some of us are Evil Wicked Sinners, and some of us are Poor Lost Souls. And the Poor Lost Souls will be led astray by the Evil Wicked Sinners unless you, a Good Pure Righteous Christian Leftist, help us See The Light. And when we push back, when we say you are wrong, you’ll get angry and hateful and violent. Suddenly, we were never a Poor Lost Soul, just an Evil Wicked Sinner in disguise. Suddenly, you can justify any manner of cruel or hateful behavior against us. Same old shit that’s been happening for centuries, just with a fresh coat of paint.

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@soup-mother I'm sorry, but I think your post is wrong. It is cruel, and mean, and so, so very bad. Why should jaguars have to do all the work ? Why can't crocodiles and other predators also do their part ?

Why only Jaguars ?

still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

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The Musical Fish demands my help. I shall provide.

Fuck it, I see this all over my feed, so I'm gonna join in.

If this gets 500 notes, I'll try to go outside once a day. ✔️

if this gets 1k notes, I'll start working on my book again. ✔️

If this gets 2k notes, I'll ask a teacher to call me by my chosen name. ✔️

if this gets 3k notes, I'll get more serious about learning Russian and French. ✔️

If this gets 4k notes, I'll get more serious about singing. ✔️

If this gets 5k notes, I'll ask to get a bass.(electric instrument(NOT THE FISH))

doing this on this blog cause it gets more attention and shit.

Welp, time to stratagize which teacher to tell.

You know, I probably should have swapped number 2 and number 3.

Guys, I'm not getting a fish.

I did not think we would ever get to 3000 fucking notes. thanks

NO FISH! I AM NOT GETTING A FISH! FUCK YOU!

@benzel babe, these people keep on telling me to get a fish :(

Is this just going to be what I'm know for now? F I S H??????????

GUYS! 4K AND 5K WERE JUST RANDOMS ONES I CAME UP WITH BECAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE LEAVING IT AT 3K, STOPPPPPP!!!!!

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Call it horseshoe theory or red/brown alliance, different branding for the same product

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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In France, the traditional prank for April 1st is to hang a fish to someone's back. In recent years, those fishes became paper cutouts, but the tradition remains, you stick a (paper) fish to someone's back, and when discovered, shout "Poisson d'avril!" (April's fish). As it is not jumpscary, I decided to carry on with this tradition, once again.

Now you might wonder why I picked a poster. Well that's because in French, a poster is called "affiche", and that's close enough to "a fish" for my purposes.

That's right, you didn't just get fished. You got pun fished.

Poisson d'avril ;p

#april fool's day #Poisson d'avril #prank #harmless #no jumpscare #pun #dumb pun #fish pun #you can't stop me

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I just ... Clark can see through the mask. He knows. Clark knows. Clark says he's gonna raw Bruce Wayne knowing full well Bruce Wayne is under the bat cowl.

We don’t appreciate the fact that Bruce Wayne is a Kardasian level celebrity enough. Everyone knows him. I want more one shots and crack fic moments where the League (Pre identity reveals) just openly talk about Bruce Wayne in front of Batman.

Just imagine them playing fuck, marry, kill with famous actors and such and throwing Bruce into the mix. And Batman just sits there, silently suffering as he listens to the reasons why Flash and Lantern would marry, fuck, or kill him. He prays they choose kill. They don’t.

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@prismatic-bell you make excellent points but I need to clarify one point : my hair do not curl, my hair, on the top of my head, is very very straight. It's my beard that curls slightly, which is what makes her toxic philosemitism all the more baffling and apparent.

But you are absolutely correct, we can't actually judge someone's origin or ethnic or cultural belonging based on their face, hair, skin color or other arbitrary physical characteristics. That is both stupid and unreliable and discriminatory.

So I’ve seen a few posts going around lately about philosemitism, but mostly in the context of people being called out for it, and it’s occurring to me that if you don’t have a frame of reference for it, you probably don’t understand why it’s really a very bad thing.

So I’m going to share a story that happened to me a few years ago, when I was studying for my b’nei mitzvah.

