r/GreenAndPleasant • u/OcelotAggravating860 • 24d ago

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

446 Upvotes

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.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 14d ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 In 1975, UN general assembly passed resolution declaring "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination"

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347 Upvotes

The resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/kcufdas • 15h ago

Reform voters say they're saving Christian Britain. The vicar says they never turn up to help run the church

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860 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Old-Information3311 • 2h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 "British journalists never reported on their government's direct participation in the Gaza genocide They were obeying a 'D-Notice' censorship order sent out by the UK military Every media editor received this on 28 October 2023. You were never meant to see it. Here it is👇" - @kennardmatt

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51 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/ASOIAF-Peel • 7h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 The Guardian has published an opinion article by Dave Rich which accuses anyone who says Israel deliberately kills children is engaging in blood libel. Rich claims that the targeted killing of Palestinian children in Gaza is just a consequence of a “tragic and unbearable conflict”.

112 Upvotes

16 comments

r/GreenAndPleasant • u/ASOIAF-Peel • 6h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Itamar Ben-Gvir claimed that Palestinians "are not worthy of life. They shouldn't live. They're not even people" - He remains to this day the Israeli Minister of National Security and Netanyahu has never condemned the remarks. Are these the actions and beliefs of a "civilised state"?

96 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Crow-Me-A-River • 3h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Hierarchy of racism (report on antisemitism in schools)

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48 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/MaoZedongsGrandson • 11h ago

Graphic Imagery Horrific, shocking yet sadly unsurprising scenes from Germany as the police there, who only know violence and repression, brutally assault an elderly person after leaving them bloodied on the ground. All for the crime of protesting Germany's continued involvement in genocide and ethnic cleansing. NSFW

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127 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/TrackerOneA • 8h ago

The UK gov accepted all recommendations from its IHRA-based antisemitism report about schools. Yet the report provides almost no breakdown of what the alleged antisemitism actually involved, while citing stuff like "Free Palestine" among examples of antisemitic abuse.

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50 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 9h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 The moment China rejected Netanyahu’s plans then gave him the death stare..💀

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57 Upvotes

https://x.com/QB_Press/status/2112700739864994033

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 16h ago

Oinkers 🐷 At pro-Palestine protest in Germany, a protestor challenges a riot cop to take him down. The protestor turns the tables on the cop, taking him down and punching him as he lies on the ground

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148 Upvotes

https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2112721656464748563

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • 13h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Silence about Israel's systematic disinformation campaign in the UK

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87 Upvotes

Video by Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/MaoZedongsGrandson • 6h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 ‘Unacceptable’: Poland condemns Ukrainian region’s plan to honor UPA commander who massacred Poles.

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25 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/vritngh • 13h ago

Tory fail 👴🏻 The British Right is so Islamophobic, they… accidentally become anti-monarchy?

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84 Upvotes

As a Muslim, I should be angry at the Islamophobia, but as a Welsh Republican, it’s a fine insult at the crown… my heart can’t stand being pulled in opposite directions!

The royal family presided over one of the most brutal empires in history: Charles knowing a Hadith of the Prophet (PBUH) doesn’t erase the crown’s (as an institution) role in massacring and enslaving millions of Muslims and non-Muslims; peoples of many faiths and ethnicities across Africa and Asia.

P.s. know there’s a specific flair for the king, but I’d love an ‘accidentally left-wing’ flair.

Edit: I forgot to mention this, but I must note that I absolutely condemn all forms of ageism. I agreed with the anti-royal sentiment only.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/amcheesegoblin • 15h ago

The Israeli government posted an AI music video titled “Jews from Judea” – using the likeness of singer and rapper Diana Adelaide (IAMDDB) without her consent.⁣⁣

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91 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Nikhilvoid • 7h ago

Funny bit where Turning Point UK CEO gets a UVF hitman/terrorist to organize a fake rally to show support for lifting sanctions on Zimbabwe

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16 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Old-Information3311 • 21h ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 "Sir David Bell's so-called "independent" review into antisemitism in English schools was commissioned in March 2026 by sacked Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson. Phillipson received £181,000 in Israeli lobby money in just 4 years, most of it while education secretary." - @RaggedTP

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198 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 6h ago

Right Cringe 🎩 Nazi First Corps Azov release nighttime video with fire torches and 3 huge burning swords to honor their dead and pledge revenge

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11 Upvotes

https://x.com/azov_media/status/2107850860713611476

" Our fallen are the guardians of our conscience, and they will not let us stray from the righteous path.

Every year in late September, active-duty service members and veterans of the First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine, together with the loved ones of our fallen brothers- and sisters-in-arms, gather to pay tribute to those who gave their lives for their homeland. As long as we remember them, they hold the line alongside us! "

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 16h ago

Oinkers 🐷 France: this video shows the ugly reality of the neoliberalism/fascism hybrid.

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47 Upvotes

https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/2112713291193876537

You will never see this in Russia, China, Iran.

It is not a safe place anymore for people to have a decent life, a family, a future and dignity when a country treats its people like this.

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/TheKomsomol • 15h ago

International 🌎🌍🌏 China eradicates poverty and some myths debunked

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37 Upvotes

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201904/23/WS5cbe5248a3104842260b7a39.html

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/how-china-defeated-poverty/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_against_poverty

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/home-ownership-by-country

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/whitepaper/202104/06/content_WS606bc77ec6d0719374afc1b9.html

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/e9a5bc3c-718d-57d8-9558-ce325407f737/content

https://lr.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/sghdhzxxx/202105/t20210503_9081935.htm

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/xlRozzalx • 4h ago

Great Britain has now gone 750 days without coal generation

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 16h ago

Oinkers 🐷 Italy: amateurish undercover cop agent provocateurs disguise themselves as 'black bloc' protesters to infiltrate demonstrations and pose as "rioters"

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34 Upvotes

https://x.com/altrella_l/status/2112659084377985043

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/EdwardDespard • 1d ago

In Iran women die agonising deaths from treatable cancer due to government-enforced gender segregation. Just kidding, it's England

748 Upvotes

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DiggyJunior • 6h ago

Right Cringe 🎩 Nazi First Corps Azov has released an official propaganda video to celebrate the Ukrainian government's official designation of October 14th as Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) Day. WW2 UPA was the military wing of OUN-B that did a genocide of over 100,000 civilians

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https://x.com/azov_media/status/2110244544335794377

" Day of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

The extremely difficult conditions of the mid-20th century. One occupation gives way to another, and Ukraine is caught between two fires, with no resources and no right to international subjectivity.

But in the flames of war, a force arises that refuses to submit to circumstances. Veterans, young idealists, and ordinary Ukrainians who are ready to take up arms and restore independence.

Years of struggle against several superior armies, hundreds of thousands of fighters in its ranks, daring operations, and the hatred of its enemies. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army remains a model of the struggle for Ukraine for all generations to come. "

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r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Cultural-Gas2246 • 1d ago

TERF Island 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Woman Killed By NHS

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