#conflation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #conflation, aggregated by home.social.
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#AhmedNajar's analysis on
the pressing need for a clear distinction and definition of what constitutes #Hatered and #AntiSemitism,
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a #LegitimateCriticism of the #MoralHorrors we are all witnessing..."Political leaders, police authorities and media institutions carry a particular responsibility" !!
#Conflation #Dissent
#RepressionOfDissent
#WhoAreTheyServingAndProtecting
#NotInOurName #RightToProtest
#PolicingByConsent
#BridgesNotWalls -
#AhmedNajar's analysis on
the pressing need for a clear distinction and definition of what constitutes #Hatered and #AntiSemitism,
and
a #LegitimateCriticism of the #MoralHorrors we are all witnessing..."Political leaders, police authorities and media institutions carry a particular responsibility" !!
#Conflation #Dissent
#RepressionOfDissent
#WhoAreTheyServingAndProtecting
#NotInOurName #RightToProtest
#PolicingByConsent
#BridgesNotWalls -
#AhmedNajar's analysis on
the pressing need for a clear distinction and definition of what constitutes #Hatered and #AntiSemitism,
and
a #LegitimateCriticism of the #MoralHorrors we are all witnessing..."Political leaders, police authorities and media institutions carry a particular responsibility" !!
#Conflation #Dissent
#RepressionOfDissent
#WhoAreTheyServingAndProtecting
#NotInOurName #RightToProtest
#PolicingByConsent
#BridgesNotWalls -
#AhmedNajar's analysis on
the pressing need for a clear distinction and definition of what constitutes #Hatered and #AntiSemitism,
and
a #LegitimateCriticism of the #MoralHorrors we are all witnessing..."Political leaders, police authorities and media institutions carry a particular responsibility" !!
#Conflation #Dissent
#RepressionOfDissent
#WhoAreTheyServingAndProtecting
#NotInOurName #RightToProtest
#PolicingByConsent
#BridgesNotWalls -
On The Conflation of Money and Things
https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/
#HackerNews #conflation #money #value #economics #philosophy
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On The Conflation of Money and Things
https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/
#HackerNews #conflation #money #value #economics #philosophy
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On The Conflation of Money and Things
https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/
#HackerNews #conflation #money #value #economics #philosophy
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On The Conflation of Money and Things
https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/
#HackerNews #conflation #money #value #economics #philosophy
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On The Conflation of Money and Things
https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/
#HackerNews #conflation #money #value #economics #philosophy
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Wieland Hoban explains #philosemitism in Germany:
"It’s very difficult to have a general sense of Jews as ordinary people who are part of the country’s population. Many people have an image frozen in time of Jews as the victims of the Nazis, who were the parents or grandparents of many Germans."In some cases, this leads to an over-compensation which means that people want to have a particularly favourable idea of Jews. They make a point of doing what they think is supporting Jews. Including supporting Israel, going on holiday in Israel, or cultivating connections to Israel thinking this somehow revives Jewishness."
https://theleftberlin.com/wieland-hoben-interview/
#lacuna #conflation #beliefs #antisemitism #EuropeIsrael #Germany #IHRA #recycling #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Europeanness #Hoban
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Wieland Hoban explains #philosemitism in Germany:
"It’s very difficult to have a general sense of Jews as ordinary people who are part of the country’s population. Many people have an image frozen in time of Jews as the victims of the Nazis, who were the parents or grandparents of many Germans."In some cases, this leads to an over-compensation which means that people want to have a particularly favourable idea of Jews. They make a point of doing what they think is supporting Jews. Including supporting Israel, going on holiday in Israel, or cultivating connections to Israel thinking this somehow revives Jewishness."
