Kulturkampf

[Besticus Maximus]

Of course I went to the big American protest, haven’t you seen my T-shirt and commemorative jugga 2l soda cup

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

I had no idea you learn something new every day

[HaughtyFrank]

[Alpacx]

Remember when The Verge was a new tech website instead of Teen Vogue II?

[Uncle]

this kind of article just makes people say "ok I guess I'll learn to live with being unethical?"

 

"whiteness is inextricably racist" "ok, guess I'm racist? I still have to live my life so I can't be arsed to care anymore"

"wanting trans people out of women's sports is fascist" "ok, fine, I guess I'm fascist?"

just, fuck it all, I'll be whatever you say I am, I've got shit to do

[HaughtyFrank]

*Break open gate*

*Politely remain outside*

*Gate closes* 

*Proceed to attack gate again*

[killamajig]

[Alpacx]

Canada's Social Democrats

[benji]

[Ethan]

Point of privilege has returned!

Edit: More

JFC, this is a party that not too long ago was extremely popular among unionized auto-workers, farmers and northern rural communities. These DSA-like shenanigans is what is supposed to bring them back from the brink of irrelevancy? Far-left political activists ruin everything they touch.

[Rendle]

I'm really proud of you guys for not saying anything derogatory about that non-binary woman's massive ears or Hitler-youth haircut.

[HaughtyFrank]

[DavidCroquet]

Point of privilege has returned!

The black lady at the end of this clip is the best part. She says--not exactly explicitly, but her meaning is clear--that a person of gender tried to "card" her in a casual conversation

How did anyone not see that as the obvious outcome? 

"Ok, everyone has special speaking priority cards intended to acknowledge their VERY REAL lived experiences and degrees of oppression...but don't like, use em at the coffee shop...your oppression isn't that real, c'mon, we're obviously just doing theater over here"

[benji]

I think y'all need to apologize to Nepenthe now that you see just how tough of cookie intersectionality is to crack.

[HaughtyFrank]

Very annoying phenomenon I recently encountered.

There's this new Lindsey Ellis video about Aladdin. (Don't judge me) and like right in the first two minutes she gets into how some stuff hasn't aged well and that the movie should have a "sorry about our racism" disclaimer before starting. The thing is the example clip she uses for this is a guard grabbing Jasmines arm and saying that thieves get their arm chopped off and I just wonder, how is that racist?



It's literally a thing in Islam

Cross-amputation (Arabic: قطع من خلاف) is a form of punitive judicial limb amputation and one of the Hudud punishments prescribed under Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia law). It involves cutting off the right hand and left foot of the alleged transgressor.[1][2

Even worse, it's still a thing that happens TODAY

The country with the most recent cases is Iran[4] with "at least 223 amputations have been carried out by Iranian authorities out of 384 known sentences since 1979, according to the US-based rights group the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center."[5] There seems to be a gradual transition to finger amputation using a specialized machine since 2013 [1] and particularly since 2019.

Brunei enacted in 2019 "...new penal code, which also includes the amputation of a hand and a foot for the crime of theft."[6] but has not carried out the punishment as of 2025.

Saudi Arabia saw a high of 27 amputations in 2000 [2] but amputation sentences were commuted in 2012[7][3] and no sentences are widely reported since then.

The punishment is also practiced in other countries such as Sudan;[8] Somalia;[9] Mauritania, the Maldives;[10] and Yemen.[11] The practice was common during the ISIS Caliphate and continues to be used in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-amputation

Like I guess you could complain about accuracy "well actually they chop off the left foot too! And it wasn't just any robbery, but highway robbery or blasphemy!" but this feels very much like details and I doubt that's the issue she took with the portrayal.

Same thing happened in that "Orientalism in Zelda" that Resetera talked about. In that video the person claims that Harem's weren't Islamic culture and again, they very much were Islamic culture 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem

We really have people, people who put research into their videos, not make the most timid of Wikipedia searches for their claims because in their brain it's just impossible that anything connected to Islam could actually feel medieval or cruel and that it has to be a racist invention. It's just so absurd.

[Ethan]

What I'm wondering is if it ever was a conscious decision to use western progressives to sane-wash Islam or if they simply started doing it by themselves.

[Besticus Maximus]

I'm not watching that shit but does she point out that Aladdin is set in china?

[TylenolJones]

The libs are too scared to admit it, but if we hacked Iran and forced all their tvs to play The Animal on loop, the war would be done in a week.

[HaughtyFrank]

I'm not watching that shit but does she point out that Aladdin is set in china?

Yes, in the context of different adaptions of Aladdin and that it was originally Chinese. The she puts on a keffiyeh while talking about Edward Said and my interest had evaporated at this point

[Alpacx]

Very annoying phenomenon I recently encountered.

There's this new Lindsey Ellis video about Aladdin. (Don't judge me) and like right in the first two minutes she gets into how some stuff hasn't aged well and that the movie should have a "sorry about our racism" disclaimer before starting. The thing is the example clip she uses for this is a guard grabbing Jasmines arm and saying that thieves get their arm chopped off and I just wonder, how is that racist?



It's literally a thing in Islam

Cross-amputation (Arabic: قطع من خلاف) is a form of punitive judicial limb amputation and one of the Hudud punishments prescribed under Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia law). It involves cutting off the right hand and left foot of the alleged transgressor.[1][2

Even worse, it's still a thing that happens TODAY

The country with the most recent cases is Iran[4] with "at least 223 amputations have been carried out by Iranian authorities out of 384 known sentences since 1979, according to the US-based rights group the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center."[5] There seems to be a gradual transition to finger amputation using a specialized machine since 2013 [1] and particularly since 2019.

