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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:01:04 JST Alex Gleason
   In Iran women are currently being mass murdered for refusing to wear an Islamic headscarf. Meanwhile in America they're saying "the headscarf is empowering" and "trans women are women". I'm Iranian, my family is Iranian, and this is why I'm a TERF.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:02:22 JST Alex Gleason

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     Also, Islam is the worst religion.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:05:12 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Arrian
     My dad's family is Irish, aka oppressed white people ?
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     Arrian (arrian@jvpiter.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:05:16 JST Arrian

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     @alex
     >I'm Iranian, my family is Iranian
     
     What's with the WASP name though
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     slap (slap@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:06:12 JST slap

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     @alex
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:08:02 JST Alex Gleason

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     • deanberry
     I built the software you're typing on, retard.
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     deanberry (deanberry@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:08:07 JST deanberry

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     @alex Why are you even on here? Muslims don't own all the world's money. And, because of it, control all their politics and elections.
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     Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen: (dollycat@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:17:36 JST Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:

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     • Arrian
     @alex @Arrian Everyone is irish Alex
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:18:03 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:
     I thought everyone was African... okay I'm out of here!
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     Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen: (dollycat@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:23:06 JST Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:

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     • Arrian
     @alex @Arrian Yes true. But seriously how many generations back irish. I swear not being "funny" genuinely interested. Because it fascinating to me how people in the United States have these really strong connections to their ancestors. Because you are literally a new country.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:23:06 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:
     Great grandfather was Irish I think. I don't have a strong connection to it. I have a strong connection to being Persian because my mom's family is huge, we all look like we're Persian, and my family has been speaking Persian all around me my whole life.
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     Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen: (dollycat@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:23:39 JST Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:

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     • Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:
     @alex @Arrian By the way there is nothing wrong with having strong connections to your ancestors roots. It's just interesting because I have one English parent one Irish parent and I have come in for unbelievable resistance to me being Irish.
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     Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen: (dollycat@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:26:03 JST Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:

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     • Arrian
     @alex @Arrian You do have a bit of the Lawrence of the Arabia about you ?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:26:03 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:
     Well I was named after Alexander, slayer of the Persians for some reason.
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     Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen: (dollycat@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:27:03 JST Boo Boo Smidge :doge: ?? :potato-queen:

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     • Arrian
     @alex @Arrian Good strong name!
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:37:01 JST Alex Gleason

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     • hirohito
     Maybe it was my heritage that drove people away all along...
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     hirohito (hiro@epic.meme.moe)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 02:37:03 JST hirohito

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     @alex@gleasonator.comirishgonna start defederating from soapbox and rebased instances, I can't associate with the ir*sh

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     FemaleIsNotAFeeling (femaleisnotafeeling@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 05:36:04 JST FemaleIsNotAFeeling

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     @alex Yet too many are afraid to say it. Power to truth, brother! ✊
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     Thigh High Socks (thighhighsock@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 08:03:15 JST Thigh High Socks

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     @alex I'm honestly not sure I'm against Iran's headscarf requirements, that's their own cultural value which they use the government to enforce.
     
     In the west, we're tolerant of far more public degeneracy than we should be, how much can we criticize Iran when we're the example that they fear?
     
     However, there's a way to handle that kind of situation in a manner that respects due process, the punishment should fit the crime.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 08:03:15 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Thigh High Socks
     Would you want to wear a hijab? I mean, I've heard the phrase "if you don't like it, leave", and my mom's family did just that.
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     Thigh High Socks (thighhighsock@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 08:33:07 JST Thigh High Socks

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     @alex 1.
     Although it's kinda irrelevant to my point I'll answer your first question:
     
     I would not want to wear a hijab, but I'd put up with it. In fact, I'll add a potentially unwanted comment:
     In Iran, men are conscripted into the military, both in times of peace and in times of war. I can easily say that I'd much rather wear a hijab than serve in the Iranian military. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Iran)
     
     
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     My point is, the Islamic world and the west represent moral extremes that are both bad in their own ways.
     
     Iran has drawn a moral "line in the sand," saying that they won't tolerate things that violate their cultural values, and enforce a strict dress code in public.
     
     In the west, we've refused to draw that line anywhere. Women dress in clothing that borders on indecent exposure, and we're supposed to accept it? **School dress codes** are protested as sexist.
     We've constantly allowed our boundaries to be pushed and molded, and this is where it's led to.
     
     Iran, its people, and its rulers see our example and proudly refuse to follow it, and quite frankly, I can't fault them for that.
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