#colonization tw

[vague-humanoid]

so people are talking about the colonizer untamed fanfic

@dirhwangdaseul @gotinterest @el-shab-hussein

its pretty vile

#I do think that while this while fujoshi are obviously eating this shit up #women are calling this out #including op so that's good to see #colonization tw #genocide tw #objectification

[andeanbeauties]

Cristhian Esquivel as Montezuma in the historical drama, “Carlos V, Rey Emperador”

#I know Cristhian Esquivel is Andean and not central american but he looked so good here #Carlos V Rey Emperador #Andean actor #andean actors #Montezuma #mexica history #colonization tw #historical drama #indigenous history #indigenous historical figures #ndn tumblr #period drama with native actors #cristhian esquivel #Aztec civilization #mesoamerica #Montezuma II #colonization of mesoamerica

[sins-of-the-sea]

"There was only one instance where my Master was ever this angry...

"And that was when he lost his Eye to begin with. The Battle of Lake Taal.

"1575. The colonization of what would become the Philippines was underway. Fortifications were already established in Manila and Cebu, and while Legazpi had died a few years before, the Spanish were fighting harder than ever against the local Indios. Emilio Montego, by then a celebrated commander of his own army, was tasked to take care of the Devil's Pirates, composed of the Master's thralls from different parts of the South China Seas.

"At the time, Guy, Josep, Giovanni, and I were still mga alipin under Datu Dalugdog, having lost Ulan. No one thought twice about white men acculturated like the Indios... because the Master's influence was growing. More and more thralls were joining his army, even among the colonizers and conquistadors. A war was raging. It wouldn't be long until the Master's power would have grown exponentially, with so many souls to consume and enthrall. It was just a matter of time.

"Until Emilio found our Master during his downtime in by Mount Taal. He had a massive army with him, big enough to take down a nation. Well, it felt like it, at least. Even the Master's thralls couldn't handle the numbers. Once Emilio cut down enough to face the Master himself...

"He was able to gouge out an Eye. The battle not only ended immediately... but all of the Master's thralls, felled at the time, turned into salt.

"It was, perhaps, sheer luck that my three friends and I were not among those who became one with the Sea. It surely would not be by the grace of G-d... He had abandoned us long ago.

"And from there, Emilio tried to find a way to purify the Eye so the four of us could be released from it... but it is not possible! No medicine or holy man could purify the Eye, so Emilio passed in old age with us left. The Master would come back eventually, obtain three more thralls, and the cycle would repeat anyway.

"Please.... for those who ever find his Eye... know that the Master can be defeated by normal human beings. It takes virtue. It takes courage. It takes willpower. And above all... faith. Faith in a higher power, faith in your fellow man.... and faith in yourself. It can be done.

"I don't care what happens to us. None of us do. Please... don't hesitate. Love us, fear for our fates if you want... it's not going to stop the inevitable.

"Just finish the job."

#[Voyage of the Devil's Eye] #[Main Story] #[Phoebus Duchamp] #death tw #religion tw #colonization tw #imperialism tw

[floaroanemoia]

{ ooc. “Wait Jess where/what exactly is the Floaroma-Eterna area??”

Going off of Sinnoh’s modern locations and Hisui’s map, it would be here:

a mix of where modern Floaroma Town Should Be (that barren hill) and Eterna Forest/the forest visited in Hisuian Snow. And no, it’s not based off of mei.ji-era Ja.pan, because Hisui is based off of Hok.ka.ido and... this is the time where it was being colonised by Ja.pan and other countries (if you want to argue on this... please don’t-- the Galaxy Building is literally just the former Hok.kai.do Colonisation Office... and I don’t think I need to explain what that was overseeing). So its architecture, beliefs, religion, way of life, etc.?? Celestican through and through. Or in irl-ish equivalents based off of the game and inspirations given to us about the Celestica... a mix of Hellenistic Ancient Greek (in Floaroma’s case... belief-wise and practises, closer to the cults of Aphrodite en Kepois given Shaymin’s inspiration by that epithet of her), Ai.nu and Bud.dhi.sm.

