#The global majority

[curlyburp]

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[alwaysbewoke]

[trektown]

Commands from the Kiradax council

[squidgirlautism]

uncomfortable feeling to be in the period of knowing things are getting worse and it’s still not too late to run, but also knowing there’s literally nowhere to run

[rotzaprachim]

one of the most bitter ironies from a certain flavour of western (usually American, British, French) leftist who’se decided to comment on the Jews Writ large and just suggest that Israelis ought to have just gone back to where they come from if they didn’t want to be murdered is that the US, UK, and France been hugely culpable in forcing massive numbers of Jews, along with other middle eastern refugees, from their homelands through colonialism and interventionist and destabilizing policies in Iran, Afghanistan , Algeria, Lebanon, Yemen, and so forth. It’s downright ghoulish to refuse to wrestle with the history behind why the vast majority of the worlds’ middle eastern Jews live in the state of Israel when YOU, as the major colonial powers of the region, are culpable for it

[hadesoftheladies]

palestine is a wake up call to all the people in the global south and all countries and peoples that have experienced colonialism by western empires. especially following the western world's response to ukraine.

when you're flooded with footage of children starving, their bodies shredded by missiles, shrapnel and collapsed buildings, when you see once vibrant, beautiful lands reduced in seconds to rubble . . . you realize how easy it is to provoke a white man. all you have to do is a be a person of colour on your land with all its natural resources. that's it. all you have to do is exist on the same soil as your ancestors. and if a white man says you're in the way of his expansion, it doesn't matter what moral ethics you think white people have. it really doesn't matter what you expect of a human being. what conscience you think they have.

you will die. no one will rescue you. they will murder you. torture you. they will justify it. they will make jokes about it. and years later, when it's not too inconvenient for their people to feel guilt, they will feel sorry and still make what they did to you about them. about their "human complexity" and their "nuance." your people will be dead for thousands of years before they "apologize" (not to you but) to their descendants. and even then they'll lie. they'll blame the "internal conflicts of the region." conveniently leaving out who supplies the guns and military gangs. why. what they get in return.

what's happening in congo, tigray, palestine, haiti, iran, afghanistan, etc is not an isolated event. you cannot afford to think so. it's literally what they did from the 17th-20th centuries. the exact same tactics. the exact same propaganda. these are millions of people dying and set up to die within this year alone.

white man sees resource, white man cuts a bloody path toward it. he is superior, so it's his right. it's that simple.

if you are self-righteous about politics (especially toward western empires like france, britain, russia, canada and the u.s., etc.) please understand that the only thing between your "peaceful" or stable country and all-out war is how agreeable you are to the demands of these empires. please don't think these people have evolved or will consider you in any way. they will nuke you, too, if you resist. that isn't peace. we don't have peace with them. they aren't peaceful. complying under threat of war isn't peace. coercion is not consent.

if these insane people can hear from the mouths of their own scientists that their wars are killing their own people and accelerating the death of life on this planet, i don't know why you'd think they have a shred of humanity left in them. that there's anyone in this life they could possibly care for.

reject that lie. that you can appeal to their humanity. how many fucking "peace talks" have we had since hitler? for fucks sake. begin to build your community and focus your aid and efforts on each other. be aware, but also think smaller. focus on local businesses and markets rather than imports. let's change the way we consume (this is hugely important). wherever you are, whichever people concern you, take care of your own communities. give back. even if you're part of the diaspora. just find a way to give back and strengthen your communities. don't let "the drain" empty out in the west. i'm not claiming its simple work, or that i have all the answers. i'm just saying increase your awareness of how these empires and their propaganda function and don't give into them however you can afford to. you know what you can do. you know your own communities and countries better than i do. and we all know that one of the prime ways the empires keep us weak is by destroying or own intracommunity solidarity.

because there is no UN we can appeal to. there is no western "mediator" we can rely on.

they'd kill us all if it wouldn't tank their economy.

internalize that. don't ever let them coax any trust out of you. there is no "international unity" we can have with them because their prosperity will always require our suffering. resist, at least, by reclaiming your mind from them. see them outside of how they have conditioned you to see them. every time your president shakes one of their hands, see the blood smearing them.

don't trust a single word out of their dirty, lying mouths.