https://theleftberlin.com/wieland-hoben-interview/
#lacuna #conflation #beliefs #antisemitism #EuropeIsrael #Germany #IHRA #recycling #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Europeanness #Hoban
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Wieland Hoban explains #philosemitism in Germany:
"It’s very difficult to have a general sense of Jews as ordinary people who are part of the country’s population. Many people have an image frozen in time of Jews as the victims of the Nazis, who were the parents or grandparents of many Germans."In some cases, this leads to an over-compensation which means that people want to have a particularly favourable idea of Jews. They make a point of doing what they think is supporting Jews. Including supporting Israel, going on holiday in Israel, or cultivating connections to Israel thinking this somehow revives Jewishness."
https://theleftberlin.com/wieland-hoben-interview/
#lacuna #conflation #beliefs #antisemitism #EuropeIsrael #Germany #IHRA #recycling #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Europeanness #Hoban
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Wieland Hoban explains #philosemitism in Germany:
"It’s very difficult to have a general sense of Jews as ordinary people who are part of the country’s population. Many people have an image frozen in time of Jews as the victims of the Nazis, who were the parents or grandparents of many Germans."In some cases, this leads to an over-compensation which means that people want to have a particularly favourable idea of Jews. They make a point of doing what they think is supporting Jews. Including supporting Israel, going on holiday in Israel, or cultivating connections to Israel thinking this somehow revives Jewishness."
https://theleftberlin.com/wieland-hoben-interview/
#lacuna #conflation #beliefs #antisemitism #EuropeIsrael #Germany #IHRA #recycling #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Europeanness #Hoban
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Wieland Hoban explains #philosemitism in Germany:
"It’s very difficult to have a general sense of Jews as ordinary people who are part of the country’s population. Many people have an image frozen in time of Jews as the victims of the Nazis, who were the parents or grandparents of many Germans."In some cases, this leads to an over-compensation which means that people want to have a particularly favourable idea of Jews. They make a point of doing what they think is supporting Jews. Including supporting Israel, going on holiday in Israel, or cultivating connections to Israel thinking this somehow revives Jewishness."
https://theleftberlin.com/wieland-hoben-interview/
#lacuna #conflation #beliefs #antisemitism #EuropeIsrael #Germany #IHRA #recycling #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Europeanness #Hoban
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IT’S POLITICS: Debunking the Myth: Zionism vs Judaism Explained
Sir Afilonius Rex and Lila de Alba Toledo, 21st December 2025 David Jacobs wrote the following comment on X: “Many on this platform still believe that they can tease Zionism away from Judaism. That's not possible. It's time for me to repost my previous explanation. And yes, if you use 'Zionist' as a slur, or rage against Zionists, you are indeed a Jew hater.” This is a considered and measured response to that tweet and associated tweets. […]https://goodstrat.com/2025/12/21/debunking-the-myth-zionism-vs-judaism-explained/
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"Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it."
"Establishment forces have translated Holocaust remembrance chiefly as support for Israel, elevating its protection to a German Staatsraison (national interest) coupled with zero tolerance for criticism of Israel, which is automatically treated as antisemitism".
Gjovalin Macaj: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germanys-zeal-israeli-genocide-revives-its-dangerous-exceptionalism
#transgression #GazaMethod #allies #collusion #connivance #complicity #internationalCommunity #imperialism #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA #IHL #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Merz #exceptionalism #whiteSupremacy #arrestWarrants #ICC #ICJ #EuropeIsrael
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"Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it."
"Establishment forces have translated Holocaust remembrance chiefly as support for Israel, elevating its protection to a German Staatsraison (national interest) coupled with zero tolerance for criticism of Israel, which is automatically treated as antisemitism".
Gjovalin Macaj: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germanys-zeal-israeli-genocide-revives-its-dangerous-exceptionalism
@[email protected] @[email protected] 🧵
#transgression #GazaMethod #allies #collusion #connivance #complicity #internationalCommunity #imperialism #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA #IHL #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Merz #exceptionalism #whiteSupremacy #arrestWarrants #ICC #ICJ #EuropeIsrael
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"Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it."
