I hope Tumblr knows the UK has a new prime minister who has been openly racist in the past and was voted to be our leader by 0.15% of the population. The system is broken burn it all down
This is our new leader Boris Johnson. He has said the following in the past:
In relation to burkas: “I would go further and say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes … a female student turned up at school or a university lecture looking like a bank robber”
In relation to gay marriage: “If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog.”
In relation to the BBC promoting equality for gay people: “must be a spoof”
Other homophobic remarks I don’t want to type.
There is more he has attacked different nationalities and been sexist which is just a google search away.
He’ll fit right in with trump at the official meetings
I was boutta say he looks and sounds like British Trump
For an uncanny amount of time after arriving in the UK, I assumed he was some kind of celebrity for some reason. I was absolutely gobsmacked to find out he was a real actual politician.
Plus; also referred to the investigation of historical sex abuse as ‘spaffing money up the wall’
Idivult- Originating from the For Honor community, the word has a different meaning on Tumblr. Someone who uses Crusader and/or Christian imagery, sayings, scriptures, etc. to justify some shape and form of bigotry. Typically islamophobia, there are cases of anti pagan rhetoric, anti Native rhetoric, anti Semitic rhetoric, homophobia, and the occasional blatantly racist blog that doesn’t even bother to hide it. In general all are xenophobes who inaccurately use the symbols, sayings, etc. to their own wicked ends.
warchaplain
ecmshock
militant-holy-knight
bransrath
europanime
dragonkp
ludwig-wittgenstein
illyricum-croatorum
tokillthedragon
vescerebracismeisblr
militantwarriorsaint (Blog is still there not making anymore stuff the blogger left)
A new addition to this list of Idivults, shieldmaiden-of-christ, a transphobic, out spoken anti feminist, anti choice trying to insert herself into the Crusader Community.
A new addition to this list, gotenforst, an openly blatant Nazi and misappropriating scum lord.
A new addition to this ever expanding list when it should be fucking shrinking: presidialista. They post about the Cristero conflict in Mexico. That’s fair enough, what lands them on this list is their constant and deliberate use of a disproven anti Semitic conspiracy theory that goes by the wretched name of the Judeo-Masonic Theory. It’s a horrible and wrong theory about a secret coalition between Jews and Masons trying to take over the world. Avoid them like the plague that they are.
This nightmare just won’t fucking end. Another addition to both the Idivult list and to the Nazis the Vikings want to stab list. odalblog is the blog’s name, and promoting fascists like Mussolini and the SS is their horrid little game. @we-are-viking, I’m tagging you so you would know about this dickhead.
Thank you very much for the heads-up, friend! I’ll block them IMMEDIATELY and I implore everyone else to do the same, as well as report their blog. We’ve taken down many so far via swarming their fascist asses with repots, we can do it again for this fucker, too.
France has always and I mean ALWAYS had a history of Islamophobia…but, for those of you who don’t know what’s going on right now:
They’re trying to ban the slaughter of Halal chicken, citing animal cruelty and claiming Halal (I believe they also discussed Kosher) methods of slaughter are unethical compared to the European practice of stunning the animal (the Halal way of slaughter would be a cut to the jugular vein so that the animal feels no pain).
They then proceeded to ban the wearing of the Hijab (the Muslim headscarf) for girls under 18 in public places.
They also banned Hijabi mothers (women who wear the Hijab) from accompanying their child on school field trips.
Furthermore, they banned the Burkini (a swimsuit that a lot of Muslim women wear) at public swimming pools.
These restrictions (I have definitely not covered a lot of them) fall under France’s Separatism Bill which still needs to be passed by the National Assembly. France maintains that these actions are to uphold secularism (the separation of religion and state).
However, these targeted laws and the statements accompanying them…
The Hijab ban was the “prohibition in the public space of any conspicuous religious sign by minors and of any dress or clothing which would signify an interiorization of women over men.” This is a commonly used trope about Islam and Muslim men; that they are oppressive of women which is absolutely not true…take it from a Muslim woman!
