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stux⚡️Shit. I can’t imagine what teaching must be like these days 😟
Burnt Veggies@stux Damn.
DavidMy class is made up of nothing but dumbasses - it's horrible, coming from a student.
blan©k.@stux honestly i would whup every little fucker in that class, which is why i don't teach kids
Jeanie@sonyablanck @stux I can’t imagine getting away with that trash talk in my days at school.
@jeaniesalad @stux just like, let me tell you what happened to my shtetl you little shit
MagicLike 🏳️🌈@stux what the fuck 
Adam Gessaman 
@stux yeah. It’s not great. Take an online culture of inflammatory statements and add influences like Kanye West and A***** T***.
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gavinisdie 
VAWeisman@stux This is terrifying.
David Colquhoun on Bluesky@stux the legacy of Trump 😭
Emacsen@david_colquhoun @stux
@SummerDay
@adam
@TheezyThee
When folks say that antisemitism is due to a specific politician, as a Jew, I find this highly offensive.
It allows people to ignore the antisemitism in their circles by "othering" it, or making it into a political talking point.
It turns Jew hatred into a political tokenization game whereby Jews are dehumanized and antisemitism is simply "a tool of the left" or "a tool of right".
Please refrain from doing it.
@emacsen @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee
"When folks say that antisemitism is due to a specific politician,"
I did nothing of the sort!
"When folks say that antisemitism is due to a specific politician,"
I did nothing of the sort!
Sören@emacsen @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee are you denying that Trump played a big role in normalizing antisemitism again in the 21st century?
Draco Metallium@chucker @emacsen @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam
This is not Trump's legacy, this has being coagulating at least since the financial crisis. Trump and antisemitism are symptom of the slow descent of the USA into fascism. He made things worse, but is still not the source.
This is not Trump's legacy, this has being coagulating at least since the financial crisis. Trump and antisemitism are symptom of the slow descent of the USA into fascism. He made things worse, but is still not the source.
@chucker @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee
This and @david_colquhoun 's reply is highly offensive, and is precisely the antisemitic behavior that Jews such as myself are describing.
When a Jew tells you that antisemitism is not tied to a political party, but ubiquitous, and then expresses concerns of being used as a pawn, and your response is engage in that exact behavior. there's no conclusion to draw other than that you enjoy using Jews as political pawns.
Patty Kimura@emacsen @chucker @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee Both things are true. I speak as a targeted Asian American. Trump didn't start racism or antisemitism, but he enabled, engaged, and inflamed for political purposes. We don't ignore Hitler's role just because he wasn't alone in persecuting Jews, LGBT, Romani. But, to our peril, we do ignore the antisemitism in the US that denied Jewish refugees safe haven and denied American Jews equality. We can face both truths, I believe.
@pattykimura @chucker @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee
100% that there is a role that certain politicians play in rhetoric or policy, but what disturbs me greatly is how often I hear "it's a right wing problem" from the left, and "it's a left wing problem" from the right, both tokenizing and trivializing antisemitism to score political points.
Southern Leftist@emacsen @david_colquhoun @stux @[email protected] @adam @[email protected]
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Yes, antisemitism may not originate from a political party, but plenty actively gas the fire.
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Yes, antisemitism may not originate from a political party, but plenty actively gas the fire.
I'm equally afraid of left wing antisemitism as I am of right wing antisemitism.
Glenn@david_colquhoun @stux Sadly, as bad as he was, Trump is merely a symptom, not a cause.
Shredd Tone 
@stux An African American....who Hitler has a huge hatred for such a race...said that....Hitler....was awesome!? WTF
And they seem to base their arguments by claims. The holocaust never happened...because the director is jewish and is therefore biased by default, and lying about it? Twitter and social media seems to be peoples only source of 'education' these days. How can they deny history that has so much content from so many different sources?
And I thought my school was bad
Florrie@Shredd_Tone @stux it's multi-pronged. We've got Facebook where everyone was encouraged to be a journalist, the internet in its entirety where you have to dig deep to find legit sources & use a lot of critical thinking, trunt working to delegitimize the press, & the slow death of the press because no one wants to pay for news and good reporting.
@FlorriePuddlefoot That's a very good point you've made there actually. We could take news seriously, but as well as that we don't (counting myself) really bother to pay anyone for their work to report good content.; despite wanting honest and trustworthy news to expand and rely on.
I got start subscribing to fix that
LisPi@Shredd_Tone @stux The lack of self-awareness is stunning.
It's the same kind of idiotic "couldn't happen to me" stupidity I saw in my time of schooling.
I wondered then and still wonder now how that nonsensical and trivially disproved feeling of invincibility arises.
Are they just incapable of contextualizing and piecing together disparate pieces of knowledge? Incapable of self-reflective contextualization and logical application?
@lispi314 It's like people can only base their actions on how their feel as opposed to thinking. Feelings are important and has been used as a survival instinct, but for a long time and now more than ever we need to exercise thought and be capable of handling opposing opinions (as long as done in a civil manner).
