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Showing posts with label International Womens' Day. Show all posts
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Monday, March 8, 2021
Monday, March 9, 2020
Int. Women's Day
On International Women's Day, whining Westerners and mad Muslims
International Women's Day is an old communist holiday that got picked up in the West. It's become a profoundly ironic holiday as well. In the West, where women have greater freedoms than at any other time in human history, many women "celebrate" the occasion by moaning about their victimhood, bashing men, or flashing their breasts. Meanwhile, in the Muslim world, where no day is a "women's day," those women who try to take a stand are brutally attacked by the mob or by their own government — yet leftist women seem unconcerned by the way in which Islamic countries treat women.
Wikipedia has an excellent précis explaining the communist roots behind International Women's Day (hyperlinks and footnotes omitted):
After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day in New York City on February 28, 1909, German delegates Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker and others proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference that "a special Women's Day" be organized annually. After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted by the feminist movement in about 1967. The United Nations began celebrating the day in 1977.
...Meanwhile, in Pakistan, a Muslim country with limited rights for women, the Islamists were bent on revenge against uppity women:
Islamists pelted campaigners with stones, shoes and sticks as they marched through Pakistan's capital on Sunday to mark International Women's Day.
Women and men joined the event in Islamabad, one of several rallies across the country, for what is known in Pakistan as the Aurat March, using the Urdu word for women.
A Reuters witness and [police officer Mazhar] Niazi said the Islamists threw stones, bricks, sticks and shoes at the marchers. Niazi said no one was injured.
Things aren't better in Iran, the Democrats' partner in peace, where women are routinely arrested for baring their heads,
... It's sad that, in the West, feminists don't use International Women's Day to help elevate women living in oppressive regions. Instead, while some women just reflexively say "women are great," others use the day as an occasion to bash men and Western culture.
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HOW SAD! ISLAMISTS IN PAKISTAN PELT WOMEN’S DAY MARCHERS WITH ROCKS AND SHOES
TRT 3.33
Friday, March 8, 2019
Better Dead...
A good article I could have written. Excerpts below in italics.
When it became Power in the Union to 'strength in diversity', that's when I didn't belong.
When it became Power in the Union to 'strength in diversity', that's when I didn't belong.
Say the wrong thing or associate with the wrong person, and the left will lose you. It seems today’s conservatives are more moderate than today’s liberals.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/01/social-justice-friends-dropped-not-pc-enough-conservatives-took/
... As I was starting to tally the people I have lost touch with, another thought occurred to me: I probably have more conservative friends than liberal friends now. For a lifelong “bleeding heart” liberal, this is quite the unexpected life development. I decided to tweet something to that effect.
I tweeted: “Since I was mobbed out of my social justice community, I’ve found that conservatives are more kind, forgiving, and open-minded people than my old crew. I’ve found friendship and acceptance despite disagreement. I can’t get in trouble anymore for saying so—so I’m saying so.”
... My Twitter timeline “blew up,” as they say, and it was liked and shared more than 5,000 times.
...Some were liberals like me, but all had been unpersoned in one way or another, whether it was a result of false allegations, “heretical” thinking, or some minor unwoke gaffe. Many were conservatives who were thrilled to be a part of this new cultural movement, where ideas could be freely exchanged. It was the most extraordinary thing.
The one thing they all had in common was that they cherished the principle of free speech. Modern conservatives and exiled liberals cherish free speech more than ever because they share the experience of being silenced in the name of social justice. (I’m not saying that social justice shaming is exclusively the purview of the left, but I think most reasonable people would agree it happens much more frequently on the left.)
... Even in our more intense disagreements (abortion, rights, trans rights, guns) my conservative friends have never aggressively lashed out at me, deplatformed me, unpersoned me, or tried to ruin my livelihood. They understand how important forgiveness and redemption will be if we are ever going to move on from these divisive times
Barrett Wilson is a former social justice crusader. He writes for Quillette and Areo, and is an editor for The Post Millennial and the satire site The Swift. You can follow him on Twitter @BarrettWilson6.
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