All of that is just oppression. Those videos could have been taken in Chile during Pinochet or Philippines during Marcos. I don't think people have done the work to understand what apartheid actually is, and just equate it to "something bad" in their brains.
That's great and all...but that's not apartheid. :(
她 is "she". The 女 part of the character means "woman". It is a pictograph of a woman holding a child. As if all women can have children. It's sexist and transphobic. I could go on, but suffice it to say that the entire hanzi system of characters has this shit baked into it and none of it will ever go away without outside action. Mao tried but couldn't get it done.
I'm trying to convince hardcore Israeli supporters and while I'm at it, neutrals. You can spout all the atrocities you like and they'll just say "Hamas deserved it" or some other such nonsense. I need to draw explicit links between South African apartheid and Israeli apartheid, ideally using Israel's own laws. Failing that, videos of hardcore Israelis saying shit like "fuck yeah we have apartheid and it's great."
Yeah, they deliberately misinterpreted it and turned it into an argument they could win.
It's actually encouraging to know that they don't actually have any points to refute apartheid. They have to do this, because they have no other choice.
None of that is apartheid, though. Apartheid is stuff like not being able to buy land because it's a white area.
Mod removed my post explaining that the Chinese "ta" isn't neutral whatsoever.
"The writing system must be reformed; we must move in the direction of a globally unified phonetic spelling system."
-- People's Daily, 20th of December, 1977
Do you have links for those laws?
Do you have a link for those laws?
I thought the whole thing about Islamism was that it was a third axis disconnected from left/right politics.
Islamists are super into charity and providing for the poor, something that the right doesn't give a shit about.
Trump literally came up with the name.
TERFs call anyone who criticizes them misogynist, it's a conditioned reflex.
And up until recently, it worked. Thus they got very lazy and think they don't need to make any arguments or convince people. Just post a selfie taking a self-satisfied sip out of the coffee cup that says MISOGYNIST TEARS and /thread.
You said rapists twice.
Where is the evidence that Israel practices apartheid? I don't mean HRW reports or that nonsense. I mean, the actual laws of Israel. I keep pointing out the apartheid and I keep getting denied by people who call me an anti-Semite. Amnesty International and the usual suspects won't be accepted by them as a source as they'll just call them anti-Semites too.
Stop using Trump's name for them
Mao tried to abolish characters. It didn't take, unfortunately.
I remember when it used to be shocking to me that people never read the manuals that came with their games. I was like "but the manual tells you exactly how to play the game. It tells you what every button does. There's even a map of the first two levels!"
Then I started posting on videogame sites and got called a nerd. Evidently the correct procedure when buying a new game was 1) rip open the box, as in actual ripping, not just opening, 2) extract the game, 3) discard the contents into the nearest trash can. 4) Plug the game in and be baffled about how to play. Play for years without knowing that you could do that. Be amazed that I knew some control that they never knew existed. Get kind of resentful about it and call me weird for RTFM.
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Why don't women have to serve too? That's fucked up. Imagine being forced to kill people just because of your gender. I'd change my gender identification in a heartbeat.
I'm trying to gather evidence of Israeli apartheid to save for the next time this comes up and yet all I'm getting is "they're mean to the Palestinians".