#Colonialsim

[sour-transvestite]

fucking wild to me how when the ukraine invasion started everyone was lauding the ukranian people for making molotovs in their garage to fight the russians and started boycotting russian everything and a bunch of chain restaurants pulled out of russia but i didn't know jack shit about the whole israel palestine thing until like a month ago and somehow any palestinian violence or decolonization efforts justifies israel bombing hospitals and killing children but no matter how much israel bombs hospitals and kills children every single fucking braindead liberal is only concerned with "do you condemn hamas." i cant honestly say i'm surprised at this point but what the fuck.

[originalleftist]

For anyone honestly still asking why the US or other countries should support Ukraine against Russia, here's why:

When Ukraine became an independent country upon the breakup of the Soviet Union, it, along with Belarus and Kazakhstan, signed the Budapest Memorandum, an agreement with Russia, the US, and the UK where it gave up the immense stockpile of Soviet nuclear weapons it retained (then the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world), and signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, on the condition that, among other things, the other signatories, including Russia, would respect it's sovereignty and borders. It is facing the threat of annihilation now because this agreement has not been upheld.

2. Any "peace" achieved by the surrender of Ukraine's land and people to Russian occupation and genocide would be an illusory and temporary one. Not only for the subjugated and brutalized people of Ukraine, who would no more know peace than any other people under authoritarian rule, but for the world. Every nation with expansionist aims would see Russia's victory as proof that they too could get away with annexing weaker countries' territory by force. This has not been the norm for nearly a century (for all the criticisms of the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US never tried to outright annex either country's territory into the US). What we are talking about is a return to the days of colonial "Great Powers"- a world order which gave us two world wars in less than thirty years before we finally put an end to it.

Such a "peace" would be soon interrupted, likely either by a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, or by Russia moving on to it's next target once it had sufficiently rebuilt it's strength- either scenario being one with a high risk of leading to global nuclear war.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Splinter In The Sky

fast-paced standalone sci-fi

follows a scribe and tea expert from a colonised moon whose sibling is kidnapped and lover is killed, and is taken as a political prisoner into the heart of the empire

she navigates the political world of high society serving tea while spying for multiple forces, in an attempt to fight for her people’s freedom and free her sibling

sapphic

[moonlitlex]

also why did they make the neolib colonialism genocide defense episode. camp.

[the-faultofdaedalus]

every time there's any implication that like, colonialism is over or that it was "so long ago" ect ect it kind of just baffles me because the fucking hudson's bay company still exists

[llewelynpritch]

https://lnkd.in/etGUdjdc  "YESTERDAY 1 July 2021 AT GIDIMT'EN CAMP, WE DID NOT CELEBRATE CANADA DAY. INSTEAD, WE TRUTH TOLD. We told the truth about Canada, its history and its present relationship with Indigenous people. We continue to be enraged by the mounting numbers of children being recovered from residential 'schools' across Canada, and we continue to be enraged at the state's lack of redress for the genocide of our children, and resulting generations of families. We know that Canada stole our children from the land so they could profit from those lands. We now experience Canada's genocide of our people and future generations through the destruction of our lands and waters by extractive industries that do not have our consent. The RCMP were enforcers of genocide in our past and continue that legacy into the present…” @Gidimten @smogelgem @UnistotenCamp 

[chiyana]

feeling distinctly American because I get not liking pb&j sure people don't like things but like... being rude about it???

I (inexplicably third culture kid at times) grew up eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch every day because my mother is normal, and all my English friends were rude about them despite literally never having tried one because "ough it just sounds gross." Anyway I want to see if this is a trend beyond children from southern England.

NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT KNOW - JELLY IN THIS CASE MEANS JAM, NOT JELLO-TYPE FOOD - MANY OF MY PEERS WERE NOT AWARE OF THAT.

