If you ignore what I wrote about having the government dictate mandatory hijabs, as in Saudi and Iran as being bad, and yea, misogynistic, then I guess you could say I "didn't engage". If you don't ignore that, and instead see where I said that women outside of those countries are choosing to wear hijabs are celebrating their religion as a personal choice, then you might see my point of view better.
Just because you're not white and not "Western" doesn't mean that your chauvinism doesn't align with white western ideals.
I am against mandated headscarfs in theocratic autocracies, but this has little to do with mandated no-headscarfs in other countries.
You are coming at this from a moralistic ideological stance. You can't tell women what to wear and then claim that this is improving their agency. You are morally against this but you are morally against the culture - so it is in fact cultural, and it's a cultural difference that is against the white western culture being superior - from a moral perspective. When this type of thinking is directed against Muslims this is where it lines up with Western white chauvinism.
This is a bit of a trek to get from "the government shouldn't mandate what people wear" to suggesting I support all breadth of individualist arguments.
I suppose a certain amount of individualism under capitalism is in fact classist, racist, and exploitative, but removing any libertarian, self sufficiency nonsense and looking strictly at clothing and style and personality, people should be able to be who they are and who they want to be. I don't think this is a concept at odds with left wing economic systems.
I think we disagree that a headscarf in general is detrimental to society. I don't think it is, and you do think it is. Unfortunately, I have too many really cool empowered women examples that will sway me that outside of a theocracy there is anything bad about hijabs.
If you ignore what I wrote about having the government dictate mandatory hijabs, as in Saudi and Iran as being bad, and yea, misogynistic, then I guess you could say I "didn't engage". If you don't ignore that, and instead see where I said that women outside of those countries are choosing to wear hijabs are celebrating their religion as a personal choice, then you might see my point of view better.
Just because you're not white and not "Western" doesn't mean that your chauvinism doesn't align with white western ideals.
I am against mandated headscarfs in theocratic autocracies, but this has little to do with mandated no-headscarfs in other countries.
You are coming at this from a moralistic ideological stance. You can't tell women what to wear and then claim that this is improving their agency. You are morally against this but you are morally against the culture - so it is in fact cultural, and it's a cultural difference that is against the white western culture being superior - from a moral perspective. When this type of thinking is directed against Muslims this is where it lines up with Western white chauvinism.
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This is a bit of a trek to get from "the government shouldn't mandate what people wear" to suggesting I support all breadth of individualist arguments.
I suppose a certain amount of individualism under capitalism is in fact classist, racist, and exploitative, but removing any libertarian, self sufficiency nonsense and looking strictly at clothing and style and personality, people should be able to be who they are and who they want to be. I don't think this is a concept at odds with left wing economic systems.
I think we disagree that a headscarf in general is detrimental to society. I don't think it is, and you do think it is. Unfortunately, I have too many really cool empowered women examples that will sway me that outside of a theocracy there is anything bad about hijabs.