And make note that this isn’t land settled by the Diamond or Pearl Clan, or the Galaxy Team-- this is one of the very hidden remaining Celestican areas. Think of it like how the Ancient Retreat works-- unless you personally know someone there who knows the way, you wouldn’t know where it is or how to get there

and that’s why Sarana will lead people to and from Jubilife Village and the Alabaster Icelands-- she’s very familiar with the are and has... over 80 generations of knowledge at her disposal. }

#❁⊱⦃ ⏤ {ooc.} ⦄⊰❁ #❁⊱⦃ ⏤ {headcanon.} ⦄⊰❁ #colonisation tw #colonization tw

[came-out-of-the-coffin-desisted]

forgot to read the username and was like yeah yeah yeah great post love it until i got to HETALIA CONTEXT and it hit me like a baseball bat to the face. tumblr why did you recommend this to me

#hetalia tw #just in case i know it’s really awful for lots of people to see #colonization tw

[mariemcreau]

i'm probably gonna get hate for this, but it's okay to want to see palestine be free and to see the genocide and colonization done by israel to be over and stop and not entirely support hamas.

supporting palestinians doesn't mean supporting hamas. yes, gaza has been targeted by israel and egypt and has suffered a lot because of that. but hamas is also very authoritarian toward palestinians in gaza. and it's okay to ache for the innocent palestinians who have been suffering and killed for decades and for the innocents israeli who have been made casualties in this.

israel oppression, genocide and colonization toward palestine is real and hamas resistance is also real and important. but you can also be critical of hamas without being against palestinians. and you can feel the suffering for innocents on both sides without being against palestinians. be critical, denounce the israeli gouv. don't ignore the harm that has been done by them.

#war tw #colonization tw #genocide tw #apartheid tw #please don't send me asks about who is posting what and saying what

[intersectionalpraxis]

This is one of many stories you can read about here, and as always -Free Congo!

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free congo #congo genocide #congo #dr congo #democratic republic of the congo #congoisbleeding #congo is bleeding #drc #colonial violence #fuck colonialism #fuck colonizers #abolish capitalism #capitalism is evil #capitalism #western imperialism #tw amputation

[hussyknee]

I want you to bear witness to what your people are complicit in.

What your governments, the leaders you hold your nose and vote for do.

What people who "refuse to take a stance" because they "don't know enough" are really saying.

What you're asking when you demand that Palestinians condemn Hamas.

When you try to defend Zionism and the "two state solution".

What is meant by "Israel defending itself".

I want you to think about what you're saying when you say you're too exhausted to keep up with the current political issues.

You can't open any other social media without seeing live footage of buildings ablaze and maimed children screaming and the bright, smiling pictures of the dead. I want you to think about why Tumblr, that famously skews white American, is only platform where even the tag only has a few hundred notes on most posts.

If any of you Westerners want to invoke Nazism as the epitome of fascist, genocidal evil, against whom any amount of collective punishment is justified, you might want to take a good look in the mirror first. Then maybe you'll understand what we mean when we say that all evil is human.

#free palestine #palestinian genocide #save gaza #israel is a terrorist state #death to israel #imperialism #colonization #tw child death #tw child murder #tw genocide #tw death #tw murder #war crimes #knee of huss

[tropicalfreckles]

OKAY Y'ALL I DREW IT

#camila noceda #my first time drawing her and it's a shitpost lmao #also my first fully colored owl house drawing? #toh camila #gun tw #the owl house #owl house #toh #my art #toh meme #owl house meme #she's rocking up ready to take belos out #get that colonizer #owl house fanart #clipstudio paint #art meme

[sins-of-the-sea]

//I am finding myself needing to write this piece because of more and more I am reading about the atrocities of the Spanish Empire beyond what they did to the Philippines. To the Caribbean to South and Central America to Africa and even within Spain itself. Catalans got it BAD, yo. It's not the same bad as Haiti or Mexico or whatnot, but DAMN.

