#letters from watson blacklist

[dathen]

Picking up in Study in Scarlet and:

“I have no time for trifles,” he answered, brusquely; then with a smile, “Excuse my rudeness. You broke the thread of my thoughts; but perhaps it is just as well.”

Love that Holmes is snappy and dismissive reflexively, but then catches himself and apologizes 🥰 He doesn’t want to be rude!!

#This is technically not Letters from Watson anymore so hmmm #a study in scarlet #dath reads sherlock holmes #< for blacklist #Dare I Say…Jon Sims-core

[vergess]

Can't say I'm shocked that we're starting off Letters from Watson by finding out which BNFs are antisemites, but I am horrified to see people whose memes and meta I personally enjoyed unmasking themselves.

At least the damned fucking substack operator isn't a raging shithead. Small mercies in difficult goddamn times.

Here's a pro tip: if you see a Jewish person publicly push back against an antisemitic stereotype, putting themself at risk? Your options are

1) Be quiet because you don't know enough about the situation.

2) Act as an ally to the Jewish person.

That. is. it.

There is no option 3.

Do I make myself clear?

You do not blame the victims of racism for being victimized! What is wrong with you?

You should be ashamed of yourselves. God knows I'm ashamed to be associated with you merely readers of the same bloody emails!

The antisemitism in fandom is not "limited" to the victorian era. It is not dead and gone. It is not "period typical". It is a constant daily barrage that we never, ever get a break from.

Just yesterday, minding my own ass business, I got the delightful treat of 6 distinct exposures (that I can remember today, looking back, so it's safe to say there were more) to antisemitic garbage.

On tumblr it was "jewish people use fandom to molest kids somehow."

At the doctor's office waiting room, it was "vaccines are a jewish microchip conspiracy".

We don't get a break, and it didn't fucking end in 1920.

Stop being a pathetic little gentile pissant! Make an effort to be an actual ally for once in your godforsaken little lives, would you?

Because that post was so painstakingly gentle and kind! And you wretched little bastards couldn't be nice about it.

So here we are Once Again.

With me.

The angry little Bitch Cockroach Jew here to cause problems on purpose.

Eat shit, you useless fucks.

#automatic op tag #Letters From Watson #Antisemitism #Anti Semitism #Sherlock Holmes #Holmes #(As asked: this is fine 2 reblog) #A sstudy in semiticss #anti semitism #antisemitism #letters from watson blacklist/ #holmes

[theculturedmarxist]

     By    Thomas Scripps    

       15 March 2019  

UK far-right leader Tommy Robinson has been banned from a growing list of social media outlets.

Last week, Amazon blocked the sale of Robinson’s Islamophobic diatribe on the Quran, co-authored with another far-right figure, Peter McLoughlin. In February, he was permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram, following a Twitter ban in March 2018 and a PayPal ban in November 2018. YouTube suspended advertising on his account this January and is under pressure to bar his account.

There is a widespread feeling of disgust towards Robinson and what he represents and a wholly justified wish that his views are driven out of British politics. But it would be dangerously wrong to believe that this task can be entrusted to the multibillionaire CEOs of the world’s largest big-tech companies.

Where Robinson’s actions are criminal, they should be tried in a court of law. To have him barred from public platforms is a further step towards a regime of political censorship that will always be aimed against the working class and the left.

The actions against Robinson also have little practical effect on his fascist campaigning. Whereas freedom of speech and political organisation are fundamental to the political development of the disenfranchised working class, the far-right can rely on super-rich sponsors and the de facto support of the state. The main impact of Robinson’s various bans has therefore been to raise his already artificially inflated political profile.

Following his Facebook ban, Robinson announced on his remaining YouTube channel that he was expecting the move and was in the process of setting up a dedicated news channel that more than 100,000 people had already pledged to subscribe to. Facebook’s ban on him saw his YouTube subscribers soar to over 370,000.

Since May 2018, he has been at the centre of a well-reported and financially lucrative court case over his attempts to prejudice a jury in a child sex grooming trial in Leeds. His original conviction was quashed on a technicality. At the retrial in October 2018, inexplicably, the judge recommended the case be referred to the Attorney General on receiving a statement from Robinson, leaving him free to go. Only now has the Attorney General set a new date for the retrial, on March 22.

At each stage of the proceedings, Robinson has been able to speak to a battery of media cameras and microphones.

Last summer, a series of “Free Tommy” marches through central London were attended by thousands of far-right supporters. Protesters climbed on the railings of Downing Street, hurled abuse at passersby and assaulted counter-demonstrators—acts that would have provoked a vicious response from the police if carried out during a left-wing protest.

These marches provided the backdrop to a huge fundraising and right-wing solidarity campaign.

Robinson said he received more than £350,000 in donations in just two weeks. At least £47,000 of this came from the right-wing Middle East Forum in the United States. This is only the tip of the financial iceberg of Robinson’s global funding operation. Last Sunday, the Times revealed that the former English Defence League leader is now the best-funded politician in the UK. In 2016 and 2017, he received between £5,000 and £8,000 a month from the far-right Rebel Media website, which gave him £48,000 to set up a TV studio. Robinson boasts of “a pot in excess of a few hundred thousand pounds.” He lives in a £1 million gated, six-bedroom home and took three holidays last year.

Trump’s fascistic former advisor Steve Bannon intervened to publicly champion Robinson’s cause, and Republican lawmakers invited him to speak at the US Congress. Robinson is now a special advisor to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and has posed for pictures with recruits to the British Army.

