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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 10h

Aggressively useless.

שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 10h

Or, instead of posting memes and catch phrases at people who are already antizionists, make yourself useful and donate to or repost some Palestinian fundraisers: bsky.app/profile/lexi...

bsky.app

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 10h

So glad others’ basic humanity is a game for you.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 10h

Not a relative of mine, but my therapist was telling me about going to his niece’s wedding, and that’s how I found out he was the uncle of a college friend I’d taken to a couple of fraternity formals.

שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 11h

And? There’s nothing wrong with accusing people of things they’re actively doing, especially when they try to flout accountability for them.

Case in point, you.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 11h

And your low effort makes for an easy target for Zionists to point to and say “look, anti-Zionism IS antisemitism, see?”

But you don’t actually give a shit about giving them ammunition as long as you got to belittle someone. Absolutely pathetic.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 11h

You have a bunch of posts about Israel, and literally zero about Gaza, Palestinians, or Palestine in general.

You’re not looking to advocate for a people, your just want a villain you can shout at and feel morally justified.

It’s why you won’t engage with content that’s critical of your approach.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 11h

If you’re going to be this low effort, the Palestinian cause is fundamentally better off without you. Stop getting in our way.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 14h

Not sure someone dodging accountability for their actions should be trying to pass moral judgement on others who’ve accurately characterized their behavior.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 14h

There’s research that indicates even joking about harmful narratives reinforces them:

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

“I was using a joke about stealing food to reference real land theft” still reinforces the “cultural parasite” narrative that has been wielded against Jewish people for centuries.

www.apa.org

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 14h

Think back to the classic “it’s not enough that I should succeed — others should fail.” A zero-sum game.

They don’t just want to have things. They only “appreciate” those things when others don’t or can’t have them. They thrive on a sense of exceptionality.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 14h

Folks, it pays to remember that, for them and their supporters, the hypocrisy is part of the point. They want authoritarian rules to exist so that they can be above them.

🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 14h

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 14h

Six months later, the theater begins advertising a play with that exact title, only now the staff are grating black truffle and it’s an anti-excess polemic.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

The developer wrote it.

Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Professor contesting student's accommodations.

WonderWench @psygeek.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Hand score a Rorschach

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

Ethnicity is not ancestry. Gerim are also ethnically Jewish (as there’s no division in Jewish culture between ethnicity and religion).

That said, making claims about this dude’s ancestry based on his appearance is Nazi phrenology shit.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 1d

I was literally at an event last weekend where a Palestinian woman came with her two white, red-headed children. Maybe keep your phrenology in your pants.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 2d

Go shit in the sea.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 2d

But you’re being a typical white Christian-adjacent dude and assuming that if you just assert your ignorance authoritatively enough, it’s equivalent to an educated opinion.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 2d

Like, we’re not talking about minutiae, we’re talking about the vast majority of how Judaism is structured, and how that is extremely different from how you’ve characterized it in an attempt to equate it to other religions you have more experience with.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 2d

You’re unqualified to comment when you’ve actively demonstrated that you don’t even understand the general shape of them, yes.

So fuck off, ignorant tool.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 2d

“Why would I listen to Jews about the fundamental structure of Judaism when projecting a Christian understanding of it onto them lets me be a bigger asshole?”

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 2d

“Semantics” as though it dismisses the point being made, followed up by more obstinate ignorance. The 90s called; they want their “self-absorbed jackass” behavior back.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 4d

One could even say that’s why it’s up to us to heal the world. Not to say Hashem couldn’t create a perfect world, much less that we could create one period, but that we can refine and adjust what Hashem created.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 4d

It’s sort of an extension of “it is not in heaven.”

Sure, Hashem made it and gave it to us, no question. But we interpreted it and, almost inarguably, improved it. It’s not that Hashem’s works are lacking, it’s that by the very nature of our relationship, we can improve them.

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 4d

A lot about their “Mediterranean features.” Assumed they were recent transplants to the area, though. This crossed over with the “antisemitism refers to Arabs too because they’re Semites due to both groups descending from Shem” weirdness.

It was on Reddit, so I’m not surprised. Just tired.

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