#coloniality

[nando161mando]

Born to Nigerian parents, yet has the gaul to say Britain didn't gain its wealth through colonialism

#kemi badenoch #nigerian #colonialism #britain #uk politics #ukpol #uk government #uk govt #ukgov #uk #colonial violence #colonial america #colonial history #colonialization #coloniality #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #capitalism #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit

[hussyknee]

Twitter feels like an even split between pro-Palestine supporters and the most horrific kind of racists, Zionists and white supremacists. Tumblr is by comparison overwhelmingly in support of Palestine. And yet the level of dehumanization, isolation, Othering and casual racism on here is so much more unbearable and suffocating than Twitter could ever be.

Tumblr wants to be seen as the anti-racist good guys on the right side of history while reinforcing the racist white supremacist western-centric status quo. Black and brown people are given platform under strict conditions of what values can be challenged and how far white comfort can be pushed. It's on Twitter that we have our own communities, our own power of advocacy, and a collective drive to interrogate and dismantle structures of power.

It reinforces what I have known for a long time— Tumblr's hatred of Twitter and TikTok is based primarily on refusing to tolerate the reality of equal representation, leftist action and racial justice. A true diversity of power and perspectives is messy, chaotic, conflict-driven and upends the sense of stability and space that can only come with a homogeneity of racial demographic. The majority of disenfranchised people understands that power structures and bureaucracies are built on purpose to exclude them — the poor, the sex workers, the incarcerated, the ghettoised, the disabled, the colonized. We have to fight to be heard, and our reality and political investment cannot be separated from the minority trauma that informs them. True equality entails not having to funnel that trauma through behaviour and ethics that makes their expression more palatable or considering of others; it removes all respectability politics and allows us to behave with the same unpunished toxicity that is unleashed on us by white and western people. Conflict, cacophony and having to tolerate the untempered emotions and self-interest of all groups is the price of true diversity and honest dialogue. It also primarily empowers Black and brown people and disempowers whites. In contrast, the "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" on predominantly white-driven and Western-oriented spaces is a simply a neoliberal farce that requires us to perform our own humanity and ask validation from whiteness. This is why you see only the worst aspects and negative effects of Twitter and TikTok and use them to reject the the platforms wholesale while creating a narrative of moral superiority around Tumblr's relatively low levels of conflict and glossing over the receding presence of Black and brown people in its userbase.

Race is not a layer of oppression. It's the fundamental bisection that creates the underclass on which the colonial capitalist world order is built. It's the caste hierarchy of humanity; who gets to be labourer and profiteer, the exploiter and exploited, the worker and producer, the consumer and consumed, the masses and the individual. The living bodies and embodied lives. The experience of every other marginalization is shaped by its waters. White women and queers will neither understand nor share in the oppression of women and QPoC from both diasporas and the Global South. Even further, every marginalization becomes a weapon against BIPOC in the hands of its white demographic. Black and brown people of those marginalized communities will always only be a token and shield for their white counterparts, while being the workhorses behind their struggles.

It doesn't matter how many times you post "Free Palestine" when we know its only the product of your preoccupation with your own personal moral landscape. Politics based on egoism will always be eclipsed by threats to your material reality. This is why a userbase that spent its entire existence grandstanding against Nazis now cannot see Zionists as Nazis and begs people to participate in a political establishment that has revealed itself to be a genocidal white supremacist regime in the clearest possible terms. Fascism against its own enfranchised is the end stage of an empire that has begun to collapse under the weight of its war-mongering and now resorts to eating itself to survive. No amount of moral distance between yourselves and its machinery of death, no amount of scapegoating the lives crushed underneath it, will stop the roofs you sheltered under falling on top of you. This the truth that the colonized, enslaved and indentured people that built your house have lived all along.

#tumblr culture #twitter #tumblr wank #tiktok #white supremacy #racism #anti-blackness #islamophobia #antisemitism #anti zionism #usamerican imperialism #western imperialism #colonization #colonialism #free palestine #diversity and inclusion #respectability politics #global south #coloniality #genocide #war crimes #knee of huss

[indiastrench]

Screw you Yin Nezha - an unedited rant (spoilers included)

You know who I hate? Fucking Yin Nezha.

