#FactCheck:
Are #White #SouthAfrican ‘#refugees’ fleeing #racialpersecution?
#Afrikaners, a #Whiteminority who ruled #SouthAfrica with an #oppressive grip, #dispossessed the #Black majority during the #colonialera and #apartheid.
#Check out : #Israel is a #democracy, perhaps in the way that all our so-called democracies evolve, more #authoritarian, more #oppressive, more #oligarchic, more #differential and #unequal - anyway #Israel is an #occidental #invention
« The next morning I left the festival and made my way from Ramallah to Jerusalem. I had to wait an extra hour or so for a taxi with the right color license plate, yellow, and so be allowed to cross through a checkpoint in Israel’s wall and onto the road to Jerusalem on the other side. I made small talk with my driver, then retreated back into my thoughts of the journey so far. It was my sixth day in Palestine, but I felt like I had been here for months. The days were filled with tours, the nights with talks—even the meals felt like seminars. Some of this is just being abroad somewhere far from home. But most of it was the specificity of this place—how much it seemed to embody the West and its contradictions, its claims of democracy, its foundations in exploitation. Of all the worlds I have ever explored, I don’t think any shone so bright, so intense, so immediately as Palestine.
But when the light cleared I had new eyes, and I could see my own words in new ways—and the words from which they were derived—the stories, columns, speeches, and talks presented by “willing intellectuals.” So much seemed obvious. I now noted a symmetry in the bromides—that those who claimed Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East were just as likely to claim that America was the oldest democracy in the world. And both claims relied on excluding whole swaths of the population living under the rule of the state. Riding in that taxi toward Jerusalem, the truth of this struck me as undeniable. I’d spent most of my time in the Occupied Territories, a world of minority rule. But even in the state proper, caste reigned. Palestinians living in Israel have shorter lives, are poorer, and live in more violent neighborhoods. Certain neighborhoods in Israel are allowed to discriminate legally against Palestinian citizens by setting “admission committees.” The committees, operating in 41 percent of all Israeli localities, are free to bar anyone lacking “social suitability” or “compatibility with the social and cultural fabric.” Openly racist appeals are the norm, as when Benjamin Netanyahu warned in 2015 that “the right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves.” For all my talk of being fooled by the language of “Jewish democracy,” it had been right there the whole time. The phrase means what it says—a democracy for the Jewish people and the Jewish people alone. »
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
"And when the woman at the next table gets up and excuses herself to squeeze by you with a smile, you wonder, ‘Does she think that about me too?’ And that feels #oppressive." – Panti Bliss 2/2
Brilliant words-applicable to any #minority whose rights are being ‘discussed’.
You can watch the whole speech here: https://youtu.be/WXayhUzWnl0?feature=shared
Why I'm Angry at #Religion | Greta Christina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrA3QTV2qVM&list=WL
#atheist #atheism #christianity
In this thought-provoking video, author and activist #GretaChristina delves into the reasons behind her deep frustration with #organizedreligion. Drawing from personal experiences and broader societal observations, she examines how religion has often perpetuated harm, hindered progress, and shaped #oppressive systems.
"At this stage of confusion and uncertainty, in the midst of chaos, because they have yet to fully take #authority, their abilities to silence, intimidate, and enforce increasingly #oppressive actions against you are limited. Exercise the rights you currently have before they are taken from you."
It is 75 degrees where I am right now; the dew point is 74. That is #dank and #oppressive. 
The dew point for #JerseyCity has been in the low 70s all day. That's #dank and #oppressive.
The dew point in #JerseyCity right now is 73°F . . . oh my that's #oppressive and #dank.
The dew point is 72 degrees. Oh my. #dank #oppressive
Badge: 
Source: https://linktr.ee/NextStory
My right to 
life is being 
submerged. I won't fight for freedom that I don't have.
"You've used our website for all of five seconds. Would you like to take a survey about your experience?"
"Yes, Grandpa? Please explain how America became a brutal, oppressive, racist, dictatorship?"
#Trump Is the #HeritageFoundation’s Instrument to Bring a #ViktoOrbán style #dictatorship to the #US
The #hategroup sees Trump not for his #policies, but as a means to embed the #Putin #Puppet's #oppressive #ideology within the #US #political #framework.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/heritage-foundation-trump-orban
#Ugandans challenge the #AntiHomosexualityAct in the countries #ConstitutionalCourt, asserting it #breaches #fundamental #rights under Uganda's #constitution, including #nondiscrimination, #privacy, and #freedom of #thought and #belief.
This case provides a pivotal moment for the #court to #annul this #oppressive #law.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Uganda #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/11/ugandans-challenge-anti-homosexuality-act
The first Tweet from #Netanyahu's office is from 2018, when #Israeli snipers were massacring #Gazan protesters during the March of Return. The second is from now, after his #oppressive plans have brought #Israel into its worst crisis in decades.
ALLAHU ACHBAR!!!
"I think now is a good time to have a bit of #revolutionary #optimism. If you are a young #person basically anywhere in the #world, there is a very real chance that you will outlive your #government. If #capitalism isn’t overthrown in the next few decades, it will almost surely collapse due to its inherently unsustainable #nature. If you ever feel like there’s no hope, just know that things will #change. Stuff will still suck because that’s what stuff does, but the #oppressive and #authoritarian #systems we have in place now can not survive the #future."
https://www.tumblr.com/anarchywoofwoof/722953596249997312?source=share
https://worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases/
Determining #climatechange: Some of these physical installations are on #land #occupied as spoils of #war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them #brutal and #oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ presence. In many cases, human beings were #displaced.
ashtime
Lucy
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