#oppressed — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oppressed, aggregated by home.social.
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#introduction hi all! <3 i'm one of the most #oppressed minorities on the #internet! #fediblock is one of my favourite hashtags! i am #antifa too, did i mention that? that means i kill #fascists! i am vehemently opposed to #fascism and hence i'm a #communist and believe that no one should #work just to afford basic necessities such as #collars, #rainbows and antifa #stickers! being oppressed is one of my favourite #hobbies #online and i believe #everyone should try it out! it's #fun, trust me! <3 also mastodon.art and plush.city are the best fedi instances out there, shout out to them! <3 peace yall!
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But it’s no wonder- despite this long and painful #history of betrayal- that YOU still don’t know who we are. We know well that the #oppressed carry the memory of every wound, but the #oppressor forgets the scars it has inflicted." -
The only way we'll get #freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every #oppressed #people in the #world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
Malcolm X
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Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the #oppressed.
Jonny Steinberg, Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South #African
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The #oppressed will not be #liberated by the generosity of the #oppressor, but by their own efforts and sacrifices.
Frantz Fanon
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The fifth myth is that the #Palestinian struggle is that of terrorism and nothing more. The struggle led by the PLO was a liberation struggle against a #colonialist project. Somehow the #world finds it difficult to grant legitimacy to anti-colonialist struggle when most of the #oppressed are Muslim and the oppressor is Jewish. (9)
Ilan Pappé, #Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on #Israel's War Against the #Palestinians
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The #oppressed peoples of the #earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise #political intelligence and action. Obviously, #colonial arrogance is a long time dying.
Alain Badiou, Cinema
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https://www.ft.com/content/b4d2c7a3-587d-440f-a7a9-7e5e85b93a88
The thing is that growth of #liberal #democracy implies the hitherto #oppressed (e.g. #women, #poor, #marginalized, etc.) became better off and the ones at the top (i.e. #men from dominant #tribes) started really hating that. They subverted democracy to gain more #money (low #taxes) and #power to turn back time (i.e. #MAGA) They use both money and power to increase #tribalism which weakens #liberal #democracy that in turn weakens #economic #growth - get it?
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www.ft.com/content/b4d2... 1/ The thing is that growth of #liberal #democracy implies the hitherto #oppressed (e.g. #women, #poor, #marginalized, etc.) became better off and the ones at the top (i.e. #men from dominant #tribes) started really hating that.
Is liberal democracy in termin... -
i bring a “ you gotta love the #oppressed more than you hate the #oppressor ” vibe to the #function that a surprisingly small number of #people appreciate
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hey #cultists #christians, #remind me how y'all are sooooo #oppressed again? because when your #dogmatic bullshit gets put into fucking #law, i don't think you can say that.
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for those folks, still feeling #oppressed in our new #digital world...
https://freedomhouse.org/country/spainso what exactly is #freedom?
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I would like to #remind to my fellow #white #women that even if you are #oppressed for being a #woman on the other hand you are #privileged for being white. You are an oppressed category, yes, but this doesn't change the #fact that you still have #WhitePrivilege.
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Tell a #Tankie to only amplify the #oppressed on the ground and refrain from having a take and watch them go on a rant about identity #politics while hyperventilating into a paper bag.
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In #tankie clownland, #Putin's simps are more #oppressed than gay #people or women….
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www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/b... 1/ One of the major wild cards is how #China interacts with other #poor #nations. Historically, both #money and #technology went from #rich #colonial #imperial nations to poor ones who, usually, had been or were #oppressed during that transfer.
Brazil and the World System -
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/brazil-and-the-world-system/
One of the major wild cards is how #China interacts with other #poor #nations. Historically, both #money and #technology went from #rich #colonial #imperial nations to poor ones who, usually, had been or were #oppressed during that transfer. China is barely getting to middle-income status and yet is already transferring vast amounts of wealth and technology to other poor nations. Will it oppress? Will it share?
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Sharing this here makes more sense than IG:
#Anarchism & the #Built #Environment Guest #Lecture, Alex Head for #Oppressed #Fantasies - #Liberatory Constructions MA Seminar, Anna Kostreva - TU Darmstadt
Discussing phase transitions between the organizational density of hunter-gatherers, early agricultural and #urban #societies are explored for clues to the day-to-day roles #anarchistic thinking and behaviors play in some of the most cherished aspects of #modern #life.
Drawing upon the work of Emma Goldman, #Wikipedia, the members of the autonomous nation state #Frestonia, #London, and the intentional anarchist commune #Christiana, #Copenhagen.
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May #Surprise You.
Artwork: Alex Head
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The #struggle for #oppressed #people in every #country is the same struggle not just because of class #solidarity but also because the #oppression of people anywhere in the #world is almost always directly caused by one particular country and its allies seeking to maintain their position at the top of the #global #order.
