Zinnia Jones/bigotry

About

There have been repeated claims that ZJ engages in bigotry, especially anti-Semitism, and primarily on Twitter. We are collecting evidence in order to be able to investigate these claims.

The relevant Tweets are presented below without comment. For analysis, see:

• User:Woozle/Zinnia Jones

Tweets

2010

• 12-22 21:33 Holiday stupid: Someone commenting to tell me people are born Jewish and have no choice of whether to be Jewish. (archive.is)
  • Retweeted by @politiquestions aka "Joke Space Kabbalist" (no permalink) with the comment "BIO IS SINCERE: En/Es. Not cool. She/they. General TW. RT/DM👍! Jewish/Wt. Autistic, trans, bi. Libertarian communist = #anti-prison"
    • This seems like instructions of some sort to JSK's followers. "SINCERE"? "En/Es"? "General TW"? Also, is "#anti-prison" bad?

2016

September 4

• 05:17 If she directly ordered me to murder an innocent human being I would still choose her over him. Every time. In every possible universe.
  • 05:17 Because there are things that are bigger than that.
    • 10-18 15:29 (@politiquestions) Like republicans' illegally hoarded ballots. Who will think of the direct material support for the guy you fearmonger about all day

October

• 10-08 10:08 Donald Trump is best understood as an entity sent by Yahweh of the Bible/Yeshu of Nazareth. (archive.is)
  • 10-17 10:58 (@AKA m33n4h) do you realise how offensive it is to compare a dude who does constant anti-semitic dog whistles to Yahweh?
    • Another Tweeter tries to explain why the comparison is apt, but AKA m33n4h sarcastically dismisses their argument.

October 18

• 01:48 (ZJ) I was told these ridiculous arguments about bombing offices and killing political foes were just expressions of how upset people are.
  • 01:50 (ZJ) I don't care. Hundreds of you are calling for political violence. Find a better way to express your feelings. Act like responsible adults.
  • 01:51 (ZJ) Your guttural blather about "revolution" is nothing and your communism is a dipshit fantasy.
    • This and ZJ's next three Tweets were cited by a right-wing subreddit as "Zinnia Jones goes full liberal" (when in fact she was rejecting far-left-wing violence)
  • 01:59 (ZJ) It's amazing how many people today argued that I should seriously respect this nonsense as if it had any substance or legitimacy.
  • 02:02 (ZJ) Please. Your grasp of any of this is a fucking joke. Half of you need to be told where the bullet comes out of the gun.
  • 02:03 (ZJ) I'd tell you to go fuck an ammo pouch, if you had any.
  • 02:06 (ZJ) "I like fire and breaking things" -Communist revolutionaries of twitter dot com
  • 02:12 (ZJ) Next time some garbage troll communist gets on your shit for not joining their violent fantasy, tell them to kill you if they don't like it.
  • 02:15 (ZJ) Get off twitter and go harvest wheat, poorly.
• 11:01 Also the Old Testament is one long record of God straight-up fucking over the Israelites in every imaginable way (archive.is)
• 11:04 No? Nothing in anything I said was speaking of actual practices of Jewish people. The Bible is fiction.
• 12:04 (ZJ) "wonder how much drone fuel that'll cover" Hopefully a lot?
• 20:12 (reply) you aren't Jewish this isn't your place. This is reading as antisemitic
  • 20:13 (ZJ) I would've chosen a different word given people interpreted it as just about Judaism. It's not, though.
  • 20:14 (ZJ) It was meant to refer to Christianity's deity, Islam's, LDS Church's, etc.
  • 20:15 (ZJ) Sorry I phrased it that way. But a faith I don't believe doesn't have to first permit me my "place" before I can criticize it.
  • 20:16 (ZJ) If anything it's not your place to tell me I'm somehow not allowed to critically analyze the character God in religious texts.
• 20:33 2016-10-18 Tweetstorm