"Establishment forces have translated Holocaust remembrance chiefly as support for Israel, elevating its protection to a German Staatsraison (national interest) coupled with zero tolerance for criticism of Israel, which is automatically treated as antisemitism".
Gjovalin Macaj: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germanys-zeal-israeli-genocide-revives-its-dangerous-exceptionalism
#transgression #GazaMethod #allies #collusion #connivance #complicity #internationalCommunity #imperialism #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA #IHL #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Merz #exceptionalism #whiteSupremacy #arrestWarrants #ICC #ICJ #EuropeIsrael
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"Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it."
"Establishment forces have translated Holocaust remembrance chiefly as support for Israel, elevating its protection to a German Staatsraison (national interest) coupled with zero tolerance for criticism of Israel, which is automatically treated as antisemitism".
Gjovalin Macaj: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germanys-zeal-israeli-genocide-revives-its-dangerous-exceptionalism
#transgression #GazaMethod #allies #collusion #connivance #complicity #internationalCommunity #imperialism #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA #IHL #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Merz #exceptionalism #whiteSupremacy #arrestWarrants #ICC #ICJ #EuropeIsrael
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"Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it."
"Establishment forces have translated Holocaust remembrance chiefly as support for Israel, elevating its protection to a German Staatsraison (national interest) coupled with zero tolerance for criticism of Israel, which is automatically treated as antisemitism".
Gjovalin Macaj: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germanys-zeal-israeli-genocide-revives-its-dangerous-exceptionalism
#transgression #GazaMethod #allies #collusion #connivance #complicity #internationalCommunity #imperialism #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA #IHL #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Merz #exceptionalism #whiteSupremacy #arrestWarrants #ICC #ICJ #EuropeIsrael
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“Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools … civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it,” said Germany's then foreign minister during a parliamentary session marking the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
by Pauline Ertel: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-germany-former-foreign-minister-failed-gaza-then-got-top-un-job
#Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #Greens #TheGreens #complicity #collusion #connivance #internationalCommunity #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #UN #October7 #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA
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“Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools … civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it,” said Germany's then foreign minister during a parliamentary session marking the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
by Pauline Ertel: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-germany-former-foreign-minister-failed-gaza-then-got-top-un-job
#Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #Greens #TheGreens #complicity #collusion #connivance #internationalCommunity #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #UN #October7 #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA
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“Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools … civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it,” said Germany's then foreign minister during a parliamentary session marking the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
by Pauline Ertel: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-germany-former-foreign-minister-failed-gaza-then-got-top-un-job
#Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #Greens #TheGreens #complicity #collusion #connivance #internationalCommunity #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #UN #October7 #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA
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“Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools … civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it,” said Germany's then foreign minister during a parliamentary session marking the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
by Pauline Ertel: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-germany-former-foreign-minister-failed-gaza-then-got-top-un-job
#Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #Greens #TheGreens #complicity #collusion #connivance #internationalCommunity #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #UN #October7 #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA
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“Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools … civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it,” said Germany's then foreign minister during a parliamentary session marking the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
by Pauline Ertel: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-germany-former-foreign-minister-failed-gaza-then-got-top-un-job
#Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #Greens #TheGreens #complicity #collusion #connivance #internationalCommunity #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #UN #October7 #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA
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@germany's government class deepens its alliance with @israel – criminalising dissent, rewarding lobby groups, and eroding rights in the name of fighting antisemitism
Jürgen Mackert: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/welcome-berlin-germany-capital-zionist-repression 🧵
#academicFreedom #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #StrikeGermany #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #Berlin #NeverAgainIsForAnyone #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #manipulation #coOpting #citizenship #freeSpeech #JurgenMackert #Mackert #civilLiberties
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@germany's government class deepens its alliance with @israel – criminalising dissent, rewarding lobby groups, and eroding rights in the name of fighting antisemitism
Jürgen Mackert: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/welcome-berlin-germany-capital-zionist-repression 🧵
#academicFreedom #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #StrikeGermany #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #Berlin #NeverAgainIsForAnyone #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #manipulation #coOpting #citizenship #freeSpeech #JurgenMackert #Mackert #civilLiberties
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@germany's government class deepens its alliance with @israel – criminalising dissent, rewarding lobby groups, and eroding rights in the name of fighting antisemitism
Jürgen Mackert: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/welcome-berlin-germany-capital-zionist-repression 🧵
#academicFreedom #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #StrikeGermany #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #Berlin #NeverAgainIsForAnyone #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #manipulation #coOpting #citizenship #freeSpeech #JurgenMackert #Mackert #civilLiberties
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@germany's government class deepens its alliance with @israel – criminalising dissent, rewarding lobby groups, and eroding rights in the name of fighting antisemitism
Jürgen Mackert: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/welcome-berlin-germany-capital-zionist-repression 🧵
#academicFreedom #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #StrikeGermany #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #Berlin #NeverAgainIsForAnyone #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #manipulation #coOpting #citizenship #freeSpeech #JurgenMackert #Mackert #civilLiberties
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@germany's government class deepens its alliance with @israel – criminalising dissent, rewarding lobby groups, and eroding rights in the name of fighting antisemitism
Jürgen Mackert: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/welcome-berlin-germany-capital-zionist-repression 🧵
#academicFreedom #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #StrikeGermany #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #Berlin #NeverAgainIsForAnyone #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #manipulation #coOpting #citizenship #freeSpeech #JurgenMackert #Mackert #civilLiberties
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#research #Gaza #hospitals
We are still developing a more precise database (MS Access).Between Nov. 10 and Nov. 14, 2023, the #Israelis were attacking 3 #hospitals in Northern #Gaza simultaneously. They only made "#Hamas claims" about #AlShifa Hospital.
The Al Ahli #Hospital in Zeitoun was the first hospital the #Israelis attacked (Oct. 17, 2023) by targeting the parking lot, killing 500 people. The database about #hospitals shows Israelis were already resorting to #warcrimes by #conflation
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#research #Gaza #hospitals
We are still developing a more precise database (MS Access).Between Nov. 10 and Nov. 14, 2023, the #Israelis were attacking 3 #hospitals in Northern #Gaza simultaneously. They only made "#Hamas claims" about #AlShifa Hospital.
The Al Ahli #Hospital in Zeitoun was the first hospital the #Israelis attacked (Oct. 17, 2023) by targeting the parking lot, killing 500 people. The database about #hospitals shows Israelis were already resorting to #warcrimes by #conflation
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I’mma Trekkie. All my life.
I gotta say thank you and also admit that I’m embarrassed ss a result of spreading that falsehood for prolly two decades. It was based on my direct recollection that our minds shape within us as we add and recall various experiences in life.
Let me take this opportunity to say, “Fuck your therapist” too, for had you cited, S1:E18 TNG I would have been awkwardly embarrassed, outraged at myself, and thought you a dikhed for thrashing me publicly. You are too kind, and a statesman in trekkering (if that’s even a freaking word, lolz).
Because of your subtle pointer, not pointing to the episode itself butt to the provenance of the saga’s chronology, I took your queue and went to the sources at StarTrek .com, Etc., and did my due diligence.
“Home Soil” was in fact the episode with Captain Picard and crew, and Ugly… Ugly giant bags of mostly water was the actual line converted over communication links off the Enterprise obo the:
- Crystal life form (wikis)
- Microbrains (IMDb, but I think this is wrong)
- Crystalline Entity (something from my own recollections, but I think I may be conflating with another episode again)
In the second utterance, where the quote comes from, it’s:
“Ugly bags of mostly water” which is kinda fucked up if you’re the ugly bag and you think you’re the bees knees of the universe, lolz.
