i follow this nigerian guy on tiktok who lives in china and speaks fluent mandarin and records himself talking to old chinese people. after they ask him why he’s black and try to rub his skin off they immediately see if he wants to marry their daughter lmao
I know the OP did not say this with ill-intent and probably did not look at it from this perspective: But this take is premised on the assumption that oppressed people should not procreate because the system will beat them anyway.
This tweet just applies the lens of class on -
essentially an enormous part of the reason that online leftist spaces suck so much is that they are filled with people who believe it is more important to do nothing wrong than it is to do something right
on the verge of tears over this. 136 hours of exploitative prison labor for $17 - only to send it all to Gaza. even from within the depths of hell there are people showing us a humbling level of solidarity & hope
If you are a soldier sacrificing yourself to protect US interest, you are a rational, noble hero. But if you sacrifice yourself to protest the genocide your country is funding, you are mentally ill.
If you are a Arab man auto-cremating to protest your government, you are romanticized in American newspapers. If you are an American doing the same, your news is buried or obfuscated.
There are no truths in the US. Only narratives that serve the ruling class.
@cryptooooo@sharghzadeh bro, it was white, w v muted printed lettering. apni aankhon ka ilaj kara. there’s a difference of opinion on what constitutes an islamically appropriate attire. islam is not a monlith. get over yourself.
What's funny about this discourse is Aaron Bushnell knew he was complicit in genocide. That's why he burned himself. No one who understands the power of his protest thinks he was a saint. It's a powerful thing because he was a soldier of the genocidal empire.
So let this sink in.
Some woman puts on a dress (or likely a local replica of some middle eastern brand) with random middle eastern pop culture references jotted down in Arabic in classic font, and a mob wants to kill her for desecrating the Quran?
It's a scary Dystopia.
Ammar, you are talking of the man who held Noor Mukadam responsible for her own murder in a disgusting hit-piece, then backtracked and used the ‘tehzeeb’ card when faced with public outrage.
What shame. What empathy.
He has none.