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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum

@luxalptraum.com

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Journalist, author, podcaster, bon vivant. Literally OCD (F42.2!). She/her לפעמים אני כותבת בעברית כי אני לומדת עברית ורוצה להשתפר. תיקונים מדוברי עברית תמיד מוערכים. היא linktr.ee/lux

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · Oct 13

This is the greatest and best post in the world (tribute)

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 12m

Large intestine done! Now I just have to figure out how to do the small intestine in a way that doesn’t blur it all together

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1h

This one is a friend's birthday present but I'll keep that in mind for future ones!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2h

Large intestine looking good I think

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3h

You're going to assume that I, a woman born in Israel, just learned the word Zionism in the past two years?

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Relatable

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Makes sense!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Feelings aren't facts, buddy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

(I say "for the most part" because I think in the desire to combat charges of antisemitism there was often a downplaying of the — often minimal! — antisemitism that did exist in these spaces, but that's... well its a whole mental clusterfuck for me, lol)

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

(I had mixed feelings on the campus protests because many of the demands seemed performative/not geared towards constructively aiding Palestine but for the most part didn't see them as broadly antisemitic)

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Was it because they conflated everyone with a handful of bad actors, or for other reasons?

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

I'm obsessed with this, I love her

Trumpers are AWFUL – Except MY PARENTS!

YouTube video by Emily Wilson

www.youtube.com

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

These points are so basic that they honestly feel kindergarten level to me AND YET it is also very clear that a lot of folks struggle to grasp things like "slogans do not have unambiguous and universal meanings even if you want them to"

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

... the same way that many leftists would argue that the call for Palestinian self-determination is not inherently anti-Jewish. ANYWAY, if you're in the former camp, of course you're going to see a sign that says "no Zionists" as an obvious social justice call. For the latter, it's antisemitic.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

The one I think about a lot is the way many leftists have adopted the view that Zionism is inherently anti-Palestinian and thus racist and treat Zionism/t and racism/t as synonymous, whereas many Jews see it as a philosophy of Jewish self-determination that is inherently neutral on Palestinians...

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

I don't think this is a particularly useful contribution to the conversation nor do I think this group is a major player

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

People talk a lot about bubbles/polarization while ignoring that when it comes to I/P you have two camps who are *literally speaking different languages*, where things like "Free Palestine" or "Zionist" or "globalize the intifada" can have completely opposite meanings depending on the speaker

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

I don't agree with those people — I joined the calls for ceasefire pretty early on and was at the JVP ceasefire protest at Grand Central in late October 2023 — but I also think that painting them as disingenuous is not actually helpful for the healthy discourse.

‘Let Gaza Live’: Calls for Cease-Fire Fill Grand Central Terminal (Published 2023)

www.nytimes.com

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Did some total ghouls paint a desire to see a cessation of all violence as antisemitic? Yes. But there were also plenty of people who, for whatever reason, heard the call for ceasefire as one-sided, and assumed it meant "stop attacking Hamas and let them attack Jews," which they say as antisemitic.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Something that a lot of people either missed or have forgotten is that over the past two years there's been a massive gap between what people *intended* to communicate and how their words were heard, and that contributed to the phenomenon discussed below.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

The ongoing issue with all of this is that what people *intend* and what is *heard* are misaligned, and thus someone who saw themselves as calling for peace got heard as saying violence against Jews is fine and was thus read as an antisemite. It's just a lot of crosstalk.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

I think it's a bit more complicated than that, particularly because in the early days of all of this, many people heard "ceasefire" as a one-sided demand — i.e. Israel has to stop the fight but Hamas gets to continue the attack — but I also think it's not in good faith to portray things as Ifill is.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Indeed, my intensive OCD therapy paid off!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Thankfully that one quickly became funny

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

What’s it like to have OCD? The other day I noticed that I’ve been neglecting to refill my soap dispenser, remembered that alcoholics often struggle to achieve basic tasks, and asked myself, “Am I an alcoholic?” despite the fact that I maybe have one drink a week, if that.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

Oh yeah that I either turned off or ignored, but I still see the trends where it’s like “your running pace just got slightly slower! You’re not burning as many calories as you were a few weeks ago!”