Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43782881-20200803074517/@comment-27950421-20200804011349

Gnomehunter wrote: '''Feminists are focusing on women’s issues in other countries. They care about women of color. There is no shortage of women of color organizing in the US, other Werstern countries, their home countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Many women and organizations are doing their own work to fight the issues in the ways that they know how to, and sometimes this means sharing material, uplifting the voices of the women doing their own work. While it is important to make sure i.e. Muslim women get more rights, it’s also just as important for, especially white women, to let actual Muslim women be in control of their own liberation and access to resources. Feminists don’t ignore other womens’ issues. They contribute to the voices of those women to allow them to help themselves. Here’s a final thought. In 2011 France banned face and head coverings. This law was criticized as, anti-Muslim preventing some Muslim women from practicing the faith to the full extent. And while I can’t claim to have a complete understanding of Islam, I do know that writing such a law does nothing to free women of perceived oppression. Now it just means they’re punished in a different way. Feminists speak in support of many religions because it is important to people, because there are people who find value in the movement, and also their religious practices. '''

I can understand making sure that they are the main driving force in their liberation, but I also understand that genital mutilation and honor killings are commonplace over there. Most of the time whenever someone voices a dislike for the people doing that shit, feminists are usually start throwing "Islamophobia" around and "not all muslims". That's kind of the point I was making.