the men and boys are innocent too.
we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.
I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.
I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.
I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.
I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.
the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.
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A Russian court has passed huge sentences against three Crimean Muslims on essentially ‘thought crime’ charges, with the longest sentence against a man who is blind and could not have read the books which the FSB planted in his home as ‘evidence’.
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While I intend this blog to remain a largely news-free space due to the constant hellstate of the world, let me be clear that I stand in full support of both the Palestinian and Jewish peoples who are currently experiencing relentless hate and suffering in these horrid times.
I am disgusted at the number of people, especially "progressives" on this website who have used this situation to spread both Islamophobia and Antisemitism. This goes double if you dared to reblog those "punch nazis/fascists <3" and "[x] are welcome here!" posts while in the next breath spreading dangerous fucking narratives that kill people.
So many people in online political spaces evidently see this as nothing more than a case of picking "sides", when ultimately what matters is supporting the oppressed against fascist governments and militias, wherever they are.
Common people will always have more alike with each other than their leaders. This is not a novel concept. Your activism should always be motivated by love and compassion first, and hatred second. If you use your beliefs as an excuse to find an acceptable target to vent your hatred towards regardless of the actual material outcome, you are no fucking activist.
You're a bigot.
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This might be an unpopular opinion but I literally could not care less about your opinion about the I/P conflict in general and particularly about the current war if you’re not Israeli or Palestinian who either lives here or has immediate family members who live here. When you’ve got no stakes in this conflict your arguments are meaningless and unoriginal at best, and are also usually flat out racist, antisemitic or islamophobic. Our actual real lives are not a fandom war and your shallow opinions do not matter to me 🫶🏻
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Has anyone told the internet atheists that you’re allowed to not believe in God without being antisemitic or Islamophobic or like… just generally not a dick
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hello writers of the castlevania fandom
can you please stop making Isaac eat pork and/or drink alcohol? also, why does he never pray?
I've only seen one fic where it was done like it should be, and they made him muslim there. he's a north african sufi.
If you don't wanna learn about a characters culture/religion (especially when it's a central part of the character), then don't write them, period.
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ppl keep saying that palestinians and pro-palestine people should talk about the rise of antisemitism but never say jack shit about the rise of hate crimes against palestinians. lol. lmao even. also palestinians in gaza and the west back are literally being bombed on the daily so like. sorry if those people and the families of those people are busy talking about that instead i guess
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My biggest goal going into survivor was to break stereotypes. To show the nation and the rest of the world that people who look like me, are no different to the rest of the world. For once I wanted to see an Arab being presented on tv in a positive light. To show everybody that we can be just as funny, smart, loyal and friendly. It’s so upsetting how much my culture and religion has been misunderstood. I hope I was that stepping stone to society bringing us closer together, and discovering at the end of the day, we all bleed the same, cry the same and laugh the same. To be the first Arab/muslim to ever compete on SurvivorAu is such an accomplishment for me let alone being the sole survivor. I truly hope I have done my family and community justice representing all of us ❤️ I said I would bring the win home for Western Sydney and I meant it.
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It always has to be you you you you you. Nobody suffers more than you, nobody can suffer other than you, you're the entire fucking center of the universe!! Nobody can talk about anything anymore without these people going "wah wah but gaza" shut the fuck up!!!!!!
I've actually seen people mention goddamn gaza under a grieving mother's post about the loss of her child!! Y'all are fucking deranged!!! Have you no shame??
Also literally nobody has been silent. These useless excuses for human beings have been cheering on terrorists and spreading blood libels for these whole 6 months, making the entire Jewish community feel unsafe and unwanted in spaces they used to be a part of.
Also, funny you're begging Europeans, the biggest colonizers of them all, to acknowledge you. But you don't like colonizers, do you?
And finally, if you really can't deal with the fact there are other problems and injustices in the world and that people aren't dedicating every inch of their mind to you, you might have a bit of a problem. Nobody owes you anything. Let people speak about what they care about and stop policing literally everything.