If there is one part of historical/intergenerational trauma that is unique to Filipinos (especially diaspora and immigrants), it's the idea that they are "friendly" with our colonizers. This is rooted in how Filipinos are grateful for the 'introduction' of Christianity and how Americanized we are compared to other Asian countries, and how even in US history, the Filipinos were not as heavily discriminated against as the Chinese, Japanese, etc. HOWEVER, there are reasons for all that happening:

Regarding our "friendly" relationship with our colonizers, being "okay" with being Christian is mostly due to the gratitude of being saved by the grace of Christ for our sins. It is NOT because we are happy to be "civilized" or have our cultures erased. In fact, Filipino Christianity doesn't resemble Christianity elsewhere; there are many with animist beliefs and superstitions, like the idea of having to say "Excuse me" when walking past trees or else the spirits will curse us. The concept of us being "okay" with being erased is far from the truth. There are efforts in preserving what were believed to be dead languages and cultures. Not to mention the struggles between folks in the cities and those in the 'provinces' are not because of pride in colonization. THAT is just classic "city folk vs country folk", just with the added conflicts of wearing pants vs. wearing bahag (I am blatant American city folk and I am Team Bahag lmao).

Once upon a time, the Philippines was American territory, and thus exempt from the various anti-Asian immigration laws such as Immigration Act of 1924, which would have been passed after the Spanish-American War in 1898, in which the United States paid Spain $20 million to annex the entire Philippine archipelago. In other words, we were commodified as a conquered people between nations that were not us. And even then, during the early parts of the 20ths century, Filipinos were treated as second-class citizens and subjected to similar levels of disrespect as other Asians.

This is not unique to the West, and more of a pan-Asian thing, from what I've seen--but the Philippines is often seen as a country with no unique history and culture itself, as our prehistory/ancient records have travelers settling here from other parts of Southeast Asia as far as far as India, the islands were largely Muslim for a large part of our history, and it was an important crossroad of trade with China, Arabia, etc., until the Spanish came. And I say to all these people.... that IS our history, you numbnuts. I take PRIDE in the Philippines being a center of global trade and contact even CENTURIES before the Spanish came, how it's so important to stop by between the other nations and how other nations have come together, melted together, and created something new and different. It's not a shame, it's a BEAUTY. We will NOT partake on discourse if we should be more "properly" be considered Pacific Islander and not Asian in American ethnic censuses because we culturally identify more with the Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Malay/etc than we do with native Hawaiians/Polynesians and so forth (no disrespect to them intended) just because we're further out in the Pacific than others. It just feels so very disrespectful of our history in proximity to the rest of Asia.

So there you have it. We are more alike than you think, but we'd appreciate it if you acknowledge our differences as well. Clearly what we ought to do is come together and throw shade at Spain, and I invite others within Spain itself with beef against the Empire lmao.

#Frascona vc: *hops on the the train the FASTEST* #'FUCK YOU SPAIN' #[OOC] #racism tw #colonization tw

[veludo-rae]

and remember! Colonial boarding schools still exist today and nobody talks about them!

#Free Tibet #colonial boarding schools #colonial residential schools #CCP #fuck the ccp #tibet #genocide #Colonialism #colonization #settler colonialism #Free tibet #indigenous #tw residential schools #tw colonialism

[paloma-ascends-into-hellfire]

people love their ghostly, frail anorexic friend until her hair thins and she looks genuinely skeletal, or until she throws up or binges.

people love their hyper adhd friend until he forgets your birthday because he was daydreaming.

people love their quiet, honest autistic friend until they shut down, or visibly stim, or are a bit too blunt, or they weird out your other friends.

people love their tidy ocd friend until she tells you about her intrusive thoughts or trichotillomania (how the fuck do you spell that)

people love their sad-boy depressed friend until he shows you his sh scars or gets admitted to a psych ward or you’re scared he’ll actually kill himself.

people love their gay friends till they get a partner before you.

people love their trans friends until they’re a bit too out there, or they don’t quite pass.

people love their brown friend until he brings up colonialism.

people love their disabled friends until their disability impacts them.

people love their fat friend until she starts loving herself.

people love you, but only if they can step on you to get higher than you.

