• flan [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    zionists have been going wild this past week. The amount of FUD they’ve been spreading about pro-palestine protests is insane. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it. I thought the war in ukraine was bad.

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      Nothing like an Islamic enemy to unite all the imperialists

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        Islam is just the tip of the Iceberg for the centuries-old Western tradition of invoking the menacing silhouette of an orientalized, nonwhite horde to justify imperial violence and subjugation, at least since the Spanish Reconquista and subsequent age of colonization. When rightoids are hand-wringing about Muslim refugees supposedly preying on women, it is almost always the image of a brown or black man “defiling” a white woman. Islam is simply a convenient shorthand for that, which has the fig leaf of technically not being a race. And recent events have shown that’s Islamaphobia is as useful for the ruling class of today as it was to Iberian Christian monarchs.

        it’s fundamentally the same mechanisms at play here behind yellow peril and anti-China hysteria. Which in itself intersects with racialized anticommunism (as Nazi propaganda depicting “asiatic” reds demonstrates), despite Marxism’s origins in Europe.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I will say this much that at least gives me some hope but it feels like it’s only evangelical boomers, their allies and the brunch crowd that gives a shit about Isn’treal. I’ve been seeing a huge outpouring of support for Palestine. ofc Israel has the media, the us government, and arms manufactures backing them up but it feels like the rest of the world is aligned behind hamas.