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1312

first posted in facebook may 16, 2024

tony monsanto -- "welcome to paradise" (2008)

"my work incorporates contemporary issues, like environmental and social subjects, dealing with the complexity of our caribbean identity and reality. migration of our people to the economical centers causes a brain drain and stagnation of our economy. some, as a reaction to the demands of the harsh reality, seek mental support in the mythical world of ancestral african religions. while the stereotype images combine clear blue waters, sandy beaches, palm trees, cool cocktails, tanned bodies, drum beating musicians, carnival parades and attractive dancers into a picture postcard view of the caribbean, the population is struggling with unemployment, low income, political indecision as part of post-colonialism, as well as drug, gambling and alcohol addiction" … tony monsanto

"well, the moral of the story the moral of this song is simply that one should never be where one does not belong so when you see your neighbor carryin’ somethin’ help him with his load and don’t go mistaking paradise for that home across the road" … bob dylan

"you're welcome" … al janik

[garyconkling]

Imagining Vietnam Without the War

The Vietnam War costly in lives, collateral damage and national pride. Even worse, it wasn't a war we had to wage. There was another choice.

News: President Biden goes to Hanoi to promote trade and establish a strategic partnership with Vietnam. Imagine if the United States never fought the Vietnam War. Some 58,000 Americans would not have died and 350,000 would not have been maimed. Up to 2 million Vietnamese would have been spared. The United States wouldn’t have spent $176 billion (the equivalent of $1 trillion in today’s dollars)…

[hasellia]

The Process of Frank Herbert writing the Dune series (from my very vague memory of a video essay).

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. watches Lawrence Of Arabia (1962).

It becomes his problematic fave, and he writes fanficion; “Lawrence of Arabia IN SPAAAAAACCEEE.”

Franklin needs money and decides to send his fanfiction to a publisher. The book becomes an unexpected hit.

He wants to rewrite Dune to repair the ethical problems of his favourite movie, but the publishers tell Herbert that a rewrite or a clone will be seen as a lazy cash grab that would lose them trust.

UH OH! RENT IS DUE!!! If he wants to pay rent and eat a nice dinner, Frankie better write a sequel!

Sequel 1; The story continues, but the supporting characters pine for a better version of their world by vocalising the problems of the MC’s colonialism.

The audience doesn't get it. Maybe it’s too subtle.

Sequel 2: The MC commits major atrocities, including a horrific genocide. He’s not a god or a messiah. He’s just another worthless cog in the machine of colonialism.

The audience feels bad that their hero is seen as a worthless cog. Maybe he just needs Jesus. That way, he can make up for the irreversible loss of millions of lives! God finds a way.

RENT IS DUE

Sequel 3: The MC has a son to carry on his legacy. The son loathes him. He channels his inner cool rebel, angsty Sasuke energy to tell the audience of children that “pot is cool, genocide drools!”

The audience is vaguely offended that Sasuke said pot is cool and still thinks genocide is okay. Or at the very least, the colonialism was okay in the circumstances of the Dune universe.

Patrick is out of patience.

Sequel 4: Sasuke huffs all the pot in the universe and becomes the king god of worms. With his infinite wisdom, he writes a Martin Luther style manifesto of every bad thing his father did. Point for point, sin for sin. The manifesto is within the novel itself and is roughly 97.8% of its reading. Repeated throughout the novel and manifesto and the novel itself is “Colonialism and genocide is NEVER okay. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE , IN ANY WORLD , IT IS N E V E R OKAY.”

The audience’s main take away is that the king god of worms is cool.

Herb is out of pot to keep the Jesus in him. He is so tired of trying to just F I X these people. He channels every ounce of energy he has left to figuring out a concrete way to explain to his audience how colonialism and genocide is bad. In his late middle-aged life, it’s the only way he can stop himself from picking up a phone book to find and throttle some nerds.

Sequel 5: Out of the sand and ether, Sasuke Luther King God of Worm’s long-lost never mentioned before normal human descendant appears. She walks up to the audience, hold their eyelids open, stares directly at them within a cm of distance from her own, and says; “Colonialsim bad. Genoicide is a bad. Do not do. Is bad. Alway. O.k.?”

The remaining audience says. “ye. ok.”

Franklin Patrick Herbert Junior finally has a win and dies promptly on the spot from exhaustion at the ancient age of 65.

That’s just my guess, though. Most of what I know about Dune is from Jack Saint's video and a 10-second glance on Wikipedia.

