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mental-mona · 3 months

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In 1979, Iran underwent an Islamic Revolution that reversed decades of progress in economic development, women’s rights, education, health, and more. But why would a country that had taken such strides toward a promising future undergo a revolution? To understand this, it's important to recognize that the so-called Islamic Revolution in Iran was not purely Islamic — it was initiated by leftists and executed by both leftists and Islamists.

Many Mullahs, including Ayatollah Khomeini, grew increasingly enraged with Iran's rulers, Reza Shah and his son Mohammad Reza Shah (the last of the Pahlavi royal dynasty) due to their progressive reforms concerning women's rights. These reforms, perceived as Westernized and contrary to Islamic values, were instrumental in inflaming the discontent that fueled the Islamic Revolution. However, the Mullahs themselves lacked the political skills necessary to instigate a revolution on their own.

In the years leading up to the revolution, Iranian leftists, deeply influenced by revolutionary communist theories and literature, were also growing restless and impatient. Lacking the means to mobilize a people’s revolution independently, these leftists found allies in the Islamic clerical establishment. The mullahs, with their extensive network in mosques and influence over the populace, provided the perfect machinery for an uprising. Together, they were powerful enough to overthrow the system.

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A key architect in building the ideological framework for the Islamic Revolution was the Iranian sociologist Ali Shariati. Influenced by his time among Parisian radicals in the 1960s, he sought to reinterpret Islam with a strong emphasis on social justice and anti-imperialism by incorporating elements of revolutionary Marxism. He aimed to synthesize these schools of thought to mobilize the Muslim masses (especially the youth) against imperialism, and to promote social change within an Islamic framework. His Islamic-left ideology was the single most influential doctrine that led to the 1979 revolution.

The revolution succeeded. The Pahlavi shahs were deposed and the Ayatollah Khomeini emerged as the leader of Iran. It didn’t take long after the success of the revolution, however, for leftist ideals to be jettisoned.

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In 1988, the Islamic Republic began coordinating extrajudicial mass executions of political prisoners, including the Tudeh Party and members and supporters of other leftist political groups. The main target of the killings was the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), a militant leftist group. Khomeini issued an order for their execution referring to them as "moharebs" (those who war against Allah) and "mortads" (apostates from Islam), using their alleged non-Islamist beliefs and actions as a justification.

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Iran today ranks among the least free countries in the world. LGBT people have virtually no rights. Same-sex behavior between gay and bi men is a crime that carries a maximum penalty of death. Indeed, thousands of LGBT people have been executed by the Iranian regime since the 1979 Revolution. Women who refuse to wear the hijab risk brutal attacks, imprisonment, or even death, as the much-publicized case of Mahsa Jina Amini showed. And political and religious minorities live as second-class citizens or worse. How might things have turned out if the progress prior to the revolution had been allowed to continue?

The trends, behaviors, and beliefs that led to the disastrous Iranian Revolution threaten to repeat themselves today in the West. We have already begun to see early glimpses. The most prominent example is the ongoing wave of mass anti-Israel and/or pro-Hamas protests following the Oct 7th attacks. Not only has Hamas been a disaster for women, LGBT people, and their own civilians, but the Palestinian “one state” solution would result in a country as unfree as Iran — and one equally antithetical to left-aligned values. Other warning signs include the case of Hamtramck, Michigan, where a progressive-backed Muslim-majority town council voted to ban Pride flags, or the spate of young TikTokers siding with Osama bin Laden’s 21-year-old “Letter to America.” This goes beyond Islamism. Segments of the far-left and Christian far-right are more than willing to team up, as we’ve seen in recent years with European populist movements, the opposition to defending Ukraine from Russian conquest, and radical lefties voting for Donald Trump to “let the empire burn.” The question is: why?

