#gentrification is settler-colonialism

[padawan-historian]

Just in case anyone needed a reminder . . . corporations changing their logos to rainbow colors and making a "Happy Pride Month!" post on social media does not conceal the fact that these entities continue to fund antiqueer policymakers, profit and promote imperialist industries that perpetuate environmental racism and gentrification, sponsor "minority development and programs" that reinforce the white savior complex and civilizing [assimilationist] mission, exploit BIPOC culture and queerness in advertisement, resist collective organizing and union representation of their workers, and defend their capitalist interests all while claiming that "it's okay to say gay!"

#the revolution will not be televised #or commercialized #our world #queerness is ancestral #LGBT Movement vs. Queerness #pride month #black lives matter #politics #there is nothing MINOR about US #gentrification is settler-colonialism #lgbtq

[intersectionalpraxis]

If you want to see how harmful this “digital nomadic culture” is, you just need to look at what they’ve done to Bali, Indonesia. They have completely displaced local residents and pushed them out of their communities because locals can no longer afford to keep up with the COL. Original post: "They bore me so much🫥" with the caption from an Instagram story of. woman dining: "GIRL MATH: You've figured out the ultimate life hack as a millenial is to make you money in the US and live abroad where the cost of living is more affordable."

There's so many layers to unpack here. 'Tourism' in the Caribbean, for instance, is something I think about as well whenever I see people acting like this -these industries, which are highly exploitative towards the people and their communities and environments is one element -but the 'travelling to paradise' market itself is based in neo/colonialist frameworks and current mentalities and that itself is something that needs to be addressed much more. Especially with what is happening in Jamaica where so many Jamaicans are being pushed out of their own land when a tourist 'resort' wants to build or 'expand' because these 'ideal' locations are near the sea, where Jamaican people have been/are fishing for their own livelihoods and survival. I posted a video about this, but for those who haven't looked into these issues -I implore you to look into this.

I also think of Hawai'i, which has had many devastating impacts to their islands this past year -irreparable damages to both Native Hawaiians and the environment (and ongoing issues, such as the water being contaminated/and scarce there and yet tourists are prioritized for access to clean water sources) -and STILL people remained and traveled there during the Maui fires, and just overall despite countless pleas for them not to go they still do.

Among many the 'desirable destinations' marketed specifically to Europeans/Westerners as 'a getaway to' where they can detach from their busy lives, or to live permanently because it's 'too expensive' where they live -I sincerely wish they would come back down to earth and realize their imperialistic mentalities -especially when going to countries whose economies they perceived as 'poorer,' without looking critically at the country's infrastructure and history is just willful ignorance at best.

#feminist #feminism #tourism #tourist #gentrification #settler colonialism #colonialism #colonial violence #eco terrorism #hawaii #imperialism #western imperialism #travelling #travel #the caribbean #jamaica #dominican republic #bali #indonesia

[chinesegal]

Western luxuries built over the mass graves of children, you heartless nitwit.

As Gazans are desperately trying to survive and cradling dead loved ones in their arms, this lady is envisioning amusement parks and consumerism goods built over homes and centuries of cultural heritage. Even the image of Marie Antoinette telling starving peasants to "eat cake" isnt this outrageous.

#Something something #The intersection of capitalism consumerism and colonialism #I grew up consuming media about villains who want to destroy homes schools and cultural heritage to build shopping malls #How does it feel like to be a Saturday cartoon villain karen #Colonialism #Settler-colonialism #Israel #Gaza #Free Gaza #Liberated Palestine #Palestine #Gentrification

