#paternalism — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

Wanda :happy_anarcat: @[email protected] · 2026-07-09 · 02:32 UTC

Are the perpetrators men or the Taliban? Perhaps these da'wah bros are so insecure about their own and their brethren's masculinity, and unwilling to admit complicity in state violence because of the perceived sweeping statement against men in particular. I mean, if you have the energy to not-all-men state violence against women, then you should have the answer or justification for why it is only against women and what exactly you have done to prevent state violence. When blatant misogyny becomes a proper policy, then these men's mental gymnastics to disassociate themselves from the state apparatus are only that, mental gymnastics, nothing more and nothing less.

HOWEVER, at the same time, this is something we should tread carefully on. What's happening in Iran started from the West's paternalistic rubbish and the Iranian diaspora being imperial agents; it doesn't mean state violence doesn't exist there. The violence is real; the instrumentalisation of that violence for imperial ends is also real. Both are true simultaneously. Everyone engaging in this conversation carries a responsibility to know what they are consenting to. With that in mind, speaking for Afghan women now requires answering: toward what end, through whose infrastructure, and who benefits from this particular framing reaching this particular audience at this particular moment.

Afghan women, all Muslim women, WE deserve more than allies who speak for us and think that's enough solidarity. Speaking for Afghan women is the bare minimum. Any Zionist American disinformation agency, Gulf state with its petrodollar interests, the Russian state, any external power structures that historically had a hand in atrocities in Afghanistan can very well pay many of you to SPEAK FOR AFGHAN WOMEN. What they won't be doing is disclosing the motive behind speaking up.

So tell me, what about Afghan women's liberation do you imagine when speaking up for them, through whose infrastructure, and who benefits from this particular framing reaching a wider audience at this particular moment?

Don't project the reality where Muslims are a minority onto the discourse either. That framing is irrelevant. Muslims are the dominant group in Afghanistan. Use your class analysis. Deconstruct that latent Orientalism that latches onto your leftism while you're at it.

#Afghanistan #politics #Iran #Taliban #imperialism #paternalism #Muslimwomen #Muslima #womensrights #zionism #misogyny

#afghanistan #politics #iran #taliban #imperialism #paternalism

82/818 Overdue july payment @[email protected] · 2026-07-09 · 02:32 UTC

Are the perpetrators men or the Taliban? Perhaps these da'wah bros are so insecure about their own and their brethren's masculinity, and unwilling to admit complicity in state violence because of the perceived sweeping statement against men in particular. I mean, if you have the energy to not-all-men state violence against women, then you should have the answer or justification for why it is only against women and what exactly you have done to prevent state violence. When blatant misogyny becomes a proper policy, then these men's mental gymnastics to disassociate themselves from the state apparatus are only that, mental gymnastics, nothing more and nothing less.

HOWEVER, at the same time, this is something we should tread carefully on. What's happening in Iran started from the West's paternalistic rubbish and the Iranian diaspora being imperial agents; it doesn't mean state violence doesn't exist there. The violence is real; the instrumentalisation of that violence for imperial ends is also real. Both are true simultaneously. Everyone engaging in this conversation carries a responsibility to know what they are consenting to. With that in mind, speaking for Afghan women now requires answering: toward what end, through whose infrastructure, and who benefits from this particular framing reaching this particular audience at this particular moment.

Afghan women, all Muslim women, WE deserve more than allies who speak for us and think that's enough solidarity. Speaking for Afghan women is the bare minimum. Any Zionist American disinformation agency, Gulf state with its petrodollar interests, the Russian state, any external power structures that historically had a hand in atrocities in Afghanistan can very well pay many of you to SPEAK FOR AFGHAN WOMEN. What they won't be doing is disclosing the motive behind speaking up.

So tell me, what about Afghan women's liberation do you imagine when speaking up for them, through whose infrastructure, and who benefits from this particular framing reaching a wider audience at this particular moment?

Don't project the reality where Muslims are a minority onto the discourse either. That framing is irrelevant. Muslims are the dominant group in Afghanistan. Use your class analysis. Deconstruct that latent Orientalism that latches onto your leftism while you're at it.

#Afghanistan #politics #Iran #Taliban #imperialism #paternalism #Muslimwomen #Muslima #womensrights #zionism #misogyny

#afghanistan #politics #iran #taliban #imperialism #paternalism

Wanda :happy_anarcat: @[email protected] · 2026-07-03 · 19:56 UTC

I think I was perfectly controlled here.

