(December 7, 2020 at 2:04 am)Belacqua Wrote:(December 7, 2020 at 1:50 am)Apollo Wrote: When western liberals accept hijab as cultural practice without questioning what it symbolizes and how it is used to push patriarchy and even as gateway to punitive measures and violence across Muslim world, they pander.
The meaning of a symbol is determined by the people who use the symbol. Western liberals don't decide the meaning.
If the women who choose to wear the hijab don't agree that it's a symbol of patriarchy and punitive measures, then it isn't.
So, if the Nazis think that the swastika is simply a symbol of national pride and not one of oppression and genocide, that makes it so?
Boru
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