Anyway, I need to go back and watch the episode again and regain my clarity.
From one Trekkie to another, thanks for the nudge in the right direction, fuck your therapist (again, cuz your instincts were better than his/hers), and here’s some personal questions, stuffs, I have for you…
My all time fav episodes:
- The Balance of Terror (S1:E14 TOS - 1966) - Romulan Captain played by the same actor (Mark Lenard) as Sarek in later episodes, series (like TNG), and movies, through s few franchises.
- The Inner Light - after either ten minutes or a whole lifetime, Picard returns to his cabin to play a flute bestowed upon him by a strange probe of remembrance of a people past, and sadly, extinct - he carries with him their hopes, loves, and dreams, the rest of his natural days, as a complete life experience.
- Don’t fuck this up coz I’ll gig your ass, lolz - What we’re Captain Kirk’s last words?
- Another major fav of mine is TNG’s, “Yesterday’s Enterprise” who’s Captain had even more balls than Captain Janeway, who in turn, had more balls than Captain Kirk, lolz.
As my profile and contact info clearly states, I’m a FOSS and Privacy Advocate, shoulder that mantle quite seriously, and even though I thought him initially to be a dweeb write in, came to appreciate Will Wheaton as Wesley Crusher and note that it was not one of our finest hours when we let the destructive child snimals out of their respective cages to drive him from the Fediverse - yeah, I was there when those teenage pieces of shit did that to him - even @Gargron , who held great sway back then, couldn’t contain or filter those 💩’s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/9bimug/why_did_mastodon_run_off_wil_wheaton/
You have a wonderful day, evening, or afternoon, whatev time it is where you’re at and thanks again for the gentle bump to fact check myself with this errata.
#tallship #Star_Trek #Star_Trek_you_bitches #Kirk #Picard #Janeway #TOS #TNG #humanity #sacrifice #rememberance #conflation #memory #recollection #I_can_haz_Cheezburgerz? 🍔
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Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"
Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶
#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking
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#NGOs #funding vs. #NeverAgain in #Germany
"Fifteen Israeli NGOs said it ‘would be instrumentalised to attack and constrain German funding for our human rights work’."
"The resolution calls for immigration, asylum and criminal law to be tightened to combat antisemitism, and for universities, where antiwar activists have occupied buildings and set up encampments, to be granted wider powers to discipline and expel students. All levels of government are asked to prevent the financial support of projects and organisations – Documenta is mentioned as an example – that ‘spread antisemitism, question Israel’s right to exist, call for a boycott of Israel or actively support the BDS movement’. The IHRA definition is to be considered ‘authoritative’. The new resolution cites the 2019 BDS text as its model, ignoring a parliamentary assessment from a year later, which found that if that resolution had been formulated as legislation, it ‘would not be compatible with the fundamental right to freedom of expression and would therefore be unconstitutional’."
"With a non-binding resolution, recipients of state funding will be drafted, willing or unwilling, as enforcers. Curators, convenors of academic conferences and charity administrators will be expected to screen and blacklist any partners or collaborators who could be seen to violate the IHRA guidelines. An old social media post or a signature on a petition could result in funds being withdrawn."
Ruairí Casey: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/november/questions-of-funding
#collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #RuairíCasey #culture #cultureWars #LRB #IHRA
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Our #institutions are vulnerable to sudden, catastrophic failures with no repair. Do not believe them:
"In most settings, climate and sustainability professionals are not getting paid to change important things, they’re getting paid to protect important things from change.
"Climate/sustainability #expertise has become a profession, like any other. Its primary offering is least-cost plans for incremental-but-socially-credible action. Generally those plans defend organizations from criticism and pressure by making serious-sounding commitments to big-but-distant goals (like, “Net Zero by 2050”), paired with incremental and inexpensive steps in the near term. The two are then “triangulated” with arguments that small steps today are “in line” with a future of bold action. The key deliverable is the claim that the triangulator’s employer is “doing enough.”