This lady pulls into my drive thru at work. She’s wearing a MAGA hat, and before I can hide my Magen David necklace—this was not that long after Charlottesville—she absolutely GUSHES “oh, you’re Jewish?” and immediately starts going on about beautiful traditions, Jesus was Jewish, yadda yadda. (All the Jews reading this are currently nodding because they’ve all met this woman at least once.)

And then she gets to the part I want to highlight for the goyim, the learning part of this:

Her: And we need to stick together, because you know what’s right in the middle of Jerusalem, right?

Me: …..the Temple? (It’s not, it’s at the city’s edge, but I could see someone hearing “center of religious and cultural life” and making an assumption.)

Her: no!

Me: …….the Knesset?

Her: no! How do you spell Jerusalem?

Me, thinking she saw the Hebrew book next to me: yod-reish-shin-lamed—-

Her: no, no! U-S-A! J-E-R-U-S-A! The United States is part of Israel!

Y’all.

This woman.

Legitimately believed.

That “Jerusalem.”

Was the name.

Of a Jewish city.

In a language.

THAT DOES NOT HAVE A “J” SOUND.

She literally told me I was wrong when I pronounced it Yerushalayim, which is the Hebrew transliteration of the older “Urusalim,” which is the original name of the city in the Canaanite languages circa 1500 BCE. (An even older inscription has been found in Egyptian, but it’s a little wonky because the two languages didn’t have the exact same sounds—think of how an English word spoken by a Japanese person and then transliterated as they said it would look.) “Jerusalem” as a form literally cannot occur until after the word has filtered through Latin and into English—at the earliest, the 3rd or 4th century CE—because there’s no J in Latin, either.

THIS is philosemitism: this woman wanted so badly for Judaism to be her fun toy that she completely ignored Jewish reality. We weren’t actually people to her; we were a thing for her to exotify. When actual Jewish experience refuted her she ignored it, but many philosemites will get angry when they’re faced with reality.

If you’re thinking “wow, that sounds a lot like fetishization,” you’re right, because it is. It’s fetishization crossed with the kind of “support” a lot of people offer the queer community, where they love it when it’s waving rainbow flags and “oh my g-d, girl, slay,” but the moment it’s anger over the STD crisis or the underserving of homeless queer youth, they dip. They’re only around while it’s ~*~*~aesthetic.~*~*~

Philosemitism isn’t “loving Jews too much.” It’s loving a stereotyped ideal you put on a pedestal, and not allowing for diversity of Jewish experience.

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I met another kind of toxic philosemitism. The mother of a friend was (and still is) big on philosophy, but to a frankly pathological degree, honestly. Like, she'll turn very pratical discussions into philosophical theory that may or may not be related to the actual topic.

And, well, there's a bunch of Jewish philosophers in French philosophy. And she idealizes philosophers to an unhealthy degree, and in turn generalized that onto Jews. So, in her eyes, Jews are valuable because they make philosophers that produce philosophy she can toy with, if I read her correctly.

And when I say it's pathological ... she asked me if I had Jewish ancestors because my beard is slightly curly. My beard. Just my beard. I'm sorry, but I haven't seen many white French people like me grow their beard straight, it always curls a bit, and mine is no exception.

But to her, "Jewish" heritages was a sign of intellectual superiority, a positive characteristic, a sign of "good breeding" if you'll forgive the expression. And since she held me in high regards, she tried to pin that on me. I denied it because, you know, I don't have Jewish ancestors to my knowledge and I don't feel like looting someone else's heritage, but it always stuck with me, and it always felt a little creepy and weird.

So I’ve seen a few posts going around lately about philosemitism, but mostly in the context of people being called out for it, and it’s occurring to me that if you don’t have a frame of reference for it, you probably don’t understand why it’s really a very bad thing.

So I’m going to share a story that happened to me a few years ago, when I was studying for my b’nei mitzvah.

