All over social media I’m seeing people saying it’s in support of Palestine. I’m also seeing a TON of ads for people selling them claiming that purchasing one is a form of support for Palestine. I’ve noted that most of them do not specify that proceeds are going to aid, just a more general form of support.

I just saw one white burgerlander insist that wearing one is the bare minimum for anyone who cares about Palestine because by adopting the clothing, you’re preventing total genocide by making sure their culture survives. To me that reads like the most unhinged justification for cultural appropriation I’ve ever heard. Even using cultural appropriation as a value-neutral term, it’s appropriation, not immersion and adoption. It does not prevent the people from being murdered who actually are of that culture you’re saying you’re preserving.

Am I missing something? I’m a white burgerlander myself so it’s very possible. Does wearing/buying these actually support Palestinians in any way? Or is it just quickly becoming the next liberal simulacrum for activism?

  • Vncredleader
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    7 months ago

    Could've researched it first or idk asked some Palestinians. Not investigating and then speaking while saying you have not investigated, does not give you the right to speak. Also holy shit no one is doing it cause of preservation, they are doing it out of solidarity. How do you misconstrue that into preserving a culture as it is wiped out? Do you think when western communists flew Soviet Flags during WW2 they did so cause they thought it would preserve the culture of the USSR?

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      Tbf they was told that by someone else as their reason for it.

    • Juice [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      They are literally investigating, this is a good place to ask difficult questions, there are no political stakes for being wrong-headed about this, in this context, at this time. If you think Mao was referring to asking better informed comrades questions on internet forums when issuing the edict of "no right to speak," then you need to look at your self. If you see a comrade struggling and you do nothing to help them except repeat some memeified Mao quote out of context then IMO you are not being a comrade and you are not interested in building communism. Put your ego on ice and self crit