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[–] ggtdbz 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

IIRC during the 2019 protests I saw a screenshot of her Instagram where she clearly showed her LF struck Cross tattoo with a caption like “can anyone help me cover this shit up”.

I am not familiar with her politics or her work (or the Instagram platform or tattoos in general), but it’s more than likely that she had that tattoo done without knowing too much about the symbol’s history. She’s in the diaspora and from the postwar generation, so there’s some distance between her and the reality of the symbol.

I’m used to seeing it pop up on walls in poor Christian neighborhoods every time there’s a particularly sectarian mini civil war one-off. And in a few family group chats, unfortunately.

Symbolism is a powerful thing. The struck cross does give me a bit of a hollow oomph, to be completely honest, a symbol of some sort of Christian fighting spirit to stay alive. But I don’t fundamentally believe in a zero sum system, I don’t believe the non Christians are going to murder and eat me, hell, I don’t believe we aren’t still the hegemonic plurality in our sectarian hell system. It’s a symbol borne by people who murdered civilians in their home in 1982 and still feel proud of it in 2025. Especially Palestinian civilians. They even carved these crosses into the chests of a few of their victims. I don’t think she is likely to have supported all of that, again, but it is relevant to the conversation.

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