#witchhunts — Public Fediverse posts

'Difficult' women

"Grace Tame reacts to PM's comment labelling her 'difficult'."

Tame: "'Difficult' is the misogynist's code for a woman who won't comply. History tends to call her 'courageous'.''
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-26/federal-politics-live-blog-chalmers-inflation/106388618
#Misogyny #WitchHunts #GenderedViolence #resistanceMovement #Socialcohesion #leaders #bystanders #Australia #DifficultWomen

Image: Francisco Goya, Witches' Flight, 1798
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27_Flight

'The accumulation of capital required the devaluation of care.'

I've reviewed Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch for the Library. It's a brutal, necessary audit of how the transition to capitalism required a war on women. If we want a new economy, we can't just seize the factories. We have to liberate the home.

https://rootandbranch.online/library/review-caliban/

#Feminism #SocialistFeminism #Federici #History #WitchHunts

Does anyone know a good book about the #WitchHunts in Europe? Something from a #feminist angle.

And ideally nothing too heavyweight.

#AskFedi #Witchcraft

Yup www.actuary.org/content/wome... #witchHunts #sexism

Women and Social Security | Am...

When the real #WitchHunts begin, remember... Anyone the #ChristianRight doesn't like is considered a witch! Just like in the 1600s! Piss off the proctor? You're a witch! Have more land than Goodie Smith? You're a witch! Are you a man with a husband? You're a witch!

Concerns Over Targeting of Pagan Community in #Pickens, #SouthCarolina

By Manny Moreno | February 25, 2025

Excerpt: "On February 18, a YouTube video titled 'Witches Be Crazy with Pastor Barry Vaughn' was released by Kevin Harden of Gaining Ground Ministries. The video opens with Harden quoting Deuteronomy 18:9-12, which warns against practices like divination, sorcery, and necromancy.

"Pastor Barry Vaughn and Harden discuss a recent witchcraft festival in Pickens and their efforts to evangelize at the event. Vaughn confirms his presence and states that he and others initially protested outside the venue, later entering the facility before being told to leave.

"Following the backlash, Stillwater Christian Fellowship escalated its response through sermons, podcasts, and videos. Members called on pastors to 'chase the wolves out', a phrase that critics argue refers to witches, #LGBTQIA+ individuals, and #AbortionRights supporters.

"Vaughn later clarified in a video that he does not promote violence but supports the enforcement of what he calls 'God’s law.'" [What about eating shellfish? Or mixing threads together? HYPOCRITES!]

https://wildhunt.org/2025/02/concerns-over-targeting-of-pagan-community-in-pickens-sc.html
#witches #witchcraft #witch #Pagans #FarRight #BurningTimes #ChristianRight #ChristoFascists #ResistFascism

"These #partisan #witchhunts and #firings need to stop. Congress creates independent agencies and insulates #civilservants from partisan firings for a reason.

If this week’s actions become the new normal—and #partisanship becomes the only criteria for holding a position in a #federalagency—then our financial markets will be more volatile, our consumer products more hazardous, our skies more dangerous, and our civil liberties and constitutional rights less secure."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/trump-oversight-board-firing-security

End Witch hunts in Commonwealth Countries
https://www.opinionnigeria.com/end-witch-hunts-in-commonwealth-countries-afaw-urges/
"There have been widespread reports of attacks, trial by ordeal, banishment, bloodletting and murder of suspected witches in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, India, and other Commonwealth nations. In Tanzania, for example, an estimated 3,000 people were killed for allegedly practicing witchcraft between 2005 and 2011, and about 60,000 accused witches were murdered between 1960 and 2000"
#witchhunts

Fake news has origins in Europe’s witch hunts – we must learn from history | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/fake-news-invention-witch-hunt-history-for-tomorrow-book-roman-krznaric/?utm_source=Newsletter%3A%20oD%20daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fake%20news%20was%20invented%20500%20years%20ago&_kx=Xku3CuTVfvJvWrKmPGcGLexvP_ylT3QHPER5MFvOQqxUks80d5eeQosUxA8e_RtM.YjCYwm

#FakeNews
#Disinformation
#Europe
#WitchHunts
#Printing
#Democracy

Of course, the 1500s and 1600s were also the heyday of #WitchHunts, as European Christians (both Protestant and Catholic) abandoned the earlier ecclesiastical skepticism regarding accusations of witchcraft, and executed tens of thousands of victims, mostly older women, by various means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
#WomensHistoryMonth
48/?

I wish some of these #WitchHunts against #JackassTrump ended in the traditional burning at the stake.

Played Witch Hunt 1649, an educational card game about Scottish #WitchHunts. Managed to survive two trials, but eventually died anyway through constant harassment by neighbours and the kirk. Why can't we villagers be allowed to subsist in peace? #witches #WitchTrials

Why #WitchHunts are not just a Dark Chapter from the Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Q1Vo9kduo

Not easy stuff to watch, but it's educational. It says alot about ignorance, scapegoating, greed, opportunism and discrimination.

#KarinHelmstaedt traces her family roots back to an ancestor in
#Winningen #Germany, who wad burnt as a so-called 'witch' in 1642.

are there any updates on European genocide called witch hunt since ...

Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women by Silvia Federici and Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons by Silvia Federici
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0141778919887930

I thought there was new research, data collections etc #WitchHunts

Senator, may we not drop this?
We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild.
Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.
You’ve done enough.
Have you no sense of decency, sir?
At long last,
have you left no sense of decency?

Joseph N. Welch destroys
#JoeMcCarthy
9 June 1954
#demagogues #fascists #witchhunts

The statement comes from #Metropolitan #PoliceCommissioner #MarkRowley after #gayrights #activist #PeterTatchell launched a #campaign calling for all #British #policedepartments to #apologize for “past #homophobic #witchhunts,” which continued long after #Britain #decriminalized #private #sexual #acts between #men in 1967.

— It's a good start now they need to prove they really meant it.

Attending Walpurgisnacht was believed to be a real crime, that included nothing less than sey with demons and eating (or drinking) dead babies.

More in this disturbing post:

#writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #blogger #bloggingcommunity #historical #historyfacts #historyblog #historicalfiction #Witchhunts #witch #magic #walpurgisnacht

https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/how-to-attend-walpurgisnacht-as-a-real-witch/

#PeterTatchell has penned a #letter to #WestMidlands #Police, calling for an #apology for their #history of #homophobic ‘#witchhunts’.

According to Tatchell, before the full #decriminalisation of #homosexuality in 2003, the police in West Midlands targeted and arrested thousands of #gay and #bisexual #men for #consensual and victimless behavior.

#Gay #Bisexual #Men #LGBTQIA #UK #Police #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Discrimination #Incarceration #Homophobia #NoPoliceAtPride

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/west-midlands-police-homophobia-gay/

Another Basics of Scottish History Quiz from Dundee University lecturer Allan Kennedy, this time about The Witch-Hunt. https://www.gotoquiz.com/basics_of_scottish_history_quiz_the_witch_hun
#Scotland #ScottishHistory #Quiz #Witchcraft #WitchHunts #WitchTrials #Witches #History #SeventeenthCentury #17thCentury