r/GreenAndPleasant • u/OcelotAggravating860 • 15d ago

Modpost We need to have a chat about ableism and body shaming

451 Upvotes

With the recent increasing mobilisation of reactionaries on the streets we've seen an increase in videos of said reactionaries being posted to the subreddit. Every time videos like these are posted here there is a flood of comments attacking the person's appearance, teeth, haircut, claiming they're "on the spectrum", and even use of the r-slur which has apparently come back into fashion in recent years.

As socialists we stand with the disabled. We stand against body shaming. We stand against the othering of people based on appearance or innate characteristics.

This is a behaviour that many of you have learned from participation in liberal subreddits, where they have no principles and are perfectly fine with claiming to be pro-lgbt while simultaneously calling Trump gay and cackling about it every opportunity they get.

Consider the fact that many of the people you attack in this way are exactly the people who we are trying to help. If a 20 year old trans woman walks down the wrong street in this country without passing she experiences exactly the same attacks you're throwing at these videos. If a socially ostracised guy with an appearance that deviates from "normal" in this country finds this subreddit, is sympathetic to socialist views, but then sees you making exactly the same attacks against the fascists as the fascists use against him, do you think they'll turn to the left as a place for help? If the marginalised in this country come to our community and find people who are just replicating right wing culture they're not going to feel comfortable and they're not going to trust us. That's a fucking failure on the part of everyone who contributes to this culture.

We will be cracking down on this more from here on out.

Attack the fascists for their actions. Not for their appearance.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 5d ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 In 1975, UN general assembly passed resolution declaring "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination"

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The resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 9h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 German police use their new fucked up face grabbing technique on sitting protestors

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287 Upvotes

https://x.com/BladeoftheS/status/2109440544518934908

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 19h ago

Right Cringe 🎩 Far-right thugs harassing and shouting racism in Liverpool yesterday. How do the police allow this?

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381 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 18h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 Welcome to Iran

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246 Upvotes

https://x.com/WelcomeTheGulag/status/2109498357106475182

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/MightEmotional • 15h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 In Israel a young Druze woman, Sister of an IDF Pilot and Daughter of a fighter in a Special Unit was attacked on a bus just because "she spoke Arabic on the phone".

99 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 18h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 The names of over 74,000 Palestinians killed in the Gaza genocide

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139 Upvotes

https://x.com/WelcomeTheGulag/status/2109460442674536955

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 18h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 13 year old Iranian girl skillfully and quickly takes apart an AK-47 and reassembles it

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89 Upvotes

https://x.com/WelcomeTheGulag/status/2109583816062865654

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 20h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Alex Phillips is Netanyahu’s “one woman biggest fan”

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110 Upvotes

🇵🇸

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Old-Information3311 • 1d ago

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 "Geoffrey Bettley was dismissed by St Mary’s School in West Yorks in 2011 after 200 sick child abuse images were found on his computer. In a decision ratified by the Education Secretary at the time he was allowed to remain a teacher. The Education Secretary was Michael Gove."

371 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/The-Lord_ofHate • 22h ago

🇱🇧🇧🇫 FUCK IMPERIALISM 🇻🇪🇵🇭 What a great example to follow.

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88 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 18h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 Hegseth lied when he said the Iranian Navy was at the bottom of the sea. The Iranian Navy and drone and missile forces control Hormuz, and they don't need large warships to do it. Hormuz isn't international waters. All of it is Iranian and Omani sovereign territorial waters

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https://x.com/WelcomeTheGulag/status/2109462634890457176

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 1d ago

Left Unity ✊ Far-right stand not welcome in Brighton

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1.1k Upvotes

✊✋🛑

Far-right agitator stand forcefully dismantled in Brighton today

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 13h ago

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 Tobias Ellwood, former Chair of the UK Parliament Defence Committee: “We are now at war in Europe. We need to move to a war footing. We are involved in that. We’ve mobilized our procurement processes, we’re gifting equipment. We need to face Russia directly"

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https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2109645480791580868

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 9h ago

🇱🇧🇧🇫 FUCK IMPERIALISM 🇻🇪🇵🇭 Dutch Defense Minister claims "No, NATO propaganda does not exist". What they actually call it is "cognitive warfare", and the vast majority of it isn't cognitive warfare on the minds of Russian citizens, it's cognitive warfare on the minds of citizens living in European NATO

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https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2109630700232007768

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Cactusphat • 23h ago

Amazing speech by Susan Abulhawa. I can understand why zionists wanted it removing.