#tw eating disorders #tw anorexia #tw bulimia #tw suicide #tw sui implied #tw self harm #colonization #colonialism #racism #ableism #depression #adhd #autism #neurodiverse #ocd

[hasellia]

Okay apologies for hopping on tag trending train but I have an important request.

If you don't know about the history of Aboriginal genocide in Australia, watch this program.

It's a very very hard watch but one that is important.

If you're outside of Australia, make sure to set your VPN to Aus. You may also need to set an acount for SBS but it's free viewing.

I would also recomend most of SBS's docos through NITV, as they're the National Indigenous broadcast station.

A little update on the warnings before I forget. I'm a little pressed for time so this is from my DM's with someone I've shared with.

I just wanted to give a heads up that the show contains footage of a mourning ceremony (with the grievers's permission from what I remember). There is also a segment where stolen remains are returned to their families but there is no appearence of the remains themselves on screen. From what I can tell/remember these scenes are treated with care and gravitas but I don't think I can be the one to say whether they were treated appropriately. Anything on colonialism is a hard watch, but this doco particularly follows on the unglamourised brutality of the frontier wars as well the lack of recognition on the wars from the Australian government/military and from the wider Australian public. That's on me for not disclosing that properly in the post.

#tw brutality #tw genocide #tw war crimes #Indigenous culture #Aboriginal australia #Aboriginal #documentaries #Australia #australia #colonization #colonialism #doco #docos #the frontiers wars

[hilacopter]

reminder that if you celebrated/ignored/excused October 7th you don't have the right to wish us a Happy Chanukah this year <333

#antisemites on their way to reblog a buggs bunny meme to try and prove they aren't antisemitic #who am I kidding the meme this year is going to be “I wish all my jewish mutuals who support hamas” #or “I wish all my jewish mutuals except filthy israeli colonizers who deserve to die” #leftist antisemitism #antisemitism #israel #tw 10/7 #tw october 7th #jumblr

[genericpuff]

And with that, 2000 years of history and 10+ years of an animated adaption later, Attack on Titan is over.

I wasn't planning on making an essay post about this but like all of my essay posts, it got crazy out of hand, so here we are. I have a lot to say on it and the more I wrote, the more I realized exactly what the Attack on Titan finale was about. It's cathartic. It's also kind of a big shitpost but not for the reasons you might think.

Spoilers for the Attack on Titan finale ahead! CW: DISCUSSION OF WAR AND GENOCIDE AHEAD!

Now for anyone who knows what I'm about to talk about (and anyone who follows my stuff here), I'm sure you're wondering , what side do I fall on in regards to Attack on Titan's ending? Am I about to talk shit about it? It's very divisive and somewhat inconclusive. It followed the exact ending in the manga which, while expected, was still disappointing to many who had hoped the anime would take some other path.

But I have to ask, could there have been any other way?

Eren committed mass genocide, bordering on extinction of the entire human race. There was no way that he was gonna come out of it redeemed or as a hero, and he knew it. He went straight up Walter White core here and like Walter White, he is not a hero.

The fact that the Marlayans have been constantly going to war with other countries using Eldians as their personal soldiers goes to show that for countries that seek out conquest, there's no target too small or insignificant that can't be marked as an "enemy", and we see that reflected in Eren as well, in his pursuing of "freedom", an ever-moving goalpost that can never truly be satisfied.

The Jaegerists were hellbent on creating a new empire on the bloodshed of Marley - 'an eye for an eye', so to speak.

Nothing was ever going to truly satisfy either 'side' in the conflict of humanity vs. Eldians because such conflicts' origins have been obfuscated in hundreds of years of history, propaganda, and generational trauma that has repeated itself for so long that many don't even know what they're fighting for anymore, aside from one thing - that they don't want to suffer, that they shouldn't have to suffer for the actions of their ancestors, that they want peace and happiness but don't know where to start with taking the first step.

I think people are disappointed in this ending because, let's face it, it's anime, and it's an anime adaption that took years to finish. We always want to see some kind of vindication from stories like these, but I think in having vindication, it ultimately removes the point altogether of what's being said.