There is a particular strain within leftist thought that often exhibits a fascination with revolution and a drive to dismantle and disrupt, sometimes indiscriminately. Young (and some not-so-young) radicals see the problems that exist today, and with no appreciation for how far we’ve come, pronounce society to be irredeemably flawed. The only solution is to tear it all down. Whatever rises from the ashes, this dubious logic goes, cannot help but be better than the status quo. This perspective, while rooted in a desire for human betterment, usually leads to the precise opposite. Such revolutionary zeal is not just a desire for change, but an impulse to break the existing order, often “by any means necessary”, as so many recent anti-Israel protest signs can attest. This includes allying with any group or ideology that opposes the current power structures. This “enemy of my enemy is my friend” approach leads to alliances that are, at best, ideologically inconsistent, and at worst, counterproductive to the values that many leftists traditionally uphold.

In their pursuit of anti-establishment goals, many leftist factions find common ground with Islamist movements, not because of shared values, but because of a shared opposition to perceived imperialist or colonialist forces. The fact that Islamic fundamentalists oppose women’s rights, secular governance, and basic freedoms; the fact that they criminalize homosexuality and bisexuality in every society they control, is willfully overlooked by the far-left in the pursuit of a common adversary. But the blanket romanticizing of perceived underdogs, often without a critical assessment of their values or intentions, risks empowering forces that, given requisite power, could establish regimes far more oppressive than those they replace. In their quest for a radical overhaul, they’re willing to discard tangible progress in the pursuit of an idealized, hypothetical future. In Iran, decades of progress in economic development and women’s rights were thrown away in the revolution. The West today, which is so much further along, has even more to lose.

#israel palestine conflict #strange bedfellows #iran revolution #history repeats itself #not so progressive #woke madness #israel hamas conflict #leftist antisemitism

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profgandalf · 1 year

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Raging at the Wind: Contemporary Censors of Texts Created by Others

In the second paragraph of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” the narrator stops to play with the idea that although the phrase “dead as a doornail” is immediately and so broadly recognized that it borders on being cliché, and that he thinks “dead as a coffin nail” would be more fresh and accurate, he finishes by observing that “the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile, and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it” (Carol 1).

Well, this is the generation of those with “unhallowed hands.” I have written before about my dismay concerning the decision to remove various books or illustrations by Dr. Seuss. Specifically “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street” which wonderfully portrays a child’s imagination let loose, and was told by some on this platform that it was all well and good. Now, however, I suppose most of you know that Roald Dahl’s children’s books "James and the Giant Peach," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Witches," and "Charlie and the Glass Elevator" are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive by the publisher Puffin. (Penguin, the parent company, has indicated they are going to publish uncensored versions as if that makes things better).

Meanwhile, Alan Gribben a professor at Auburn University has an edition of Huck Finn in which he removes the N-word as well as Injun and replaced them with “slave” and “Indian.�� And now I understand that according to a new report in "The Sunday Telegraph," new editions of Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels will omit offensive passages when released this spring by Ian Fleming Publications. And like Dr. Seuss, it’s the people who control the text who are doing this so they can get away with it legally. My comment to all of these second-rate unimaginative pariahs is "keep your lousy, “unhallowed hands” off other people’s art!"

Would Dahl care? Of course, he would! Dahl was notorious for fighting editors over his word choices, but he’s gone now and the foundation can do what it likes. My impotent fury on his behalf feels like raging at the wind. Only in this age is the writer faced with the possibility that his actual text, never mind film interpretations of it, might be altered by people who no more understand the creative process nor have any ability to shape imaginative text than deep sea-lantern fish understand the nature of sunscreen.

Publishers should NOT have the right to alter an author's intended words because they can. Even if it is legal: It’s wrong, and if I ever become a published author I am going to include in my contract that NO such alterations can ever be made by my publishers or my offspring no matter how many generations pass. Dickens didn’t think of this because he couldn’t imagine it. Congrats you woke folk, you’ve created a whole new clause in contracts!

At least when the Victorians Charles and Mary Lamb rewrote the stories of Shakespeare they called it “Tales from Shakespeare: Designed for the Use of Young Persons” And perhaps one could claim that these Dahl, Twain, and Seuss books are intended to protect children who need protecting. I think that is an error and would suggest just finding an alternative author. However with the censoring of Ian Fleming’s adult spy novels, the pernicious nature of these so-called editors are revealed. It’s almost amusing. Rather than accept the fundamental fact that different ages have different ways of thinking (which is part of the benefit of reading literature) and that the artist’s vision is sacred, they now insist that everyone see things as they do, and if authors take is not 100% acceptable, then their works are just altered to do so. It’s like putting a pair of briefs on Michelangelo’s “David.”

