Dan "The Bear Jew" Lapidus M.Div.
@droylapidus
Author of "The Bear Jew" on Substack. Jew. Bible Scholar. Focus on how the NT cites the HB/OT and the power dynamics implied therein. Foodie. Chess player. Liberal. Depressed Chicago sports and Juventus fan. He/him/הוא/אתה
There is an ocean, several solar systems, and an entire fucking galaxy of difference between “wanting the chance to patch things up with someone” and “wanting to sexually violate other human beings”. Those are not remotely the same
There’s no redemption without contrition and change
"The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated." ~Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, opening statement to the Nuremberg Tribunal
It was on Facebook, but this lady couldn’t stand having the basic scholarly condense about the Final Solution read to her. IIRC, she was trying to use the Holocaust to argue for some kind of maximalist Zionism
This is what I said the day he died. I don't think I've ever been more correct
Long ago, when I was an undergraduate history major at Pitt, I had the privilege to study under Dr Marcus Rediker. Here’s the opener from Villains of All Nations