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

bugs. episode of all time. has a 6.8 star IMDB rating when every other s1 episode averages around 8-9. the opening shot of sam lying sluttily on the hood of the impala. sam and dean being mistaken for a gay couple looking to buy property. sam and dean pretending to be a gay couple looking to buy property. "okay honey". dean slapping sam on the ass? the only time in the show i've seen sam and dean use umbrellas (finding out that kripke never wanted them to use umbrellas bc they weren't manly enough??) sam and dean breaking and entering and squatting :") a kid with a bug fixation, ostracised by his dad, who sam has an immediate connection with. winchester family dynamics. bugs as the ghost of settler colonial violence haunting American suburban gentrification. bugs as a metaphor for how fragile the facade of white picket fence suburbia really is. sam and dean aren't able to kill their way out of this week's monster. all they're able to do is save people, temporarily. they don't get to break the curse, and that's the point. it's bigger than either of them. hunting as a cycle of frontier violence perpetuating itself, and for once there are no black-or-white solutions. supernatural will never deal with this theme again! anyways, they put cast and crew in a room with 65000 bees but the damned bees didn't show up properly on camera so they ended up using CGI bees. they look horrible.

#unironically one of my fave eps i'll defend it to my last breath #i'd write a whole academic paper on it if i could #there's layers to it...im sorry if u can't see them #lb #my meta #j.txt

[indigenouscontemporaryart]

Ogimaa Mikana. Don’t be shy to speak Anishinaabemowin when it’s time. Bayfield St., Barrie, Ontario; Biskaabiiyang. North Bay, Ontario; Untitled (All Walls Crumble). Ottawa, Ontario; Anishinaabe manoomin inaakonigewin gosha. Peterborough, Ontario.

Ogimaa Mikana is an artist collective founded by Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching) and Hayden King (Anishinaabe, Gchi’mnissing) in January 2013. Through public art, site-specific intervention, and social practice, we assert Anishinaabe self-determination on the land and in the public sphere.

The Ogimaa Mikana Project is an effort to restore Anishinaabemowin place-names to the streets, avenues, roads, paths, and trails of Gichi Kiiwenging (Toronto) - transforming a landscape that often obscures or makes invisible the presence of Indigenous peoples. Starting with a small section of Queen St., re-naming it Ogimaa Mikana (Leader's Trail) in tribute to all the strong women leaders of the Idle No More movement, the project hopes to expand throughout downtown and beyond.

“The Anishinaabeg endure. We do so through settler colonial time, and across space.  We do so in contention. Untitled (All Walls Crumble) considers this movement. To be Indigenous in the city is so often a struggle for recognition, to be seen, and to resist the erasure that is common in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, etc. Yet with recognition also comes appropriation and co-optation. In this unease, we consider the benefits of erasure, or at least, covert movement. Inspired by stories of our relatives and ancestors counting coup, and Basil Johnson’s description of warfare more generally, the Ogimaa Mikana Project considers the tension between visibility and invisibility to challenge settler colonial logic. Against a crumbling wall holding up Ottawa’s major highway - scheduled for demolition and replacement - we draw attention to the ways the settler state recycles itself, and by extension, affirms its legitimacy. We see it and resist in provocative ways that mirror a there/not there presence. Against this crumbling wall, we reclaim space for an anti-recognition: to speak to each other, as Anishinaabeg, as communities pushed out by gentrification, as the colonized, and offer a refrain and a sign of defiance: “Wakayakoniganag da pangishin. Nin d'akiminan kagige oga ahindanize.”

#Ogimaa Mikana #susan blight #Hayden King #anishinaabeg #anishinaabe #Anishinaabe artist #anishinaabeg artists #Anishinaabe Art #indigenous art #INDIGENOUS CONTEMPORARY ART #contemporary art #public art #place-naming #intervention #art intervention #contemporary anishinaabe art #indigenous collective #indigenous artist collective #Anishinaabemowin

[trans-axolotl]

I went to the anarchist/abolitionist healthcare conference this weekend, and it was really a beautiful experience that I don't even have words for. Being able to share resources, knowledge, dreams, and joy together with other people invested in this work was so special, and I gained a ton of hope by seeing the many ways that other people are actively engaged in resisting these fucked up systems and building care into our communities. I gave a presentation about psych abolition, talked about resistance within the psych ward, and got a standing ovation from a room filled with 50 people, many of whom were mental health professionals looking to build solidarity. I legitimately almost cried because of being to have that experience with my mad comrades. I met so many beautiful crazy people who intimately understand what it means to survive as a mad person, and just gained so much knowledge from people actively putting their abolitionist values into practice. I want to share a few of my favorite resources that I became aware of at this conference, and I'll make another post later with some of my key takeaways.