October 20

• 13:48 (@hyenagirl64) "Moral core of the trans community." *shakes head*
• 13:50 (@hyenagirl64) It's almost like these folks have no involvement in the community and have no idea who anyone is besides their twitter faves.
• 13:52 (@hyenagirl64) I mean, if you asked me to name someone I'd name Janet Mox, or Laverne Cox, or the Wachowskis, or Chelsea Manning, or Tobi Hill-mayer...
• 13:53 (@hyenagirl64) ...and I wouldn't even name them because I know there are hundreds of hard working community organizers out there who go unnamed...
• 13:53 (@hyenagirl64) ...who are doing far more for the whole community than any blogger ever will.
• 13:55 (@hyenagirl64) Fuck, I'd name kadybat before Zinnia. Kadybat is helping run a sonic themed charity event for the transgender law center. How trans is that?
• 19:04 (ZJ) I actually don't want to be some moral center, nobody should be that and I don't think communities should work that way
• 20:52 (@PrincessOtC) then please stop talking and digging yourself into a bigger hole. stop presenting yourself as such a figure.
• 21:00 (ZJ) I don't want to. I think them seeing me as such a figure amplified the perceived urgency of this, to them.
• 21:06 (@PrincessOtC) when you go on lengthy authoritative sounding rants like this and project an ego it's what happens
• 21:11 (ZJ) the alternative being? what makes it lengthy or authoritative-sounding that I shouldn't be doing?
• 21:14 (@PrincessOtC) maybe not telling jews their jewish opinions don't matter for a start. sometimes you just need to take a backseat.
• 21:15 (ZJ) that's authoritative sounding but... what they said isn't? how do you figure?
  • 21:19 (@PrincessOtC) Because she's actually fucking jewish and can tell you what antisemitism looks like. Jesus christ, Zinnia. Cop on.
    • 21:20 (ZJ) I've been told by more Jewish people that this is not antisemitic than have ever said it is antisemitic
    • 21:22 (@PrincessOtC) Where are these binders full of jews, Zinnia, that have told you this? Every jew I've shown your shit is disgusted.
    • 21:23 (ZJ) Uh what? Where exactly is your binder?
    • 21:25 (@PrincessOtC) you need to learn to shut the fuck up and actually listen to people that aren't your shitty liberal token friends.
    • 21:29 (ZJ) You just called Jewish people "shitty liberal token{s}". What would you say that is? Rhymes with 'ranty pacific'
    • 21:31 (@PrincessOtC) you're the one who's been taking a dump on actual jews in all this, continually. people who've been tweeting you.
    • 21:32 (@hyenagirl64) I don't have anything to add to this discussion. Please un-@ me.
  • 21:20 (@PrincessOtC) How would you like a cis person cisplaining to you like this? Getting snarky, saying your trans views don't matter.

2017

June 9

• 01:22 (@AliceAvizandum) 'well you picked a bad TIME to criticise our in-house Arab death fetishist' fuck off
• 02:02 (@MissMacSee) I'm out of so many loops, is it possible for you to say who this is about?
• 02:02 (@AliceAvizandum) Zinnia Jones, who's currently the trans piñata for Ray Blanchard and Fox News
  • This may be a reference to ZJ's frequent attacks on anti-trans propagandist Ray Blanchard.
• 02:03 (@AliceAvizandum) I promise you I'm not exaggerating, she had a weeks-long meltdown about how good drones were
• 02:09 (@patienceinbee) months and months later, i can't un-see any of that
• 03:16 I was wrong. I'm sorry.
• 03:19 (@patienceinbee) could you expand a bit on this {\n\n} it hurt a *lot* of good people, Z
• 03:28 (ZJ) I treated it unseriously and it was way out of line and incredibly disrespectful. I understand that now. I don't support drone strikes.
• 03:32 (ZJ) There was no need for me to get into anything about antisemitism or communism. I could have just stepped away but I didn't.
• 03:36 (@patienceinbee) idk, working thru the anti-Semitism, rather than whether it was expressed or withheld, is probably a more constructive means of remediation
• 03:41 "Okay. I wasn't intending to express any kind of antisemitism. I know now that I should have just listened.
• 03:46 (@patienceinbee) i think what came across as more crucial was an insistence on being right as logical premise & not on showing capacity for empathy/humility
• 03:50 You're right and that's something I neglected. I disregarded the emotional side of things and was very unempathetic. I shouldn't have.
• 04:04 (@patienceinbee) what i'm getting @: folks looked to you as a community organizer for work you've done. that twitterthon was a gesture of community sabotage...
• 04:05 (@patienceinbee) ...not to yourself, but to all affected by your doubling-down in notably anti-social conduct. contrition will weigh far less than atonement
• 04:10 (ZJ) I get that and I agree. It was needlessly and wantonly destructive. I am trying to make up for it.

Acknowledgement

Many of these were rediscovered by Twitter user @politiquestions "Joke Space Kabbalist":

• 2017-08-24 20:12 I got curious and dug deeper and...I had forgotten this all started with her trying to connect trump to our religious history
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