Heather
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Otherwise Unbearable with Heather Smith. Culture, identity & defense through a psychoanalytic lens. New essays weekly on Substack.
We’re done. Enjoy the sights.
June 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We’re done. Enjoy the sights.
THE HOLOCAUST IS IRRELEVANT STFU
June 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
THE HOLOCAUST IS IRRELEVANT STFU
Ah you’re moving the goalposts. Isn’t that the Zionist way.
June 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Ah you’re moving the goalposts. Isn’t that the Zionist way.
Girl shut up. You clearly don’t even know what this event was so stay in your lane.
June 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Girl shut up. You clearly don’t even know what this event was so stay in your lane.
It was literally a pro-Zionist event. I quoted a Zionist. It is absolutely y’all who keep screaming about Jews.
June 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It was literally a pro-Zionist event. I quoted a Zionist. It is absolutely y’all who keep screaming about Jews.
Because it’s relevant. They were not targeted for being Jewish or being Shoah survivors, they were targeted for being ZIONISTS.
June 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Because it’s relevant. They were not targeted for being Jewish or being Shoah survivors, they were targeted for being ZIONISTS.
I feel like you’re being deliberately obtuse which is annoying.
June 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I feel like you’re being deliberately obtuse which is annoying.
I understand this may be hard for you to conceptualize, but the point of the image is to demonstrate the mentality that we commonly see in Zionists. I said nothing about Jews. If you equate this to Judaism, that’s on you.
June 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I understand this may be hard for you to conceptualize, but the point of the image is to demonstrate the mentality that we commonly see in Zionists. I said nothing about Jews. If you equate this to Judaism, that’s on you.
Can we trade the pigs for the undocumented workers and call it even?
June 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Can we trade the pigs for the undocumented workers and call it even?
My child uses his tablet to teach himself Russian, Chinese, and Spanish. And how to code. And how to animate. He also reads chapter books.
He’s six.
Technology is not an enemy.
He’s six.
Technology is not an enemy.
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My child uses his tablet to teach himself Russian, Chinese, and Spanish. And how to code. And how to animate. He also reads chapter books.
He’s six.
Technology is not an enemy.
He’s six.
Technology is not an enemy.
Immigration law is civil, not criminal. And being undocumented doesn’t erase your rights, your story, or your potential eligibility for protection.
June 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Immigration law is civil, not criminal. And being undocumented doesn’t erase your rights, your story, or your potential eligibility for protection.
Others include:
✅ Being released with a court date
✅ Applying for asylum or humanitarian relief
✅ Being granted deferred action
✅ Entering programs like Alternatives to Detention
✅ Voluntarily departing to avoid a formal removal order
✅ Being released with a court date
✅ Applying for asylum or humanitarian relief
✅ Being granted deferred action
✅ Entering programs like Alternatives to Detention
✅ Voluntarily departing to avoid a formal removal order
June 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Others include:
✅ Being released with a court date
✅ Applying for asylum or humanitarian relief
✅ Being granted deferred action
✅ Entering programs like Alternatives to Detention
✅ Voluntarily departing to avoid a formal removal order
✅ Being released with a court date
✅ Applying for asylum or humanitarian relief
✅ Being granted deferred action
✅ Entering programs like Alternatives to Detention
✅ Voluntarily departing to avoid a formal removal order
📷 Read the full essay: A Portrait Without a Flag
🔗https://open.substack.com/pub/otherwiseunbearable/p/portrait-of-a-presidency
🔗https://open.substack.com/pub/otherwiseunbearable/p/portrait-of-a-presidency
June 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
📷 Read the full essay: A Portrait Without a Flag
🔗https://open.substack.com/pub/otherwiseunbearable/p/portrait-of-a-presidency
🔗https://open.substack.com/pub/otherwiseunbearable/p/portrait-of-a-presidency
Reposted by Heather
Refusing to recognize an apartheid state isn’t extremism, it’s survival. If you truly believe the price of Israel’s existence is permanent domination over another people, then you don’t want peace.
You want obedience dressed up as coexistence.
You want obedience dressed up as coexistence.
June 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Refusing to recognize an apartheid state isn’t extremism, it’s survival. If you truly believe the price of Israel’s existence is permanent domination over another people, then you don’t want peace.
You want obedience dressed up as coexistence.
You want obedience dressed up as coexistence.
Refusing to recognize an apartheid state isn’t extremism, it’s survival. If you truly believe the price of Israel’s existence is permanent domination over another people, then you don’t want peace.
You want obedience dressed up as coexistence.
You want obedience dressed up as coexistence.
June 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Refusing to recognize an apartheid state isn’t extremism, it’s survival. If you truly believe the price of Israel’s existence is permanent domination over another people, then you don’t want peace.
You want obedience dressed up as coexistence.
You want obedience dressed up as coexistence.
Colonialism always imagines itself as the better observer of the people it subjugated. Gazans did try nonviolence.
They marched to the fence with flags, not guns, during the Great March of Return. Israel met them with snipers, blinding medics, and killing journalists.
They marched to the fence with flags, not guns, during the Great March of Return. Israel met them with snipers, blinding medics, and killing journalists.
June 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Colonialism always imagines itself as the better observer of the people it subjugated. Gazans did try nonviolence.
They marched to the fence with flags, not guns, during the Great March of Return. Israel met them with snipers, blinding medics, and killing journalists.
They marched to the fence with flags, not guns, during the Great March of Return. Israel met them with snipers, blinding medics, and killing journalists.
So the Holocaust was not a genocide? Genocide isn’t defined by a fucking death quota. It’s defined by intent: the systematic destruction of a people, in whole or in part. Mass killing, forced displacement, starvation, denial of medical care, targeting essential infrastructure—check every box.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
So the Holocaust was not a genocide? Genocide isn’t defined by a fucking death quota. It’s defined by intent: the systematic destruction of a people, in whole or in part. Mass killing, forced displacement, starvation, denial of medical care, targeting essential infrastructure—check every box.