There are times when I open my Youtube recommendations to an eye roll and head shake.
Between the suggested videos of shipwrecks, cyclones, food, and music out pops an eyesore which makes me want to cringe in several places at once.
This happens rarely, sometimes too often and often times to the point of annoyance. You can see the diversity here.
Last week it was the odd recommendation of reaction videos (why?) and today it was another goddamn BuzzFeed video about celebrating hijab day where young people of faith (Islam) go about a university usually in the west asking unsuspecting women if they'd be interested in donning the Hijab for a day and then recording their positive reactions.
I don't even know how to begin explaining the cringe factor warp 99 that video elicited.
I mean firstly it's Buzzfeed, the byword of cultural appropriation and why Hijab?
Would Buzzfeed ever make a video where women of Hijab take it off for a day and record their positive reactions?
And the best part is how it's recorded in soft light with good background music to make one feel like it's the most normal thing to wear on your head, and how comforting and beautiful it is to be modest and feel repressed with a smile.
What's more, it talks about how wearing a HIjab makes you understand Muslim culture and Muslim women even better and my god those girls really wanted to feel it with all their hearts.
It even spoke about how 'Hijab day' is a part of Islamic awareness week.. I mean that's ridiculous, considering how this religion makes its presence felt with numerous suicide bomb attacks and thousands of innocent deaths every year. It's difficult to not be aware of Islam.
Tell me one thing, If I go to an Islamic country would I get to practice my existing code of non-Muslim conduct, like wearing clothes that show off my midriff or wearing a swimsuit to the beach? When in their country abide by their laws, but when they come to another non-Muslim country they never want to abide by the existing code of that country's conduct; practising their own religion, clothing, face-covering etc and creating a ruckus and branding everyone racist if asked otherwise, and here's the problem–people are expected to be tolerant towards their intolerance so much so that their imposition of Islamic faith is now appropriated as magnanimous acceptance and turned into goddamn Buzzfeed videos.
Oh and this is rich (still talking about the Buzzfeed video): women comment how they were stared at for wearing Hijab and feel sad for those who are targeted to this hate every day and hope the worldview will change, but never mention once how lucky they are to be in a free country where they are treated like human beings for a change and have the freedom to practice their faith no matter how fucked up.
They are scared that someone will commit a 'hate act' towards them for being 'Muslim' and they want to have the rights to be what they want to be, but never once talk about their own homelands extending the same courtesy to people of other faiths.
I mean who the fuck even are these snowflake millennials?
Oh, I know how they are. Offsprings of people who escaped the oppressive regime of their country looking for a better life for themselves and their children, children who embrace the same lie with a glossier haze because they have the privilege to live in a modern society with none of the oppression.
Fuck you Buzzfeed! seriously FUCK YOU!
Between the suggested videos of shipwrecks, cyclones, food, and music out pops an eyesore which makes me want to cringe in several places at once.
This happens rarely, sometimes too often and often times to the point of annoyance. You can see the diversity here.
Last week it was the odd recommendation of reaction videos (why?) and today it was another goddamn BuzzFeed video about celebrating hijab day where young people of faith (Islam) go about a university usually in the west asking unsuspecting women if they'd be interested in donning the Hijab for a day and then recording their positive reactions.
I don't even know how to begin explaining the cringe factor warp 99 that video elicited.
I mean firstly it's Buzzfeed, the byword of cultural appropriation and why Hijab?
Would Buzzfeed ever make a video where women of Hijab take it off for a day and record their positive reactions?
And the best part is how it's recorded in soft light with good background music to make one feel like it's the most normal thing to wear on your head, and how comforting and beautiful it is to be modest and feel repressed with a smile.
What's more, it talks about how wearing a HIjab makes you understand Muslim culture and Muslim women even better and my god those girls really wanted to feel it with all their hearts.
It even spoke about how 'Hijab day' is a part of Islamic awareness week.. I mean that's ridiculous, considering how this religion makes its presence felt with numerous suicide bomb attacks and thousands of innocent deaths every year. It's difficult to not be aware of Islam.
Tell me one thing, If I go to an Islamic country would I get to practice my existing code of non-Muslim conduct, like wearing clothes that show off my midriff or wearing a swimsuit to the beach? When in their country abide by their laws, but when they come to another non-Muslim country they never want to abide by the existing code of that country's conduct; practising their own religion, clothing, face-covering etc and creating a ruckus and branding everyone racist if asked otherwise, and here's the problem–people are expected to be tolerant towards their intolerance so much so that their imposition of Islamic faith is now appropriated as magnanimous acceptance and turned into goddamn Buzzfeed videos.
Oh and this is rich (still talking about the Buzzfeed video): women comment how they were stared at for wearing Hijab and feel sad for those who are targeted to this hate every day and hope the worldview will change, but never mention once how lucky they are to be in a free country where they are treated like human beings for a change and have the freedom to practice their faith no matter how fucked up.
They are scared that someone will commit a 'hate act' towards them for being 'Muslim' and they want to have the rights to be what they want to be, but never once talk about their own homelands extending the same courtesy to people of other faiths.
I mean who the fuck even are these snowflake millennials?
Oh, I know how they are. Offsprings of people who escaped the oppressive regime of their country looking for a better life for themselves and their children, children who embrace the same lie with a glossier haze because they have the privilege to live in a modern society with none of the oppression.
Fuck you Buzzfeed! seriously FUCK YOU!
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