Mutual Aid Self/Social Therapy: This is a support framework designed by one of my friends that provides an intentional structure for providing therapetuic support within communities, especially organizing communities where there's a lot of burnout. It offers so many resources for skills training to allow anyone, whether you have a background in emotional support or not, to set this up within your community. The framework is purposefully not hierarchial or transactional, and allows for actually addressing people's material conditions as well as providing space for emotional processing.

Of Unsound Mind: Incredible archive and research on psychiatric history. Mostly focused around America, but also has some info on other countries. The author of the website will be coming out with a book later this year, which I think is mostly going to be about the Trieste, Basaglia, and that history of psych resistance in Italy.

Power makes us Sick: Collective that focuses on autonomous healthcare and emotional support, especially in terms of autonomous trans healthcare. Has some fabulous zines and resources.

A Corpse among Corpses: Incredible documentary about asylum graveyards in the Midwest and the trade of graverobbing for experimentation in medical schools, and how this connects to settler colonialism, slavery, eugenics, and modern gentrification. Really do want to emphasize a trigger warning for genocide, eugenics, medical violence, self harm, antiblack racism, instituionalization, and lots of discussion of death. I talked a lot with the filmmakers, and really appreciated their care and intent in making this film as a way of bearing witness rather than exploiting atrocity in the name of art, but do want to be very clear that this film is incredibly heavy to watch and might be something worth doing with other people. It was deeply impactful for me, and made me tear up many times.

The Living Museum: Through transforming the old Creedmoor hospital grounds into a musuem and workspace for current patients to showcase their art, this space celebrates psychiatric resistance, transformation, struggle, and joy. I really want to go visit and share in that space, as it seems just so fucking cool. It seems like you might need to contact directly to schedule a visit.

Cahoots Crisis Response Model: This is one model for crisi intervention teams that respond instead of police. They are not perfect, still have some enagement with police, but are an interesting example of how to try to implement these types of programs. Since theyv'e been around for 25 years, they have a lot of knoweldeg and could be a good first group to reach out to if you're trying to create this in your community.

Overall this whole weekend was a beautiful example of how to put our values into practice, and really just wanted to share these projects with you all!

#personal #psych abolition #mad liberation #mad pride #antipsychiatry #mad studies #mental illness #neurodivergence #okay to reblog!

[communistkenobi]

RE: gentrification post. Would you mind sharing the paper on gentrification? It sounds really interesting!

the paper i was thinking of is from a book that is paywalled, but here is an open-access article engaging with the idea that gentrification is a form of "community"/"domestic" colonization. It's a Canadian paper so it deals with settler colonialism specifically

#geography #asks #the article mentions blomley who talks a lot about this as well #if you search him up he has a bunch of articles on the subject #i think neil smith does too? hes a pretty big marxist geographer. i havent read his stuff in a while though

[nabulsi]

In light of the bigots coming out of the woodwork to make their voices heard, I thought I should do the same. Only, in the opposite direction of course. (I hope you don’t mind!)

I’m also a Palestinian Arab. I’m queer. I’m genderqueer. I’m brown. I was raised Muslim. I live outside of Palestine. I want to live in Palestine, but a free, safe Palestine. I speak Arabic, I retain my culture, I struggle with the effects of the many colonial powers in today’s society, and the diasporic struggle for a semblance of identity, and the gentrification of an education that makes proficient English speakers and American-learned Arabs but loses the Arab. The very particularity of the queer Arab Palestinian is lonely in itself, because wherever you go hostility will surely await. The neocolonial situation from a diaspora of a settler colonial background is so interesting, and so isolating.

