covid, pandemic, western orientalism, islamophobia
imo, a significant part of the base rhetoric for western anti-mask stuff was laid out during the big secular anti-muslim wave that kicked off in the 2000s. all kinds of liberal public intellectuals were coming up with bullshit reasons to demonise "face covering" (read: Muslim hijabi practices). esp see France's ways of criminalising Muslim women. they had to come up with so much sophistry to pretend it was about anything other than phobia.
1,784 Year Old Mint State Roman Silver Coin
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like,,,, Sir i pwomise i was planning on sweeping the floow,,,, but this sunbeam was so warm and nyice i HAD to nap in it
only a superstitious ignoramus would believe that the methods of systemic divination and unravelling of mysteries would be inapplicable to the natural world
Autistic.
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