#classwar #fascism #repression #ausgov #politas #eattherich #antinazi #antizionist #anticapitalism #antifascism
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frankly if you're drawing "hope" from #fascist spectacles, that says more about what you find comforting than what is in fact meaningful #change for the #oppressed
"bringing #hope" is fucking #bullshit. Bringing #liberation has real, lasting impact
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How can #communists fight for #oppressed nations?
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#crazy how #people just want a share of #power instead of #solidarity with the #oppressed
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Everyone Matters [Sermon]
David Hayward is a cartoonist who goes by the name The Naked Pastor.
On his website he says
In case you’re wondering, I’m not actually naked. The idea behind my name, NakedPastor, is to seek to tell the naked truth – no matter how vulnerable it feels. I used to be a pastor but I’ve been creating art and working towards freedom with this community for over 10 years now.
He has a number of cartoons about sheep pens where the sheep have evicted one of the sheep – sometimes a black sheep, sometimes a sheep in rainbow or trans colors.
In some, the shepherd brings the evicted sheep back to the fold.
In one particularly distressing cartoon, the sheep keep discussing inclusion of the sheep outside, while the sheep outside perishes.
Let’s go to God in prayer.
God of wisdom, may the words that I speak, and the ways they are received by each of our hearts and minds, to help us to continue to grow into the people, and the church, that you have dreamed us to be.
Amen.
This country has a compassion crisis.
There’s not enough of it.
Various groups have been described as
Lazy
Criminal
Mentally ill
Evil
When there were cries of “Black Lives Matter” the response was “All Lives Matter.”
Language is interesting. Various phrases can mean more than one thing.
For example:
If I were to say that bread and water is better than nothing, you might agree.
If I were to say that nothing is better than getting one’s favorite meal prepared expertly, you might also agree.
So bread and water is better than nothing, which is better than you favorite meal, and so you would choose bread and water over your favorite meal.
What went wrong?
Nothing means different things in the two statements.
Bread and water is better than having nothing to eat.
There is no thing better than your favorite meal.
You would never say having nothing to eat is better than your favorite meal.
You would never say there is no thing better than bread and water.
Likewise, when people say “Black Lives Matter,” they are asserting that Black lives are included in the lives that matter.
They are making that case in opposition to a culture that does not seem to value Black lives.
When people counter with “All lives matter,” they are, at best, ignoring the apparent devaluation of Black lives, and at worst are deliberately drowning out the voices of people in pain.
There are arguments that gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and other sexual and gender minorities are asking for special rights that others do not have. In actuality, these people are asking for special protection of the same rights others have without question.
When people advocate for food, housing, and healthcare for people in poverty, they do not at the same time ask that the wealthy also have food, housing, and healthcare. We don’t need to ask for those that have much to have even more.
In his ministry, Jesus spent a lot of time with ordinary people, and especially with people that society had dismissed as being of low value. Yes, he spoke with the wealthy and powerful, but most often on behalf of the poor and oppressed.
For 165 years this church has continued as a Christian church in the Congregational tradition. In those years it has stood for social justice for many different groups.
We have had banners out front: At first, rainbow banners, but also other banners that lifted up the those with less power. And at times those banners have been defaced, torn, removed, and on at least one occasion someone tried to set fire to a banner.
These actions, while distressing, tell us:
- people can see our banners
- the banners are affecting people
These banners are a witness that we are the church for the one coin of ten, or the one sheep of 100. Beyond that, they are a witness that everyone matters.
This is not the same as “All Lives Matter” in response to “Black Lives Matter.” It is an assertion that no one is left behind.
The compassion crisis in our country is a dangerous crisis. It’s the kind of crisis that prophets have prophesied against.
In our reading from Jeremiah, God speaks through the prophet:
“For my people are foolish; they do not know me;
they are stupid children; they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil, but do not know how to do good.”
– Jeremiah 4:22, NRSVue
Devout followers of religions are often concerned with their own purity: Not eating the wrong things, not wearing the wrong things, not doing the wrong things, and of course prayer and attendance at worship services.
But most religions have scripture about caring for others. The Hebrew prophets called for caring for the poor. Jesus called for caring for the poor.
And yet, these are the things that are often overlooked while we focus on our own holiness.
I believe that no one can be holy while excluding others.
I’ll say that again:
No one can be holy while excluding others.
We are living together on this planet. God has created us all and called us good. To consider ourselves above caring for another is presumptuous.
So my challenge to all of us this week is to search for the lost coin, find and recover the lost sheep, remember that everyone matters.
Amen.
* Scripture quotations marked NRSVue are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue
* Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the King James version of the Bible.
#egalitarian #lostCoin #lostSheep #oppressed #poor #SocialJustice
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“The #moral high ground is not in the middle - it is with the #oppressed.”