Years ago Christians were accused of being closed-minded censors. A lot of parents got upset with the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” and a lot of liberals had a good laugh at their expense. But no Christian parent suggested that the F word be removed from J.D. Salenger’s book while keeping his name on the cover! Final thought: Write your own damn books and leaves those written by masters alone. If you're so wise and clever, write your own books!

#Roald Dahl Mark Twain #ian fleming #dr. seuss #Contemporary censorship #Woke Madness #Roald Dahl #mark twain #huck finn

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 years

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By: The Editorial Board

Published: July 15, 2022

An old line is that revolutions devour their children, but apparently they’re equally unkind to their elders. Ruy Teixeira spent many years at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive Washington think tank that provides much of the agenda for Democrats. Now he’s joining the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI). “I’m just a social democrat, man,” Mr. Teixeira told Politico. “Trying to make the world a better place.”

At age 70, he hasn’t changed his views on the importance of economic class. Yet he said CAP is being warped by a junior staff for whom identity politics is everything. “It’s become very hard to have a conversation about race and gender and trans issues, even crime and immigration,” Mr. Teixeira said. “You know, ‘How should the left handle these?’ There’s a default assumption about how you’re supposed to talk about these things, even the language. There’s a real chilling effect on all of these organizations.”

He’s exhausted by internal staff politicking. “It’s just cloud cuckoo land,” Mr. Teixeira said. “The fact that nobody is willing to call b—, it just freaks me out.” He’s also frustrated by the lack of support he received for a project that aimed to unite the black and white working classes. “Nobody wanted to touch it,” he said. “You could tell. People were leery of talking about the white working class, as if it was de facto racist.”

Wow, and you thought your office had issues. Last month the Intercept ran a story about similar woke meltdowns inside groups like the Sierra Club and the Guttmacher Institute.

“A lot of staff that work for me, they expect the organization to be all the things: a movement, OK, get out the vote, OK, healing, OK, take care of you when you’re sick, OK,” complained an anonymous executive director. “Can you get your love and healing at home, please? But I can’t say that, they would crucify me.”

These are signs of political and cultural sickness. How do lefty outfits expect to achieve anything if they spend their time trying to decolonize their own HR handbooks? Sorry, the Guttmacher Institute isn’t your mommy.

Conversely, it’s a sign of conservative vigor that AEI is granting Mr. Teixeira political asylum. “I like taking chances,” AEI’s president, Robert Doar, told Politico. “I want interesting stuff produced by scholars.” Shibboleths are the opposite of interesting.

Need we point out the irony of a conservative think tank being more politically and ideologically diverse than a “progressive” one, the latter of which is descending into the madness of “diversity”-mania based on the superficiality of people who look different but all have the “correct” homogenous, dominant views?

The Intercept article is an eye-opener. Sarah Haider also wrote about the same thing. Every institution and organization that succumbs to woke political activism ultimately grinds to a screeching halt, as it becomes consumed by Intersectional bullshit, performative signalling, perpetual outrage skirmishes, and employees who demand the organization fulfil an endless mission-creep of meeting all their emotional needs, rather than simply being effective at its core mission.

It can’t just be a straightforward mission like, “climate change.” It has to be “diversity antiracist climate justice trans rights equity Ukraine-invasion Pride Month indigenous disabled decolonization inclusion safe space.” Which means it’s so bloated and weighed down by its own sanctimony that it can barely breathe, and never gets anything done. Much less anything relating to “climate change.”

#Ruy Teixeira #Jonathan Haidt #woke madness #structural stupidity #diversity #diversity equity and inclusion #equity #inclusion #wokeness as religion #cult of woke #woke activism #woke #wokeism #intersectionality #go woke go broke #religion is a mental illness

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taetae-armyx · 1 year

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K-POP: what needs to stop in the K-pop. Industry of K-pop: Problems K-pop Fans: Problems

TW - Mentions of Phobias: Acrophobia, Ranidaphobia, and Fear of Fireworks; Mentions of PTSD. Please skip if these topics are triggering for you. Proceed with caution.

