So there I was, chilling in my recliner and contemplating making a post full of cool things going on in my life, because I really need to focus on the positive (speedy version: board games = fun! michael palin travel documentaries = fun! big bear trip for mg's bday including snow tubing = fun!) and some guy showed up at my door ( Read more... )

Find out what it means to me.

*Fuck* him for desecrating our dead. Fuck *all* of them.

Today is the opening day of the United Nations Conference on Racism ( Read more... )

Recently, I've seen a bunch of people (including two pro authors) try to shut down conversations about RaceFail by explaining that they are Jewish and know about discrimination and they are furious that they've been told to sit down and shut up and maybe learn to *listen*, because they *know about discrimination ( Read more... )

First, I promise this is my last really long post for a long while! I'm sorry for all of the friendslists I just bombed, and I did cut large parts of both these posts, but this is also a very serious, personal and important issue for me, and if you don't want to read the posts I make about these things, I'm really not sure why you have me friended ( Read more... )

In general, I don't do that much antisemitism or Judaism 101 - I figure there's enough of that out there already and most of the time I'm way too fed up. Usually I just rant. But this is such a strong and stunning example of why this education is *needed* that I just couldn't let it go.

A couple of articles came out yesterday about a recent ( Read more... )

Ahh, Middle School Spirit Days. Those warm sharing moments of Hug A Friend Day and High Five Day, and...Hit A Jew Day ( Read more... )

Gee, I wonder why I haven't seen anything about *this*You know, nine years ago, I went to a Bat-Mitzvah in New York where the Rabbi said in his sermon, "It used to be Jews who won prizes and awards. What happened? Now it's people with names like Chang and Wong ( Read more... )

Remember marieantoinette? Well, she's also libbymarie on livejournal, and she's been pretty busy the last few days.

She commented in one of my posts just now,(ETA: apparently she's also running around to other journals and unfunny business and pasting the exact same thing) saying this:

http://libbymarie. ( Read more... )

When I made my post about the Kristallnacht game on Friday night, the first comment I received was from somebody saying that she usually agreed with my Judaism/antisemitism posts, but thought that this time I was possibly overreacting (she later changed her mind). She was firm enough about it that it made me doubt for a moment, made me wonder if I ( Read more... )