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supercomplicatedperson · 2 months

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Wanna hear what made me so incredibly angry today?!?!?

For a couple of years now, especially since the pandemic, there has been a plague of foreigners who have the option of working remotely and proceed to move to Mexico because it's "so cheap!". This has obviously made it so many established neighborhoods and streets become unlivable for the people who were already there due to gentrification.

And while you can excuse making historic neighborhoods in Mexico basically become touristic zones full of white people who never bothered to learn Spanish as them "not knowing the harm they cause", you'll have a hard time convincing me these people are THAT stupid or ignorant.

https://belatina.com/foreigners-close-down-local-restaurant-puerto-vallarta-mexican-music-too-loud/

These people moved to Mexico, next to a historic Mexican restaurant, and now they want to close it down because the mexican music they play on the mexican restaurant is "too loud" for them?!?! This is a level of self entitlement and straight up malicious selfishness that pisses me off so bad. This is what mexico is dealing with. This isn't immigrants trying to assimilate to the culture, this is foreigners moving to a country they find comfortable and "cheap" and wanting to ban mariachi from performing outside or on the beach because it inconveniences them. And when covered by foreign papers like this article it always gets framed as "they're so disruptive! They aren't conducive to relaxation!".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/04/01/mexico-beach-bands-tourists-noise-eclipse/d92e89ca-f040-11ee-a4c9-88e569a98b58_story.html

I hate I hate I hate I hope they get eaten by a truck.

#gentrification #colonialism #modern colonialism #Mexico #SO ANGRY #HATE #extranjeros #foreigners #gringos #rant post #Mariachi Bands #Mexican #Immigration and gentrification are DIFFERENT

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the-hopeful-realist · 21 days

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The Rational Man in a World of Hate

I sat spellbound the other night listening to Karim A.A. Khan, the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal court, as he explained to Christiane Amanpour why he sought arrest warrants from the court for the leadership of both Israel and Hamas. His public announcement had listed the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the leadership of both parties. I cannot say that I have…

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#Christiane Amanpour #climate denial #crimes against humanity #dehumanization #Hamas #hatred #International Criminal Court #Israel #Karim Khan #modern colonialism #occucpation #sovereignty #student protestors #violence

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bakerstreetlady · 1 year

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Would like to point out, in regards to the World Cup, that Morocco is a fucking colonizer too. With love from someone who worked with West Sahara refugies.

Don't worry anon I'm well aware of that. I myself strongly disagree with the country's politics on Polisario and Palestine but I'm still happy the Moroccan team got this far for their people and other former colonies from Africa and everywhere else in the world.

The mere fact that Moroccan players brandished the Palestinian flag proudly during the cup shows that there's a huge gap between the state's actions and the people. I don't think most Moroccans agree with the country's politics.

Really appreciate your message ! It's nice to see people are vocal about Polisario on Tumblr !

#world cup #morocco #polisario #modern colonialism

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juniper-clan · 21 days

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a post with this video was right on top of the most recent update in my dashboard lmfao

I like to think Herons paranoia would make her post incoherent nonsense on Colonial Yahoo Answers

#colonial yahoo answers is just going into the woods and screaming and waiting for a toothless mountain man to scream back at you #that’s also modern South Carolina #jcooc #jcasks #this is a good ask #I miss yahoo answers

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llyfrenfys · 5 months

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See, I personally find this quest to find pagan/pre-Christian elements in Welsh/Irish literature quite unnerving - I don't know about anyone else.

There's something to be said about genuinely discovering pre-Christian elements in a narrative or story and that being where evidence and study has led you. But I see some people on this fruitless quest to find pagan elements in very Christian texts and sometimes it feels like if no pagan elements can be found, people start making stuff up out of whole cloth - and that can be very dangerous for already not-well known texts in minoritised languages!

There's already so much misinformation out there about Irish/Welsh texts and literature in general - so it hurts to see people carelessly adding to the misinformation either out of ignorance or lack of respect for the source material.

I promise you the source material being Christian doesn't ruin it - you can in fact, enjoy these myths without making them into something they're not!

#I feel like general ire towards (particularly) colonial Christianity has informed how people think of and view anything that is associated #with Christianity - and ire towards some of the ills committed in the name of Christianity is very valid actually #but what it isn't is approaching any text written in a Christian context and immediately disregarding it for having anything unique or #insightful to say. And in a Celtic languages context #this can be especially othering and almost fetishistic of an imagined pagan Ireland and Wales which was 'covered up' by Christianity #and that desire for people outside of Ireland and Wales to impose a kind of 'pagan faerie culture' onto the modern countries directly feeds #into false depictions of Ireland and Wales as 'lost in time' or as magical places full of latent pagan culture &c. which can be really #damaging in its own way against people who live in Wales or Ireland or who speak Welsh or Irish #this goes for other Celtic speaking nations too like Scotland Brittany Isle of Man and Cornwall #But Wales and Ireland tend to be the most focused on for this kind of treatment #luke's originals #Welsh #Wales #Cymblr #Irish #Ireland #welsh mythology #irish mythology #irish literature #welsh literature #Arthurian legends #arthurian literature

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alittlegreekreader · 12 days

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anyway esims for gaza (gazaesims.com) really need esims right now, they're very reasonably priced & a lot of people are posting discount codes. gazafunds (gazafunds.com) are highlighting a campaign right now for a family who only have €3,638 out of the €50,000 they need to evacuate so go help them out. some classicists might think this, the palestinian genocide & the struggle for palestinian liberation, aren't relevant to our discipline, but it is not morally defensible imo to study the ancient history of a place and yet have no interest in the people who are living & dying there now. free palestine.