But it doesn’t have to be. Community won’t easily discard Arabic, or the culture, or the love of it all. Finding it is difficult but not impossible, to feel secure and whole when the upbringing told of anything but. Part of that perpetual recovering state, I found, was to see people like you who wear my same skin and then I feel so incredibly happy. Palestinian Arab, anti-Zionist, queer, diaspora, a writer, a fan, etc. etc. A whole person with one identity that doesn’t contradict itself, because we’re not contradictions but existences, is proof of life to me. If that makes sense. It’s enough for me to know that I am not a nagging singularity, and that this existence repeats itself and encapsulates a spread-out and doubly oppressed community… but a community that still exists all the same. You exist, and I hope you don’t mind my saying that you’re very much like me. The fact that you exist as you are has brought me joy, and your own expressions of joy has doubled it.

What I’m trying to say, and forgive me because I can’t be incisive, is that your existence and pride has brought me happiness and pride in myself a little too. The fight is so important, but the mundane, simple lived experience, reblogging on Tumblr and joking and writing and words that were written very obviously with a smile in mind, is so so special. Over everything, thank you for existing in that way. The very real, authentic, and fulfilling way. The way that writes fanfiction, and pokes jokes at the horrific reality of hate thrown in the face of our existences, and existing anyway. It’s so small, and I know very silly and the slightest bit cheesy and also perhaps weird given I’m a stranger, but honestly I mean it when I say it’s so great that you are. We are. And now my Tumblr has cut off my message and I can’t see anymore so I think somethings funked upuhh so the next part probabblyyyy won’t make any sense as I can’t access or see it but… sorry for rambling!! Thank if you read my long half-sensical shit!! (From the river to the sea Palestine will be free <3) rant,, ❤️

Aaaaaa forgive me if I'm not quite as eloquent in my reply. But your words made me so happy 😭 you've put into words a feeling i think most queer diaspora palestinians share and honestly I am glad to hear my silly little existence has positively impacted other queer palestinians.

and i stay silly 🩷

i appreciate this so much 💖💖💖💖💖💖 tysm for reaching out.

#flaccidbonestm #paptalk

[radicalurbanista]

“walkable cities” and the “car free” movements sound nice but they’re such jokes because their core is white liberals who despise that the U.S. doesn’t look more like europe. And there’s no real understanding that the reason we have car-centric development isn’t because of “car culture” but because we live in a apartheid state that routinely sells technologies of war and war industries to the (upper) middle class and deploys these technologies to destroy Black and other communities of color!! Let’s think about why cars and airplanes received so much federal $$$ after the growth of their industries in World War II.

So they pursue these neo-liberal measures for pedestrian friendly cities which are often incredibly weak, patchy, ecologically insufficient, and almost always tailing or preceding gentrification and the displacement of POC from the inner city. Or in the case of suburbs, it’s the neo-mall new urbanist movement of simulated urbanism where everything is an outdoor shopping mall with shitty overpriced apartments. All while doing nothing to address settler colonialism, racism and segregation, war, or the oil and mining industries responsible for this in the first place!

#i need to fight everyone in my profession #this bs is so maddening #urbanism #urban planning #car free #walkable cities #using cars as a scapegoat for white supremacy

[padawan-historian]

As we continue witnessing and watching the unfolding genocides and waves of fascism rippling across our shared (+ very segregated) world, many folks are still struggling to wrap their heads around how (+ why) these conflicts are happening.

The answer is simple: We are living under apartheid.

🌿 South Africa alongside Yemen have taken the lead on calling out the United States and Israel's settler-colonial projects that may feel like a terrifying throwback but, in reality, are textured and threaded into our contemporary political landscapes. Palestine, Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Yemen, Ethiopia, Haiti, and indigenous, diaspora, immigrant, impoverished, queer, (dis)abled, and (dis)placed communities across the world who dare to fight for freedom and steward our planet are facing environmental racism, erasure, and eradication to serve neoliberal politics.

