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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

@JasonLehn

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Jewish•Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly•Hopeful Agnostic•they/them•Trans/Non-binary

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Joined June 2008

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@JasonLehn

MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

This meme felt like a sign, so here we go If I could push this button, I would do so in a heartbeat. Over the past year or so, I learned that that's not a "normal" thing cis people consider. So, I'm trans. Here's a thread of some length talking about that

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

I should not feel bad about calling my eye doctor and getting my prescription so I can order glasses from one of the online discount places because my eye doctor place only has frames that are $200 minimum, right?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

Hands down, my favorite version of this meme. The first time I saw it, I laughed until there were tears

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1 year

Companies at midnight on June 1st

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

I know someone else has said this but has the body considered simply not keeping the score?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

@danielleiat HE'D BE SAD

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

I am never more certain of my Jewishness than when Christians Christian at me

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

All the gentiles out here arguing against the Jewish permission for abortion is your reminder that when they say "religious freedom", they really mean only their own. They believe they have the only correct beliefs and all others are invalid.

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Reading that veto letter from the Utah governor gutted me. “I don’t understand. But I want them to live.” It’s that simple. All the anti-trans legislative hysteria risks people’s lives. Thank god one republican governor had some of a soul

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

Cain asked "am I my brother's keeper?" and the rest of Torah answers that question with an emphatic yes. And yet, we have majority religion which claims the Hebrew Bible belongs to them who deny that answer. I think about that a lot

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

Are you a convert to Judaism? A convert in progress? I’m glad you’re here and/or on your way. You make us better. You’ve been missed and I’m glad to welcome you home

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

I can't explain what I mean by this, but do you ever want to be aggressively Jewish?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

I believe no one knows or understands Judaism less than Christians, cultural or otherwise

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Just had an evangelical tell me I was forcing my beliefs on him for having the audacity to *checks notes* ask him to not force his beliefs upon others without consent

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Can someone reassure me that I’m not a chump because I’m still behaving as though there’s a pandemic and not going to movies and restaurants?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

What if we threaten to cut the House in half and when the person who says “no, it should stay whole, give it to the other” we know who the true speaker is?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

If you talk about how evangelicals and/or Christians believe the US was founded on "Judeo-Christian" values, I believe you have an obligation to explain that "Judeo-Christian" is meaningless as Jewish values are wholly unlike Christian values

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

And I’d do it again

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2 years

nice

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Has “States Rights” ever applied to anything that wasn’t about trying to take rights away from some other people group?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

@Quiara @TheRaDR

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Writing this for myself as much as anyone that it might help in the future. Someone referred to Jews pushing back on supercessionism as "offended." We're not offended, we're in danger. Daily, one of the richest men in the world spews and amplifies antisemitism on this platform 1/

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

6 years

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

I cannot possibly get to all the interactions this tweet has generated but thank to everyone answering and providing their perspectives and experiences

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

We’re living through massive, concurrent, sustained traumas, maybe we’re not supposed to be OK

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Big day for Jwitter, @AntisemitismCow is back

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Pretty much everyday I log on to this hellsite and hear I’m not Jewish enough because I’m a convert, or not Jewish enough because I’m trans, or not Jewish enough because I’m not straight, or not Jewish enough because I don’t think the right things about Israel, or….

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

10 months

Listen, I know she was important to a lot of people once upon a time, but this is unhinged and trades on antisemitic tropes. Zionism =/= Judaism, yes, but this language is dangerous

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

I'm sure there's going to be temptation to make jokes about the Madison Cawthorn pictures/revelation, but please check yourself. Your trans friends will see what you say

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

@Quiara @areyou0 The goydacity

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

CW: pet death Just said goodbye to one of the greatest cats in world

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

I don’t want to worry anyone, but I think I might be trans

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Fuck every single person taking diabetes meds solely for weight loss because my insurance is trying to take it from me and it's literally keeping me alive and my diabetes under control

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Eighth night. Chag urim Sameach

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

Someone said Honk Sameach and I am deceased

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

Jews don't believe in original sin. That means that I was not born bad/evil/in sin. I was born good and I am good

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Y’all, I love being Jewish

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

With the importance placed on just saying No, I assumed I’d be offered drugs a lot more than I have been. Which is basically zero

