• @[email protected]
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      683 months ago

      Rastafarians aren’t just hippies with good weed, good music and a spiritual worldview. The religion also includes a lot of misogyny and homophobia (which appears to have come from the Old Testament as translated through British Victorian-era Christianity). That’s assuming one looks at the actual Afro-Caribbean syncretic religion, rather than “rastafarianism” as it’s given by clueless white dudes who like to get high but want to feel spiritual about it.

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        613 months ago

        An Abrahamic religion based around worshipping a hereditary monarch is problematic? Colour me amazed.

      • anon6789
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        243 months ago

        I’ve been starting to learn some Afro-Latin jazz as part of my piano study, and it’s gotten me into listening to reggae as well, and I’ve really been enjoying it. There were naturually a ton of repeat references to things I knew nothing about. The Wikipedia page on Rastafarianism was enough for me and a Youtube video about the significance of Haile Selassie to the belief system instantly set off a whole bunch of conspiracy theory alarm bells.

        I’m not in the market for any religion, but even if I were, I don’t think this would be in my top 3. I’ll stick with learning piano instead.

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        13 months ago

        this came up on the Hood Politics podcast, episode had something about Zionism in the title

    • M137
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      13 months ago

      How do you not know of all the bad shit surrounding Rastafarianism?