SJWs Are Problematic

Understand this whole conflict is about land and not religion, we are not fighting over whether we should fast on Ramadan or on Yom Kippur, or fighting Israelis just because the majority of them is Jewish. 

Understand that not all Palestinians are Muslims, about 15%-20% of Palestinians aren’t.

You support Palestinians for losing their land and facing atrocities, you don’t support Palestinians just because Palestine is holy to you. 

You support all Palestinians equally, don’t put Muslim Palestinians over non-Muslim Palestinians and vice-versa, we are all going through the same struggle.

Don’t speak on our behalf (In other words, lead our cause), we don’t want you to mess up and then we end up getting the blame. You could support us, teach about our cause but don’t lead us, we lead you.

Don’t support us just because you hate the Jewish people, we don’t want your antisemitism.

Understand that Palestine is our land before anyone else

Don’t romanticize our struggle, no it’s not cool to suffer.

Understand that there are diverse opinions amongst Palestinians, both in the diaspora and at home. 

Don’t use Palestine as a springboard to derail and promote your own cause.

do not erase Palestinians of different races in order to present Palestine as an Arab nation when there are Arab Palestinians, afro Palestinians, Armenian Palestinians, Chechnian Palestinians, Jewish Palestinians and more

Do not dictate Palestinians on how we should feel/react. 

Do not criticize their method of resistance. You are not the one suffering from the consequences. 

Don’t steal our narrative.

We are not helpless victims. We do not need to be saved. So please, enough with this saviorship complex. 

In the US, in 2006 a truck driver walked into an Amish schoolhouse, “ordered the 15 boys in the room to leave, along with several adults, and demanded that the 11 girls line up facing the blackboard.” He tied the girls’ legs together and shot them. 

In 2013 Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik killed 77 people, 69 of them teenage students. Anti-feminism was an essential aspect of his manifesto, although that information often got buried in his wider ranting. He was concerned that feminism would “deny the intrinsic worth of native Christian European heterosexual males.” He wrote that, “the fate of European civilization depends on European men steadfastly resisting Politically Correct feminism.“ 

Prior to killing six people during his 2014 killing spree, Elliot Rodger explained, “I will enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB, and I will slaughter every single spoiled stuck up blonde slut I see inside there…The true Alpha Male.“Clearly Boko Haram has no monopoly on targeting educated girls or schools.

The demographics of mass shootings in the United States are a testament to how inseparably and tightly bound race and gender to one another. During the past 30 years, all but one of the mass murders in the U.S. was committed by men, 90 percent of whom were white. Sociologist Michael Kimmel has worked for decades, conducting extensive research, to illuminate the relationship between race, hyper masculinity, homophobia and violence. As he put it after the Sandy Hook shooting, “White men… have a somewhat more grandiose purpose: they want to destroy the entire world in some cataclysmic, video-game, and action movie-inspired apocalypse. If I’m going to die, then so is everybody else, they seem to say. Yes, of course, this is mental illness speaking: but it is mental illness speaking with a voice that has a race and a gender.”

[… ] That mental illness can be socially constructed is rarely mentioned in knee jerk media coverage after a mass shooting. “Mental illness actually does reflect the local culture,” explains anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann at Stanford University. When we spoke last year, she made a comparison with people’s behavior when drunk. “The way people express their symptoms has a lot to do with the ways that people learn to think. For example, Americans are violent drunks. American college men want to destroy things when they’re drunk. That’s a learnt behaviour. Violence is not necessarily associated with alcohol around the world.” Luhrmann’s research, revealed that the voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic behaviors differ around the world. In Ghana the voices people hear are benign and playful, in the U.S. they are violent and harsh.”

What counts as cultural appropriation? What doesn’t even if it might still be offensive?

Can labeling things as “cultural appropriation” sometimes end up being a little problematic (example when they assume that a stereotype a part of a person’s culture)? 

If you’ve been paying attention to the news and still hold ths opinion I’d like you to refer to this John F. Kennedy quote:

like what stupid frenchman saw this:

oh

i’m sorry

what’s that?

i wasn’t

aware

that europeans

don’t have rich

and fascinating cultures

or that culture

has to comply

with tumblr’s definition

of what culture is

in order to be counted as legitimate

oh

i’m sorry

what’s that?

i wasn’t

aware

that europeans

don’t have rich

and fascinating cultures

or that culture

has to comply

with tumblr’s definition

of what culture is

in order to be counted as legitimate