A BBC Panorama documentary was recently commissioned into Robinson and was the basis for a 4,000-strong fascist protest organised outside the broadcaster’s northern office in Salford this February. Robinson was able to erect a huge screen outside the BBC’s HQ on which he screened his own counter “documentary.” Due to the non-stop publicity afforded Robinson, his video has already been viewed by nearly 1.5 million people on YouTube.

This immense publicity and financial backing make a mockery of the despicable attempts to portray Robinson as a persecuted anti-establishment innocent. As ever, Spiked, Spectator and Telegraph writer Brendan O’Neill led the way, publishing, “Why Tommy Robinson should not be banned,” in which he attacks the left for cheering the “silencing of an awkward public voice…a public figure, someone who commands an audience and enjoys political influence.” This from the website that routinely attacks WikiLeaks founder and genuine free speech hero, Julian Assange.

Spiked ’s claimed concern for democratic rights invariably manifests itself when it is a question of ensuring the hated right wing’s ability to speak unchallenged. Other “persecuted” figures named in O’Neill’s article include far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, far-right poster boy Milo Yiannopoulos and “leading UKIP activists.”

Robinson is no free-speech martyr. He has carried out multiple potentially criminal acts in the last year alone, including intimidating serious journalists. During the night of March 4, Robinson turned up at the house of Mike Stuchbury, the journalist and historian of the far right, and banged repeatedly on the windows and doors demanding to speak with him. Livestreaming these events to his supporters, Robinson revealed Stuchbery’s home address and threatened to do the same to other journalists. “I’m going to make a documentary that exposes every single one of you, every single detail about every one of you. Where you live, where you work, everything about you is going to be exposed.”

Robinson left after the police were called, only to return at 5 o’clock in the morning. Journalists across the political spectrum signed a letter of protest at how “far-right organisations [are] trying to silence reports of their activities.”

He is also facing possible libel charges for lying claims against a 15-year-old Syrian refugee attacked in his school last December. The boy was pushed to the ground by another pupil and had water poured over his face, mimicking the ‘waterboarding’ method of torture. Just hours after the story began circulating, Robinson claimed that the Syrian boy had previously attacked three girls and a boy at the school.

Robinson’s brief imprisonment and pending retrial for contempt of court are the result of his verbally attacking defendants of Asian appearance as they entered court, in view of jurors who had retired to consider their verdict.

While Robinson carries out these acts, the censorship measures deployed ineffectually against him are being prepared for use against the left. Facebook, along with Google, have been engaged in the blacklisting of left-wing websites since 2017, under the fraudulent pretext of combating “fake news” and “extremism.” The World Socialist Web Site suffered a particularly serious decline in hits following Google’s introduction of new search algorithms and Facebook’s employment of thousands of people, effectively as censors. These measures will only become more severe as the class struggle intensifies.

The ruling class is engaged in a ferocious campaign to outlaw all forms of left-wing sentiment. Hate speech, the legal basis on which Robinson has received his bans, is being redefined to criminalise principled opposition to right-wing politics. For questioning the anti-Jeremy Corbyn manoeuvres of former Labour MP Luciana Berger—who has since joined a breakaway group with former Conservative MPs—the Wavertree Constituency Labour Party was accused of “bullying,” “misogyny and anti-Semitism.”

Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson, who has been at the forefront of witch-hunts in his party, is also leading the calls for YouTube to ban Robinson “as a matter of utmost urgency.” He considers this a shining example of how to proceed against the mass Labour party membership, now being talked about in the same terms as a former member of the British National Party and the English Defence League.

Robinson and his supporters must be decisively defeated. But the far-right cannot be fought by handing weapons to the same ruling elite that encourages its development. Historical and contemporary experience proves that it is only the working class, organised internationally in a struggle for socialism, that can confront the fascist threat. For this social force to develop its full strength, fundamental democratic rights must be defended—not through appeals to the ruling class but in a struggle against it and its far-right props.

#free speech #wsws #class warfare #labour #far-right #alt-right #aut-right #ukip #milo yiannopoulos #tommy robinson #fake news #censorship

[wildishmazz]

I've been thinking about "Watson Was A Woman".

I think Rex Stout was a bloody genius.

By claiming to believe that one of them was a woman, he created a space in which he could lay out some of the evidence for Holmes and Watson being married. This would otherwise have been impossible in the 1940s, for fear of blacklisting or even prosecution for mentioning homosexuality.

By claiming it was Watson, he made it laughably obvious that the framing device for the argument was nonsense. If his article had been "Holmes Was A Woman", it would have been too believable - even without going into trans!Holmes territory, Holmes is very clearly an odd sort of man, so "not a normal man = woman?" would have been easily misread as sincere, even by the casual reader. Watson, though, is clearly male - he shaves unevenly thanks to the position of his window, he was in the army, he successfully runs a doctor's practice in the middle of town. While those could all be lies, Watson is written inarguably as a man. The text does not give feminine clues for him at all.

There's the nonsense about picking letters from the entirety of the text at random to spell out the name "Irene", but I reckon that's a bit like the opening monologue of a play, or the overture to a musical - pointless in and of itself, but there to give your brain time to settle in and mull over what's going on. In this case, it gives you time to connect "he's got a point, they do really read like a married couple" with "don't be ridiculous, of course Watson wasn't a woman, that's just stupid.".

So I think he did it on purpose. I think he deliberately made a claim that made himself look stupid, to make everyone else think.

#rex stout #sherlock holmes #watson was a woman #i wrote this

[ajaxdinerbookclub-blog]

Episode 12: Ajax Diner Book Club

This show is awesome. So awesome. Do you know the artist Swamp Dogg, you should. Holy hell you should. Have you ever wondered what having coffee with Dolly Parton and Patti Smith would be like? We ponder that. Playlist after the break.