"The definition of “doing enough” becomes the critical battleground with advocates and regulators who want more action. With triangulation, we see the deployment of bolt-on solutions purpose-machined to preserve the value of slow approaches, assets, and expertise. We see an emphasis on things like charitable gifts, ESG ratings, operational climate emissions (and carbon offsets), business-case sustainability commitments (small steps that pay their way) and employee behavior (“Remember, everyone, recycle your coffee cups and don’t forget to show up for tree-planting day!”), and messaging (from outright greenwashing to empty declarations of support for climate justice).
"The promise of #triangulation—the optics of serious commitment, but an action agenda that doesn’t upset existing management priorities and revenue centers—has proven attractive to those at the top, for understandable reasons: If you’re an executive without any particular insight into the crisis yourself, hiring triangulatory experts allows you to cover your butt without any obvious downside. It’s a plug and play solution, allowing you to keep focused on the business models that have been earning well so far. It limits exposure to the gulf between slow approaches and fast realities. And it works perfectly fine, as long as your decision-making horizon is very close, measured in quarterly reports, and uninterrupted by any sudden changes.
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"Triangulation makes most institutions worse at strategy. It makes professional expertise gained within its programs pre-outdated. It hamstrings the ability to spot opportunity and the skills needed to move disruptively to seize it."Triangulation makes a professional more secure in their job for now, but less prepared for the future; triangulated strategies protect organizations from pressure to act now, but they weaken the organization’s capacities to change. Everything worth talking about is outside the boundary of the currently acceptable debate in most professional circles, because every triangulated position and expertise bubble creates the boundary it needs to stay safe. If you are relying on advice being given within triangulated boundaries to try to figure out what’s going on, you’re outsourcing your strategic acumen to people who’s core skill is avoiding the question."
Alex Steffen: https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/discontinuity-is-the-job @anthropocene @climate @sociology
#discontinuity #priorities #believe #faith #hope #ecology #institutionsDeceive #economy #consumerism #capitalism #climateBreakdown #climateCrisis #globalHeating #climateChange #conflation #reality #environment #pollution #sustainability #sustainableDevelopment #greenwashing
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"There is a conflation of capitalism with reality, that this is the only way things operate. There are other ways of organising our relationships with nature and each other."
Patrick Bresnihan in The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/08/08/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-but-curtailing-it-is-the-discussion-nobody-wants-to-have/ @anthropocene 🧶
#media #press #believe #faith #hope #ecology #institutionsDeceive #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #growth #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #shopping #capitalism #climateChange #conflation #reality #globalHeating #environment #pollution
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"Dear members of the University community,
"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them.
“We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest
#students #studentStrike #studentProtests #academicChatter #faculty #universities #antisemitism #conflation #StandWithIsrael #funding #Deans #University #College #HigherEd #coloniality #institutionsDeceive #humor #humour #adultDomination #fragility #whiteFragility
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Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"
Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶
#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking
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Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"
Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶
#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking
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Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"
Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶
#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking
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Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"
Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶
#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking
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Germany's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes.
Esad Širbegović: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-support-israel-far-right-alliances-shatters-denazified-facade
#complicity #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism #Denazification #afD #normalization
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Germany's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes.
Esad Širbegović: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-support-israel-far-right-alliances-shatters-denazified-facade
#complicity #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism #Denazification #afD #normalization
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Germany's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes.
Esad Širbegović: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-support-israel-far-right-alliances-shatters-denazified-facade
#complicity #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism #Denazification #afD #normalization
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Germany's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes.
Esad Širbegović: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-support-israel-far-right-alliances-shatters-denazified-facade
#complicity #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism #Denazification #afD #normalization
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"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”."By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.
"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority
#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism
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"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”."By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.
"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority
#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism
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"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”."By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.
"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority
#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism
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"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”."By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.
"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority
#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism