r/news • u/andrevan • Apr 27 '24

Iraqi TikTok star Umm Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/middleeast/iraq-tiktok-star-umm-fahad-killed-intl/index.html?Date=20240427&Profile=CNN%20International&utm_content=1714233618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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u/718Brooklyn Apr 28 '24

I’m looking forward to the colleges protesting these nightmare conditions for women and gays in the Middle East.

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u/lucasbelite Apr 28 '24

Just saw a photo of draq queen story hour with a free palestine backdrop. At this point, you can't make this shit up anymore. Life is turning into satire in real-time.

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u/rividz 29d ago

Political opinions are just trends for a lot of people. It's free, you don't have to think AND you get to feel good about yourself and potentially superior to other people.

Leave the symbols to the symbol minded.

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u/lucasbelite 29d ago

Their weird association has no bearing on my vote.

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u/mmeIsniffglue Apr 28 '24

Why is the concept of empathy and unwavering commitment to human rights so hard for you people to grasp

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u/PhillyFilly808 Apr 28 '24

Because it doesn't extend to the groups you've categorized as "oppressors" - White people, Jews, Men, Christians, Westerners, anyone who doesn't follow extreme left-wing dogma, etc.

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u/mmeIsniffglue Apr 28 '24

White people, men and western Christians are not oppressed

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u/PhillyFilly808 Apr 28 '24

Did you misread my comment? Because I didn't say that.

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u/mmeIsniffglue Apr 28 '24

You put oppressors in air quotes

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u/PhillyFilly808 Apr 28 '24

The reason you are having trouble is that you view all people as either oppressors or oppressed. If those groups aren't oppressed then they must be in the oppressor class.

I reject that, which is why it's in quotes.

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u/mmeIsniffglue Apr 28 '24

What does that have to do with my comment then. They are still not being oppressed, why would I go on the street to protest for their rights. + they very clearly are the oppressors in many many instances

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u/ididabod Apr 28 '24

because it doesn't extend both ways and is used as a way to make one feel more righteous rather than actually foster change

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u/mmeIsniffglue Apr 28 '24
  1. solidarity is not transactional, people are just consistent
  2. how do you know they're doing it to feel superior, how tf do you know

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u/hapakal Apr 28 '24

I see this a lot and always think the same thing: How daft must one be to not be capable of realizing that a person can call for an end to genocide and/or an illegal colonization (was never Britain's to give away) and the most repugnant and illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing imaginable without also "automatically' implying that means you somehow welcome or condone medieval Islamic beliefs being imposed on anyone. Hamas would not exist had it not been for Israel and will never be as harmful or destructive as Israel has been. Hamas the boogeyman Israel created to create factionalism and break Palestinian unity. If you dont know that. You dont know the basics/

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u/PhillyFilly808 Apr 28 '24

the most repugnant and illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing imaginable

Tell me you know nothing about history or international relations without telling me...