🍉 But neoliberalism cannot survive without fascism, and fascism facilitates apartheid which is used to justify everything from police brutality and gentrification to green colonialism and genocides.

🌿 We cannot preach peace when there is no freedom + justice for our communitie . . . and in an apartheid state, freedom and justice are treated as favors, not as rights.

🍉 If Palestine was your entry point to understanding apartheid and settler-colonialism, don't let it end with Palestine.

🌿 This season, commit to upRooting your miseducation and building community to better inform and sustain your everyday resistance and liberation work as we continue to recover our history, preserve our communities, and make good trouble.

Follow the link to save your seat(s) for our Sunday decolonized history series this season!

#our world #antiracist liberation #padawan historian #decolonize your mind #activate your activism

[andreablog2]

Addressing race in settler colonial states will always involve addressing class issues which have existed and have been informed by race since before these countries were even conceived as colonies….whenever people get up and arms when race and privilege is brought up and claim it is easier to bring up race and not class issues they really reveal how little they know abt class in their country/similar countries. A this idea which was planted by the far right has permeated so much of the discourse amongst leftists that vilifies identity politics has formed a new form of identity politics that revolves around like glorifying walkable cities promoting white veganism white queerness white feminism saving the humanities and getting free college all are code words for gentrification

[wathanism]

Hi there! Alright please bare with me cause I have to lay some ground work to get to my question.

So in every country right, there's an elite that's separate from the rest and then globally there's an elite (the 1% of the 1%) which I think most people are aware of. Usually in the west & countries that are more homogeneous the elite class tend to be made up of members from the major ethnic group with maybe a few from minority groups. In the Caribbean for example, that's not the case.

Colonisation, slavery & indentured servitude resulted in a mixture of ethnic groups across the islands but people of African descent (black) usually make up the majority for most islands. The elite class however are made up of minority groups and are also a group of families whose last names are so powerful the names practically act like currency. When you hear any one of those last names doors you might not have even known existed suddenly open. Sadly, there's almost a built in response to facilitate whatever it is these people need.

Most islands have their independence and on the face of it we govern ourselves. But these families (they are largely European white, Jewish, some Syrian, Chinese & others) came after independence as foreigners and integrated into the local population, they've become citizens, they send their kids to school here, they speak the mother tongues etc. but have also aligned themselves in such a way that they control the economic and political sphere. They own a lot of the big businesses and land but they don't hurt the local/indigenous population physically either. There's no violence or obvious oppression or ethnic cleansing to call it settler colonialism.

My question is, do you think this is simply elitism or given the colonial history of the region is it more of a blend of elitism and colonialism and maybe other things that deserves its own name?

ooohhh see this is a fun question, bc this is a part of the world i really don't know much of anything about unfortunately. i can't give any definitive answers, but i can like. try to piece together some thoughts based on other things i know and ask some questions that i think are relevant to the topic.

if there's one thing i learned from studying colonialism, it's that sometimes you gotta expand your definition of violence. maybe the locals aren't getting physically beat up or bombed or shot or what have you, but are they being priced out of their homes by gentrification? are they not given equal access to healthcare? are there any laws that unjustly are applied to them while the ruling class gets off without issue? there are countless other examples, but my point is that violence doesn't look one way, and oftentimes the systems of law that are viewed as orderly and "just how things go" are violent at their root.

another relevant question i think is how did these families acquire this much wealth and power? how did they get ownership of that land? is what they're doing on that land damaging the environment? if so, are they bending or changing the laws to keep doing it, and who's being hurt by the environmental damage? what are their labor practices like? are they paying their fair share of taxes? are they collaborating with colonialist mega-corporations like monsanto for example? these are all things that have been weaponized against black and indigenous people, and even if they're not violent in the same way as a bullet to the face, it's still colonial violence.

a lot of these are questions that are veering into the topic of capitalism, but i think capitalism and colonialism are inseparable and you can't meaningfully talk about one without the other. if colonialism is the "what," then capitalism is the "how" and "why."