Listen Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Swamp Dogg “The Mind Does The Dancing While The Body Pulls The Strings” from Have You Heard This Story

Woody Guthrie “Ain't Gonna Be Treated This A Way” from Folkways The Original Vision

James Booker “Goodnight Irene” from Junco Partner

Leadbelly “We Shall Be Free” from Leadbelly

Laura Marling “False Hope” from Short Movie

Sandra Phillips “I've Been Down So Long” from Too Many People In One Bed

Jimi Hendrix “Machine gun” from Band of Gypsy's

Neko Case “Runnin' Out of Fools” from Blacklisted

Pavement “Summer Babe (Winter Version)” from Slanted & Enchanted

The Lemonheads “into your arms” from Come on Feel the Lemonheads

Dolly Parton “Just Because I'm A Woman” from Essential Dolly Parton

Patti Smith “gloria” from Horses

Nicole Atkins “Goodnight Rhonda Lee” from Goodnight Rhonda Lee

The Replacements “Sixteen Blue” from Let It Be

REM “Exhuming McCarthy” from Document

Old 97's “Niteclub” from Too Far To Care

Chris Bell “I Am The Cosmos” from I Am the Cosmos

Kevn Kinney “Hey landlord” from McDougal Blues

Doc Watson “Walking Boss” from Memories

Allen Toussaint “Country John” from Southern Nights

Charles Mingus “Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul” from Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Mississippi John Hurt “monday Morning Blues” from Mississippi John Hurt Rediscovered

Doris Duke “He's Gone” from I'm A Loser

Eddie Hinton “Everybody needs love” from Letters From Mississippi

Snooks Eaglin “Good News” from The Sonet Blues

J.B. Lenoir “The Whale Has Swallowed Me” from Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: J.B. Lenoir

[lipwak]