The Poppy War series is one of the best fantasy series I've read to date and I'm growing into an even bigger fan of RF Kuang as I'm delving into her new work Babel.

But The Poppy War series keeps pulling me back - and Nezha, you who was left alive, you're the reason why.

After I finished the series, and the subsequent stages of grief that followed, I quickly looked up content that imagined a world where Rin and Nezha ended up together - somewhere my little heart could rejoice in the fruition of my ship and I could move on happily. But no.

Yin Nezha is a lil twat who is undeserving of love - and a testament to Kuang's brilliance. As I thought about what could have been different, my thoughts fell to Nezha, what he could have done differently. Because my boy's sense of duty made him repeatedly, cruelly and totally push Rin off the edge of sanity - the girl he claimed to love.

I think about his defeat - that even then, he didn't let Rin rest, he didn't concede, didn't give her a chance to create a country that might just, against all odds, succeed. I think about why - and the answer is clear: he never once saw Rin as his equal. Yes, he was forced to acknowledge her power, but who Rin was, her ideas, her character, her identity, were always, fundamentally, beneath Nezha. Allowing such a world even a chance was an idea to be scoffed at all the way to the end.

Nezha's love exists only within the colonial matrix of power - his duty supercedes all, and that is why he can never claim to love Rin.

What's even more ridiculous?

He is as pathetic as Rin says he is. His delusion causes him to be more outwardly emotional than she ever allowed herself to be. His emotion compels you to feel sorry for him, to ignore the power imbalance, because look at Rin and how powerful she is - and he is by all means the coward Rin says he is. He does not have what it takes to challenge the colonial matrix of power, and she does. While we all know that Rin is a crazy ass mf, we must acknowledge that she is never allowed to win - and that is the conclusion of the book.

Towards the end, I'd grown tired of Rin and her insanity and it was easy to place the blame on her and leave it at that. But you, Yin Nezha, are the true villain [aside from obv the Hesperians] - and congratulations, you won.

#yin nezha #the poppy war #the burning god #the dragon republic #fang runin #rf kuang #coloniality #colonialism #rant #fantasy #fantasy books

[diaryofaphilosopher]

Conditioned by the experience of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor travelled, much less listened to Beethoven. Any restriction on this way of life, in the name of the rights of the community, appears to the former oppressors as a profound violation of their individual rights−although they had no respect for the millions who suffered and died of hunger, pain, sorrow, and despair. For the oppressors, "human beings" refers only to themselves; other people are "things". For the oppressors, there exists only one right: their right to live in peace, over against the right, not always even recognized, but simply conceded, of the oppressed to survival. And they make this concession only because the existence of the oppressed is necessary to their own existence.

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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#paulo freire #pedagogy of the oppressed #book quotes #quote #quotes #sociology #philosophy #dark academia #academia #gradblr #studyblr #chaotic academia #psychology #colonisation #imperialism #empire #decolonialization #coloniality #neocolonialism #colonialism #colonial history #colonial violence

[protoslacker]

The problem for me trying to study in the library is I am acutely aware that there's so many other things I could be reading than what I am supposed to be reading. In the main library at The University of Pittsburgh there was a room separated by a glass wall and windows on three sides with book shelves filled with popular books. I'm pretty sure I read this article in The Atlantic Magazine in that room during the first semester of my freshman year. It was a revelation to me.

I was familiar with ideas put forward to help understand a gap in academic achievement of Black school children attributing the gap to "verbal deprivation." The reason I was familiar is that by the time all of my mother's five children were old enough for school, circa 1965, she decided to become a school teacher. She had to go back to school for it. We had moved to South Carolina and the civil rights struggle was in full effect. In South Carolina my mother taught in working class areas in schools that were predominately Black. She talked about all of it. We moved to Charlotte, NC and then to Pittsburgh. But my mother's school experiences played a big role in my interest child development when I started college.

