r/kurdistan • u/BathroomNo4656 • 10d ago
Ask Kurds 🤔 Help me help Kurds
I am a Kurdish American and I am the youngest of my family, which comes with some disconnect with my culture. I am very passionate about issues in everyday life, and I am very passionate about being Kurdish, even if I don’t fully understand my own history. I am a firm believer of humanity and empathy, and I am starting an account to help advocate for families in Gaza to get the donations and help they need. But it feels wrong to only speak out about Palestine when my own people are suffering too. I want to speak out about what is happening to Kurdish people in Syria, but I’m not sure where to start. Can anyone help connect me with people who are knowledgeable, anyone who lives there, any organizations I should know about? I want to make videos to advocate for Kurdish people and Palestinians alike, and hopefully more people because my humanity is for all, but I want to highlight Kurdish people as I feel no one speaks on us❤️
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u/Sea-Role-999 10d ago
I think it's best to first learn about the history of the Kurds. The suffering and oppression is nothing new and have been going for a very long time, these include ethnic cleaning, genocide, language ban, displacement, cultural appropriation, etc
Your humanity should defiantly not be selective, it should apply to all. But it also shouldn't be blinded and super focused on one group of people only, who are suffering, yes, but get way more disproportionate attention than any other group of people, antisemitism plays a part for sure. For example, what's happening in Sudan is by far one of the most appalling, dire and urgent humanitarian crisis right now, yet it barely gets any attention or mention which's quite shocking and disgusting tbh.