VHS #329

American Roots Music 1-4 PBS, Down From The Mountain concert at the Ryman Auditorium with O Brother Where Art Thou musicians, Life and Times of Bill Monroe, Agnazar - A singer from Badakhshan, Coleman Barks & Paul Winter Consort - 3 Rumi poems (2002?) Geraldine R Dodge poetry festival, Ray Charles at the White House 2003 Correspondent's Dinner, 4/26/03. *** American Roots Music 1-4 Produced by Ginger Brown/The Ginger Group Narrated by Kris Kristofferson (Ginger reads some credits, Buzzy Hum mixed it…)2001 http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/ Episode One: When First Unto This Country Marty Stewart, Bernice Johnson-Reagon, Ricky Skaggs, Robert Mirabel, Gillian Welch, Bonnie Raitt, Rufus ThomasMy Blue Ridge Cabin Home - Jay Ungar and Molly Mason track gangTurkey in the Straw at a fiddler's convention Dinah - Louis Armstrong Mary, Don't You Weep  -  Georgia field hands Home on the Range - Jules Allen The Fisk Jubilee Singers Mavis Staples Rockin JerusalemSteal Away - the Princely Players, Joshua Fit de Battle, spirituals James D. Vaughn and the Beginnings of Southern Gospel, Ralph Stanley,  Gordon Stoker, Doyle Lawson Amazing Grace - a group of Shape Note singersWhere the Shades of Love Lie Deep -Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver The First Recording of Vaudeville Blues and Hillbilly Music Arlo Guthrie, Pete Daniel, Rufus, Paul Kingsbury, Merle Haggard Lonesome Blues - Louis Armstrong Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith Will the Circle Be Unbroken - the Carter Family Old Joe Clark  - Fiddlin John Carson, the start of country music records Wildwood Flower - the Carter Family, Bristol sessions Keep on the Sunnyside - the Whites, AP Carter collected songs and reworked them Waiting for a Train  - Jimmie Rodgers Never No Mo Blues - Doc Watson In the Jailhouse Now - Jimmie Rodgers Country and Delta Blues Bonnie, Keb, Robbie Robertson, Keith Richards Henry - Keb' Mo' Death Letter Blues - Son House John the Revelator  - Son House Crossroad Blues  - Robert JohnsonLove in Vain Blues  - Keb' Mo' Love in Vain Blues   - Robert Johnson Boogie Woogie Dream  - Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, 1930s Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band The First Recording of Cajun and Tejano Music  (brief mention only) Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza The Influence of Radio and the Grand Ole Opry Ranger Doug (Riders In The Sky), Mike Seeger, Sam Phillips, Doc Take Me Back to That Old Carolina Home  - Uncle Dave Macon, old but regular Fox Chase - DeFord Bailey Great Speckled Bird  - Roy Acuff Hillbilly Fever - Roy Acuff The Father of Gospel Music Thomas Dorsey, It's Tight Like That - Tampa Red and Georgia Tom (Dorsey), after he lost money he turned to gospel He's Blessing Me - The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses If You See My Savior - Thomas A. Dorsey and Sallie Martin Precious Lord - Thomas A. Dorsey Precious Lord - The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses Mike Seeger - The Cuckoo *** Episode Two: This Land Was Made For You And Me Opening Sequence: Lord, Lord - Mamie Smith Boogie Woogie Dream - Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons Cowboys and Western Swing Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Douglas B. Green (Riders In The Sky) Tumbling Tumbleweeds -  The Sons of the Pioneers Pete Seeger talks about John LomaxLay My Burden Down - Turner Junior Johnson Unknown title - Ken Maynard on fiddle Back in the Saddle Again - Gene Autry Silver Haired Daddy of Mine - Gene Autry A breakdown - Bob Wills Merle Haggard, Ray Benson and Willie Nelson talk about Bob Wills, Bob wanted to sing like Bessie Smith (Ray) Sitting on Top of the World - Bob Wills (distorted) Bonnie Raitt talks about the Lomax field recordings Early Folk Revival: Good Night Irene - Lead Belly Alan Lomax talks about LeadbellyPick a Bale of Cotton - Lead Belly Gray Goose - Lead Belly Leadbelly met Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie in NYThis Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie Arlo talks about his dad, voice of Woody talking about the dust bowl Blowin' Down the Road - Woody Guthrie, pic of him singing in the subway, Marty Stuart talks about WoodyJohn Henry - Woody Guthrie with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGeeWoody joined the Almanac Singers, This Land is Your Land, songs could bring about social change, Studs Terkel Bluegrass: John Henry - Bill Monroe Marty Stuart, Ricky Skaggs, Bill talks about singing in church, learned music by ear A Voice from on High - Bill Monroe Mike Seeger talks about Bill, James Monroe, Earl Scruggs Sally Goodin'  - Earl Scruggs Doc Watson and Bela Fleck talk about Earl's banjo playing. Rabbit in a Log - Flatt and Scruggs Salty Dog Blues - Flatt and Scruggs Monroe didn’t want Flatt and Scruggs to go on the Grand Ole Opry until Martha White Flour insisted Earl's Breakdown - Earl Scruggs (at Newport) Earl's Breakdown - Earl Scruggs and friends Country, Honky Tonk: Dark as a Dungeon - Merle Travis Paul KingsburyNine Pound Hammer - Merle Travis If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time - Lefty Frizzell Kitty Wells, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson talk about honky tonksI'm Walking the Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb Always Late With Your Kisses - Lefty Frizzell (distorted) I Want to Be With You Always - Merle Haggard It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells Cold, Cold Heart - Hank Williams … Robbie Robertson talk about Hank The Blues & Radio: Your Funeral and My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson King Biscuit Time - couldn’t give away the flour... Bye, Bye Bird - Sonny Boy Williamson King Biscuit Time Theme - James Cotton (wanted to be just like Sonny Boy Williamson) Take a Little Walk with Me - Robert Lockwood Jr. with James Cotton BB King talked about listening to Sonny Boy Williamson during an hour off for lunch when he worked on a plantation Rufus talks about BB, BB talks about Memphis,Sweet Little Angel - B.B. King WDIA first black station in the nation, Sam Phillips, I'll Be Back Someday - Howlin' Wolf Sun Records/StudioI'll Never Let You Go Darlin’ - Elvis Presley BB talks about ElvisThat's All Right Mama - Elvis Presley Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis PresleySam talks about Blue Moon and Bill Monroe *** Episode Three: The Times They are A-Changin’ Opening Sequence: Foldin’ Bed - Whistler's Jug Band Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Earl Scruggs Electric Chicago and Urban Blues: Rollin' and Tumblin’ - Muddy Waters Keb Mo, Marshall Chess, Muddy Waters talk about Chicago Rock Me - Muddy Waters BB, Bonnie Raitt, Marshall Chess, Rufus Thomas talk about Muddy Got My Mojo Working  - Muddy Waters (with James Cotton) Willie Dixon - unknown songBuddy Guy, Marshall, Hubert Sumlin talk about WillieShake for Me  - Howlin' Wolf Bonnie talks about Howlin’ Wolf - take me, take me, take meKeith Richards talks about MuddyI'm Ready  - Muddy Waters Three O' Clock Blues - B.B. King Rufus, Koko Taylor, BB, Keb talk about BBHow Blue Can You Get?  - B.B. King The Thrill is Gone  - B.B. King Cissy Houston, Keb, Flaco Jimenez, WIllie talk about BB Gospel's Golden Years: Do You Call that Religion?  - a quartet of oyster shuckers Blind Barnabus - the Golden Gate Quartet BB KIng and other talk about the GG QuartetWade in the Water  - the Soul Stirrers Down  the Riverside - Sister Rosetta Tharpe Bonnie, others, mavis Staple talk about Sister Rosetta Tharpe He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - Mahalia Jackson Mahalia worked for Thomas Dorsey selling sheet music, Mitch Miller promoted herMove on Up a Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson Come on Children Let's Sing - Mahalia Jackson When the Saints Go Marching In - the Clara Ward Singers CL Franklin, Sam CookeSit Down Servant - the Staple Singers Robbie Robertson, Mavis, Marty Stuart talk about the Staple Singers Folk and Blues Revival: Good Night Irene  - The Weavers Pete talks about The Weavers and Gordon Jenkins, Decca Record Co totally dumbfounded over success of first recordHarold Leventhal, talk about Carnegie Hall concert and blacklisting, Peter YarrowSo Long, Been Good to Know Ya  - The Weavers Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio Harry Smith's American Anthology of Folk MusicThe Soldier and the Lady  - the New Lost City Ramblers John Cohen, MikeSeeger, (Dave Van Ronk song), John Sebastian, Washington SquareIf I Had a Hammer - Peter, Paul and Mary Peter talk about PP&M, Albert Grossman, Bitter End, the rest is historyA Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan Dylan becomes Woody, John Cohen, John Sebastian, Pete Seeger on DylanThe Times They are A-Changin’ - Bob Dylan Newport Folk Festival, Ralph Rinzler looked for talent for NewportCuckoo Bird - Clarence Ashley Doc Watson - son, I believe you’ll do (Ralph)Way Down Town - Doc Watson Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt Dick WatermanWe Shall Overcome - Odetta with The Freedom Singers Blowin' In the Wind - Peter, Paul and Mary Juke -  the Paul Butterfield Blues Band Dylan went electric at Newport with Butterfield Blues Band backing him, Pete retells story of wanting to change it Maggie's Farm - Bob Dylan It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bob Dylan *** Episode Four: All My Children of the Sun Opening Sequence: The Times They are A-Changin’ - Bob Dylan We Shall Overcome - Odetta and The Freedom Singers Cajun & Zydeco: Dans La Louisianne - Marc & Ann Savoy Marc talks, Ralph Rinzler looked for music there, Port Arthur Blues - the Balfa Brothers La Valse Criminelle - the Balfa Brothers, 1975Steve Riley, Savoy jam session, over 100 accordion builders in LA, Ann Savoy Zydeco Two-Step - Clifton Chenier Marc talls of Clifton Two-Step d’Amede - Marc Savoy I'm a Hog for You Baby - Clifton Chenier  at Jazz Fest Ossun Two-Step - Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys during Mardi GrasAnn Savoy La Valse de Mardi Gras - the children of  the Basile Mardi Gras trail ride Tejano: Rosalito - Valerio Longoria with Little Joe Hernandez and Mingo Saldivar Flaco, bajo sexto, Valerio made the accordion sound Cajun-y (Saldivar)Las Nubes/ The Clouds - Little Joe y la Familia with Valerio Longoria and Mingo Saldivar Ring of Fire - Mingo Saldivar!Sorry Boy - Flaco Jimenez, rock?? Native American Pow Wow and Crossover: Traditional Powwow Drumming  - Renzel Last Horse and his group Robert Mirabal, Floyd Red Crow WestermanTraditional Powwow Drumming  - Nellie Two Bulls and Lakota children Robbie Robertson, native americans used to follow the buffalo, now they follow the pow wowWounded Knee - Floyd Red Crow Westerman Enchantment Song - R. Carlos Nakai Jesus Loves Me  - Everette Red Bear and Sandor Iron Rope of the Native American Church, peyote The Dance - Robert Mirabal, native american rock operaSmithsonian Folk Life Festival Century Wrap Up: Stomping Grounds - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, one of the first integrated bands on the circuit Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins with the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, hit on underground rock station in SF, then NY... Stomp Remix - Kirk Franklin Hoochie Coochie Man - Billy Branch with Pinetop Perkins, John Primer and Willie Big Eye Smith Mannish Boy - Billy Branch with school kids Rock of Ages - Gillian Welch, repackaged… alt/no depression, Steve Earle Train on the Island  - the Old Crow Medicine Show Little Maggie - Ralph Stanley Get Up John - Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Worried Man Blues - Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, James Cotton and Marc and Ann Savoy, Stewart Duncan on fiddle *** O Brother and Beyond - Down From The Mountain Musicbenefit concert, CMT1/2 hr, s, 2001missed beginning Coen Brothers, T-Bone Burnett, Jerry Douglas, Dan Tyminski, I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow, Fairfield Four, music recorded before the movie then they performed for playback, "Down From The Mountain" concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on May 24, 2000 filmed by DA Pennebaker, Fairfield Four - Lazurus (https://youtu.be/sxSRkYaGgDc) this clip, The Cox Family, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss (https://youtu.be/tCQiCCnn9IQ), The Whites, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Chris Thomas King, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - My Dear Someone (https://youtu.be/lswjecWmJkM), Ralph Stanley. *** Life and Times of Bill Monroe 1 hr, cmt, smissed beginning1996 Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Mac Wiseman, Sonny Osborne, birth, Charles Wolfe, Arnold Shultz, Uncle Pen, moved north, worked at Sinclair, Monroe Brothers, fighters, The Bluegrass Boys, John Hartford, Muleskinner Blues, Chubby Wise, Flatt and Scruggs, baseball, tent shows, when band members left he wouldn’t talk to them for years, Del McCoury, took a long time to accept other bluegrass groups, Ralph Rinzler, doesn’t talk much. *** Agnazar - A singer from BadakhshanPersian music 1/2 hr, 2002sibilant narration lyrics by Rumi, wedding, funeral songs, dancing, top themes - girls, girls and girls, *** Bill Moyer’s - NowColeman Barks & Paul Winter Consort 3 Rumi poems (Geraldine R Dodge poetry festival 9/22/02?, Sun am session I just missed?)(https://youtu.be/a-AX6_YrsWM) this clip!2003 Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field...Who makes these changes? ...Today, like every other day, we woke up empty and frightened. ... *** Ray Charles at the White House 2003 Correspondent's Dinner w/ President Bush, 4/26/03, C-Spanpt 1 of 2, (see #311 for pt 2)See the whole thing here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?176331-3/2003-white-house-correspondents-dinner-entertainmentsmall band of 4crowd looks bored, Bush too Georgia On My Mind.Stranger In My Own Home TownYour Cheating HeartRain Teardrops From My EyesJust For A Thrill (tape runs out)