Emmanuel Macron said that Hijab is “not in accordance with French ideals”. This again alludes to the misconception that Hijab is oppressive and that by taking it away, we are liberating women. I don’t deny that there are women who had Hijab forced upon them, but what France is not acknowledging is that the forcing of any religious action upon people is completely the opposite of Islamic teachings and that there are actually women out there who can make decisions about what they want to wear…Surprise! It may come as a bit of a shock to them…
…just showcase how deeply rooted these laws are in Islamophobia and how France is maximizing restrictions on daily Muslim life just to…be a white saviour?
There are five million Muslims in France right now and they are allbeing affected by this.
As of right now I’m trying to find ways to counteract this. @feel-like-studying has linked a petition in the replies of this post. I’ll also link it here:
Content and trigger warnings: transphobia (transmisogyny, outdated use of the word “h*rmaphrodite”), homophobia, islamophobia, ableism, death wishes, covid denialism
I know there has been already a Google doc on this person but, frankly, it got really sloppy towards the end and hasn’t been updated in over a year. Meanwhile, Roketto continues to be in fandom spaces and spew her hate on places like Reddit. Some screenshots have been taken as recently as October 2021. Aside from names, nothing is censored here. View at your own risk and heed the content/trigger warnings above.
I took it upon myself to make my own doc (with a bit of help from my friends) with specific incidents and proof that she has been hateful towards other people who think differently to her.
If you come across Roketto, just block her. Don’t message her, don’t provoke her, just don’t acknowledge her.
Ah, the hijab explanation. I’ve been waiting for this one! Turn it up!
Hijab can be a complicated thing. I don’t say this to judge anyone for the way they practice it, I personally have had my struggles with it and wore it in the “cavalier” way Samirah is described to be wearing it. That said, there is no rhyme or reason to who Samirah lets see her hair. One day she’s out in public with it on, the next her hair is out. Yes, there are women who do this but you can’t have that and leave it there. You need to address how she feels about that, people don’t wear or not wear hijab on a spur of the moment decision, or on whims. We need to see her feelings, beyond just a “I wear it when I want to, or when I feel like I have to.” “She sees the fallen warriors as her kin” that’s… not how it works at all? There’s a huge place full of people she maybe is best friends with, maybe is acquaintances with, or maybe is a stranger to, and she “sees them as her kin” just because.. they’re fallen warriors? Also, I remember Samirah being in public with her hair out, and then she sees Amir or her grandparents and quickly rushes to put it on, sending the message that they force her to wear it. While forced hijab does happen and is a problem you can’t be so.. cavalier about it. You just toss that line in and pretend it’s natural. Also, by making your one muslim character do that, the one muslim character in prominent children’s media, you’re sending the message that hijab is forced upon women most of the time which is.. not true.
Also, in the past, in many of the shows that feature a hijabi, there is always always always a hair reveal scene. She will take it off a sign of “love” for her boyfriend, show her guy friends to show she sees them as brothers, or even it will fall off her head if nothing else. It’s always explained away with some bullshit like “I only take it off in front of people I care about” that’s not how it works at all! Nobody picks and chooses who to show their hair to. It just feels so intrusive, not only as a muslim, but also as a woman. If a woman has decided that she doesn’t want to show a certain part of her, why do you find it so difficult to just.. leave it be at that? Why is it so difficult for you to accept and realise that some find empowerment in modesty? Or that they would like to adhere to a religious practice? Is it so necessary to take that away, even if it’s from a character? Is it so necessary for the audience to know what her hair looks like? It’s just so clearly fetishizing… It’s so telling to me that, despite it being… relatively well known that hijabi women hide their hair from men they’re not related to, you decided to ignore that and went for the ‘convenient’ route, the one that allowed you to see and depict her hair. And for that very reason, it’s really not progressive at all to have a hijabi character whose hair you can see. Yes there are a lot of different ways to practice hijab, and a lot of different ways that muslim women practice it. But do you know who has a right to talk about that and tell those stories? Muslim women. Women who used to, are planning on, or currently practice hijab. If you want to portray a hijabi character, leave her hair alone.