it's also important to remember that settler colonialism is just one TYPE of colonialism. places like french-occupied syria and british-occupied india were still under colonial rule, but they weren't settler colonies. it's important to look at resource extraction and labor rights. sure, there's big businesses there, but who's actually benefiting from that?

then there's also the matter of neo-colonialism. just because a state is on paper independent, it's pretty often that being under colonial rule weakens the new state so much that they're still forced to rely on their old colonial rulers. because of that they're often unable to fully dismantle systems that were put in place during the colonial period, so the independence, while still a step forward, is not the end-all-be-all of it.

none of that actually answers your question lol, but my point is that this is all stuff i would want to keep in mind while trying to figure out what to make of the situation in the caribbean.

#asks #of course i'm always learning and always happy to hear more perspectives so anyone who wants to add to the convo is welcome <3 #long post #ik i said i'd dip for a few weeks but this ask was interesting lol

[missmayhemvr]

something i wanna do this year because ive been thinking deeply about this for a year already is prove that black and indigenous communities arent as poor as portrayed but actually just set up to be exactly like colonized countries and by that i mean sites of intense economic exploitation and extraction and i want to prove that gentrification is just the logics of settler colonialism being applied internally and is also being applied to a significant portion of the global south nations particularly Jamaica and parts of south east asia. as well as the methodology of this process being a key goal of the bretton woods systems after the failures of colonization of direct open colonialism and settler colonialism in asia and africa.

i think i could explain my key points that i would have to prove and show a connection of(tbh most of the points have been proved as separate phenomenon). i think the hard part of this would be proving intent and that predominately black cities and neighborhoods are made into isolated economic zones to the same or similar degree. i think i can prove the isolation by working forward from the mid 1800s and through the examination of a couple reservation economies and the economies of greenwood and tulsa prior to their destruction and also compare the logics of that to the destruction of the economic systems of india and asia. the settler colonial aspect of gentrification is something i honestly believe that any black or hispanic person in the us can speak to very easily, showcasing the numbers i think ill use new york and chicago and atlanta, i should also be able to clearly show that communities of color are primarily affected by this. the bretton woods part is gonna be fucking tough idk how ima start that portion but im likely going to rely on the work of nkrumah and other revolutionary leaders who wrote about the methods of imperialism following WW2.

i wanna do this because i think having this written out on a space like tumblr could actually get those that are lacking to understand why revolutionaries from palestine to turtle island say that its all one struggle and why they say "no one is free till we are all free". its been proven a hundred and one ways that militarily the imperialist learn from each other militarily and work with each other to bomb and destroy and conquer. now its important to understand why they work so hard to keep much of the world ordered the exact way they do economically and why they try so desperately to prevent china from helping the global south from industrializing. and hopefully showcase some of the ways the internal blow back by the imperial core nations is going to intensify until we dismantle the whole system down to the foundation.

wish me luck and if you have a resource i should see, please send it. or even add it to this.

#politics #black liberation #colonization #indigenous liberation #the colonized #world of the oppressed

[chaoticdesertdweller]

A brief list of why the Fourth of July could and should always be boycotted, by Jeff Smith:

-The US has engaged in genocidal policies against Indigenous people/nations on this continent since the founding of the US. White Settler Colonialism has been the primary driving force, which has included the outright slaughter of Indigenous people, the forced removal from their lands, the repeated violation of treaties, forcibly removing Indigenous children from their communities and putting them in so-called “Boarding Schools,” and the denial of Indigenous people to celebrate their own spiritual traditions for most of the past 250 years. For an excellent resource, see Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

-If people haven’t read it, they should read Frederick Doughlass’ famous 1852 speech, entitled, “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” Douglass calls out the realities of slavery and denounces the blind celebration of July 4th, by saying, “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.”

-While Chattel Slavery was outlawed by the end of the Civil War, the US legal and economic systems made sure that Black people were still denied freedom and independence. The 13th Amendment essentially made slavery legal again, a theme which is explored in Ava DuVernay’s 2016 award winning documentary, 13th. In addition, the history of lynching, red-lining, legal segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, gentrification and the ongoing efforts to dismantled legal gains made by the Black Freedom Struggle/Civil Rights Movement, ultimately demonstrates that Black people have never been afforded the same freedom as white people in this country.

