Notices by Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online), page 3

You have to understand and take responsibility for your strengths in order to be understanding of people who lack those strengths. When I bought into the "intelligence is fake" bullshit, I got really frustrated with people for having difficulty with things that were easy for me.

I used to buy into the common leftist idea that intelligence isn't real, that outside of people with intellectual disabilities, everyone is pretty much equally smart (albeit in different ways). And honestly? As a smart person, it made me less compassionate.

I am in a lot of physical pain tonight. Kratom is helping somewhat.

Literally got called a Nazi for being Jewish on tumblr today.

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It is not ok to appropriate dead Jews to make a Holocaust inversion statement. This is fucking disgusting.

Apparently someone painted a mural of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh in Norway, and honestly this is 1) antisemitic, 2) stupid, and 3) edgelord bullshit.

"It's unethical to have certain feelings" is not a leftist position, even if you dress it up in leftist clothes. It's an inherently regressive position.

I wasn't going to post this, because the post that prompted this was not about that.(This post: https://mastodon.online/@BathysphereHat/112872911305157629 ) But a lot of people crawled out of the woodwork to be the thought police, so here we are.

Like, I chose that example for the original post because it's such a silly thing to argue about. HOWEVER. What's NOT silly is how bad people have gotten about censorship and generally policing other people's internal feelings.

btw my actual position is that attraction cannot be unethical, because it's something that happens inside your own head and not an action you take that affects other people, hope that helps.

Terminally online leftists are really like "Voting isn't effective, unlike what I do: argue for days on the internet about whether it's ethical to be sexually attracted to the rabbit from Zootopia."

Some people think it's sexist that in Olympic gymnastics, the women have to do like a sassy dance for their floor routine, while the men just do a routine. And they're right. The men should also have to do a sassy dance.

@evan @AshCarnelian Right. The trouble is that a lot of leftists are way, way too concerned with ideological purity to be willing to do that.

@AshCarnelian @evan That said, I do think it would help if people learned the word "Kahanist", perhaps.

@AshCarnelian @evan Right, like, the reason I'm talking about this is that Jews have a really hard time navigating social media without being harassed these days, and I feel a lot more qualified to talk about that than I do about the like actual details of Israeli politics.

And I don't accept it when people say "Well you need to adjust your language", because gentiles appropriated these Jewish words and redefined them.

I know people who self-ID as Zionists primarily because they don't think the 7 million Jews already in Israel should be displaced or killed.

Zionist beliefs range from "Jewish people belong in the Levant, preferably under an equitable and secular government" to "I support the state of Israel as it exists today". These are very, very different beliefs, but gentiles just assume that anyone who says they're a Zionist is a frothing Israeli nationalist.

If you are a gentile, the chances are that you don't actually know what the terms "Zionist", "anti-Zionist", and "non-Zionist" mean. When a Jewish person calls themself a Zionist, it doesn't actually tell you that much about their position unless they go into more detail.