[vergess]

I think you’re right to be upset with the antisemitism present in Letters to Watson, but I think you risk hurting people who are in your corner by framing those who have disagreed with you as violent antisemites. It’s not my place to tell you to calm down and that isn’t my intention, but I think it’s worth reconsidering a call out post, and redirecting your energy into a discussion, if you’re so inclined. I hope you’re doing well.

Oh man, oh man, you would not believe the vigour of my victorious dab as I slammed open the unpublished draft of part 3 that I barely, barely resisted posting because I felt I had adequately made my point, and surely, surely no one could possibly find room to be weird about it as a """"callout"""" and not sheer fucking exhaustion at yet another fucking microaggression.

But alright!!!!!! Let's goooooo!!!! :D

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I've no qualms whatsoever with the substack operator, btw. They have done a lovely job thus far. The CW list available on the collaborative google doc looks very thorough, far better than anything I could have organized.

I'm not upset with the book club as a whole, I'm not going to quit or anything.

I just don't think many gentiles understand the scale of antisemitism. So many of you, bless your kind intentions, think it's a historical thing. You think that because it's old and gone, you're on our side by simple virtue of history.

It isn't over. These are not old scars lightly touched.

These are bleeding wounds, often torn open that very day, being poked and prodded during what should be our relaxing hobbies.

Think about whatever marginalizations you have, I'm sure you have them.

And then imagine antisemitism as another one, added on top. Another whole stupid bonus layer. Another shit-icing on the shit-cake.

And then think about all the people telling you that you should just be more grateful for the google doc telling you in advance about the shit corn!

Think about all the kind-hearted anons withing you a good day, with a smile and a wave, so sweetly confused that you aren't smiling back.

That you're not grateful for their utterly, spectacularly useless, meaningless, unhelpful advice. The google doc with the whole "hey, there's gonna be some corn in the shit" warning doesn't really make the shit less shitty.

And it certainly doesn't make the entire process more fun or bearable to have a bunch of condescending little fuckers telling you that the goddamn google doc full of corn warnings really should be more than enough I mean what more do you want them to do, listen to you talk about how unpleasant all this shit-corn is? It's a bit gross you know. Kind of impolite really.

Honestly, at this point you're making it more uncomfortable for everyone else. Can't you just, you know. Leave the poor baker alone?

It's so mean.

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So, anon, I appreciate the advice.

But, with all my fondness and all my kindness, may I in turn offer this advice to you:

If you're one of the people who Did The Thing?

You're not a "violent antisemite" or fucking whatever.

You're a person who made a mistake. You accidentally did an antisemitism. Happens to the best of us. I myself probably do about 3 antisemitisms a day, and I'm Jewish. It's the nature of the world we live in.

The trick is to acknowledge it when you realize you did one, apologize to anyone you hurt, and try your best not to make the same mistake in the future. You will make it again, btw. You're human. And when you make that mistake again, the solution will be to repeat the same steps then.

What it damned well won't be, it to fucking pretend you're incapable of doing any harm, claim that the real victim is the person running the email chain, and then double down on the bugshit insane idea that antisemitism ended 100 years ago.

So try. The fuck. Again.

You goddamn fucking morons.

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i'm sorry that you're having such a bad time wrt another tumblr book club :(

I was going to put on a tough face, but actually I'm really not handling it well at all. I keep having violent panics in between dissociative fits.

But more than anything, I'm so fucking mad at myself for having allowed myself the foolishness of vulnerability. For the audacious imbecility of hope.

Because I knew this was coming.

Sherlock Holmes attracts only the worst kind of Literary Intellectual (TM). But I still hoped.

And when I saw that post this morning, do you know what I thought actually? "Oh, finally! I've been waiting for someone to bring it up. It seemed overdue. I'm glad we're going to talk about it now!"

That's why I dared to bare my dumb stupid fucking soul like that, like a moron. Like an idiot. To fucking show my weak spot and say, "go ahead, goyim, here's the target!"

Because I really thought the fandom was going to talk about it.

I trusted us.

Them.

I thought about them as an us that could be trusted to talk to as peers about a difficult subject.

You know. The way the Dracula Daily fandom talked about the anti-Romani bigotry, phrenology, xenophobia.

The way the 80 days fandom talked about the various forms of racist and colonialist messaging pervasive throughout.

The way the Whale Weekly fandom continues to talk about. Ooof. Allll of that.

I thought we were going to talk.

In the way that had been established as the norm for these books.

But instead, just. Just an avalanche of some of the most obscene shit. A lot of it gleefully posted in public, masks fully off.

People calling jews too stupid too read. Calling us censors. Saying we're attacking and harassing gentiles by acknowledging that the fucking source material is antisemitic, a fact the goddamned gentiles themselves also openly acknowledge.

But we're hurt by it. And we're expressing that pain. So I guess that makes us the villains.

You know, Shakespeare wrote plenty of antisemitic stereotypes himself, but uh. He had this tendency to, see, also make his characters very fully realized and give them elegantly spoken motivations. So elegant, in fact, that many people forget the first lines are ours.

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

Oh, but I forget my place in the hierarchy of this noble English Literary Canon.

#little baby birds expecting already digested literature to be vomited in their mouths

Jews are just dumb animals.

My bad, y'all. My bad.

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Genuinely do not understand how people are so oblivious to the fact that antisemitism is a huge and increasing problem, like.. if you follow the news in literally any format there are stories all the time about hate crimes and Kanye and Whoopi and SO MANY people that agree with them. It's so obvious and people still think antisemitism ended with WWII I really do not understand this, or why people are mad at you for pointing it out when they claim not to be antisemites??? If someone is defending or denying antisemitism.. that's called being an antisemite yall this isn't complicated

Well, you see!

There are some Jewish readers in the discord server. And presumably some of them must also have contributed to the collaborative list of trigger warnings. And as we all know, a list of trigger warnings constitutes a complete critical discussion of antisemitism.

Therefore, any Jewish readers who, for example, are uncomfortable with the total radio silence from the broader Letters from Watson fandom here on tumblr WRT antisemitic stereotyping in the text is just going into hysterics. We're either too stupid too read, demanding that the text be dumbed down enough for our malformed "baby-bird" brains

Or we're demanding the poor white gentiles re-write their entire literary canon in our image.

By suggesting that maybe... in a book club... a coomunity venture... taking place publically... on a public platform such a tumblr... perhaps... tumblr users might seek to contextualize the work... communally????

Oh god, you know? I was going to keep trying. I really was. I was going to keep linking to each stupid little example of the overwhelmingly toxic antisemitism oozing off almost every stupid response to that post.

But what's the fucking point?

I can't just keep pointing to them screaming the most brazen and absurd antisemitic nonsense.

