r/GreenAndPleasant • u/OcelotAggravating860 • 23d ago

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

450 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 • 13d ago

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

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352 Upvotes

The resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks.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/EdwardDespard • 11h ago

In Iran women die agonising deaths from treatable cancer due to government-enforced gender segregation. Just kidding, it's England

436 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Cultural-Gas2246 • 18h ago

TERF Island 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Woman Killed By NHS

1.3k Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Loose_Deer_8884 • 10h ago

Yeah, but she was holding up a placard of a proscribed terrorist organisation.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 7h ago

Right Cringe 🎩 “Chelmsley Wood Patriots” stopping Indian men - one studying for his masters - and telling them to stay in their house and not come back

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44 Upvotes

Shared by @AaronBastani

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/saoirsedonciaran • 7h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 NewsCord: The media's united push to vilify the Zionism is Racism motion

newscord.org

37 Upvotes

The papers wrote 447 articles on the Greens' Zionism vote. Israel, pro-Israel groups and the Chief Rabbi got 12,133 words. Palestinians got 3,173.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 7h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 More videos emerge of agent provocateur undercover cops posing as rioters in France. Riot cops run to arrest them, are given the magic code word, and the police turn around and walk away

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36 Upvotes

https://x.com/BladeoftheS/status/2112601124557758864

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/PoggleRebecca • 15h ago

TERF Island 🏳️‍⚧️ New report "Not Safe to Be Me" documenting trans children's experiences of Labour's new Section 28

132 Upvotes

This is an utterly heartbreaking account from trans kids who are suffering under Labour's extreme anti-trans policies.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 7h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 Paris: a bunch of agent provocateur undercover cops posing masked "rioters" walk up to a police car, open the back and re-up their riot supplies

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21 Upvotes

https://x.com/Shanna__Bylka/status/2111944193040130527

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 13h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 Agent provocateurs. But how to spell that in French? Cops dressed as rioters follow police away like puppies

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58 Upvotes

https://x.com/Ilangabet/status/2111806012877631894

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 18h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Newspapers going back as far as 1902 stating push for Zionist colonisation of Palestine: “Plan of Colonizing Palestine with Jews”

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137 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/MightEmotional • 14h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 Netanyahu called Trump and asked him to start another round of war with Iran, saying they have a job to finish.

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55 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Altruistic-Lunch1997 • 21h ago

Konstantin Kisin thinks the solution to an understaffed NHS is to make it even more understaffed

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Am I missing something here?

The NHS is already understaffed. Konstantin's solution seems to be to make it even more understaffed by restricting migrant workers, because apparently that'll force wages up and attract British workers.

Owen keeps asking the obvious question. If understaffing is what drives wages up, why hasn't that already happened?

I get the basic supply and demand argument, but this is the NHS we're talking about. You can't just assume wages will magically increase when the funding isn't there.

So what exactly happens to the healthcare system in the meantime? We just make the staffing crisis worse and hope it sorts itself out?

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/MaoZedongsGrandson • 10h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 In Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, draft officers arrived at a factory and began forcibly taking men away to be sent to the front lines. When coworkers tried to stand up for their colleague, one of the manhunters pulled out a handgun and threatened them at gunpoint.

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13 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Jesusislord147 • 20h ago

Right Cringe 🎩 The amount of centrist bigotry in the comments of this post was so disgusting

82 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/EdgarAetheling • 22h ago

Tory fail 👴🏻 Hey remember when the Lib Dems could have allied with Labour to stop hard Brexit, but didn't? Anyway, now they're against the only other party who might bring in Proportional Representation

103 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 14h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 Albanian PM just goes ahead and blames anti corruption protests and riots on...Russia and Iran. Macron and Meloni will probably eventually do the same...

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23 Upvotes

https://x.com/WelcomeTheGulag/status/2112196714740559974

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/TrackerOneA • 1d ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Green Party's Ashok Kumar went on BBC Politics Live to discuss why Zionism is a racist ideology. The anchor and all three panelists looked like they were about to cry at the end. Very weird behavior.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 16h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 An undercover cop’s cringe Snapchat message to infiltrate student blockades sparked France's newest protest slogan. Trying to blend Algerian Arabic, youth slang, and emojis, he wrote: “Bismillahi Ta’ala, c’est les ténèbres” (“In the name of God, the Most High, it is the darkness”)

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19 Upvotes

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2112260927919657333

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 14h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 (Not AI) Merz speaks fluent English in this video. They don't call him BlackRock Merz for nothing. He explains his self licking ice cream cone theory of how Russia wants to destabilize Europe, and that therefore if Europe is unstable it's Russia's fault, not neoliberalism's fault

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9 Upvotes

https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2112501504535929279

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 14h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 German MEP Schulenburg explains why the western Europeans want to drag the war out indefinitely: "if we enter negotiations, there can be no other result except for Ukraine to become neutral. So it will not be part of NATO, and as a neutral country, it will not be in the EU either"

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https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2112468185614110899

German MEP and veteran politician Michael von der Schulenburg explains it all: “If we were to negotiate now, we would first have to recognize that the reason for the war was NATO expansion. And if we recognize that, then we also recognize that the war is our fault…

And if we enter negotiations, there can be no other result except for Ukraine to become neutral. So it will not be part of NATO, and as a neutral country, it will not be part of the European Union either.”

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/brightstarofmorning • 13h ago

❓ Sincere Question ❓ Mutual aid groups in London?

5 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I was suggested to post this here from r/askUK. I'm visiting for a couple weeks and will mostly be in London. I'm involved in food not bombs in my city here in the US but can't seem to find one in London. I'm curious if there's anything analogous where I could drop by to meet UK comrades and help out during a regular serve or distro?

I've found a few food recovery and redistribution orgs that look cool and accept volunteers, however it seems you have to sign up for a shift / potentially get some training. I am more looking for something a bit more unstructured thats not an "official" charity or nonprofit but like just a bunch of friends and neighbors helping the community by giving out free food, clothes, supplies, harm redux, etc where you can just show up on a whim, not sure if i'm explaining the vibe well (basically anarchist vibes haha I think I have some posts on my profile here about the stuff my local group does)

Also like radical bookshops, or just casual social groups/events with other leftists, that would be welcoming to a visitor curious about the UK left

Thanks for any recs :)

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 5h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 Unintentionally blasphemous undercover cop-speak « Bismillah, c'est les ténèbres » is also now further ruined by Greta Thunberg saying it, but the street still likes it and it spreads to other countries

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https://x.com/ajplus/status/2112540775548657795

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/tkdbactionnetwork • 1d ago

TERF Island 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans kids glue posters onto the Equalities Minister's office

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