Has it ever not been straight up islamophobic?
It’s basically a day of the week that ends in -Y
its definitely more unhinged but its always been there
Yep. You used to see some pushback on islamophobia, but now that’s considered anti-zionist and thus gets banned.
I’ve stopped using reddit for the past couple years. I don’t need the toxicity.
try looking up discussions on the hijab from any year of reddit’s existence
That shit is what radicalized me I think. It made me seek out even a crumb of positive content regarding my community and led me to a Hassan Piker reaction to a Jubliee video which was about Hijabi and non-Hijabi women discussing the Hijab. The video itself was quite positive and reflected discussions I’d seen in my real life, but from their I kept going down the leftist pipeline till now where I’m staunch ML.
Who would’ve thunk that the comments on 30 second clip of women soccer players crowding around a player on the opposing team because her Hijab fell off would turn me into a communist.
Personally, I feel like growing up in Algeria helped me a lot, the country was built from anti-colonial socialist revolution and had close ties to a lot of socialist countries, but what settled it for me was how supportive marxists were to Palestine, from first glance I felt they got it far better than any performative liberal and I learned more about it.
I’ve grown up in the west and I personally hate how it’s poisoned my community. My local mosque youth group is basically an ideological battle ground between socdems, petty bourgeois grindset guys, Shia Islamist social chauvinists (who ironically are more open to socialist economics), and then there’s me holding the banner of communism.
We all get along well enough cosidering and all view the “west” as our enemy to some degree. Due to me being our of state for my education for months at a time, I feel leftist ideas are not propagatec well enough leabing me to essentially have to understand how to communicate Marxist thought much better then my peers are capable of communicating their political philosophy.
I’d say the advantage I have is that Marxism actually has a relatively rigid orthodoxy to pull from so when I relay my analysis to them it comes iff more concrete rather than vibes based.
I would simply not open reddit
Always has been, they just didn’t have many excuses to be islamophobic in a while.
Lately?
Anyone that showed the slightest amount of sympathy towards Palestine over the past year has been systematically banned, while anyone that is even centrist, much less left wing has been systematically banned over the last 5 years.
Of course all that’s left is a bunch of bigoted neolibs no longer even pretending they’re trying to be tolerant of others.
Liberals are scratched.