[blackandwhitecircus]

Not to publically have opinions, but I am quite annoyed with the "it's overly didactic/too woke" criticism of Babel.

I also felt sometimes taken out of the easy reading flow in the early chapters when the racism/colonialism was being directly pointed out but I feel that

1) those instances were tied directly to the characters lived experiences. It was accurately illustrating how Robin and co's lives are constantly interrupted by, if not overt racism, the reminder that they live in a racist system.

2) the narrative voice is one that constantly comments and contextualizes (there are even footnotes) It's part of how the book is written and ties into it's nature as a commentary on translation. Kuang is in a way translating the experiences of characters in the 1830's for a 2020's audience and the book also comments on how crossculutral translations often add context through a translators lens.

3) the book only feels overly didactic if you think the intended takeaway is "colonialsim is bad". That is not the only inteded message. The book is literally called Babel: or the Necessity of Violence. Instead, I would argue, the point of the first half of the book is for you to be ground down (like the characters are) by the constant racism but for it to become background noise/an unavoidable part of the fun dark academia times. Only to be then reminded, at the same time that Robin is, what it looks like outside of Oxford. And from then on the book is about violence and I did not feel it's approach to that was didactic. The characters are in disagreement about the use of violence! Babel is telling you that colonialism is bad, as it should, but it is NOT telling you what to think about violence.

The other criticsm that really annoyed me was that the characters seem too "modern" i.e. too aware of racism and sexism for people from the 1830's.

Just because they have wouldn't have acess to contemporary theory/thought doesn't mean they would not realize what is happening to them. These are smart people, of course they realize that the way they are being treated is dependant on their race and gender! The discrimination is not exaclty subtle! In fact they ARE of their time because they often lack ANY notions of class conciousness/intersectionality. Robin only develops class conciousness very late in the game. Letty's chapter points out how the men don't notice the sexism happening to her but it doesn't mention Victoire who, as a black woman, is impacted by both racism and sexism! A huge part of the book is people being too wrapped up in struggeling with their own opression to notice what is happeing to others. Their experiences and sometimes their activism are indvidualistic BECAUSE they lack contemporary knowledge and understanding of these issues.

[gender-ambiguous-pirate]

I neeed to make an in deapth powerpoint presentation about queer themes in bbc merlin, I need to write a thesis about Narnian colonialsim, I need to do comparative research about the 2010's ya love triangle and love triangles in medieval texts, I need to do a lecture about werewolves and other humanoid "monsters" and how they reflect physical disabilities, I need

[imjustsoscaredallthetime]

Who said that?

Israel has been committing unspeakable war crimes, crimes against humanity, and illegal collective punishment against Palestinians in Gaza for 15 years. 15 years. Any comment or analysis that doesn’t take this fact into consideration today is hollow, immoral, and dehumanizing.

[filipfatalattractionrblog]

For all their talk about how progressive and open-minded their community is, it took one passage suggesting that maybe war is inherently bad, for Pathfinder fandom to begin spewing every jingoism & colonialsim apologia imaginable.

[visuallauguagedavidsmith]

As a development of the tire tread artwork I made during and after the workshop.

I then looked at the artists on the Index brief and chose Jackson pollock and an artist to look at more intensely, I already knew about him and his work and began researching his paintings and his drip painting method.

Inspired by Jackson Pollocks paintings. I painted an A3 canvas panel in blue paint, then began painting the pattern of tire treads with a brush in the colours I used in the abstract "flick paintings".

This is the painting when it is finished. with a layer of gold paint then green printing ink since I didn't have green paint. I also applied a black watercolour pen to the tire of a toy car and ran it around the panel.

Jackson panel artwork examples.

I really like the amount of layers in his works and the expressive use of colours.

I then took a break overf the holiday before taking my use of tire track impressions in a new direction by focusing on the pattern itself in diffrent ways.

first using the limited meterials i had i made black and white traces of the tire track. linking these with my use of colonialsim as a theme with the fact they are black and white like a Zebra.

to futher make these links with post-colonialism I used these tire tracks as the Index to made an Icon of the south African flag, using a mix of pen, coloured pen and white pencil on A4 blue card.