#and paying reparations

[enbycrip]

I’m reading a lot of stuff about the massacres in Ireland before and during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and, honestly, the parallels between that situation and the one in Palestine rn are pretty impossible to ignore.

In which, btw, Scotland played a role of more than supporting England - a bunch of Scottish Covenanters had engaged in plantation in Ireland, and, despite both parties being white Europeans - it’s still pretty clearly colonialism. Land theft, with the explicit intention of “civilising” the native Irish and making them change from a pastoral way of life to crop agriculture and to Protestantism.

I feel it is a necessary part of Scotland’s necessary movement towards independence that we as a country recognise our part in colonialism and genocide and that we still benefit from that resource theft today. And that comes despite the fact that we have also been victims of colonialism from England too. It’s possible to be both, and the ongoing legacy of both those facts is something we need to acknowledge and atone for.

In early modern Ireland, when there were attacks on, and atrocities towards, English and Scottish settlers, by a small number of native Irish folk, these were massively ramped up and exaggerated in the burgeoning popular press and used as excuses for mass military invasion and reprisals on the mass civilian Irish population. At least one Scottish army was sent there for “reprisals” against the civilian population by the Scottish Covenanter government.

This was in the period before Cromwell’s atrocities in Ireland, and thus is often forgotten, but they did happen. I don’t think I need to point out the parallels too minutely here.

Honestly, much as I adore the study of history, and think it is utterly necessary to understand the world we live in - few things get more horrifying and depressing than seeing such similar actions repeated again and again.

Btw, I will be *pissed off* if I see antisemitism and antisemitic dogwhistles in responses to this. The state of Israel is not synonymous with Judaism or Jewish people, and the Jewish diaspora do not deserve hatred because of the actions of Israel’s horrendous right-wing government. Both the governments of UK and the USA are considerably more responsible for them; direct your anger there rather than at people of an ethnic group who have more than enough shit thrown at them.

Both antisemitic and Islamophobic attacks have increased across the world since this, and that is absolutely horrific. No random civilians in other parts of the world are responsible for these atrocities.

#palestine #ireland #wars of the three kingdoms #colonialism #genocide #land theft #history #early modern history #modern history #antisemitism #islamophobia #scottish independence #scottish independence means taking full responsibility for our part in colonialism #and paying reparations

[slitheriyn]

draco in cokeworth + snape lives au!

after the war, despite harry clearing snape and draco's names, they're still shunned and ostracized by the wizarding world because they were ex death eaters. severus planned to move back to spinner's end alone, but narcissa, seeing how her boy is treated, brings up the unbreakable vow and forces him to bring draco with him. severus just sighs and agrees. draco protests at first but after some convincing from his mother, he eventually relents. in cokeworth, severus makes draco apply to jobs, and he now works as a waiter ^_^ sev has a small made-to-order potions business and he converts the galleons to muggle money maybe idk... narcissa visits once a week to see how her boy is doing and harry also visits sometimes.

#severus snape #draco malfoy #godfather severus snape #doodle! #the malfoys money are gone because they had to pay reparations btw thats why draco has to work lol #lucius is in prison LAWL #made him work as a waiter bcs it would be funny if he had to work customer service #i love thinking abt fun little aus ^_^

[dadvans]

if god hates the gays then why is benoit blanc married to hugh grant??? riddle me this

#glass onion spoilers #knives out glass onion #love Daniel Craig thriving in his little suits #hugh grant paying reparations for being a bad gay in Maurice

[keniaku]

love that tiny bit in the anime where the glass strains against geto's curse. it shows how careful he is when fighting, even when using a curse that big indoors he made sure not to cause too much damage if at all.

then there's gojo

#txt #gojo can pay for the reparations with his own pocket money so he's like omgggg sensei who caresssssss 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 #jjk anime spoilers #jjk s2 spoilers #no id