There was someone who said 'Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is why very few people engage in it.'
skua@Shredd_Tone @stux
Maybe worthwhile contrasting how much unstructured screen time connected to a market driven world wide web you had compared to recent kids.
In the same way that cigarette ads may have featured for you and biased the behaviour of you and your peers, todays kids are getting exposure to Nazi thinking on their screens.
@skua It's not that I like to be too dependable on one news outlet 100%, I have to look at a variety of perspectives from different sources. I never want to take things by 'paint by numbers.' I'm aware that news outlets can manufacture or sensationalise their content, you always need to stay on your toes; especially within Social media.
It's not always BS though, depends if they are doing it fairly or not, and who's it's really benefiting; and that's if they can do a good job doing it.
Aya@stux that's absolutely gross and so damn scary
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The Eldritch Rain 
@stux Well, that's terrifying.
CyberSmith@stux holy crapballs that's frightening
Kevin Karhan 
@stux shit like that would get kids into the principal's office to be picked up by their parents - for all the right reasons.
But I guess that's because such felonies ain't taken lightly and might get child services to have a serious conversation with said parents...
Laney@stux can confirm, even as an adult and even amongst friends and family I would have pegged as more tolerant, antisemitism and racism are back in “fashion”. I’m constantly shocked by some of the things my friends and family now suddenly think are ok to say.
darkcruix@stux This is a very sad time when the horrible past is forgotten or perverted. I live 25 minutes away from the concentration camp Dachau - they all should visit at some point.
bardicblogger - Teri Montague@darkcruix @stux I was gonna suggest something like this too. Sometimes they have to see the history directly to see how shocking it is.
Stella@bardicblogger @darkcruix @stux The DC holocaust museum is great. I get chills every time and have gone more than once.
YazzY@stux Would you agree to blame Israel a bit on that?? You’re trying to teach something that happened many years ago but, they see things happening to innocents in Palestinian territories right now by Israeli government as we speak‼️
Binyamin Green@ysmn Ah, well, the post was referring to religious genocide. The State of Israel didn't even exist during World War 2. And if it did, you can be sure they would have been on the front-lines.
CuriousCat@stux I'm sorry it's not an educated response but FUUCK. OMG I would be so angry I don't know what I'd do..
Timothy Schwinghamer (he/him)@stux this is horrifying. I live in #Canada, but I expect the situation is likely similar here, too. I feel like this should be a top priority. #antisemitism
As a Jew in Canada, I can tell you that I suspect the situation in Canada is a little different, but not radically so.
Stefan Ferreira 🏳️🌈@stux 💔 I’m not entirely suprised given how this misinformed, disgusting hate has spread online, amplified by loud voices. But still awful to read about young minds being corrupted like this.
Stephanie King@stux And this is why I stopped using Twitter the second Elon took over. Online environments are allowing and even encouraging this kind of stuff.
My best friend is a gamer and only plays 1-person stuff bc he says the online forums are absolutely rampant with antisemitism, homophobia, and racism
Samuel Bepis@stux One thing that I think we don't talk about nearly enough is how fucking stupid Hitler and the Nazis were. They thought they could fight two wars at the same time and win. They thought they could build a big granite city in the middle of a swamp (look up New Germania.) They designed all sorts of ridiculous "super weapons" that mostly killed the Nazis who used them. And Hitler in his private life was *incredibly* cringe.
@stux Which is to say - high schoolers who say shit like this are probably doing it to be edgy and empathy isn't edgy. But telling them about how lame the Nazis were might get through to some of them.
Bernd Herd@SamuelBepis @stux I see this as a common misunderstanding. Many of these Nazis were not stupid. If they all would have been stupid, they wouldn't have been that dangerous.
It is the highly intelligent malicous people that are dangerous. Don't underestimate Nazis.
Göbbels once used an embedded american journalist to show him that a roumor of an atrocity that he placed himself was untrue. While most other roumors were true. An highly intelligent scroupelous lyer.
@herdsoft we shouldn't underestimate them, but we shouldn't glamorize them either. A lot of media portrayals of Nazis depicts them as these hyper-competant evil geniuses in cool uniforms and that's exactly why edgy teens find them appealing.
@SamuelBepis Interesting point, indeed.
But you wrote "how fucking stupid Hitler and the Nazis were". And not all of them were stupid.
I don't think that Elon Musk is stupid. And yet I dispise him very much.
@herdsoft Okay, to be less flippant: we do not talk enough about all the stupid things they did, and if we did this it might make them seem less cool to teenagers who are susceptible to right-wing propaganda.
Elon Musk is another person who's made a lot of bad decisions while being glamorized by people who view him as some kind of genius mastermind.
Bob Jamieson@stux Fascism, like religion, does not deal with facts, only doctrine, which is why it is so hard to combat.
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jfrazier@stux that sounds just awful
@wertherThe poison is not slowly but steadily creeping into society, but is now -thanks to influencers, social media and QAnon, being poured over us with bucketloads. Unstoppable as it seems. If students are already beyond reason, it is mopping up with the tap open. We will somehow have to look for antidotes. Soon.