—what needs to stop in the k-pop industry—

Companies Not Taking Their Idols’ Phobias Seriously

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SITUATION #I. - LEE KNOW (STRAY KIDS/JYP)

Lee Know has Acrophobia, which is the fear of heights.

Stray Kids performed their song “Thunderous” for the ‘2021 CHANGWON K-POP WORLD FESTIVAL’. The performance took place…on top of a very tall building.

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Now if you’re a Stay (or even if you’re not a Stay), you would know how great of a dancer Lee Know is. His body movement is beautiful and he has such good flow and flexibility. His stage presence is amazing too.

However, as we can see in the video below, Lee Know struggled to perform on the roof of the building. We can see him make smaller movements when doing the choreography, and he’s constantly looking down despite being in the front, where he would usually look into the camera.

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A lot of people have pointed out how wrong this was. He has a phobia, an actual medical problem, where he’s afraid of heights. But they made him perform on top of a building?

And what makes this worse is that apparently, this isn’t even the first time. Lee Know had to perform on top of a roof before too.

This really makes me sad, you can see how he really tried to do his best even though he clearly wasn’t comfortable.

SITUATION #2. - HENDERY (NCT/SM)

The next situation was extremely horrifying to watch.

In an episode of WayV Dream Plan, Hendery and Lucas has to enter a frog filled room to complete a challenge. Lucas, while disliking and being disgusted by frogs due to something that happened in his childhood, isn’t really afraid of them. Hendery, however, has Ranidaphobia, an actual extreme fear of frogs.

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(the challenge starts at 16:44 and finishes at 29:30, though the part with Hendery finishes earlier)

The room they were in contained real, live frogs. And there was even a frog on the floor.

Hendery was beyond terrified. He literally jumped on the walls and covered his eyes. He didn’t even step into the actual room because of how scared he was.

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Ten and Yangyang went to go help them out and do the mission for them. As soon as they opened the door to come in, you can see Hendery run out of the room. He left so quickly.

A lot of people have pointed out how wrong and truly immoral this was. Even Hendery himself expressed how he didn’t expect the production team to do something so brutal.

Even though the point of the episode was for the members to face their fears, a phobia is beyond just a fear and they shouldn’t have made Hendery go through that.

SITUATION #3. - JOY (RED VELVET/SM)

Joy from Red Velvet is scared of fireworks, as she’s traumatized by seeing a firework explode right in front of her in the past.

During one infamous incident in 2019, Joy ran off stage after the fireworks started.

You can really see how distressed she looked. She really couldn’t pretend like everything was fine, she had to run off.

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And she apologized for running off stage!Red Velvet Official on Instagram: "러비들😢미안하다는 말 하고싶어서 올려요ㅜ 예전에 눈 앞에서 폭죽 터지는 걸 본 이후로 폭죽을 많이 무서워하는데 오늘은 예상치 못한데다가 갑자기 이명까지 들려서 마지막 인사를 못한채 들어가게 되었어요.. 죄송합니다....지금은 괜찮아졌어요!! 걱정 끼쳐드려서 너무 죄송해요..😢 매 무대마다 잘하고싶은데 예상치 못한 순간들이 올 때마다 프로답게 대처하지 못하는 것 같아서 제 자신이 되게 미워지는데요.. 앞으로는 이런 일 없도록 마음 단단히 먹고 노력하겠습니다!! 죄송합니다ㅜ"Red Velvet Official shared a post on Instagram: "러비들😢미안하다는 말 하고싶어서 올려요ㅜ 예전에 눈 앞에서 폭죽 터지는 걸 본 이후로 폭죽을 많이 무서워하는데 오늘은 예상치 못한데다가 갑자기 이명까지 들려서 마지막 인사를 못한채 들어가게 되었어요.. 죄송합니다....지금은 괜찮아졌어요!! 걱정 끼쳐드려서 너무 죄송해요..😢 매 무대마다 잘하고싶은데 예상치 못한 순간들이 올 때마다 프로답게 대처하지 못하는 것 같아서 제 자신이 되게 미워지는데요.. 앞으로는 이런 일 없도록 마음 단단히 먹고 노력하겠습니다!! 죄송합니다ㅜ". Follow their account to see 3174 posts.https://www.instagram.com/p/BxU1l02g1e3/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