[fluffalpenguin]

the mean girls of duel academia

#yugioh arc v #yugioh arc-v #arc-v #fusion four #fusion gang #idk i cant decide on their group name so i'll just use both #there's also the wip of them playing mahjong on twitter but its too unpolished to tack it on here #ahhhhhhhhhhh i need to draw them more i love this combination so much #they're all outcasts in a way in DA so i think they'd be really good not-friends... frenemies?? idk #what about grace and gloria i hear you say well theyre in their own non-student mean girls group with edo the third tyler sister #anyway time to infodump on these!!!!! #maids (and butlers) are from a long 20 page comic about DA opening up a maid cafe to earn money to pay for war reparations #i finished the storyboards and script 2 years ago but i just never got around to it again lol #i need to rework it anyway because shun and dennis were oddly cordial in that one for some reason #the standard uniforms ones are when they're sent to standard to pose as undercover students #i drafted some pages where yuri reveals himself to be from fusion in this sick costume change #it's pretty cool if i do say so myself (i do) #the comics centered around sora were also meant to be a multi paged project on how he gets closer to everyone from academia after the war #i just (gets emotional) want to see them all getting along theyre such interesting characters and even more so when interacting together #oh yeah character tags #sora #serena #yuri #dennis #edo #grace #gloria is not here

[mod2amaryllis]

who else haunted by an apology you never got the chance to make???? 🤪🤪🤪

#this isn't too serious this is about my college roommate #i was awful and i think about it all the time and wish i could send her a pizza and say any resentment is justified i'm so sorry #but i don't keep track of people. i don't know her last name i don't know how to contact her or if she'd even want that #i just think about it constantly for some fucking reason #if you're out there....man i'm sorry i didn't try harder to be friends i was 19 and at my absolute worst #I'm sorry about the illegal rat cage i never cleaned #literally i wish i could pay you reparations you wouldn't have to say a word to me just receive 'you didn't deserve that' + 50 usd #i think part of why this particular memory is so persistent- and has been for years like it constantly comes up when i'm tired- #is because the stakes are relatively low #like i was just a shit. i was just annoying and unkind. and then we both moved on and i'm better now and i assume she's ok. #the scope of it is just small enough.... like a burr. in my brain. #I'm hoping if i throw this into the ether i won't think about it as much lol #m2a

[theprinceandthewitch]

Just when I thought I was done with TOH... the pilot and Hunter's original design draws me back in

I love this alot, mostly because it destroys the argument anti lunter weirdos made about Hunter being a last minute add in. Which was like, never actually true because SAI implied foreshadowed alot of... interesting stuff... the whole Lunter kiss. Hunter was also in alot of early production stuff as well... like someone on the production team literally said Dana had him in mind since early Bible days LMAO (ricky cometa over on instagram)

The other thing I like is that this confirms Hunter being related to Belos wasn't a last minute add in either.

NGL I'm frothing at the mouth over the implication William was put into an eternal sleep by Obron/Belos because he fell in love with a witch... Like Williams whole thing with being a witch-hunter who lost his memories is the perfect set-up for that kind of reveal...

#lunter #this makes SAI even more sus tbh #I also want to know why they made Hunter older... #okay I NEED to know when Dana first cooked up Flapjack... i think he might have been an early thing as well #because Nevareth foreshadows Hunter's backstory and animal sidekick #I want anti lunter lumity and huntlow shippers to pay us reparations... the nonsense these clowns have put us through

[dreams-of-void]

I think that my favorite headcanon about Rei is that, even if he has like 3 jobs, so 3 pays, one of those only serve to buy stuff for his car because he destroys it regularly and I'm pretty sure an assurance wouldn't cover stuff like throwing it off a skyscraper or whatever he's doing when driving

#rei furuya #furuya rei #tooru amuro #amuro tooru #detco #dcmk #detective conan #everytime he has to pay for reparations he curses Hagiwara under his breath for teaching him how to drive like that

[insinirate]

Hilarious that vash only agrees to the brocon after knives has been metaphorically neutered. He is powerless and as close to human as ever before vash gets into it.

well theres no more galaxy destroying calamity to stop now so he may as well kick back and enjoy stuff humanity hypes up like sex and good pasta

#also knives has reparations to pay for getting vashs husband mega killed before they could consummate their marriage #anonymous

[ausetkmt]

I knew that the Catholic Church via the Pope had authorized slavery in the 1400s, but I didn’t know that they had authorized the eradication, subjugation, etc, of African people. Somehow I never connected the two.

