Muslim woman urges skit makers to stop profiling Hausa people

Key Points

  • A Muslim woman calls out skit makers for harmful stereotypes. She says the trend puts real people at risk.
  • She argues criminals have no tribe, religion, or language. She urges creators to stop using culture as a prop.
  • The woman asks platforms and fans to demand better content. She says small steps can change harmful public views.

A Muslim woman has called out content creators for stereotyping. She says using Hausa speech and Islamic dress to show criminals is wrong.

social media (user-generated content).

She warned this skit trend fingerprints entire groups unfairly. She cited local news like Edo Assembly summons Natasha as proof of public pushback.

The woman said many viewers do not know Nigeria’s diversity. She added that one sketch can shape wrong outside views.

Creators and consequences

She told skit makers they must think about real harm. She explained that fake scenes can lead to unfair treatment.

She said hijabs, jalabiyas and turbans are not crime props. She warned those images tie Islam and Hausa to crime.

The woman noted Northern Nigerians already face wrong labels in many spaces. She said online jokes add salt to that ongoing wound.

She urged creators to stop leaning on easy stereotypes for laughs. She asked them to pick fresh, non-harmful ideas instead.

Creators who copy the trend may not see short harm. They often miss how clips spread beyond Nigeria’s borders.

A foreign viewer could equate one group with criminal acts. That view then shapes work chances and social welcome abroad.

What the woman wants

She asked platforms to flag skits that use culture as prop. She urged actors to avoid backgrounds that mark religion or tribe.

She said police and elders should speak against harmful skits. She said public voices can calm things down and set norms.

The woman called on viewers to name and shame lazy stereotyping. She told fans to report clips that trade on bias.

She also suggested simple swaps to keep comedy but lose harm. She said changing language or costume can keep the joke safe.

The woman added that criminals cross all tribes and faiths. She said crime is a human act, not a cultural trait.

Skit makers who care about craft will find better ways. They can show crime without tying it to a group.

The public can ask for clearer standards from platforms now. Better rules will protect both artists and innocent people.

She closed by asking for respect for all Nigerians everywhere. She said small changes in skits can prevent big harms.

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What an insulting clickbait headline by the New York Times.

I can't even...

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The mere fact that we have terms Like "maskulin" and "feminine" is proof that we assign certain behaviors to a certain sex.
The only reason these terms exist and make sense is stereotyping.

Stereotyping is what you do when you are incapable of interaction with the actual beings.

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#Stereotyping shouldn’t still be happening in #book #publishing, but it’s in a children’s novel published by Penguin House UK. Why didn’t the publisher set up vetting by an #authenticity #reader? Because the book has a celebrity author? Pull it from stores! https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/09/jamie-oliver-apologises-after-childrens-book-criticised-for-stereotyping-first-nations-australians-ntwnfb H/T @ayeshachari.
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...and on the note of the Israel thing, let's move on to #antisemitism, and #racsim in general.

There is a VERY serious problem, in this country, of people #stereotyping others based entirely on demographics. Too many people in the #US do not understand that you cannot make any assumption about a person based on #SkinColor alone, let alone the complex relationship between #Jewish people, who have suffered 1000s of years of #persecution, and #Israel, a country they see as a last safe-haven in events like the #holocaust.

Tossing aside the stark contrast in expanding protections for #marginalized groups, as opposed to totally ending them, the way people in prominent positions speak plays a lot into this.

Harris's talk of unity, looking past our differences, of accepting each other as #Americans and #Human beings, is exactly what we need a leader to do right now. Contrast with her opponents saying despicable things like "Jews will be to blame".

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Gender Stereotyping in the Labor Market https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iab:iabdpa:202413&r=&r=lma
"… within STEM occupations as well as in supervisory and leadership positions that the majority of jobs is male-stereotyped.…indicate a positive association between #gender #stereotyping and occupational gender segregation, suggesting that gender stereotyping in job ads might contribute to the underrepresentation of women in certain occupations and occupational positions"
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Throughout, he shows himself to be incapable of seeing people as individuals. To him, all Germans have the same motivation and are guilty of the Holocaust, all Irish are pure of "WWII sin," all (((Israelis))) and their supporters (as well as mere detractors of Hamas and Hezbollah) are guilty of the same horrendous crimes, and everyone not good enough is the same as the Nazis. I dislike intensely how common this sort of stereotyping has become among supposedly enlightened people.

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Very tribalistic mentality here.

"Ireland was neutral during WWII. You're directing your frustrations at the wrong person."

Just to be clear, the person this schmuck is replying to never mentioned Ireland _or_ tried to blame him for anything during WWII.

This post is revealing in a way I don't think Ken here intended. He ducks any critical thinking about where responsibility should lie, instead getting needlessly defensive and dodging accusations that were never there. So long as "his people" aren't involved, he doesn't care.

There's also that obsession with neutrality. From his first post in that thread, about abstaining from the US election (he's Irish), it's clear he thinks that "not taking a side" between good and evil (or even bad and evil) is an admirable choice.

#Antisemitism
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#Germany
#Ireland
#Israel
#Zionism
#Holocaust
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Attached: 1 image @benny@kirche.social Dresden was a horffic war crime. Ireland was neutral during WWII. You're directing your frustration against the wrong person. You're guilty of supporting genocide because you support Israel being massively funded and armed by Germany. Germany openly does this because of the Holocaust. 42000 murdered civilians is war crime because it is against every code of warfare as per the Geneva Convention. Now in your mind, they are defending themselves but in the real world, it's genocide.

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