I mean for fuck's sakes, they're out here saying that it's a harassment campaign targetting the goddamned substack, when it consists whole fucking cloth of one 20 year old woman pointing out that she was rather shocked by a pretty egregiously shocking bit of racism

And me being like, "Yeah m8, that sure was fucked up!"

While so far no less than 3 dozen anons and 9 completely non-anonymous goddamned individuals decide to be weird about it!!!

Holy shit, people are out here saying "The Jews Want To Censor The Letters From Watson Substack" now, because one person said it might be nice if, perhaps, it was considered to make some community commentary more prominent maybe.

But heaven fucking forfend a Jew speak politely in a public space. God, no. That's making Unreasonable Labour Demands Of Poor, Innocent Fucking Gentiles.

I just.

I really feel bad for the OP, more than anything else. Imagine using tumblr once a month, you read Sherlock Holmes for the first time, pop an off the cuff little jumblr post like that, close the app...

And then...

Oh boy.

It's not gonna be a nice notes page com February, no it is not.

#answered asks #Anonymous #Letters from Watson #BTW my previous statement about the Substack organizer not being an ass is revoked that whole baby birds too stupid to read shit??? #That's allll theirs #Anti Semitism #Antisemitism #A sstudy in semiticss #anti semitism #antisemitism #letters from watson blacklist/ #holmes

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You know what's the actual worst part about this?

I can't actually post the harassment I receive. I'm sure some of you who have followed me for a very long time know that I used to! I posted every one of the abhorrent messages I would get from these, though I would remove the graphic images and videos first.

These days, harassers are smarter. They send in these messages in bulk, and then report tag spam, or else report inappropriate/violent content on the blog once I post it publicly.

Thus, I am obligated to block/delete/report it, instead. Which is probably, honestly, better for the web ecosystem anyway.

But, it means the majority of the people watching this go down will leave thinking the gentiles are right.

They're going to see how polite gentiles stayed. How calmly they talked down to me. How their little lies were delivered kindly from every mouth. Each insult was perfectly deniable. Oh, they didn't mean it that way, oh, I'm taking it too seriously.

Observers will leave with their quiet biases confirmed: Jews over-react to everything. Anti-semitism isn't actually that common. Jews make it up for attention. If Anti-semitism still exists it's rare; we exaggerate it to feel like real minorities.

The reality is: anti-semitism is ever more common and ever more powerful.

This will be lost on them.

Anti-semitism is a complicated force. You can't plot it on a chart like gravity. But it has measurable effects.

In Europe, in 2019, those effects reached their worst point Europe since the 1930s. In the US, we crossed over in 2016. In Canada, I believe it was just last year: 2022.

Around the world, anti-semitism is getting worse every day.

And hundreds of people are, right now, convincing themselves and their friends that it's all crybaby nonsense. Patting themselves on the back for being so polite about the silly temper tantrum. Telling themselves they did such a good job with that google doc.

Isn't that what it was really all about? The google doc?

Not the harassment? Not the alienation? Not the fact that so, so many Jewish people watched this happen and know that they can absolutely never set foot near this fandom ever again? Not the Nazis who watched this and know that they have allies who will give them cover to send hundreds of violent threats to any Jew who speaks out of turn?

No, of course not.

It must have been about the google doc.

About being polite, when you remind people to read the trigger warnings.

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The characterization of this as 'arguing over trigger warnings' and not 'it took less than 6 hours for a bunch of people to go from nominally polite statements about trigger warnings to tellings Jews to kill themselves for censoring media' is sure fascinating.

But like.

I will say I'm glad the TWs are going to be made more prominent because I actually do read on the substack (my email provider tends to shorten longer messages) so there were emphatically NOT links in 'each entry' for me and it was EXTREMELY frustrating to have people insist that over and over when it was demonstrably untrue.

#A sstudy in semiticss #anti semitism #antisemitism #letters from watson blacklist/ #holmes

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NGL I was really interested in finally reading Holmes and I hadn't exactly gotten around to it yet but I'd saved up all of the e-mails for when I could manage it and... Yeah, I deleted them all. I currently have zero desire to read the series anymore. Maybe that'll change one day but even as just an observer that was such an unpleasant experience that it's completely turned me off of something I legitimately think I'd have enjoyed. Great job, all.

A Study In Scarlet Semitics

Or

The Language of My People

English

Emmigration (n): The Act of Leaving Your Native Land

It's been 7 minutes since this ask came in. I started sobbing when I saw it.

You're not the first person to say this to me. Not the first Jew, either. Not a ton... 6 or 7 total.

I don’t know what makes this message special.

It's just that.

This is so.

How can I explain. How can I explain?

Words don't make the meaning rightly. I cannot condense it well. The loss the loss the fragmentation and the fry the fracture unravels.

Lossy compression in communications.

I wanted to share. Communal. Fandom, friends: these loving things.

These frozen frailties that linger, langour, a syrup sweetly soothes a fissured pharynx, and instead it’s broken, broken broken broken

Français

Casser (v): Démolir Quelque Chose

On me casse

Je me casse

Je le casse

On le casse

Casse

Casse

Casse

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Turning anon off for a minute, sorry. As usual, @arionwind will be leaving anonymous asks on. You can direct anon messages the, and ny will forward your ask to me.

I just like. I dunno man, if one more person talk about child sacrifice in front of me, I will not be able to cope, okay? You win, gentiles!! You did it!!! Con-fucking-gratulations!!!!!!!!!

