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I would not entertain that sort of energy around me

I can’t even argue on reddit anymore they temp banned me for saying “watch a zionist short circuit when you show them an anti zionist jew” and they said it was hate speech L O L

i’ve given leftist orgs a try already… they tend to be predominately cis-het especially around here which comes with its own complications particularly as a visibly brown queer. i think orgs are great for the cause and i support their operation but someone you can organize with and agree with politically isn’t necessarily someone that can be your friend or family or community.

you’re definitely right. through all of this one ringing truth has stood out; i can’t possibly do this alone. unfortunately, i don’t have many people in my life, and definitely no one in proximity who sees me for me and respects my identity and choices. and especially hard to come across like minded people here. i’ll just have to keep trying

oh man… can’t imagine what the panhandle is like. i live in one of the big cities and it’s insufferable. but i’ve heard the landscapes are much prettier there! we’ll keep fighting for a way out, for all of us

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yes but texas instead of florida and i’m making 0 income lol

if stalin was a homicidal fuckface… what is kamala and trump?

wii doesn’t even have HD

tiktok at least feels like people i might have a conversation with in the real world, or make me giggle. instagram is like all those stereotypes about facebook jacked up to the max with an emphasis on vanity and i do not giggle only sigh

god this made my toes tingle with excitement

i would rather shrink to a molecular level. now THAT sounds fun

Invite them over for dinner

why would someone even consider green over psl if they’re voting third party?

implying muslim cultures aren’t predominantly heteropatriarchal is probably some kind of orientalism

what the fuck am I reading

said i would comment and here we are. seeing some pretty reductive and dangerous rhetoric and i fear that the majority of this site that has little to no experience in the topic will regurgitate something they heard here without crit.

i grew up muslim and queer, used to go to quran and sunday school and the masjid every friday. i myself have a complicated relationship with islam but though i have left the faith many times and no longer practice in a mass, i still consider myself muslim but also mix other faiths and my personal practices in.

of course there IS misogyny and homophobia. just like when i go to school or work in a christian majority area, and hear the most insane out of pocket misogyny and homophobia and transphobia with the most casual of energy.

to single out muslims as morbidly and uniquely intense or cruel compared to christians, jews, and even atheists is reductive thinking and heavily prejudiced. to not even mention the passing, casual, but incredibly charged and hateful crimes of the real majority reveals indoctrination of anglo supremacy.

did you know islam has a long history of LGBT playing important and positive roles in society before colonial interference in my home country? what about sufiism? did you know the muslim world has had women leader!s! before the christian/atheist dominated west? there are also many progressive muslim scholars, just like there are progressive jewish or christian or atheist scholars.

wahhabiism, the extreme and most bigoted/hateful school of islam that we often associate with extremism and hate, was only made popular in the last 100 years, still a minority of the overarching religion, and guess who funded and encouraged these groups to the platform they have now?

i’m not dismissing anyone’s lived experience. i have suffered at the hands of bigoted muslims of course. and i have suffered at the hands of bigoted everything else with no religious motivation even more. that bigotry and hate comes from a personal or cultural level and it gets wrapped and disguised in islam by those with an agenda. i have also been the most radically and deeply accepted by some muslim peers. the cultural habits of a group of people doesn’t reflect on a religion. even the experience of arabs =/= the experience of all muslims. when i see arabs borderline enslaving people from my homeland and branding them with second class citizenship and taking away their ability to leave, people that look like me, would it be fair of me to claim for all others that have never experienced it that arabs specifically promote slavery and a tiered society?

we just cannot make sweeping generalizations where we apply what we’ve experience behind closed doors in one household to entire populations of people and shove those bigoted harmful actions under the brand of islam, and not even consider the closed-door practices of nonmuslims.

this entire thread has made me deeply deeply uncomfortable to engage on this site. i’m not fully stepping away but i will proceed with extreme caution moving forward

I don’t agree with this view. Islam is not uniquely more homophobic or misogynistic than the other abrahamic religions

I’m falling asleep as I type this but I feel the need to write a bigger response in the morning

i grew up poor surrounded by poor people. first time i landed in the west we lived in public housing among asylum seekers. my conditions led to my own decision to educate myself of alternative ways to live/take a step away from western programming.

no one around me grew to become radicalized by living condition. they either took the punches and continued to play the game, or turned to crime (i don’t blame them). i think it’s also why i find it difficult to fully integrate into leftist groups; the loudest voices are often from the most privileged