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dsilverz@calckey.world 4 days ago@TriplePlaid@wetshav.ing @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de @technology@lemmy.world
For me, a Brazilian, there's something I must hide if I want to be employable: my occultist practices, my religion. I'm a worshiper of Lilith, surrounded by mostly Christian people. I literally heard "faux-jokes" (when people want to condemn someone, but wrapping the condemnation as a joke) tying my belief to "ending up in hell".
Even though my legal name isn't difficult to find through my pseudonym, you can imagine why I use a pseudonym to openly express my religion. And once digital activity is tied to my CPF (Brazilian citizen/legal identity), and I'm definitely not buying the "anonymized checking" arguments, suddenly potential employers and buyers/merchants will know I "worship the devil" and will have yet another reason to refuse hiring me or buying/selling things from/to me.
Also, some of Lilith imagery and stories involve content which is sensitive, subjected to those very "age check" laws, further making it necessary for me to comply to "age checks" whenever I want to read or write, observe or do drawings about the fundamental deity I worship.
But according to certain people, "having something to hide = must be a criminal!!!". Because they're likely followers of some mainstream religion which is not socially persecuted, or religion isn't something significant in their lives.
Seriously. I'm truly tired of this world.
Damn, and meanwhile I literally have a shirt that’s in a pattern of an inverted cross that reads “Lucifer died for our sins” that I pull out to make the religious cross the road from me.
I say fuck it and make them normalize to a world that doesnt include their bubble but I also have bad self preservation.
@Krauerking@lemy.lol @technology@lemmy.world
Wow, LOVED the shirt! 🖤 Ágios Lux ferre!
I, too, do use a similar t-shirt, whose print I designed myself tries to depict Lilith. From afar, the print isn't that explicit, though: to the average bystander, it's depicting a pale woman with glowing red eyes, dark red lips, straight long dark red hair and feathery dark red wings (certainly mistaken by others as angelical), holding a red rose flower. Even the text ("Rebele-se pela", Portuguese for "Rebel yourself for" at the top; "Liberdade", "Freedom/Liberty", at the bottom), which is stylized (gothic font), is too small to be read from afar. The only tell is the mirrored ⯝ (the Venus/Feminine symbol but the circle is a waxing Moon; in my art, it's actually a waning Moon for Her Crone/Reaperess aspect) tattooed on Her left cheek, and the dark wings.
The problem is how the country I was born into is utterly christian; most employers and merchants are christian, especially in small towns (one of which I reside in), which are known for "quermesses" (annual church fairs). And when the majority of potential employers, especially the local ones, are utterly christian, saying out loud about professing a different religion risks one's own economic and social existence.
For example, a Mãe de Santo (leadress of a terreiro, which is the Afro-Brazilian sacred place of gathering) was refused an Uber car ride after the driver reprimanded her for her clothing typical of Afro-Brazilian, then she sued the driver for religious intolerance, but the judge denied her request and ruled favorable for the driver, inverting the entire situation and arguing "it was the Mãe de Santo who was religiously intolerant with the christian driver"; the judge was reported for being religiously intolerant (news articles in Portuguese), but the damage is already done).
In another example, a statue representing Lucifer/Baphomet/Exú from a Luciferian-Quimbanda temple was seized by a judicial decision after local christians became terrified of it, and the statue is still seized for more than a year.
Those became headlines, but there's a plethora of religious intolerance going unnoticed, social ostracism caused by simply having another faith other than christianity; it even risks body integrity (e.g. gangs such as Primeiro Comando da Capital torturing and/or murdering practitioners of Afro-Brazilian faiths).
This is the persecution me and many others are fated to face as soon as age checks, tying online activity (where I don't measure my words to praise Mother) to the legal ID, end up (inevitably) leaked (e.g. Discord age check DB leaked just days after implementing age checks).
Polish Roman Catholic background. Not exactly tolerant either and now I live in a place that famously is Mennonite and Amish.
That is a far more creative shirt than mine, wearing your own style is always incredible. However…
If they will make you suffer why not suffer on your own terms for a cause you think worth it? Why wait to be starved by someone’s hand other than your own?
I mean I get being scared of it and don’t make it a habit to hurt yourself needlessly. But I would rather live a life being myself as much as I can and be good to those who deserve it and let the weirdos who have a problem with it suffer my existence rather than the other way around. They don’t wish for my existence? To bad they can suffer, because I exist.
But I said I have bad self preservation skills, we all can’t make it out of this world alive, and I have no intention of cheating the game.
I wish you safety and health though. Its not good to feel at the whims of others.
@Krauerking@lemy.lol @technology@lemmy.world
Polish Roman Catholic background. Not exactly tolerant either and now I live in a place that famously is Mennonite and Amish.Oh.. I've heard about the Amish... So it's practically a similar situation over there.
If they will make you suffer why not suffer on your own terms for a cause you think worth it? Why wait to be starved by someone’s hand other than your own?Yeah, you're right. There's a part of me who thinks this way, too. I guess this whole age check thing will inevitably push me in this regard.
I wish you safety and health though.Thanks! Wish you the same.
HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Thank you for telling you story. I’m sorry that you are in the position you are in where you can’t freely be yourself around others.