#free palestine #palestine #tagamemnon #quite apart from the fact that classics as a discipline was & is so tied up in modern colonial projects

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hometoursandotherstuff · 6 months

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I'm calling this one "50 Shades of Gray," b/c it's "colorfully" gray. They have just raised the price on this 1998 Douglasville, Georgia home by $5.5K to $745K. It has 5bds, 6ba.

I must say that it's an attractive home. Red leaded glass doors open to a beautiful large entrance hall with a patterned tile floor.

I like the dining room. Very sharp colors with pretty arched windows, tray ceiling and beautiful chandelier.

Open concept kitchen has lovely floor tile, a tray ceiling, and attractive lighting.

The kitchen is open to the main sitting/great room. It has a fantastic fireplace, doors to the patio and a bar tucked into a nook.

Up above the great room is a fancy arched mezzanine.

Off the great room, are French doors and a step down to a sun room.

Upstairs on the mezzanine overlooking the great room. You can see the coffered ceiling.

Beautiful primary bedroom has a gorgeous ceiling and fireplace, plus a balcony.

Large stone en-suite bath.

Plus a big closet.

One of the secondary bedrooms and baths.

I don't know what this room is, but it looks like a finished attic.

It has a bath.

Plus a walk-in closet.

Downstairs is a great library/family room combo. Look at the columns.

Very rustic bath. Look at the barrel sink.

Fireplace on the patio.

Pool with hot tub.

Stone fireplace.

Covered outdoor kitchen.

I acre of land.

Community tennis courts and pool.

#modern colonial home #houses #house tours #home tour

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enbycrip · 7 months

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Okay, I’ve now seen the unaltered version of this cartoon being shared uncritically by too many fucking leftist pages.

The original first image read “You can have these 200 acres for free if you grow some turnips on it or whatever”. I’ve had to alter it (badly) to made it clearer what it actually refers to.

It refers to the US Homesteading Acts, where white settlers were offered legal deeds to 200 acres of land if they kept it under an agreed and attested level of cultivation for 5-10 years (different acts had different provisions).

The *specific* reason this was offered was literally as part of the US’ policy of indigenous American genocide. They were designed *specifically* to get land belonging to and utilised by indigenous Americans into the white, European-designed legal system the US utilised (and still utilises) with a trail of ownership to *white* people so that that could be weaponised to force indigenous American tribes off their land.

It’s not “people had it better in the past”; it’s specifically “a certain group of people were actively privileged over another group and recruited to benefit from the genocide of the second group so they would take part in that genocide”.

Genocides, by and large, don’t simply happen because of baseless ideological hatred. They’re driven by material and economic interests, and the ideology is put in place to cover and legitimise this - whether to the people taking part in it or to the wider world.

In most of the world today, and *certainly* in settler colonial and former colonial powers like the US, Canada, and the UK, any calls for social and economic justice that erase genocide and colonialism, and the material benefit our states today have attained due to them, are *still* taking part in genocide and colonialism, and so are we, as individuals, if we allow this discourse to go by unchallenged.

#housing #land back #genocide #homesteading acts were genocide #settler colonialism #erasing genocide is perpetuating genocide #erasing colonialism is perpetuating colonialism #us history #history #modern history #badly corrected meme #indigenous rights

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fatehbaz · 9 months

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It's a big mess of hubris; the manipulative use of scientific language to legitimate/validate the status quo; Victorian/Gilded Age notions of resource extraction; the "rightness" of "land improvement"; and the inevitability of empire.

This was published in the United States one year before the massacre at Wounded Knee.

This was the final year-ish of the so-called "Indian Wars" when the US was "completing" its colonization of western North America; at the beginning of the Gilded Age and the zenith of power for industrial/corporate monopolies; when Britain, France, and the US were pursuing ambitious mega-projects across the planet like giant canals and dams; just as the US was about to begin its imperial occupations in Central America and Pacific islands; during the height of the "Scramble for Africa" when European powers were carving up that continent; with the British Empire at the ultimate peak of its power, after the Crown had taken direct control of India; in the years leading up to mass labor organizing and the industrialization of war precipitating the mass death of the two world wars.

This was also the time when new academic disciplines were formally professionalized (geology; anthropology; archaeology; ecology).

Classic example of Victorian-era (and emerging modernist and twentieth-century) imperial hubris which implies justification for its social hierarchies built on resource extraction and dispossession by invoking both emerging technical engineering prowess (trains, telegraphs, electricity) and the in-vogue scientific theories widely popularized at the time (Lyell's work, dinosaurs, and the geology discipline granting new understanding of the grand scale of deep time; Darwin's work and ideas of biological evolution; birth of anthropology as an academic discipline promoting the idea of "natural" linear progression from "savagery" to imperial civilization; the technical "efficiency" of monoculture/plantations; emerging systems ecology and new ideas of biogeographical regions).