“We grant you [Kings of Spain and Portugal] by these present documents, with our Apostolic Authority, full and free permission to invade, search out, capture, and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be, as well as their kingdoms, duchies, counties, principalities, and other property […] and to reduce their persons into perpetual servitude.”

These clearly refers to the lands along the coast of West Africa. By these decree,  Pope Nicholas V conceded to the King of Portugal Afonso V and Prince Henry and all their successors, all their conquests of Africa, and reduction to perpetual servitude of all people deemed non-believers and enemies of Christ, and all their properties.

A significant subsequent concession given by Nicholas V in a brief issued to King Alfonso in 1454 extended the rights granted to existing territories to all those that might be taken in the future. Together with a second reference to some who have already been enslaved, this has been used to suggest that Nicholas sanctioned the purchase of black slaves from “the infidel”: “… many Guineamen and other negroes, taken by force, and some by barter of unprohibited articles, or by other lawful contract of purchase, have been … converted to the Catholic faith, and it is hoped, by the help of divine mercy, that if such progress be continued with them, either those peoples will be converted to the faith or at least the souls of many of them will be gained for Christ.”

This bull is currently conserved at the Institute of the National Archives of Torre do Tomba in Lisboa, Portugal, under the reference PT/TT/BUL/0007/29 and is fully translated to French in the book “le Péché du pape contre l’Afrique” (The Sin of the Pope against Africa) (éd. Al qalam, Paris, 2002) de Assani Fassassi, P. 10 – 21.

#catholics and slavery #pope nicholas v #dum diversas #Dum Diversas or The Vatican’s Authorization of Slavery #who started slavery of Africans #Enslaved Africans #catholic church is paying Reparations #Reparations

[mimi-0007]

#black lives matter #black history #black love #black literature #black tumblr #black history is american history #black history month #black excellence #civil rights #black archives #equal rights #equal pay #black community #civil rights movement #reparations #black and white

[mileenaxyz]

The story of Hind is beyond traumatizing. The fact we haven't heard anything from the Red Crescent workers who went to rescue her is very horror story-ish.

#justice for palestinians #palestinian genocide #justice for palestine #palestinian holocaust #free palestine #palestine #using our tax dollars #we deserve reparations for this #this is a coffin nail for the west #isntreal and all their allies are gonna pay for this #fuck isntreal

[vamprisms]

makes me sick that they're shelling out a fortune on a parade for that scrotum-faced nonce when millions of his so called subjects can't afford food or a home. i hope they drop the stupid fucking rock on him

#it's so fucking hollow #how about feed some kids and pay some reparations to the countries you sacked for your gold hat and palaces

[joanieebaez]

I AM SO MAD ABOUT THE CASTIJG FOR JOAN BAEZ ITS LITERALLY THE WOMAN FROM TOP GUN LIKE ARE YOU SERIOUS. IM GONNA BE SICK

YOU GET IT!!!!! she just looks nothing like her, not even hispanic, looks very straight (to me) and is just. idk.

#as a spanish person i didn't pay my reparations to latin america for nothing. #we need joan.

[goldiipond]

legally i know there's nothing i can do about the fact that the prettiest fucking song ive ever heard in my life was made for tpn s2's opening and will consequently always be associated with one of the worst anime downfalls ever but i still want to press charges regardless

#skye's ramblings #literally its sooo fucking pretty maan the vocals the instrumentals the EVERYTHING. THE. i get emotional every time i listen to it #someone has to pay for this someone needs to give kiro akiyama reparations. you all need to listen to identity by kiro akiyama NOW

[skonksrus]

Gen-chan!

Shout out to the best FY character. Absolute goober.

#my art #fanart #fushigi yugi #fushigi yuugi #fushigi yûgi #ふしぎ遊戯 #tauski #tasuki fushigi yuugi #翼宿 #this man should pay me reparations for the amount of brain damage he has inflicted upon me