44 Upvotes

https://youtu.be/c2Y-aycEqs0?si=qhkhV5mlKtaqRLv6

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/sliversonic • 10h ago

Polanski's Green rival 'denied knowledge' of Nakba

youtube.com

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I posted earlier in the week about my recent experience of Adrian Ramsey's Nakba-denial. Crispin Flintoff interviewed me about it if anyone's interested.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 12h ago

International Working Class History 🗺️ Another video of French demonstrators singing Katyusha ☭

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https://x.com/ricwe123/status/1639209532667883520

Katyusha orchestral performance [https://youtu.be/UUcnw1iNN-8\](https://youtu.be/UUcnw1iNN-8)

Alisa Supernova - Katyusha in 40 languages [https://youtu.be/WFl7FIARNE8?is=SKRdZYgHGvQRtEf-\](https://youtu.be/WFl7FIARNE8?is=SKRdZYgHGvQRtEf-)

Katyusha overload, giving a good overview of its importance [https://youtu.be/359I0x3lInk?is=ROsDfaaYDp4C9gcF\](https://youtu.be/359I0x3lInk?is=ROsDfaaYDp4C9gcF)

Katyusha English Version [https://youtu.be/SVpLnI7yw-Y?is=EoMM-bBsLpevGBrd\](https://youtu.be/SVpLnI7yw-Y?is=EoMM-bBsLpevGBrd)

Valeria Kurnushkina & Red Army Choir Katyusha [https://youtu.be/ancB0j3BD1o\](https://youtu.be/ancB0j3BD1o)

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/EdwardDespard • 1d ago

Theyre de-democratising their own party to enforce Zionism

113 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/mobies • 1d ago

The Oxford Union finally backed down and restored Susan Abulhawa’s speech after two years of lawfare

142 Upvotes

Remember when the Oxford Union hosted that debate on Israel being an apartheid state committing genocide, the motion passed overwhelmingly (278 to 59), and then the Union immediately panicked? They pulled the video after a week and uploaded a chopped-up version that cut out five sections of Susan Abulhawa’s speech. The excuse was the usual nonsense about "incitement" because she quoted early Zionist leaders and talked about firsthand accounts of Israeli war crimes. Meanwhile, Mosab Hassan Yousef and the pro-Israel side said whatever they wanted on that same stage without a single second touched. After a nearly two-year legal battle backed by the ELSC and Bindmans, the Union finally folded, settled, and quietly put her full unedited speech back up online. It is classic British establishment hypocrisy: branding themselves as the absolute temple of free speech until a Palestinian woman speaks truth to power and holds a mirror up to colonial history. You can check out Susan Abulhawa's full speech at the Oxford Union to see the exact unedited testimony that British institutions spent years trying to keep out of the historical record.

Susan Abulhawa's full speech at the Oxford Union

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/redinator • 1d ago

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 Michael Goves other half has been banned from teaching ay Oxford Uni after being caught with CP

409 Upvotes

Not really seeing it get much news coverage, none of it makes it clear that she's Gove's girlfriend

https://www.aol.com/articles/oxford-university-professor-charged-possessing-060000000.html

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/ch33sley • 1d ago

Humour/Satire 😹 Luv are cuntry

310 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 1d ago

Right Cringe 🎩 One far-right agitator with the “Patriot Platform” forgot their mask had painted their entire head black, bless his cotton socks

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130 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/BalticBolshevik • 1d ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Eleven pro-Palestine communists arrested by the British state – Hands off the Palestine Movement!

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On October 10th, 700 revolutionary communists were brutally targeted by the Metropolitan Police on the national pro-Palestine demonstration. Several comrades were kicked, shoved, and slammed to the ground, and eleven comrades were arrested, all of whom have now been released.

These were deliberate provocations against peaceful protestors calling out the crimes of British imperialism. Labour and their lackeys in the MET want to intimidate and silence workers and the youth because they can see what's happening in France, in Spain, and they know they're next!

We will not be intimidated, silenced, or cowed.

Down with Labour's government of war!

For Palestine to live, imperialism must die!

Eleven pro-Palestine communists arrested by the British state – Release our comrades! Hands off the Palestine movement!

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 15h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 The EU has given more money to Russia than they've given to Ukraine since 2022. It gets worse (or better depending which side you're on) because around 30% of the "money given to Ukraine" is the cost of housing Ukrainian refugees, and most of the money stays in the EU

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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/fs_22_3862

https://energyandcleanair.org/eu-continued-to-buy-record-amounts-of-russian-fossil-fuels-in-2022/

https://www.kielinstitut.de/media/news/ukraine-support-tracker-only-eur-417-billion-of-germanys-eur-100-billion-went-to-ukraine/

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