The grotesque extent to which the political and media left have been devoting themselves to woken identity politics for years is now causing annoyance even among “orthodox” socialists in this political camp – and is increasingly alienating those for whom being left has always been a question of social justice, labour and relations of production. A Hamburg leftist who ironically presents himself as a “transmuslim” and a “bearded woman” is now properly humiliating his own party comrades.
For some time now, Tavassoli has been appearing as a bearded woman and “trans-Muslim” in order to – in typical subversive manner – suspect “discrimination” everywhere and demand allegedly violated fundamental rights. By confronting them with their own idiocy, Tavassoli repeatedly embarrasses the left-wing academic elites in politics, the media and universities and puts them in need of explanation – simply by demonstrating in practice the effects of the left-wing delusion.
With his “outing” as a woman, for example – one who nonetheless refrains from adopting any female attributes, but “who” as an obvious biological male with a full beard simply claims to be a woman – he aptly satirises the ideology of the supposedly arbitrary free choice of gender simply out of a mere feeling, as propagated by Western “activists”.
Last week, he caused a stir at the University of Hamburg, where he is enrolled, by praying in the “Room of Silence” in his capacity as an alleged “transmuslim”. Because he videotaped this farce, the university considered it a violation of its house rules and personal rights and demanded that the video be removed from all public websites.
However, this is not without adding the statement: “All genders and religions are welcome at the University of Hamburg. The university has been a member of the Diversity Charter since 2008 and adheres to these commitments.” Tavassoli now takes this criticism as an opportunity to gleefully accuse the university of all kinds of phobias.
Tavassoli’s response – partially visible in the above tweet – was quick: “The University of Hamburg is threatening to exclude me defacto (sic!). Staff told me off the record that I had to choose between being a “normal Muslim” or a “normal tranny” if I wanted to continue my studies, but the university management would not accept either”, he commented, adding sarcastically that he had “always perceived the university as an open, tolerant space for discourse, which has made rooms available to Salafists as well as to antifa activists, representatives of the BDS alliance as well as anti-German activists”.
Tavassoli, who himself is also a member of the Left Party, had also contested the results of the executive elections of the Hamburg party congress in September because he had been refused to stand in absentia for the post of party spokesperson and the women’s list for the executive.
The party itself had already initiated proceedings to expel Tavassoli in August 2021 because he had celebrated the defeat of the “US imperialists” in Afghanistan and called for the execution of “collaborators” by the Taliban. With this, too, he had already succeeded in provoking the left – by simply taking their own phraseology to extremes.