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The-Shattering-Light t1_itpi7ix wrote

This is an extremely reductive position.

Amini wasn’t killed because of a hijab - she was killed because of a misogynistic, theocratic government uses force to control women.

Equating her death to a hijab is not only inaccurate, it is insulting to people who choose to wear it. It represents a racist reactionary and misogynistic position itself.

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modularmaniac420 t1_itpqx3n wrote

Thanks for commenting. These “BREAKING: (whatever bullshit i read in the Herald or Breitbart)” posts are exhausting. Between these and all the clown comments underneath them, they kind of ruin my local subs

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The-Shattering-Light t1_itptwtu wrote

Agreed. It’s really exhausting dealing with the constant barrage of hate

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modularmaniac420 t1_itpwtcp wrote

It’s a buzzkill when you come here for leaf pictures or r/Boston for Storrow pictures and end up having to reply to some hateful clown who has nothing better to do than troll us. On the other hand, I appreciate the effort you took to write your thoughtful post, it can real help clarify the issues.

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Rapierian t1_itpw4ca wrote

Okay, sure. But naming the holiday after the garment her oppressive government killed her for not wearing is still amazingly tone deaf.

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The-Shattering-Light t1_itq58tk wrote

No it’s really not.

The hijab has nothing to do with her murder, and is importantly symbolic to many people who wear it.

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Rapierian t1_itqwhw6 wrote

If it has nothing to do with her murder, why would we declare a day in her memory as "National Hijab Day"?

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SileAnimus t1_its69ku wrote

Because a bunch of old white middle/upper class dudes in Boston probably aren't very in touch with something happening on the other side of the globe?

It's not complicated

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UniWheel t1_itqt1g6 wrote

>The hijab has nothing to do with her murder, and is importantly symbolic to many people who wear it.

That's tone deaf, too.

Being allowed to wear one by free personal choice is indeed important.

But being compelled to wear one is unacceptable.

And that's why the association with a person who's death resulted from events originating in the "crime" of not wearing one is absurdly intolerable

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The-Shattering-Light t1_itqvjyr wrote

People are not compelled to wear them in this country. Considering it’s this country where the recognition happened, claiming what you have is not reasonable.

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abluetruedream t1_itr0uap wrote

I don’t think anyone is saying that having a “Hijab Day” is bad. Supporting the freedom to individually express your faith is important. But creating it in some performative attempt to honor someone who died because of rejecting the hijab is pretty awful.

Do you really think Masha Amini or any other woman fighting religious oppression in Iran would be happy to be memorialized by something called “Hijab Day?”

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UniWheel t1_itqxodq wrote

>Considering it’s this country where the recognition happened, claiming what you have is not reasonable.

You're being absurd.

The "recognition" that happened was not of the right of free choice - what's being recognized by choosing the victim of compulsion's birthday is not the right of free choice, but rather the abhorrent elsewhere tradition of misogynistic compulsion.

That's not something to celebrate in a free society, and none of your transparent lies can make it so.

If you want to celebrate the hijab as a personal choice, do it on some day of significance to that as a choice such as a religious holiday, or on a random day, but not on a victim's birthday specifically chosen to celebrate an act of literally murderous compulsion.

We see your lies for what they are.

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kuluchelife t1_itsmyi1 wrote

Thank you for showing tania for the unsympathetic, selfish trash she is.

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