This lady pulls into my drive thru at work. She’s wearing a MAGA hat, and before I can hide my Magen David necklace—this was not that long after Charlottesville—she absolutely GUSHES “oh, you’re Jewish?” and immediately starts going on about beautiful traditions, Jesus was Jewish, yadda yadda. (All the Jews reading this are currently nodding because they’ve all met this woman at least once.)

And then she gets to the part I want to highlight for the goyim, the learning part of this:

Her: And we need to stick together, because you know what’s right in the middle of Jerusalem, right?

Me: …..the Temple? (It’s not, it’s at the city’s edge, but I could see someone hearing “center of religious and cultural life” and making an assumption.)

Her: no!

Me: …….the Knesset?

Her: no! How do you spell Jerusalem?

Me, thinking she saw the Hebrew book next to me: yod-reish-shin-lamed—-

Her: no, no! U-S-A! J-E-R-U-S-A! The United States is part of Israel!

Y’all.

This woman.

Legitimately believed.

That “Jerusalem.”

Was the name.

Of a Jewish city.

In a language.

THAT DOES NOT HAVE A “J” SOUND.

She literally told me I was wrong when I pronounced it Yerushalayim, which is the Hebrew transliteration of the older “Urusalim,” which is the original name of the city in the Canaanite languages circa 1500 BCE. (An even older inscription has been found in Egyptian, but it’s a little wonky because the two languages didn’t have the exact same sounds—think of how an English word spoken by a Japanese person and then transliterated as they said it would look.) “Jerusalem” as a form literally cannot occur until after the word has filtered through Latin and into English—at the earliest, the 3rd or 4th century CE—because there’s no J in Latin, either.

THIS is philosemitism: this woman wanted so badly for Judaism to be her fun toy that she completely ignored Jewish reality. We weren’t actually people to her; we were a thing for her to exotify. When actual Jewish experience refuted her she ignored it, but many philosemites will get angry when they’re faced with reality.

If you’re thinking “wow, that sounds a lot like fetishization,” you’re right, because it is. It’s fetishization crossed with the kind of “support” a lot of people offer the queer community, where they love it when it’s waving rainbow flags and “oh my g-d, girl, slay,” but the moment it’s anger over the STD crisis or the underserving of homeless queer youth, they dip. They’re only around while it’s ~*~*~aesthetic.~*~*~

Philosemitism isn’t “loving Jews too much.” It’s loving a stereotyped ideal you put on a pedestal, and not allowing for diversity of Jewish experience.

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hey. what do a selkie and a ziploc bag have in common

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One repeated refrain I keep seeing from the Pro-Palestinian crowd, from the most virulently Jew-hating to the most Jew-sympathetic, is pretty straightforward.

"Well, after 75 years of how the Palestinians have been treated, can you blame them for the 7/10 attack?"

And the response that I've been itching to give to that...

"So, you're saying that the Nakba was acceptable back in 1948? Because after 1250 years of mistreatment by Arabs, including multiple massacres and ethnic cleansing in living memory, that means that the Jews were justified with the Nakba--indeed, they were restrained, because they could have easily done so much worse, and the Palestinians Arabs hadn't had any mistreatment yet--they'd been the ones doing the mistreatment to the Jews. If you're saying that 75 years of marginalization justifies mass rape and murder, then the Israelis in 1948 would have been justified in killing every single pro-Palestinian by that same metric.

"No? That's different? How? How is it different? Explain to me how it's different without using the word 'colonizer', because a vast number of the Jews who lived there were native and had never been living elsewhere. Sure, they were just a portion of the Jewish population as a whole, but so are the Palestinian militants. Would someone whose family had been butchered in the 1929 Hebron Massacre not be justified in taking out their hate on other Arabs? Because that's the standard you're promoting now. How is it different?

"On what ethical grounds is it okay to say that the Palestinians deserve to rape and murder for 75 years of marginalization, and yet that the Jews displacing them after 1200+ years of brutal suppression is somehow the most horrendous act in the history of mankind, as some Pro-Palestinian activists have explicitly said?"

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Let them perish by their crime. Those who live by the (stolen) potato die by the (stolen) potato