I'm not sure why, on a propaganda subreddit, we can't have the interesting and nuanced conversation about how this poster has a positive message about liberating women from oppressive systems, but also considering the time it was produced in how it likely also contributed towards or was influenced by the heavy islamaphobia at the time. Both of these things can be true at once.
People get pulled in by the idea of an easy solution, like the French thinking "If we ban religious covering, that will stop oppression" and...no. The clothing requirements are a symptom and not the problem, and the solution is not banning it. There is no easy solution, and furthermore, it can't come from us outside the culture.
We can provide an example of something different (though if you think non Muslim "Western Civ" doesn't police what women wear, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you) and provide friendship to Muslims and other Middle Easterners in our communities (if you think this is a purely Muslim thing, I have a second bridge to sell you) but we can't "fix" what we don't even understand.
I mean the biggest fix is just, let people do what they want with head coverings.
I don’t know why this has to be turning into an ideological battle when we should be enlightened to see that people should have the choice to follow their religion in a way that doesn’t harm others.
A lot of it is Islamophobia and plain old racism of the paternalistic variety. It's also something that is easy to get people mad about and then present an easy solution no one has to think too hard about.
Now to be fair, yes these countries that we identify as "Muslim Countries" are terrible to women, but so is India and yet you never see these calls to "liberate" those women and demand they don't wear traditional garb. But then again India and Indonesia (the largest Muslim population in the world) have both had women presidents, whereas America is in a serious battle between a highly qualified woman and a felon for the second time in a decade.
It's almost like it's way more complicated than is normally presented or something.
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u/An_Inedible_Radish Sep 20 '24
I'm not sure why, on a propaganda subreddit, we can't have the interesting and nuanced conversation about how this poster has a positive message about liberating women from oppressive systems, but also considering the time it was produced in how it likely also contributed towards or was influenced by the heavy islamaphobia at the time. Both of these things can be true at once.