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WhiskeyGrinder

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5. It has nothing to do with Islam or Afghanistan so there's no reason to invoke the Taliban. The bigotry and oppression is
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 08:38 PM
Apr 2025

100% homegrown American and using other cultures to describe it makes it easier to pretend this is an outside or un-American influence when the reality is this country has always been built on these principles.

Asking the question with your framing also ignores the body-, appearance- and gender-policing that many marginalized populations have faced throughout the history of this country -- Black, Native, enslaved, immigrant, fat, GNC, and so on. Just because it's happening to white women doesn't mean it's new.

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