Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like “If you don’t like it, you can just move to a blue state.”
And now they’re mad the guy is doing just that?
You can’t oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.
His point is basically that he’s going to go where he’s wanted. Guys like Brett realize, as he’s leaving that he’s actually beneficial to the society he’s leaving. If he wasn’t, Bret would be celebrating. This brain drain they’re fretting about is entirely of their own bigoted doing. If they’d thought about retaining great contributors to society instead of culture wars, there’d be no issue.
And the guy still is doing his job, by the way. Saving sick kids.
He just wants to do it in a state that doesn’t hate him and his family.
i just told people that the Corpse Bride is based off of antisemitic crimes during weddings and they said they didnt know that which is. it made me kinda sad idk. i feel like the movie of it or whatever kinda took that away? idk
i’m not sure where you heard that, bc according to most sources it’s based on a jewish folktale called “the finger.” that being said, everything about tim burton’s adaptation of the movie completely and and utterly stripped the story of its jewish origins — very intentionally.
but yeah tim burton is racist and antisemitic as fuck and just blatantly stole a jewish folktale for his own gain.
tried to find non-tumblr sources abt the folktale’s origins (there are very few sources in the first place about the folktale, like, at all), but here are some articles abt it
but in summary, the theory is that the og folktale is in part a reference to victims of pogroms who were killed on their wedding day and buried in their wedding garb (which is why the dead woman in the original tale was specifically a bride, it’s implied that she was one of these victims)
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Hi. I would completely understand if you don’t want to post this because you would be the one getting the replies, etc. I wish I could do this as myself/on my own blog but I’m at a place in life right now where I can’t. I’m hoping to change that in a year or two and this will keep until then if you don’t want to deal with any noise this might generate in your inbox/on your dash. Either way, thank you, truly, for all you do.
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From: a practicing queer progressive Christian
To: anyone who is uncomfortable with the phrases “cultural Christian,” “cultural Christianity” and any related derivations
Re: the endless discourse on this topic I see in the inboxes of the multiple Jews that I follow here on tumblr dot org
First: This is not a sales pitch. On any level. I am not trying to convince you to come back or think differently or give Christianity another chance. I sincerely and wholeheartedly wish you well and hope that you can find healing, wholeness, and flourishing wherever and however you find yourself.
Second: I am so, so very sorry for the trauma that you and/or those that you love have experienced, at the hands of Christianity generally, The Church/a specific church, clergy, lay leaders, any Christian at all. I really cannot overstate this, and I know that any apology is insufficient. The harm that Christianity has perpetrated down the centuries is undeniably a sin and a failing on the part of the church and all Christians should be (and some of us are actively) working towards education, reparations, and healing on multiple fronts.
Third and last: Please, please, please stop bringing your discomfort on this topic to religious people who are not Christian.
Please, please, please stop bringing your discomfort on this topic to Jews.
There are plenty of progressive Christians on this website and others who will gladly do the emotional labor of working through the idea of “cultural Christianity” with you.
There are therapists you can see and probably should to work through the trauma. I am not saying this dismissively. It’s legitimate. I am in a largely progressive denomination known for being a landing place for survivors of Christian trauma and I am still always astonished at how little our denominational structure invests in raising up mental health professionals who are also culturally/religiously fluent in Christianity to help people work through this stuff (especially given how proud our denomination tends to be of our reputation for receiving the expats of other flavors of Christianity).
Regardless of how you choose to deal with it, please deal with it somewhere other than the inboxes of the extraordinarily generous Jews of Jumblr, who have been doing incredible amounts of emotional labor with y’all.
If you continue to insist on poking and prodding at them to do this work with or for you, it’s obviously their choice whether or not to engage you (and always has been). A Jewish friend I know IRL has told me that they continue to engage some conversations like these (even when they are exhausted) because they feel like it’s something they can do when the problems of anti-Judaism are so enormous. I really admire my friend and didyoumeanxtianity and other leading lights of Jumblr who provide so many of us with education (for free — in their spare time) and I am beyond grateful for all that they do AND I want the rest of us to do better.*
If you continue to bring them this question — when they have clearly and patiently told us over and over again that you cannot be exempt from cultural Christianity, you can only work to educate yourself about how it shows up in you, mitigate its impact, and do your best to do better — if you continue to bring them this question, you are actively participating in continuing the harms of cultural Christianity by asking Jews — a group that has been undeniably and egregiously harmed by Christianity for going on two millennia — to help you feel less guilty and complicated and prickly and resentful about all the harm we have done to them.
I know it feels unfair. I know you didn’t ask for this and don’t want it and that’s just not how culture works. Culture and religion are related. Modern English owes a lot of itself to the first translations of the Bible into English. A lot of modern languages were standardized hundreds of years ago when the Bible was translated into those languages. I’m not saying that’s a good thing. It is just history. Religion, culture, and language are inherited. They mutate and change and we can be a part of their evolution for sure, but none of it can be done from scratch. There is a LOT that I, as a practicing Christian, wish that I could get away from in Christian history, Christian culture, even in the English language itself. I wish that I could say “well I’m different than those other Christians because I’m not a supersessionist and I think God loves queer people and climate change is real” and on and on and on. And I do my best to live and practice in accordance with those values but I don’t ever think that exempts me.
I have a sibling who stopped practicing and identifying as Christian years ago but who would never, ever claim that they are exempt from cultural Christianity. We BOTH know and love too many religious non-Christians to think otherwise. We have BOTH seen it in ourselves, in the assumptions we make and the unconscious ways that we expect people to default to Christian schedules and calendars, the ways that we use and assume common understandings of metaphors (and see and hear them in “secular” pop culture) that are Christian-derived, but that perpetuate harmful stereotypes about non-Christians. Neither of us is happy about any of it. But that doesn’t make it less true. And we find the hope in learning, discovering, and trying hard every day - each in our own way - to do better. I understand that effort as part of my Christian practice and Christian hope. My sibling understands that effort as just trying to be a good person and making the world a better place. You might find another way — any number of other ways — of thinking about it, but please stop trying to get someone else — especially someone who is also a victim of Christian oppression — to let you out of it.
TLDR: Please, stop. Take a deep breath, find someone else to talk about this to, please consider therapy or some form of counseling, and please stop asking Jews to write you a note excusing you from your participation in Cultural Christianity.
I thought long and hard about posting this, for perhaps obvious reasons. But I think it is worth sharing, because although I have opened myself up to the things I respond to, not everyone who gets asks/tags like I do has.
“You’re going to miss out on all this media because of the strikes!”
Y'all shot a whole-ass Batgirl movie and refused to release it so you could get a tax break, constantly cancel popular shows after a single season, and remove stuff from streaming while refusing to sell it on physical media, so maybe shut the fuck up.
I hope every major studio and streaming service crashes, all your executives end up permanently unemployed, and that all we’re left with is indie media produced by people who can see beyond the dollar sign.
This!!!! No one thinks twice about supporting the strike. Of course we will. We’ve got nothing to gain as an audience with or without it. We have our own grievances with the studios. Before the strike, we were barely getting media and barely hanging onto what little we’ve gotten recently. Then they started taking shit away?! Now they want us to turn against the writers and actors? Lol goodbye!
marble nest post credits scene where you wake up in a walnut and the kids are shaking it violently until you tell them all the fun morbid medical facts that they wanna hear
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