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

to fuck up is human; to not double down, divine

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Finally, when another human being tells you that something hurts, believe them. Don't demand that they expend additional labor trying to convince you that they are in pain and/or danger 6/6

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Kind of a mindfuck to have spent my teen years hearing I had to be ready to die for Jesus. Never thought that would mean that his fans would end up wanting to kill me BECAUSE of Jesus

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

If you think having to show proof of vaccination is anything, ANYTHING like what preceded the Holocaust, I’m begging you to log off for a few months and read some fucking books

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

I don’t mean to brag, but my blood sugar before dinner was 105. A few weeks ago it was over 400

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

CW: Suicidal Ideation I'm safe, I don't have a plan. I'm just extremely not ok. It's becoming more and more of a challenge to find reasons to stay

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

My soul is Jewish and exhausted

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

If you’re not in frequent dialog or relationship with Jews, please don’t claim you know what we want

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

10 months

Jews are not an abstraction. Saying “I would have protected them in Europe” is bullshit. We’re real people and that means we’re complicated and often messy. Quit using some mythical past you to cover your current antisemitism

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

We're in danger because it's the same language, the same sentiment that's been used to murder us for millennia. Less than 100 years ago, it was 6 million of us, and it started just like this, just like it always does, by making us the villain, making us responsible 2/

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

The Christian writings about Jews are unreliable narrators about who Jews were and are. They were written specifically to cast us as villains in the story. And two, Dr. Amy Jill-Levine has done a lot of writing about 2nd Temple Judaism and Christianity, read her 5/

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Hey, so I’ve kept things vague about what happened this week but the person in the screenshot on the left was the person. The saint she has become a fan account for said the things in the picture on the left. I’m not ok

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1 year

Oh CMON

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

In case no one has told you lately, I’m proud for you. You are doing hard things. You can rest Shabbat shalom, friends 💙💙

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Anyone who says “the Bible is clear” is a deeply unserious person

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

This rhetoric that leads to death for us is rooted in supercessionism. Supercessionism says that Jews "were" and, largely ignores that Jews still ARE, except as a foil for Christianity and the source of whatever problem people are having 3/

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Hell hath no fury like a self-anointed ally being corrected

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

There are more than one billion Christians; there are roughly 15 million Jews. We CAN'T be responsible for disabusing you of your supercessionism and antisemitism. There aren't enough of us. The two things I can offer to get you started on unlearning are: 4/

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

We will not hide. We will outlast them. Shabbat shalom 💙💙

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

I have a confession to make. I can't get into Curb Your Enthusiasm. I'm afraid that this, more than anything, is an indictment of my Jewishness

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Signed off the Yom HaShoah service at which there were no survivors for the first time in their history to an email that one of my rabbis died today. This day sucks

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Having just Zoomed for our community Seder, I think part of what's feeling "off" about the chag this year is that in person seders are happening, but I'm still alone. Too far from shul, only attend remotely, no meaningful connections means no people with whom to join. It's lonely

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Spare a thought for spouse. We’re at the ER for what seems like severe panic attack, going into the second day

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

I just made two separate phone calls to schedule therapy and labs. Please clap

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Feeling pretty vindicated in my decision to mute a progressive Christian fave after watching them decide that they're a better decider of what isn't antisemitism than Jews

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Because I don’t feel like possibly arguing with strangers, I’ll put it here. Belief in G-d is not a requirement for converting to Judaism. Thanks, please drive through

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

I’m sure this is fine

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

If you voted Trump in 2016 and haven’t engaged in deep t’shuvah, get the fuck away from me. You took away the right to abortion, to be LGBTQ+, to marriage equality. I don’t care your reason, you played with people’s lives. People will suffer and die because of YOU

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

Reminder for you: Jews are not beta Christians. We don’t need anything to make us “complete.”

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

It’s rude that you can’t just fix a brain like a broken arm. “We’re going to put your brain in a cast for 6-8 weeks and you’ll be shipshape after”

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

hey, so I'm Jewish! Trying to decide how to do a thank you thread to as many of the people who helped me along the way as possible

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Shabbat shalom friends

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2 years

@areyou0

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

You can miss someone and still acknowledge the relationship needed to end

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

G-d will literally destroy the world rather than go to therapy

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3 years

It’s ok to cancel plans. It’s ok to cook at home. It’s ok to destroy your entire creation through a massive flood after they turn to evil ways. It’s called self-care.

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

@BryanToton @FrozenKoi @JoLuehmann Please talk to Jews to learn about us instead of what other Christians tell you. For a start, no Jew is following laws for salvation. The Christian concept of salvation is not only foreign to Judaism, it’s arguably antithetical. We’re called to repair this world, not escape it

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

Is there a word for feeling simultaneously that you're not enough but also far, far too much? There's probably a German word for it, they're good with words for stuff like that

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

G-d help me, I'm going to discourse. Have you been stopped by a cop and thought they might murder you before the encounter has ended because they routinely murder people who look like you? No? Congratulations, you benefit from whiteness

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Everyday an evangelical antitheist claims they understand Judaism while describing something more like Christianity reminds me that too many of us speak authoritatively about things we don’t even begin to understand

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

@juleswoodson11 Welp, that’s enough internet for the year

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

I think we are all Jews by choice when we make the decision to live Jewishly. That said, how or why "traditionally" understood "Jews by choice" come to us is none of our business. That's up to their rabbi and beit din

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

@JoLuehmann @crazywholelife @1n1m1 @wills_e

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

If people can hate people they’ve met, I can love people I’ve never met. So if you see this, even if we’ve never interacted, I love you 💙💙

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

@democracyinper1 @Lollardfish @eegarim

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

The longest night in the solar calendar, the fourth night of Hanukkah

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

@MavenOfMayhem I can’t tell you how many times I don’t ask because I’m afraid it’ll finally be the time it’s too much and someone will leave again

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Is there an album you consider flawless? Not a single bad track?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Platonic cuddle pile. Who's in?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

If we're abandoning this place if El*n M*sk buys it, I'm going to need a lot more of your phone numbers

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

4 years

I might not be able to believe you but can someone tell me that I matter?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Hey, anxiety. It’s Shabbat, take the day off

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

They weren’t gods and I’m tired of people behaving like they were. The were men, some as young as 18. The believed Black people were less than human. They envisioned a world that benefitted white men. Burn the fucking thing as kindling and start over

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Listen, fuck the “founding fathers” but also? I can’t believe even they were monstrous enough to think regular blood sacrifice of children was an acceptable price for the right to bear arms. But if they did? Double fuck them. We could choose to be better

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

I'm sorry your friend got ludicrously out of line and hurt people, but I'm not going to sit here and let you both sides that shit. Calling someone in when they've harmed someone isn't equal to harming someone, it's not. You don't have to pick my "side" but both sides is bullshit

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

After telling my psychiatrist the I’m trans but also non-binary…”so, what do you mean by that?” “Do you know Prince? You know when Prince said ‘I’m not a woman, I’m not a man, I’m something you’ll never understand’? That’s what I mean”

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

CW: suicidal ideation TFW you don't realize how on the edge you are until a character in a show you're watching takes their life. Struggling pals

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

I have yet to encounter a gentile with “learning” or “learner” or some other variation in their bio not steadfastly and aggressively resist doing so when it comes to learning about Judaism from Jews

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

CW: suicidal ideation Held out as long as I could saying something, it’s been an exceedingly hard day for better off not existing threads. I’m safe, I have no plans, but I’m not ok

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

I'm not going to post the pictures, but last night, at a local city council meeting, someone was in the gallery (and apparently unbothered) wearing swastikas

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

Are you ever hungry but have no idea what you want to eat, only that it's probably not anything you have in the house?

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

Not to brag, but @JortsTheCat follows me, so I'm kind of a big deal

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

1 year

Borrowing this from myself from last year: Your anger is sacred Your grief is sacred Your numbness is sacred You, in all of your youness, are sacred May we all find rest in our own and each other’s sacredness The fight will be here in 24 hours Rest Shabbat shalom 💙💙

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

3 years

@JustSayXtian @EroticaGood @BBonkBonkBen @Bjorning16 @Delafina777 I know this is a pipe dream, but just once I want one of these to end up with the person coming back and saying "wow, I had no idea. I really fucked up here. I'm going to take the time to unlearn all this antisemitism and work to do better in the future", instead of vanishing

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

It looks like Hanukkah threw up in my office and I love it

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MacKenzie Lehn (they/them)

2 years

I would like to propose a new proverb: After having done harm, shutting the fuck up is the beginning of wisdom

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