Ancestors

Written by Eldan Goldenberg on 2025-01-22 at 16:56

As a Jew, I am asking you to please get the fuck off X/Twitter as an act of solidarity. This is not about this week's news in isolation--though I will note that https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-01/elon-musk-hitlergruss-amtseinfuehrung-donald-trump is the only article I've yet seen covering it correctly--but about seeing it in context with Musk having espoused many pieces of Nazi ideology over the years. I personally quit twitter a few months after he took it over, because of him espousing the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. 🧵

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Written by Eldan Goldenberg on 2025-01-22 at 16:59

That theory is this century's "Protocols of the Elders of Zion": a fabrication rooted in a work of fiction, which people choose to present as fact as a pretext for blaming Jews for whatever they are upset about. History has shown us where that kind of scapegoating leads, and I am asking you not to ignore it. 🧵

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Written by Eldan Goldenberg on 2025-01-22 at 17:01

I don't believe that Jews are first in the line of fire this time, but we do have the collective experience to understand how bad things can get. I am driven by solidarity with other groups--trans folk in particular--who I see as under more immediate threat. Everything that was unacceptable when done to my relatives, is equally so when done to others. It just feels a little more personal with that ancestral memory, and I am asking you to listen to those who know. 🧵

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Toot

Written by Eldan Goldenberg on 2025-01-22 at 17:03

Please don't listen to the ADL making excuses for Musk. For many years they've made clear that they only care about Israel, not Diaspora Jews, never mind anyone else being persecuted in the world. And they've continued to carry water for Israel even as it does to Palestinians what generations of Europeans did to Jews. It's sad to say, but they are not a trustworthy source and haven't been for many years. 🧵

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Descendants

Written by Eldan Goldenberg on 2025-01-22 at 17:06

I don't usually get so strident on this, my professional account, but I'm writing it here because I understand the OS Geospatial Foundation is currently debating whether to quit X/Twitter, and there is some equivocating about the Nazi salute going on in the mailing list. So I felt a need to draw my line: ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß, especially when it comes from someone who's already spouted plenty of Nazi ideology. 🧵

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Written by Eldan Goldenberg on 2025-01-22 at 17:09

And while you're at it, get off all things Meta. Again this is not about recent news in isolation. If you doubt that Meta is a company that knowingly does serious harm in the world, I ask that you set some time aside to read https://erinkissane.com/meta-meta . In that context, the recent moderation announcements simply amount to an admission that they're never going to even try to do better.

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