She wrote :

“Luvies, I’m posting because I want to say I’m sorry. I’m scared of fireworks after seeing a firework explode right in front of me in the past and it was unexpected. On top of that, I heard ringing in my ears and I went in without saying my final goodbye to you.. I’m sorry.. I’m okay now! I’m so sorry for causing you concern.. I want to do a good job at every performance and dislike myself when I can’t react professionally to unexpected moments.. I will strongly prepare myself and work hard so that this won’t happen again in the future! I’m sorry.”

It’s really sad that Joy felt she had to apologize for this and even disliked herself for acting…normally.

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So my point is, companies should consider the phobias that idols have and make sure they don’t put the idols through these situations. It’s very harmful to the idols’ mental, and sometimes even physical health.

Think of how much better those performances would be if JYP didn’t make Stray Kids perform on top of the building, keeping Lee Know in mind, or if SM didn’t use fireworks to keep Joy safe.

So yeah, to conclude, companies should start taking phobias seriously, and fans too! Some fans make jokes about these phobias which is really disgusting. I know that some NCTzens make fun of Hendery for acting the way he did, and some people sent Eric Nam photos of rats after he stated in an interview that he is scared of them.

I hope that in the future there are no more incidents like these and that idols feel comfortable doing the things they love!

✎ ̼ ◡̈ idols being criticized for their body types .

there are so many idols who are suffering due to the crazy amount of toxicity in the entire k-pop fandom, and there are so many reasons, invalid hate, body-shaming, visuals, skills, sasaengs, etc., etc.. but let’s zoom in to a particular type of hating that i am against.

body shaming, hating someone for the way their body looks. first, body shaming. the amount of hypocrisy that the haters have here is mind-blowing. there are so many idols out there who are constantly skinny-shamed and are accused of having eating disorders, like rosé, lisa, somi, wonyoung, etc.

but what if they are naturally like that? did you ever consider that before bashing them for their body and accusing them of having an eating disorder, which is not a light thing to be talked about? why do you talk like you know everything and anything when you don’t even know the idols in real life, behind the cameras and their personas?

you say they should gain weight, but what do you say when they gain weight are at a healthy weight? they receive so much inhuman hate, fat-shaming, calling them a pig, ugly, etc.. do you have common sense? what makes you think hating on them like this just because of their weight is okay to you?

you call yourself a fan, yet you criticize every single thing you don’t like about them, what is this fandom coming to? a fan was supposed to be people who support the idol for who they are right now. why go on nitpicking on the small things when the idol seems perfectly happy? do you realize, you are making them sadder when you add posts, comments that hate on their body, that is not a worry for your faves? that is body shaming.

✎ ̼ ◡̈ people invalidly hating an idol .

i am so sick and tired of seeing random people hop onto those hate bandwagons before even learning properly about the situation. for example, giselle’s scandal. when people were criticizing her for mouthing the n-word, other people who had not liked totally unrelated things such as her visuals, dance, rap, singing, etc., took this as a chance to hate on her for those things as well.

this makes no sense at all. i get that you might not have liked an idol from the beginning. there are some people in life that you might not go well with, and that person just might have been that idol. this is okay, we do not have to love every single idol in the industry. this is actually close to impossible, but this is still not a reason to hate on an idol mercilessly.

why are you so openly expressing your dislike for an idol so much? do you have an idea what this does to the idol when they see it on their feed coincidentally? they do a lot of monitoring to see the reaction of netizens, how do you think this will impact them and their mental health? or do you even think about that at all? maybe not.

if you don’t like a certain group/idol, just literally leave them alone. don’t watch m/vs, don’t look up interactions, don’t go looking up their pictures posted on social media. do you realize, by doing these things, you are subtly giving them more support by giving more views and searches?

just go stan other groups you like, there is no reason to invalidly hate them and give them scars that cannot be taken back. no human deserves this. ever. there are some actually problematic idols that should apologize properly, but so many of the idols out there don’t deserve the hate they get.