Brunei enacted in 2019 "...new penal code, which also includes the amputation of a hand and a foot for the crime of theft."[6] but has not carried out the punishment as of 2025.

Saudi Arabia saw a high of 27 amputations in 2000 [2] but amputation sentences were commuted in 2012[7][3] and no sentences are widely reported since then.

The punishment is also practiced in other countries such as Sudan;[8] Somalia;[9] Mauritania, the Maldives;[10] and Yemen.[11] The practice was common during the ISIS Caliphate and continues to be used in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-amputation

Like I guess you could complain about accuracy "well actually they chop off the left foot too! And it wasn't just any robbery, but highway robbery or blasphemy!" but this feels very much like details and I doubt that's the issue she took with the portrayal.

Same thing happened in that "Orientalism in Zelda" that Resetera talked about. In that video the person claims that Harem's weren't Islamic culture and again, they very much were Islamic culture 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem

We really have people, people who put research into their videos, not make the most timid of Wikipedia searches for their claims because in their brain it's just impossible that anything connected to Islam could actually feel medieval or cruel and that it has to be a racist invention. It's just so absurd.

Islamophobia is bad even when reality is Islamophobic

[Uncle]

Very annoying phenomenon I recently encountered.

There's this new Lindsey Ellis video about Aladdin. (Don't judge me) and like right in the first two minutes she gets into how some stuff hasn't aged well and that the movie should have a "sorry about our racism" disclaimer before starting. The thing is the example clip she uses for this is a guard grabbing Jasmines arm and saying that thieves get their arm chopped off and I just wonder, how is that racist?

[...]

We really have people, people who put research into their videos, not make the most timid of Wikipedia searches for their claims because in their brain it's just impossible that anything connected to Islam could actually feel medieval or cruel and that it has to be a racist invention. It's just so absurd.

interestingly, disney themselves self-censored what they considered to be very similar racism (cutting off body parts) in the intro song shortly after the movie's first theatrical run

[benji]

It's important to remember that Western progressives are anti-intellectual conspiracy theorists under the impression that this is how you appear smart because they aren't skeptical about anything that just tells them what they want to hear. Cite one random piece of information or one guy ("Edward Said and Herbert Marcuse established that nobody should trust Western academics except tenured ones like them, who the system is out to suppress by mass publishing and paying a lot for their drivel") then spin as much tenuously connected conspiracy theory as you want, the more sweeping, unfounded and extreme the better it "critiques" power somehow. All science is really just white males throwing their social power around randomly, so anything anyone says is equally true. But also making a metaphor to a simplified and wrong version of physics establishes your nonsense as proven valid science. History is best when you just make it up and write it so it matches your explanation you came up with first. Countervailing evidence is just the propaganda of the powerful trying to stop you from exposing the conspiracy, so pay no mind to it. Trans people were worshipped and sex was well known as too complex to understand, then J.K. Rowling spent her billions to get Trump into office. The Middle East was a place of harmony and solidarity between all peoples, then the Zionists tricked the UN. All of it really just serving to expose the doomsday plan of the immortals, which only the most and best informed can uncover by reading the tea leaves of reality in complex esoteric ways that always say and expose the same thing and can be found literally anywhere they look.

MAGA and similar's copied all this, it's the way they convince themselves there's "truth" behind what is just Trump doing what he's always done and avoid responsibility for anything by claiming everyone is out to get him. Like when he used to claim everyone was out to make his casinos go bankrupt just because they were his or there was a media conspiracy to suppress the ratings of The Apprentice or everyone he's ever hired keeps "betraying" him. Blah blah blah Deep State, billionaires, pedophile cabal, vast media conspiracy that is pure propaganda against whatever I like, communist infiltration of our bodily fluids... wait, that one's legit.

[Potato]

I'm really proud of you guys for not saying anything derogatory about that non-binary woman's massive ears or Hitler-youth haircut.

I got you Dumbo lover



What the fucking fuck?

EDIT: Fuck Canva AI. It said the following prompt did not meet its standards

“Add large cartoon-style elephant ears (like Dumbo) to the person’s head, matching lighting and angle, realistic blending.”

EDIT2: EaseMate AI came through with the goods

[filler]

[Alpacx]

I'm really proud of you guys for not saying anything derogatory about that non-binary woman's massive ears or Hitler-youth haircut.

I got you Dumbo lover



What the fucking fuck?

EDIT: Fuck Canva AI. It said the following prompt did not meet its standards

“Add large cartoon-style elephant ears (like Dumbo) to the person’s head, matching lighting and angle, realistic blending.”

EDIT2: EaseMate AI came through with the goods

"They" were one of the people leading the charge to get Vancouver Rape Relief defunded because it's a female-only service.

[Potato]

I'm really proud of you guys for not saying anything derogatory about that non-binary woman's massive ears or Hitler-youth haircut.

I got you Dumbo lover



What the fucking fuck?

EDIT: Fuck Canva AI. It said the following prompt did not meet its standards

“Add large cartoon-style elephant ears (like Dumbo) to the person’s head, matching lighting and angle, realistic blending.”

EDIT2: EaseMate AI came through with the goods

"They" were one of the people leading the charge to get Vancouver Rape Relief defunded because it's a female-only service.

She was "all ears" when it came to listening to the trans woman community!

[filler]

women "we need help, pls fund rape relief"


trans dumbo "trans rights, suckaz "

[Besticus Maximus]

At my school we made a point about going round informing people when they dropped those cards

[HaughtyFrank]