In this article Labov cogently disproves notions of "verbal deprivation" and provides and describes elements of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). I think the part that struck me the most was the "academic ignorance" bit. I didn't have words for it, today, at least here on Tumblr I might say I encountered the "coloniality of knowledge."

The article helped me love learning and thinking about language more. Quite a lot of the stuff I read in that room has stuck with me more than the assigned readings which I didn't read--doh!

#language #geography #history #memory #coloniality #anibal quijano

[witchywitchy]

Keep talking about Palestine!

#free palestine #palestine #signal boost #gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #social justice #palestine resources #colonialism #imperialism #jerusalem #the west bank #end the occupation #tel Aviv #human rights #united nations

[sayruq]

like to charge reblog to cast

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #end the occupation #end the apartheid #apartheid #settler colonialism #american imperialism

[nezreblogz]

#palestine #gaza #free gaza #free palestine #jerusalem #yemen #lebanon #middle east #human rights #united nations #politics #colonialism #fuck israel

[intersectionalpraxis]

"Elderly Palestinian couple looking at their former home, now occupied by a couple from Brooklyn. 🇵🇸" [@/RamAbdu on X. April 4th, 2024.]

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #settler violence #settler colonialism #current events #freepalastine🇵🇸 #colonial violence #colonialism #gaza strip #gaza #us imperialism #western imperialism

[totallynotcensorship]

#congo #the congo #congo genocide #free congo #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #jerusalem #social justice #imperialism #colonialism #gaza strip #yemen #tel aviv #palestine news

[heritageposts]

I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)

#free palestine #israel #gaza #this is under ch 10 'The Memoricide of the Nakba' - > 'Virtual Colonialism and the JNF' #''olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.''

[notyourtoday]

#congolaise #congolese #congo genocide #free congo #what is happening in congo #democratic republic of the congo #dr congo #congo #don't forget congo #please talk about congo #silent genocide #end colonialism #end the silent genocide #end genocide #journalist #journalism #save congo #save the people of congo #crimes against children #human crisis #crimes against humanity #humanitarian crisis #human rights #what the western media won't show #what the news won't show #fyppage #tiktok fyp #tiktok #daily post #fyp

[hussyknee]

Today, in The USA and Israel are Miserable Pieces of Filth and The United Nations is The Rag it Uses to Wipe its Ass:

I just. Have no words.

Make no mistake that the UN is facilitating this genocide in concert with the rest of the West. If this doesn't break the UN then nothing will. If this isn't the last straw for Arabs then nothing will be.

#at this point i'm only surviving for my cats #we're just going to watch them die then? #fuck this Im throwing my full support behind Hamas‚ Houthis‚ Hezbollah‚ and the Muslim Brotherhood #I will never ever support Khamenei or Assad or Putin but their blood money is as good as the US's #the US government is the greatest terrorist organisation in the world and it's past time it was recognized as such #it's time the rest of the world got together to defeat it by any means necessary #glory to the resistance #free palestine #united nations #war crimes #palestinian genocide #gaza genocide #death to israel #death to america #death to the west #human rights violations #western imperialism #american imperialism #colonization #coloniality #global south #genocide joe #vote blue no matter who #vote biden #i/p #mouin rabbani #world politics #antonio guterres #knee of huss #colonialism

[padawan-historian]

no caption needed

#our world #9/11 #september 11th #settler colonialism #politics #this lovecraft country of ours #covid 19

[beam-of-sunlightbb]

"At least 27 children have died because of dehydration and malnutrition in the Northern Gaza Strip. These tragic and horrific deaths are man-made, predictable and entirely preventable." -UNRWA

#palestine #israel #gaza #gaza strip #social justice #free gaza #free palestine #middle east #colonialism

[witchywitchy]

"B-but Palestinians can get their freedom with peace not violence 🥺🥺" no. Screw your feelings. The armed resistance against colonizers and murderers is what will give Palestinians their freedom and what will eventually achieve real peace.

An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!

"Peace" is not really a thing you see during a live ethnic cleansing!

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #signal boost #social justice #palestine resources #colonialism #imperialism #jerusalem #the west bank #free gaza #yemen #tel aviv #gaza strip #the middle east #human rights #united nations