#feminism #paternalism #muslim

82/818 Overdue july payment @[email protected] · 2026-07-03 · 19:56 UTC

I think I was perfectly controlled here.

#feminism #paternalism #muslim

Blender Dumbass @[email protected] · 2026-04-24 · 07:53 UTC

The Character Arc and Drew DeVault

In movies and books one dimensional, boring sort of characters, are those that never change throughout the story. Good stories contain character growth. A change in the character's world view. Think of Jake Sully in Avatar: He starts as a marine, ready to shoot and kill every living thing on Pandora. And end up being the leader of Pandoran resistance.

On the internet people tend to think that other people are set in stone when it comes to their believes. That other people are one dimensional characters without character growth what so ever. If one is born with a flaw, or has a recorded history of a flaw, therefore, using the logic of the citizens of the internet, this flaw is unremovable, untouchable, and unchangeable truth representing this person's every second of existence. That is so silly. The world is full of character growth. The world is full of people learning new things. The world is full of people that change their mind.

#drewdevault #richardstallman #respectchildren #paternalism #childrenrights #freesoftware

Blender Dumbass @[email protected] · 2026-04-24 · 07:53 UTC

The Character Arc and Drew DeVault

In movies and books one dimensional, boring sort of characters, are those that never change throughout the story. Good stories contain character growth. A change in the character's world view. Think of Jake Sully in Avatar: He starts as a marine, ready to shoot and kill every living thing on Pandora. And end up being the leader of Pandoran resistance.

On the internet people tend to think that other people are set in stone when it comes to their believes. That other people are one dimensional characters without character growth what so ever. If one is born with a flaw, or has a recorded history of a flaw, therefore, using the logic of the citizens of the internet, this flaw is unremovable, untouchable, and unchangeable truth representing this person's every second of existence. That is so silly. The world is full of character growth. The world is full of people learning new things. The world is full of people that change their mind.

#drewdevault #richardstallman #respectchildren #paternalism #childrenrights #freesoftware

Aral Balkan @[email protected] · 2026-04-21 · 07:24 UTC

@Gardenia @deuza42 @daliarezk @gomli @gazaverified Solène, a few points:

1. This isn’t about you, it’s about our friends in Gaza.

2. Our friends in Gaza are adults like us who can make their own decisions about things like whether they show their faces or share their photos on Mastodon, just like we do.

3. We can inform our friends in Gaza about privacy issues but we cannot tell them to do anything. We are not their parents. And they are not children. That’s a very paternalistic and, dare I say, colonial view.

4. By making it appear that they shouldn’t be sharing any photos of themselves, etc., there’s a very real danger of getting them to auto-erase themselves online while Israel is already trying to do that. There is a balance here that I believe you are missing. Their survival also depends on making genuine connections with people in the outside world. Your constant attempts to get them to stop sharing photos of their lives and experiences is pushing them to use AI-generated images, for example, which is making their accounts look like scammers. They are starting to make their accounts and posts look inauthentic, and helping contribute to their erasure. Which is what the Zionists want.

5. Our friends in Palestine have been living their entire lives under surveillance and know the risks better than we do. Privacy is about threat models. It’s an area I know a thing or two about myself having worked for a third of my life in it. Your efforts, while well meaning, are having a negative effect. Not least of all on our tiny team of volunteers whose limited time is spent dealing with your constant displeasure instead of helping our friends in Gaza.

Personally, I will be muting you as I do not have the time to function as your personal support department. We will also make it very clear that no one has the right to dictate how our Palestinian friends use Mastodon or the fediverse and that any advice is just that: advice.

And for anyone from the West reading this, please be careful not paternalise our friends in Gaza.

We do not know better than they do and we do not have the right to dictate a separate set of rules for them. We can advise them of existing rules and norms if violating them can have a negative impact on them and their accounts and we can try and help if they are persecuted for who they are but we do not get to tell them how to use Mastodon or the fediverse any more than we get to tell anyone from the West.

Gaza Verified simply verifies, via video calls where one of our volunteers from Gaza is present, that they are Palestinian from Gaza. And, if their account is limited or suspended for who they are, we will advocate on their behalf or help them move to a server that isn’t complicit in genocide. That’s it. That’s all we can do with a tiny team of volunteers. Verification is not a character reference. We are not their parents. And it is not our job, or anyone else’s, to tell them how they should be using Mastodon or the fediverse.

CC @fedipourgaza @fabio @casey @joynewacc @aseelfromgz @rania40

#GazaVerified #private #public #paternalism #Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse

#gazaverified #private #public #paternalism #gaza #palestine