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ind*a’s h*nduv*ta issue needs to be addressed globally bc they essentially want to do the same thing isr*el is doing to non-hindu indians. They’re also one of isr*el’s biggest supporters + isr*el funds the indian occupation in kashmir. B*p and m*di are garbage and I pray for their downfall everyday. Considering the history of 🇮🇳 , being in favor for genocide should be anti-indian but they hate muslims so much that they don’t care. But when I talk about it some yt saviour on here wants to tell me, a DESI- not just south asian, a DESI person, that im ‘racist’ for calling majority of them garbage lmfao.
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Lately I’ve been feeling a lot of stuff (like the past few months lately) and that “stuff” is a downplayed version of “a sea of emotion and turmoil” because of what is happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza and in Palestine in general.
This week marks a global strike for Palestine- no buying shit unless it’s absolutely necessary, no going anywhere unless it’s absolutely necessary, and sharing the hell out of all content coming straight out of Palestine.
On a lesser note, but still something I’ve seen a lot since October: there are MANY white queer creators who have either completely ignored any of the ongoing genocides occurring right now, or they’ve shared tiny amounts in places where people won’t see the material as easily (i.e. sharing one vague post on Reddit *coughs in John Green*, sharing stuff only in stories and making zero solid posts/videos or making any actual stances, hiding something about Palestine at the bottom of a YouTube description, etc.) Not to mention they COMPLETELY ignore Africa- as if the Palestinian genocide is a treND and Sudan and Congo are not as “relevant”. Disgusting. If anyone has to comb through your feed right now to determine if you are against global genocide, you’re not against global genocide.
I am so angry that even when some of the worst shit is going on right now, some of you still think it’s okay to “maintain your feed aesthetic” or the “feel” of your TikTok and YouTube channel. It is utterly baffling to me why anyone would have to explain to you how fucked up this is.
Many of these creators are solidifying a future where they will be remembered for yammering on about “queer rights” as they purposefully posted everything but the cries of a group of people who have been dehumanized for decades.
Please consider unfollowing creators who are ignoring catastrophic and important events like this- if anything, it tells you their priorities will always be profit over people. It doesn’t matter how much they tell you they care about you- they don’t.
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Mark my words, now that they’ve done the 1990’s the next historical American Girl doll is going to be a Muslim girl living in the wake of 9/11.
Because, as the recent SNL sketch pointed out, we have to give these girls trauma.
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To all the Israel supremacists or defenders
Don't call those who badmouth you "Nazi" when YOU are clearly the Nazi ones, cause who the fuck advocates for the massacre of a whole people, for the theft of a people's land, for a GENOCIDE? I have one example...
And don't say we "just believe the Nazi propaganda" when YOURS is the Nazi one!
Because what kind of fucking media calls a whole people "terrorists", "animals", including fucking CHILDREN? What kind of media EXPLICITELY calls for the eradication of a whole people? What kind of media says it's ok to bomb a fucking hospital because maybe there were a couple of dangerous people in it??
What kind of a fucking non-Nazi, non-racist, non-genocidal country destroys fucking hospitals and schools, steals people's homes, cuts off people from food and medical help and LOCKS in people so they can be all hungered and bombed the fuck off??
YOU SEE PALESTINIANS AS A FUCKING FLOCK OF CHICKEN TO BE ALL SLAUGHTERED BECAUSE A FEW MAY BE DANGEROUS OR JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE THEIR FACES, LIKE RACIST ASSHOLES, AND WE ARE THE NAZI ONES??
FUCK. YOU.
.تبا لكم
.לך לעזאזל
The only thing that differs you from Nazi Germany are the extermination camps!
FUCK YOU AND YOUR BLATANT RACISM, AND YOUR BLATANT NAZISM!
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muslims will act violently homophobic in a country that values gay rights and then act shocked when it reflects badly on their community
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