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Feb 5 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
My controversial opinion is that I don't care about your "freedom of speech" if your speech is directing hatred towards marginalised people, if it's engaging in dehumanisation, if it is engaging in propaganda, if it is dangerous rhetoric that kills and destroys lives.
Freedom of speech is not some magic potion of protection against the consequences of hateful words or propaganda. Your freedom of speech means absolutely nothing to me if that speech is endangering another group of people. It literally doesn't matter to me at all.
Everyone acts as if freedom of speech is some sacred human right but it actually depends on the context. Propaganda, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ethnonationalist, genocide glorification, these shouldn't be defended...ever.
Who cares about your freedom of speech and your right to be a massive wanker when people are literally being gunned down, killed, or assaulted due to the kind of rhetoric your "free speech" is spewing? Honestly, your right to be an asshole is not worth more than human lives.
& everyone wonders how we continue to have racists in 2022 or act shocked that right-wing propaganda is so rampant or gasp when they hear a child has been indoctrinated into fascism online. That's the consequences of a society that values an abstract concept over people's lives.

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Feb 5
Saying that the Holocaust was a positive because it killed off the Gyp*ies is not a joke as much as it is a clear-cut attempt at dehumanising the massacre of an entire ethnic group that is to this day subjected to horrific racism & acts of violence.

Some "jokes" aren't funny.
The Holocaust was one of the most horrible acts of violence in our collective history. There's nothing satirical about his joke. There's no humour there. There's no education there. It's just abhorrent and cruel. Jimmy Carr isn't even a good comedian in the first place.
There are so many actually funny jokes one can make, that punch up and not down. I mean, come on...how do you look at the Romani and think "ah yeah, there's a community that really needs to be put into their place."

They're already one of the most marginalised groups of people.
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Feb 5
Here's something that's frustrating...I've been doing community organising for 15 years & speaking out about the genocide my whole life practically. I built a platform, started projects, worked on other's projects, did so much work for free, wrote, spoke, lectured, etc etc.
In order to supplement all of my activism, community work, and genocide research and writing I always had to have a job alongside all the work I did. One that would actually pay my bills as I did not want a paycheque for genocide based work. So, it's a lot. Its always been a lot.
But in these past 10-15 years the amount of time I've heard people say "well anyone can do that" or "I can do that" would probably make me filthy rich.

The thing is they never did "do that". Even when I'd reach out. Even when I'd ask for volunteers or involvement or anything.
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Feb 5
On this day in 1994, a Serb mortar shell landed in the centre of the crowded Markale market, killing 68 civilians and injuring 144.

The Markale Massacre was a horrific act of violence that was all too common during the Siege of Sarajevo. We remember.
A lot of people share the footage from the massacre during the anniversary and I ask that we do not do that. We can honour the memory of those we lost without exploiting a horrific moment for Sarajevo's citizens. It was a horror show and it remains triggering for so many of us.
Instead I ask you to remember the names of those who were murdered, people who stood in line waiting to exchange belongings for some food. People who were already starved, isolated, and scarred. People who were just trying to survive.

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Feb 4
The Roma people are so incredibly dehumanised throughout Europe that this will cause very little outrage. Even by supposed "progressive" circles everyone hates Roma/Romani and views them as a disposable nuisance. It's unbelievably cruel, disgusting, and horrific.
Jimmy Carr would [rightfully] never make such a joke about the Jewish people because such a joke would be cruel and detrimental to a community that has already suffered so much. So, why are Roma not given the same level of respect? Why do they continue to be your punching bags?
The Roma/ni never started any wars. They did not start genocides. Instead they are communal people who stick together and carry on their traditions. Yet, their sheer existence causes so much vitrol. Policies in the UK against the Roma that further subjugate them are rampant.
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Feb 4
Today is #WorldCancerDay and I encourage all, but especially women, to please go to your doctor for regular check ups, listen to your body, and demand cancer marker tests be done. Ovarian, cervical, and breast cancers can and are treatable if caught early.
There is nothing as arduous as the battle with cancer. Even though I have been in remission for 3 years now, my body is still not back to its regular self and every 6 months I have to wait and see if it's happened to come back or not. #WorldCancerDay
I want us to be honest about it. I hated the faux positivity I felt I had to perform as a cancer patient and I had the performative empathy people gave me. On this #WorldCancerDay, the best thing you can do for a cancer patient is just fight alongside them, not pity them.
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Feb 1
Actually you're wrong, World Hijab Day was created by Nazma Khan to encourage women of all backgrounds to wear the hijab for a day and to educate others about Muslim women's choice to wear what they want. I'd know because I wrote one of the first articles about it, as a hijabi.
& it was actually heavily criticised for many, many years by a good majority of Muslim women, particularly hijab wearing Muslim women. One of the biggest criticism was that wearing it for one day doesn't translate into an experience of Islamophobia.
Another major criticism of it, once again by Muslim women, was that the focus on our individual choice to wear the hijab as Muslim women in the West was erasing our sisters in countries where they were forced into wearing it. We were speaking from a position of privilege.
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