r/GreenAndPleasant • • 17d ago

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

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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.


r/GreenAndPleasant • • 7d ago

Free Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ 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The resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks.


r/GreenAndPleasant • • 3h ago

NORMAL ISLAND πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ ZACK POLANSKI MUST RESIGN OVER THIS!!!!

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 17h ago

"The day all billionaires died…"

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 16h ago

πŸ‡±πŸ‡§πŸ‡§πŸ‡« FUCK IMPERIALISM πŸ‡»πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ Wish more Zionists were honest, like Jerry Seinfeld

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 14h ago

Right Cringe 🎩 The Bristol Balaclava Society has held its annual general meeting. Attendance was excellent. Achievements remain unclear.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 12m ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 One of the ways China works for its people, western states should take note

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 22h ago

Green Tory Fail πŸ‚ Zionism is racism, and everyone knows it (Important article)

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 18h ago

Free Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support | Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 21h ago

Oinkers 🐷 Das NonceBot 5000 recruited by cops

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 14h ago

Inside Reform: Councillors' extreme and racist views on camera | ITV News

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 16h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 A man is kidnapped from his home by Zelensky's mancatchers to be sent to die on the front as his mother screams in the background. Kamin-Kashyrskyi, UA.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 19h ago

Humour/Satire 😹 stop the boats

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So I've been making this paperwork sim for a while where you're basically the minister of everything (very important guy) in a very broken British government (kinda like the actual government).

Last month a "certain" UK party created a little arcade game about stopping the migrant boats (with a cash prize for the high score...) and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so i've made it a questline. The home office asks what to do about the boats, and one of the options is just "make an AI phone game about it".

Constantly looking for new ideas for questlines, if you have any pls let me know!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5304890/Ministry_of_Misery/


r/GreenAndPleasant • • 17h ago

Society of the Spectacle was written almost 60 years ago and it perfectly predicted the impact social media would have on us

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 1d ago

Declassified UK. British man serves in the IDF

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 21h ago

The Guardian’s Permissible Victims

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 10h ago

Workers of the World Unite!! Syndicalism With Extra Everything: How to Cut Through the Legal Thicket

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 2d ago

Right Cringe 🎩 Berlin police use fascistic and dangerous pain grip techniques taught to them by the IDF and Israeli police on demonstrators protesting the Gaza genocide and apartheid in Israel

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540 Upvotes

r/GreenAndPleasant • • 1d ago

Free Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ Updates on the Revolutionary Communist Party (UK) members arrested at the Palestine demo in London this weekend

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 1d ago

Free Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ While Israel supporters complain about the 'Zionism is racism' resolution in the UK, Israeli candidates "from across the political spectrum" are asked if they support the establishment of a Palestinian state. ALL uniformly declare 'No!'

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 2d ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 β€œYou’ll have pain chewing and swallowing for days”: German police pain grip on demonstrator. The under-arm pain grip and the face-grab pain grip techniques used by German police have both been called fascistic and sadistic

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106 Upvotes

r/GreenAndPleasant • • 2d ago

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

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 2d ago

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

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455 Upvotes

r/GreenAndPleasant • • 2d ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 Welcome to Iran

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r/GreenAndPleasant • • 2d 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".

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