Okay so when people say "don't radicalize children to hate Israel" and the response you give is "how can they not be radicalized when Israel is killing their parents?" you are actually contributing worse than nothing, you are contributing the very thing that perpetuates the cyclical nature of the conflict. If you don't radicalize children, then they will be open to education and perspective and see Israelis as people—and yes maybe they will still hate Israel, but they will also hate Hamas, who pushed the war as well. You thinking it is okay to be radicalized under specific circumstances is how suicide bombings and child soldiers and hostages happen: I say this to Israelis who were radicalized as well by the war, and I have criticized Israelis (including those close to me) for also thinking indiscriminate violence is okay.
My sea of monsters book being the only one not absolutely beat up 💀
Percy’s “you’re gonna find out” to Ares ohhhhh holy shit
(Ik I’m late lmao 💀)
HOLY SHIT THE FOURTH EPISODE IS SO GOOD!!! This is when it really became something for me. The acting improved, story improved, world building improved. And so many exciting scenes from the books to look forward to that weren’t in the movies.
I went to this presentation on trans rights in America today, and the speaker put a picture of the Nazis burning all of Magnus Hirschfeld’s work on the slide explaining the government’s recent attempt to seemingly erase trans people. Which is understandable, the similarities are scary. Then the speaker explains the picture, who Hirschfeld was, what the Nazis did. And he didn’t say the word “Jewish” once. Just made me so angry. Antisemitism is why the Nazis destroyed everything Hirschfeld worked on, and antisemitism is why the Nazis hated LGBT people. To talk about all this without saying “Jewish” or “antisemitism” even once just feels so disrespectful.
Me 😤‼️
These are really starting to look like YouTube titles lmao