-The history of US immigration policy has excluded millions of people from coming to and be accepted into US society. From the Chinese Exclusion Act in the late 19th Century, the refusal of the FDR Administration to welcome thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, to the brutal treatment of people fleeing poverty, political oppression and climate catastrophe from Latin America since the 1960s, the US has consistently excluded millions of immigrants seeking asylum and safety. See our popular education tool, History of US Immigration Policy.

-The US has a bloody history towards working class people, which has always been directed by the Capitalist Class, with assistance from the state and the state’s main enforcement mechanism, the police. From the earliest efforts to win labor struggles in the early part of the 19th Century, the harsh repression of radical union organizing in the late 19th Century through the 1930s, and the ongoing Capitalist Class’s war against working people, evidenced by the efforts against Amazon and Starbucks workers, most people living in this country have never experienced economic freedom or independence. See Kim Kelly’s book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.

-The US has consistently marginalized and repressed people who are part of the LGBTQ community, those who are gender non-conforming; religious minorities, especially Muslims, those in the disability community, anti-war dissidents, radical environmentalists and so many other communities that the systems of power in this country have never accepted and have often brutalized.

#boycott July 4th #boycott independence day #us independence day #independence for whom? #quote #text #jeff smith #facts #racism #indigenous people #people of color #black history #immigrants #lgbtq+ #white privilege #slavery #oppression #deportation #injustice #nothings changed #minorities #disabled #muslim #justice for all #poor #homeless

[max1461]

Something tells me you only care about the Man of the Hole because he’s Indigenous and from a tribe you wished to study, since anthropologists sometimes care more about cultures than the people in them. If a mostly-white, or even mostly-black, town in West Virginia got nuked you’d barely pity the last survivor of that because he’s a “settler colonialist” just for being born in it.

What tells you this, anon? Based on what track record of mine have you deduced this? Also... I'm not an anthropologist? Not sure where that came from.

Anyway, I do care inherently about culture, as a special case of the fact that I care inherently about human knowledge in general. I've written a number of times about the way this sometimes comes into tension with ethics, an experience that I think is both common and under-discussed. But I definitely don't care about human knowledge more than I care about basic human wellbeing, which is, you know, why I don't support human experimentation and shit. Obviously.

Anyway, here are some posts I've written about culture, ethics, colonialism, and related topics so that you can hopefully get a more accurate view of what I think:

on pluralism and nationalism (long)

on culture and cultural boundaries

on independence movements and Land Back

on Land Back

on gentrification and cultural preservationism

on traditionalism

on "primitivism"

on settler colonialism and Israel (moderately snarky)

on settler colonialism and Israel (less snarky but still a little)

on settler colonialism in the US

on bureaucracy and Westernization

on my relationship to American culture

Idk, none of that addresses your concern on the nose, but I think those posts collectively circle around it pretty well. I'm a bit too tired to write a direct response at the moment. There's a bunch of other stuff I've written on these topics too, but I can't find it all right now. Anyway, I hope that clarifies, at least somewhat.

I'll close by saying that I do care inherently about culture, as a special case of the broader fact that I care inherently about human knowledge in general. In a couple of the linked posts I've written about the way this sometimes comes into tension with ethics, an experience that I think is both common and under-discussed. But I definitely don't care about human knowledge more than I care about basic human wellbeing, which is, you know, why I don't support human experimentation and shit. Of course.

#society #anon

[cosmicanger]

all white people in Amerika are settler colonialists and all white people participate in gentrification, a targeted colonial violence. if you are a white and you live in an apartment where you pay less than 2K a month then you definitely had a hand in evicting and displacing Black people. if you are white and live in historically Black majority areas then you are a settler colonialist

#theory #antiblackness #anti blackness