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The Letters from Watson situation and you bringing up that being exposed to bigotry over time normalizes it reminds me of a situation where I was hurt because someone didn't tw for bigotry. I watched the Nanny a lot as a young kid and when Matt Baume did a video essay about it and it's roots in queer culture I decided to try and re-watch it. When I actually went to watch it, I was floored by the sheer scale of fatphobia presented. It wasn't a jab here or there every other episode, it was a barrage of fatphobia in every episode, baked into the text. I tried to hold out, to see if I could ignore it, but eventually found myself in tears as a chubby child actress was berated on screen for comedic effect. But what really scared me was... The show was getting to me. I was starting to see the thin but less petite elder daughter as fat, when I wouldn't have before. The show was changing my perspective despite my best efforts to not let it get to me. Fatphobia is not comparable to anti semitism, but this taught me that, if you are going to present a piece of media, or analyze it, not mentioning or warning for bigotry is irresponsible at best, and endorsement at worst. I'm still a bit irritated that fatphobia wasn't mentioned even once in the essay. I'm really sorry this backlash is happening over a very reasonable reaction. :/

Mmm, actually I think most kinds of bigotry are very comparable.

Not universally, no. But, in general? People benefit from comparing them. Solidarity is often built on learning the things we have in common first, so that we can better help respect and protect each others' different needs, interests and abilities.

Just off the top of my head, for example, fat people and Jewish people are both characterized as greedy, and in fact, Jewish people are often specifically characterized as fat.

But that's REALLY off topic, haha.

In this case, while there were some warnings made about a month ago (apparently these warnings were repeated if you use the email reader, but I do read on the website, where the warnings are not repeated), and while I was aware of the content going in, my issue is, again, not with the existence or lack thereof of the TW list.

As I have. Repeatedly and constantly said. I think the TW list is lovely. It's great. It's very complete. Nice work everyone. No one has any problems with the TW list. No one has ever had any problems with the FUCKING. TW. LIST.

THE PROBLEM. IS WITH. THE UNHINGED. ANTISEMITISM. IN RESPONSE. TO THE MOST MILQUETOAST. IMAGINABLE. POST. EVER. MADE.

Here's the breakdown.

20 y/o Jewish woman: Gosh, even with the trigger warning a whole month ago that imo was really not enough, that sure was some antisemitism. I would prefer to see more pushback on such intense racism in the future, but it is early days. Sure hope things get better as we go!

Me, 30+ Jewish person: Haha, yeah, reminded me of how much it hurt to read when I was a kid. Glad I've got bigger problems to worry about nowadays lol.

Every gentile within earshot: OH SO YOU THINK WE SHOULD CODDLE YOU POOR LITTLE JEWBABY FEELINGS HUH? WE SHOULD CENSOR ART FOR YOUR PRECIOUS WIDDLE OWIES? YOU WANT YOUR TO PRE-DIGEST YOUR WORDS BECAUSE YOUR SUBHUMAN JEW BRAINS CAN'T READ? KILL YOURSELF!!!!!!!!

Me, again: Okay, well. That is an extreme fucking reaction so let's fucking calm our asses down with the goddamn nazi shit for ten fucking minutes, perhaps????

And then the gentiles devolved into further screaming about how I'm, I don't know...

They seem to have convinced themselves of a lot of things at this point. The ones willing to put their names on it are mostly content to call me anything from a liar to a harasser to an imbecile incapable of reading, to someone with a personal hatred of the Substack operator, etc etc.

They seem broadly convinced that I "want" something or to impose on the substack. Which is nonsense. All I "wanted" was to read some books I liked with a group of people and discuss, and that ship has thoroughly fucking sailed.

The anonymous bitches are mostly wandering into blood libel at this point. Again, I used to post all my anon threats, but I stopped doing that once bigots got smart enough to start reporting me for spam when I did that, because victims showing their harassment in public is, of course, the real harassment.

They also seem not to be aware of a very simple fact:

I can still see your comments in my notifications page if I'm the OP, even after you've blocked me, and it is very fucking obnoxious.

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Hey, I'm just popping in to tell you that reading what you wrote about antisemitism brings me a lot of emotional relief, because I can feel why these people are wrong, but I don't have enough information to articulate it (my own connection to Jewishness much more vague).

Thank you.

I really appreciate the messages of support. I was feeling more refreshed when I woke up, but it does get draining. It's so much easier when the little bastards are on anon.

It's the ones who so gleefully take pride in putting their names on their anti-semitism that exhaust me. How they can sit there and hear, "oh, well, my actions were the Polite Normal Face that allowed a bunch of shitheads to send violent threats for 12 hours... therefore I'm totally in the right! It's just a coincidence that I'm on the same side as nazis!! No need to reassess my behaviour!!"

Like, buddy. Come on...

Even if you were 100% right, do you not think that, perhaps?? the fact that the people agreeing with you are Nazis telling Jews to die, and the people disagreeing with you are Jews actively begging you in tears to just let us read the same dumb mystery novel as you in peace is... like...

A red fuckin flag? Maybe????

Just in terms of your rhetorical devices???

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Did you report the threats

Like the first dozen? Honestly, it... there really gets to be a point where the actual report process itself gets too be more work than its worth.

It IS very fast and efficient! It's just, y'know. When you've got them coming in that quickly, it's easier after a point to just block them.

I report the more egregious ones, of course, and if I'm feeling more energetic I do a few here and there.

But a block+delete takes two clicks. A harassment report opens a new tab and I have to click trough a couple options, and it's yeah, only about 20 seconds per threat, but it does add up quickly and like...

I am actually a seriously disabled motherfucker lol. My shoulders are only good for so much typing and mouse movement a day, I can't be wasting all of it on these assholes, y'know??

#answered asks #Anonymous #A sstudy in semiticss #anti semitism #antisemitism #letters from watson blacklist/ #holmes