As much as we may try to fight it, try to deny it, the course of human history travels in a circle. Conflict will always arise. History is written by the victors, and those victors will be seen as heroes by whichever side they're fighting for regardless of what heinous acts they may have committed to justify their salvation. And after all of that conflict, regardless of the result - time goes on, and new conflicts arise.

But I don't think that means we have to succumb to grief and suffering and that's a point that I'm seeing missed in a lot of the discussion around the finale. There's a very powerful scene between Armin and Zeke, in which Armin talks about how he was born to run up the hill with Mikasa and Eren. He recognizes fully that if his life isn't meant to be long, he can still cherish those small moments that he thinks back on fondly, the moments that defined his life with the people he cared about.

And that's really all life is. Small moments and experiences that stick with us until the end. The very act of being born in and of itself is a cosmic miracle that gives us the chance to experience things that bring us joy and stay with us forever - however short or long that 'forever' may be. We take these small moments for granted when we're comfortable, but we look for them the most when we're suffering.

If I can relate all this to another piece of media that says the same thing - albeit with a much brighter ending - FF XIV: Endwalker also asks a similar question to Attack on Titan - is the only meaning in life to suffer and die? Of course, by its end, we learn that while death and suffering is an inevitable part of life - not something that should be avoided - it shouldn't persuade us to give in to fear and despair as a constant state of being. And I think Attack on Titan goes for a very similar approach, albeit slightly more as a cautionary tale - a nihilistic reminder that ultimately, the losses and victories we find in our current point of history are still just that, a single point, a blip that will be forgotten until it's ultimately repeated, and there's no escaping that.

It cautions us that freedom cannot exist without constant vigilance for war and conflict. It cautions us that our values and core beliefs for attaining freedom, love and happiness can be twisted into a weapon to cause harm, vindication gained at the cost of another. It cautions us that when left in the wrong hands, power can and will be abused by the ignorant while propagandizing itself as "the greater good".

So why not just find the joy that we can? The friendships, the little moments, the things that bring us happiness even if only temporary. Conflict is inevitable, suffering is inevitable, but that doesn't mean life isn't worth living. "Happiness" is not a tangible end point - it's the side effect of living a meaningful life that's true to yourself.

Attack on Titan is over. Some will argue the ending was the only way, others will argue that there could have been another way and that the anime adaption had the chance to change it but still didn't for reasons beyond their comprehension.

But isn't that the whole point? We'll argue. We'll bargain. Many of the arguments made will reinforce our own beliefs further rather than sway us. Many of us will insist there had to be another way, just as Armin insisted that this couldn't have been the only way, that humanity must have had another option. Meanwhile, many of us will acknowledge that at the end of the day, this is the story Isayama wanted to tell, and regardless of whether or not it makes him an idiot toying with his audience and admitting defeat by lampshading it in the penultimate scene of Eren admitting to his own idiocy, this was the power given to him and he used it in the best way he knew how.

Much like in any conflict, there's one thing that unites both sides - the human need for joy, connection, and freedom.

We might not agree on how Attack on Titan ended, but we can agree that it was a hell of a ride, and I hope we can all agree that it was worth riding, even if it wasn't satisfying for everyone in the end. It brought many people together regardless of their backgrounds, experiences, and differences, and connected them through something they all loved for over ten years. And despite how big a part of our lives it was, life will still go on, and we'll move on to other things to watch, enjoy, and argue over. Isayama will move on to whatever awaits him next, knowing fully well that his choice was his own, that he created the series he wanted to create regardless of how people feel about it. We'll all look for our own forms of joy and happiness as life moves on around us, as conflicts come and go.

Isn't that really what freedom is at the end of the day?

