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tinycog: the-darkest-spark: tinycog: the-darkest-spark: arcanemysteries: I’m That Witch. @arcanemysteries I don’t mean to seem like I’m attacking or picking on you, but are you aware that this image is very anti-Semitic? The whole “stereotypical witch aesthetic” is originally an anti-Semitic tradition. A good article about it can be found here. Please help spread awareness that this is not okay! Thanks! :) Thank you glad I’m not the only one saying it <3 @arcanemysteries you are a respected diviner and member of the tumblr tarot community, and I love you with all my heart. It would mean a lot to us Jews if you rejected anti-semitic imagery. You’re welcome! With as vigilant as this community is about misappropriation and anti-opression/racism/discrimination, I feel like this should be top priority in the witch community! Not only is it oppressive of Jews, but I, personally, don’t want to be associated with that aesthetic; that being said, I can’t begin to imagine how sick it must make Jews feel. Psa to all the Jews out there, witch or not, I support every single one of you and I aim to slay this aesthetic. It’s been far too long and faced with far too much ignorance. Yeah I feel you, there is certainly a disconnect. I see a LOT of posts circulating about why the term “smudging” is appropriative and which global practices are/aren’t closed - and that is all great. We should be talking about this stuff, but I rarely see posts discussing the history of antisemitism as it overlaps with our conventional ideas about what a witch looks like. I feel bad for using Arcane’s graphic as an example here (because I’m a big fan of AM, he’s a huge sweet pea) but I’m just fed up and burned out with the way the tumblr witch community prides themselves on weeding out various forms of cultural appropriation while not giving a fuck about antisemitism, even when the evidence and history is placed in front of them. I see a lot of young, modern witches with fresh ideas attempting to take the image of the “witch” and reclaim it, redesign it to look like something that’s at once cute and revolutionary, but they rarely take into consideration the history of the image they’re working with. I mean, there are ways to do the witch aesthetic without modeling antisemitism. I have no issue with witches who wear black cloaks, adorn themselves with stones and trinkets, fill mason jars with intention, carry a broom under one arm and a cat under the other, wear purple eyeshadow and deep red lipstick, etc. What I mostly take issue with is the pointy hats, the hooked noses, the frizzy haired stereotypes. Triangular hats were once required by Jews to wear in order to cover their “horns”, because people literally believed that Jews were not human. During porgroms, when Jews were required to wear these hats, it was actually legally permissible - and even condoned - to attack and beat Jewish civilians to death if you encountered them on the street.P.S. to all my jumblr followers please add this awesome person to your list of gentiles who actively give a shit about Jewish issues :D I agree 100% about all of this. Every single word, and thank you so much! ❤️ -- source link
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