[stupot]

Hey I don't want to make a big deal out of this because it is decidedly not the principle problem right now but I would be extremely wary of posts that sound the alarms over specifically Ashkenazi Jews. Please think it over: how does pinning the blame for an atrocity on a specific minority group help the Palestinian cause in any way? It doesn't. Not only is it reductive but there are millions of Ashkenazis many other countries, yours and mine, who overwhelmingly have no ties to Israel, no family there, no history there, who rightfully despise it and all it stands for, and who are regularly harassed and attacked for being Jewish BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS....I would suggest reblogging literally any other post about Palestinian causes, aid, protests, culture, updates etc. They are suffering beyond IMAGINATION and we're not going to use their pain to legitimize bog standard easily identifiable antisemitic canards. Zionists crying antisemitism over condemnation of Israel are full of shit. But this IS crystal clear antisemitism. Please be wary of that and focus on Palestinian aid.

[thedisabledfemme]

There’s this twitter thread with amazing art for Palestine but I wanted to highlight those from different fandoms and corners of the internet.

Whether you’re an athlete, musician, scientist, technician, etc, or just an anime nerd like myself - this moment in time - let it radicalize you. Free free, Palestine!

Twitter: @/cherrieflavors

Twitter: @/lukesakari

Twitter: @/merie_jwana

Twitter: @/cy_guy1518 tumblr: @sams-clonetrooper-sons

Twitter: @/doggomimi

Twitter: @/sorceressmyr

Twitter:@/voidpathy

Twitter: @/kawtherbd

Twitter: @/amiee_sosuke

Thank you to each artist for letting me share their work on Tumblr.

[poetriarchy]

i wanna shake every single person on this website by the shoulders and scream IT'S AN EL NIÑO YEAR!!!!!!!!! IT'S AN EL NIÑO YEAR!!!!!!!! IT'S AN EL NIÑO YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[curlyburp]

There are an irritating number of films about bland white people doing bland white people things. Can anyone recommend any slice-of-life type movies with persons of color that aren't about celebrities or crime or some stereotypical grand adventure? Just non-white people existing? 🤔🤔🤔

[deepfriedtrout]

Dunno what I'm writing. I go by sheer vibes that I cook up while staring blankly at the ceiling in the mornings while having my coffee. Researcher yuri or something?

I will probably never finish this.

[starlightshadowsworld]

"Early 2010's YA dystopia is just white people scared to be treated the same way as they've treated BIPOC centuries."

Why would you say something so controversial yet so true.

[shazleen]

Hi! I just wanted to pop in here and tell you that your webcomic BUUZA!! was one of the first ones I read and one that I hold really dear to my heart. After reading it for the first time a few years ago I realized how much I love fantasy and fiction based in non-western settings. Though I don't read comics/graphic novels often anymore, I wanted to thank you for creating such an amazing world and characters ❤

Hey!

Thank you so much for enjoying Buuza!! ;w; that means a lot to me!!

I hope even though you don't read comics as much now, you have found lots of other fantasy media that centres black, asian and global majority voices :)

[hussyknee]

Not entirely sure how I'm expected to respond when I point out something is white as fuck and the person I'm criticizing goes "I'm literally PoC!!" Okay? Good for you? Get well soon??

I literally live in South Asia, a place still nursing the world's worst colonial hangover. That's like one billion brown people desperately in need of joining Bootlickers Anonymous. If I had to respect the rancid takes of every yahoo that lives here I'd have to drown myself in the sea.

Living in white countries does something odd to diaspora brains. If you call yourself BIPOC in your own head long enough you end up forgetting you're just a garden variety idiot mainlining white supremacy like everyone else.