#also ok i know this turned into a philosophical post but like #i'm still just talking about fucking anime #so please for the love of god i don't want to be seeing anyone using this post as a way to play devil's advocate on real actual war crimes #human conflict in and of itself is an enigmatic inevitability but blatant actions of genocide and colonization are not #and that was made VERY clear by the end of the series through eldians and marlayans putting aside their differences to take out eren #also ymir being in love with king fritz was a bit of a weird thing to do but that's for another post #i think it spoke more to her just being that desperate for connection that she fell into an abusive relationship #but idk it could have been executed better esp because a lot of the 'romance' in AoT is weird #still i really enjoyed the finale tbh and i don't think we're supposed to be left feeling strictly one way about it #the fact that we're arguing over whether or not the finale was good is literally just proving isayama right ngl LOL #attack on titan #attack on titan finale #attack on titan spoilers #shingeki no kyojin #shingeki no kyojin finale #shingeki no kyojin spoilers #essay post #long post #tw genocide #tw war

[hussyknee]

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Another thread by Senator Ben Ray Luján here.

A book on the subject (haven't read it myself):

One of the sources in another one of Alisa's furiously impassioned twitter threads have been debunked, so I didn't include that. But she claims that her own family was caught in the fallout zone when her mother was a baby, which eventually led to her and large numbers of her community developing cancer. It's human for that kind of grief to be caught up in inaccuracies. People are already being ghastly and racist to Hispanos and Indigenous people criticizing the hype for the movie. They're not attacking Oppenheimer for being Jewish, they're criticising the erasure of the human cost of these bombs and the continued valorisation of the U.S military's actions in World War II as some kind of moral saviourism.

While Oppenheimer himself believed that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally justified (they had planned to drop them on Germany except they surrendered before they could), he also felt had blood on his hands and regretted his role as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". He spent the rest of his career vehemently opposing further development of thermonuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb accurately predicting the concept of mutually assured destruction. This eventually made him a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Scare and his clearance was revoked. I haven't seen the movie (Christopher Nolan is the kind of casual white racist I avoid on principle) but people who have seen it say that it doesn't glorify nuclear weapons and depicts the man himself with the complex moral nuance that seems to be accurately reflective of his real life.

The backlash to Indigenous and Hispanos people's criticisms and to people pointing out that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocides is also frustrating because...both world wars were a clash of genocidal empires. The reason they were world wars is because the countries colonized by Japan, China, the European powers and the US were all dragged into it, whether they wanted to or not. Jews were one of the many colonized peoples that suffered in that time, who were left to die by everyone until they could be used to frame the Allied powers as moral saviours, establishing a revisionist nostalgia for heroism that powers the US military industrial complex to this day.

As early as May 1942, and again in June, the BBC reported the mass murder of Polish Jews by the Nazis. Although both US President, Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, warned the Germans that they would be held to account after the war, privately they agreed to prioritise and to turn their attention and efforts to winning the war. Therefore, all pleas to the Allies to destroy the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ignored. The Allies argued that not only would such an operation shift the focus away from winning the war, but it could provoke even worse treatment of the Jews. In June 1944 the Americans had aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex. The Allies bombed a nearby factory in August, but the gas chambers, crematoria and train tracks used to transport Jewish civilians to their deaths were not targeted.

(Source)

Uncritical consumption of World War II media is the reinforcement of imperialist propaganda, more so when one group of colonized people is used to silence other colonized peoples. Pitting white Jewry against BIPOC is to do the work of white supremacy for imperialist colonizers, and victimizes Jews of colour twice over.

Edit: friends, there's been some doubt cast on the veracity of Alisa's claims. The human cost to the Hispanos population caught downwind of the nuclear tests is very real, as was land seizure without adequate compensation. However, there's no record I can yet find about Los Alamos killing livestock and Hispanos being forced to work for Los Alamos without PPE. There is a separate issue about human testing in the development of said PPE that's not covered here. I'm turning off reblogs until I can find out more. Meanwhile, here's another more legitimate article you can boost instead:

#Youtube #colonialism #colonization #genocide #oppenheimer #nuclear war #nuclear testing #indigenous rights #racism #new mexico #american imperialism #world war ii #hispanos #tw: animal cruelty #loyda martinez #white supremacy #military industrial complex #generational trauma #worker exploitation #colonial trauma #hiroshima #nagasaki #war propaganda #knee of huss #twitter