While also simultaneously doing the work to, by implication, absolve them of ethical complicity/responsibility for the cruelty of their institutions by naturalizing those institutions (excusing the violence of wealth disparities, poverty, crowded factory laboring conditions, mass imprisonment, copper mines, South Asian famine, the industrialization of war eventually manifesting in the Great War, etc.) by claiming that "commerce is a science"; "pursuit of profit is Natural"; "empire is inevitable".

This tendency to invoke science as justification for imperial hegemony, whether in Britain in the 1880s or the United States in the 1920s and such, might be a continuation of earlier European ventures from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries which included the use of cartography, surveying/geography, Linnaean taxonomy, botany, and natural history to map colonies/botanical resources and build/justify plantations and commercial empires in the Portuguese slave ports, Dutch East Indies, or the Spanish Americas.

Some of the issues at play:

-- Commerce is "A Science". Commerce is shown to be both an ecological system (by illustrating it as if it were a landscape, which is kinda technically true) and a physiological system (by equating infrastructure/extraction networks with veins) suggesting wealth accumulation is Natural.

-- If commerce/capitalism are Natural, then evolutionary theory and linear histories suggest it is also Inevitable (it was not mass violence of a privileged few humans who spent centuries beating the Earth into submission to impose the Victorian/Gilded Age state of things, it was in fact simply a natural evolutionary progression). And if wealth accumulation is Natural, then it is only Right to pursue "land improvement".

-- US/European hubris. They can claim to perceive the planet in its apparent totality (as a globe, within the bounds of extraterrestrial space as if it were a laboratory or plantation). The planet and all its lifeforms are an extension of their body, implying a justified dominion.

-- However, their anxiety and suspicions about the stability of empire are belied by their fear of collapse and the simultaneous US/European obsession at the time with ancient civilizations, the "fall of Rome", classical ruins, etc. At this time, the professionalization of the field of archaeology had helped popularize images and stories of Sumer, Egypt, the Bronze Age, the Aegean, Rome, etc. And there was what Ann Stoler has called an "imperialist nostalgia" and a fascination with ancient ruins, as if Britain/US were heirs to the legacy of Athens and Rome. You can see elements of this in the turn of the century popularity of Theosophy/spiritualism, or the 1920s revival of "classical" fashions. This historicism also popularized a sort of "linear narrative" of history/empires, reinforced by simultaneous professionalization of anthropology, which insinuated that humans advance from a "primitive" state towards modernity's empires.

-- Meanwhile, from the first decades of the nineteenth century when Megalosaurus and Iguanodon helped to popularize fascination with dinosaurs, Georgian and later Victorian Britain became familiar with deep time and extinction, which probably contributed to British anxiety about extinction, imperial collapse, lastness, and death.

-- Simultaneously, the massive expansion of printed periodicals allowed for sensationalist narrativizing of science.

-- The masking of the cruelty in a euphemism like "land improvement". Like sentencing someone to a de facto slow death and deprivation in a prison but calling it a "sanatorium" or "reformatory". Or calling the mass amounts of poor, disabled, women, etc. underclasses of London "unfortunates". Whether it's Victorian Britain or early twentieth century United States: "Our empire is doing this for the betterment and advancement of all mankind."

-- If an ecosystem is conceived as a machine, "land improvement" actually means monoculture, high-density production, resource extraction, concentration.

-- The image depicts the body is itself is also a mere machine (dehumanization, etc.). And if human bodies are shown to be also systems, networks, machines like an ecosystem, then human bodies can also be concentrated for efficiency and productivity (literal concentration camps, prisons, factories, company towns, slums, dosshouses, etc.). This is the thinking that reduces humans and other creatures to objects, resources, to be concentrated and converted into wealth.

And so after the rise of railroads and coal-power and industrial factories in the earlier nineteenth century, the fin de siecle and Edwardian era then saw the expansion of domestic electricity, easier photography, telephones, radio, and automobiles. But you also witness the spread of mass imprisonment, warplanes, and machine guns, etc. And in the midst of this, the Victorian/Gilded Age also saw the rise of magazines, newspapers, mass media, pop-sci stuff, etc. So this wider array of published material, including visual stuff like maps and infographics could "win over" popular perception. This is nearly a century after the Haitian Revolution, so more and more people would have been able to witness and call out the contradictions and hypocrisies of these "civilized" nations, so scientific validation was important to empire's public image. (Think: 100 years prior, everyone witnessed widespread revolutions and slave rebellions, but now the European empires are still using indentured labor, expanding prisons, and growing even more powerful in Africa, etc. An outrage.)

Illustrations like this ...

It's people with power (or people with a vested interest in these institutions, people who aspire to climbing the social ladder, people who defend the status quo) looking around at the general state of things, observing all of the cruelty and precarity, and then using scientific discourses to concede and say "this was inevitable, this was natural" and not only that, but also "and this is good".