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grimlocksword · 1 year

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How Did Comics, Movies and TV Get So Woke?

#youtube #woke activism #woke agenda #cult of woke #woke madness #wokeness #woke #anti woke

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pirateprincessjess · 4 months

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Men are being very normal about the new Godzilla design

#something being pink shouldn’t make you this mad #I’ve had to delete so many comments about “Godzilla being woke now it is unhinged #chill #TW transphobia #transphobia

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qualitytimetam · 5 months

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What Disney means for the fandoms.

#annihilation #woke madness #brainwashing

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commonsensecommentary · 2 months

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“New York City is home to hundreds of top-tier financial services and public benefits providers, a dream of a competitive bidding pool, to ensure that the city gets a good price, as well as strong protections against fraud and abuse. But HPD considered only one: Newark-based Mobility Capital Finance, which also has an office in Harlem.”(Somebody in City Hall got a big, fat envelope full of cash!)

#leadership #government #save america #democrats #new york #new york city #corruption #woke madness

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theboyonthehighcastle · 5 months

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Scream 7 Actress FIRED Over Social Media Posts About Israel | Woke Holly...

HA! THIS IS THE BED THAT YOU WOKE PEOPLE HAD MADE! HOW DOES IT FEEL THAT YOUR FAVORITE ACTRESS GET’S CANCELLED FOR POLITICAL OPINIONS!?

GINA CARANO IS STILL INNOCENT!

#youtube #jenna ortega #scream #anti woke #woke #go woke go broke #wokeness #woke liberal madness #woke madness #gina carano #free palestine #free gaza #israel #palestine

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zoestorm · 7 months

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The manga: a college guy meets his childhood friend, who was formerly a boy but is now a woman, and has run away from home after an unspecified disagreement with her family which has left her with a significant amount of trauma; it's implied she was bullied heavily in the time since they've last seen each other.

But don't worry, she's not trans! She just got an illness which turned her into a woman!

The manga: a high school boy with an interest in make-up uses his gloomy, depressed (male) childhood friend as a model to improve his skills. This causes said friend to have an "awakening" and start dressing as a woman, and to overall be a much happier, brighter, outgoing person.

But don't worry, the friend is not trans! He's just a boy who crossdresses because his childhood friend likes him better that way!

The manga: a high school boy joins a club where the members can turn into magical girls, which in his case involves physically transforming into a girl. When in girlmode, he's much happier and enjoys his life much more, and overall prefers staying in girl mode; when the ability to transform is temporarily taken away from him, he sinks into a deep depressive episode.

But don't worry, he's not trans! He's just a boy who enjoys being a girl!

The manga: a college student loses a bet and has to crossdress for a night out on the town, and meets and hooks up with a butch girl; they fall in love and start dating. The boy always crossdressed when they meet, and starts enjoying being "treated like a girl" in the relationship and starts crossdressing even when he doesn't have to meet his girlfriend and enjoys activities such as clothes shopping and make-up and putting on nail polish.

But don't worry, he's not trans! He's just a boy who crossdresses to please his butch girlfriend!

The manga: a guy is magically turned into a girl as a result of saving his best friend, the crown prince, from an assassination attempt. The prince decides that he has to take responsibility, and asks the new girl to marry him; despite being smitten she refuses, wanting to date first. She is later offered a way to go back to being a man, but when she does turn back she's disgusted by her own appearance and depressed all the time, ultimately deciding to stay a girl.

But don't worry, she's not trans! She's just a boy who's been magically turned into a woman! And decides not to turn back when she can! Because she's not trans! Somehow!

"But we can't write trans women in manga! It's just not something that you do!"

[Image description: A one-comic panel. Gengar is glaring at a crowd of faceless characters; from the crowd, a speech balloon emerges, saying "You could if you weren't a fucking coward". End ID.]

#manga #gender manga #trans manga #I am so mad about this #I woke up and chose violence #fuck everything about this #transgender

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