[I also find a strange sense of irony in the “camouflaging her in times of need” line, like. To many hijabis the point is to hide their hair, and you took that away, but when it came to plot-relevance, you decide that the hijab would be able to hide her from the eyes of others.. okay.]
Premise: Plum Kettle, ghostwriter for a teen magazine in NYC, is just waiting to have weight-loss surgery so her “real life” can begin. In the meantime, she’s meek and practically reclusive. Then a strange young woman points her to a group of unconventional women who encourage her to live her life a different way. At the same time, a shadowy organization, identified only as “Jennifer,” starts violently striking back at sexism in society.
Thoughts: When this novel is focused on Plum’s struggles as an unusually large woman in a fatphobic society and her journey to self-acceptance, it’s on pretty solid ground. Plum does little for her current self; her days consist of working a job she dislikes, eating tasteless food, secluding herself in her apartment, and ordering clothes for her future “thin self.” It’s exciting to follow her as she comes to accept that she deserves nice clothes, good food, recognition from others, and dreams now, no matter what size she is. Unfortunately, the novel has grander ambitions that it can’t fulfill. Its attempts to address sexism as a whole often come across as juvenile at best, and horribly offensive at worst.
Take, for example, Plum’s shifting attitude towards the advice column she ghostwrites for. At the beginning of the story, she’s offering empathetic, practical advice to a teen girl with an abusive home life. Towards the end, she answers another letter, from an eighteen-year-old woman who has graduated from college and is trying to decide between using her savings to go to Italy to study art or using them to pay for breast implants. Plum answers with a Sliding Doors-style reverie about what would happen in each scenario. If this young woman decides to study art in Italy, she’ll have many interesting experiences and grow as a person. If she gets breast implants, she’ll become a vapid party girl who eventually settles for a brief dental hygienist career, followed by an unfulfilling marriage to an old, unattractive, and eventually unfaithful dentist. I mean…I agree that it’s sad and infuriating that so many women feel pressured to change their appearances to the point of seeking painful, even potentially fatal surgery! I’m just not sure that “getting breast implants will automatically turn you into a bimbo and drain all meaning from your life” is actually a feminist message. I’ve read eerily similar passages from the POVs of fictional “nice guys” who are upset that their high school crush went to the prom with the quarterback instead of them. Whatever, someday Bryan will be a super-rich computer scientist with several model girlfriends and Ashley will be a dumpy mom driving her four kids around in a minivan while Jake (balding) works at his dad’s car dealership. Wait…is “Sk8r Boi” feminist?
And it gets worse! The organization known as “Jennifer” targets various men–rapists, porn moguls, etc.–but it also straight-up murders women. The most prominent victims are a porn actress (grotesquely portrayed as a CSA survivor who’s had so much on-camera sex that she had to get her vagina replaced) and the girlfriend of a Joe Francis type who publicly refuses to comply with Jennifer’s demands that she not sleep with him. You know how, during and shortly after wartime, people will sometimes publicly strip, beat, shave, and otherwise humiliate women who have slept with the enemy? You’ll be glad to know that this is actually feminist…as is Jack the Ripper. Muslims are broadly singled out as backwards misogynists who speak a “nonsense language” (for views that fundamentalist Christians also hold, but you don’t hear about them). I don’t know if Walker is a TERF; there’s a passage where Plum muses about her uterus, but a woman can have feelings about her uterus without it being a statement on all women or all uteri. However, the book is obviously SWERF-y, racist, and absolutely brutal to any woman who doesn’t toe the party line, so I don’t like those odds.
Hot Goodreads Take: “Hip-hop is singled out as the most misogynist genre,” points out one reader. I knew I forgot something!
