I saw your update today that you’re close to the gofundme goal so I will further share your link with a few other friends today in the hope of reaching it soon.

May you, Mohamed, Aya and all your family continue to stay safe

I’m so sorry. May you and your family be safe and together in this difficult moment

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Was it something like this? Very surreal indeed

Very well written! I personally want a very similar experience to what you described from my instance, so thank you for being so articulate with your reply

…fine, I’ll go to sleep.

Lovely photo though

but we can still listen to this song and remember that it was defeated before, and that we may one day celebrate victory over it for good.

Perfectly said, cheers to this! Let us party friends (I wish I could upload that gif directly to my comment lol)

Thank you for the clarification then!

Some people are really negative about involving children in religion

Yeah I fear that’s probably similar to what lawmakers are trying to harness with this law (OP then wrote that the law is actually specifically targeting hijabs and they wrote headscarf for the translation).

I personally think this could be a much longer conversation about clothing, racism, states’ policing and religion. For example, even European fashion used to have far more hats and head covering in it before it became associated with Islam and deemed as “scary/dangerous” in the West.

But because nowadays white Western European fashion has mostly moved away from that specific style, and also because Europe has become less religious, they slowly kind of collectively agreed that ‘covering your hair=bad’.

Pair this with their negative views of immigrants and Muslim people and you can see how some lawmakers are hiding behind things like “feminism” or “schools should be neutral” to target minorities and make them feel not welcomed in Europe.

Omg, I never knew people can be that creepy. Ahh, the West…

They can be far creepier than that unfortunately. And it falls again in that realm of “we don’t want you to feel at home here. You either conform to European whiteness or you’re already going against the law from when you are a child”

Most women don’t want to wear headscarves, and a few people who do that willingly don’t justify allowing religious symbols

I’m sorry but this seems just so wrong to me.

Isn’t the ban just about headscarves? A piece of cloth is not a religious symbol and policing women about their fashion choices is an awful idea.

It seems specifically worded to hide behind (white) feminism while just being another bigoted law that specifically targets Muslim people in Europe to scare them and to send them a message.

And I would like to know on what you are basing this idea that “most women don’t want to wear headscarves”. Maybe most white Western women don’t?

Because from my personal life and experiences I can tell you that I’ve met plenty of both Muslim women and also black women who not only preferred wearing a headscarf, but actually felt more empowered precisely because they could control who gets to see what of themselves.

And don’t even get me started on the weird obsession that white people have for black people’s hair. So wearing a headscarf can also helps to have healthier hair… In addition to literally stopping white people from randomly touching your hair just because “they’re so different!”

That’s exactly how I approach theory as well!

I’ll look up for an audio book, podcast, video or something that I can listen to while doing something else so that I can at least get acquainted with the terminology used and write down something I might need to search for it (eg. Let’s say the topic is about a specific event that happened in the USSR that I’m not familiar with. Before listening to that audio again, I’d like to have looked more into that event and the factors that led to it).

And of course, repetition is key. If possible, I’ll try my best to read even just a quick paragraph during the day and ask myself what I learned from the previous paragraph.

Also, since we mentioned audio books, I can’t recommend or thank Dessalines enough for his amazing YouTube channel which has an insane amount of audios recorded by him

I’d like to express how astoundingly great this platform is. Especially if one compares it to Reddit (since that’s where I had heard about this platform).

Like, I was already on board with the whole idea of having federated groups and not be reliant on one massive corporation that, among other things, can treat its users and communities however it deems fit. But also, just the quality of conversations here is on a completely different level.

Just to give an example, after being helped so much with a question I had here, I made the mistake of trying to ask a different question I was curious about over at Reddit.

While here I received truly helpful replies, comments and resources that actually helped me with my question (in addition to giving me food for thought to challenge my own ideas), over there I was belittled for not knowing enough about the very topic I was asking questions about lol.

Y’all are some seriously smart folks and I wanted to appreciate you and this platform for all the precious knowledge you’re willing to share! <3

dont assume that an org is legit just because it has “communist” in the name.

Very fair argument! As someone who’s building up confidence with these topics and views, looking at organisations that have communist in the name is usually a great entry-level way to see what the general leftitst consensus seems to be.

But indeed the biggest takeaway from all of this has been what you correctly pointed out

Very encouraging to read that at least the Wales communists are against the ruling and the CPB’s position on it. I had no idea most British communist parties were so sneakily anti trans though

Thus, alongside the patriarchal ideology and the bourgeois family, the demands and beliefs of the liberal feminist movement was consolidated and solidified in the ruling classes’ apparatus. This explains the origins and the constant support for so-called ‘sex-based rights’ groups which have existed for over a hundred years and now are being directed by the bourgeoisie against transgender people.

This was very interesting! And it rang even more accurate after reading from a lot of users in here that most British communist organisations seem to fall into this category sadly.

It was basically the reply to my whole question lol so thank you

relations to the means of reproduction in pretty much any society form the class system which we call gender

That made so much sense and yet I’ve never thought about it that way, thank you for your explanation! And also for the link, it’s already a very interesting read that touches on exactly some doubts I was having with this whole supreme court situation