#colonilization

[fvckinaphrodite]

Colonizers when they colonilized non-white people in the past:

"It's the will of God" (I dream about it)

"God makes me do it" (My prophetic dream makes me do it)

"We're children of God, and He has commanded us to spread our white supremacy agenda" (We're Valyrians and with our dragons we will conquer *ehem* defend these kingdoms)

"It's our destiny" (It's our destiny)

"We're destined to save these barbarians" (We're destined to save these non-valyrian people)

"We are the heroes, the saviors who defend humanity from the brutalism of the East in the name of Jesus Christ" (We're the heroes, the saviors who defend humanity from the threat far North in the name of our Valyrians' colonialism and prophetic dreams and dragons and stuff)

Yea no shit Sherlock definitely not sound like colonizers at all

[little-etho-everywhere]

List of accounts on social media that discuss/show the Palestinian genocide crisis

My only regret about this post is that I didn't make it sooner, because one of the most popular accounts, Eye on Palestine, got taken down TODAY

I tried my best to find English-speaking sources, but here it is.

Omar Suleiman / Instagram / Twitter

Motaz Azaiza / Instagram / Twitter

Mahmoud Sami Al-Hissi / Instagram

Palestine International Broadcast / Instagram / Twitter

Subhi / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Chris Kunzler / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Middle East Eye / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem / Instagram / Twitter / Facebook / Youtube / Official website

Metras Global / Instagram / Twitter

Bisan / Instagram / TikTok

AJ+ / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Al-Jazeera / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Al-Arabia / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Times of Gaza / Instagram / Twitter

OTHER HELPFUL SOURCES:

Palestine and how to help

Save Palestine

r/Israelicrimes

Counting the kids

I will try to add to this list but these are all the ones I have followed, feel free to reblog with more!

YOUR SILENCE IS COMPLICITY TO ETHNIC CLEANSING, GENOCIDE, AND COLONILISM. USE YOUR VOICE TO SPEAK FOR THOSE UNDER THE RUBBLE.

edit: fixed typo and added more sources to B'tslem.

[stars-and-soda]

The cringe, racist, colonilizer Independence Day vs The Blessed and True Hua Hua, He Ye and Meng Lan the panda's birthday

[vpofcookies]

Let’s talk Technoblade and flower symbolism!

(please note that these are the reasons that I use these specific flowers in my art for Technoblade, usually in reference to DSMP techno, so not all of the reasons are serious or symbolism-related :D)

(Part two here)

Dandelions

Not only do the common meanings of dandelions perfectly match Techno (faithfulness, hope, growth, and healing) but societal impressions of dandelions, to me, are a perfect reflection of Techno’s character and of his arc in the DSMP. I won't go much into faithfulness and healing, but I hope that those are evident from his friendship with Philza and the healing of each member of the Syndicate.

Loyal talks about Techno collecting dandelions (Here!), discussing both the symbolism of Techno growing in an adverse environment and collecting hard-to-kill flowers and the fact that Techno uses the dandelions for stew and for his bees.

I think Techno’s use of suspicious stew is often overlooked. A suspicious stew made with dandelions increases saturation. He didn’t choose to create regeneration effects using an oxeye daisy. Technoblade, who focuses on xenia, guest friendship, the laws of hospitality, and the policy of providing food and shelter to guests; Technoblade, who chose his retirement to avoid the conflict and violence of his past and was still hunted anyways, chooses saturation. The choice to rely on dandelions was intentional. It was a declaration, perhaps just to himself, that he was retired, that he would not need regeneration, that all he would need is to be able to provide the hospitality of a filling meal and to protect himself and his friends from hunger.

Now, let's talk about society and dandelions. Dandelions are considered by many to be a weed, an unkillable plant that spreads it's roots even after they try again and again to get rid of it. Sound familiar, anyone? But, like many "weeds," the reason that dandelions are seen as undesirable has roots in colonilization, where plants that were food sources to native and impoverished peoples were derided by colonizers and the upper class. The societal perception of these flowers is rooted in their usefulness to those that the figures in power wanted to eliminate.

Other than that connection to Technoblade's anti-government perspective, why am I connecting this to our favorite anarchist pig? Consider Technoblade's role throughout the dsmp, specifically the pogtopia arc. Technoblade provides armor, food, tools and materials. Then there is a shift in power and his 'usefulness' is up, as those in power no longer align with his goals and instead try to eliminate him. This shift in being recognized for usefulness to being forceably removed is due to a shift from the group in power, despite being the same as before.

I don't want to limit this analogy to usefulness, although the tendency of Techno to provide food and hospitality does lend itself to that. No, the main reasons that I connect Technoblade to dandelions is their resilience, their potential for growth, and the hope they represent.

Technoblade retires. Technoblade is executed. Even before this, it is evident that Technoblade needs healing. He has the air of a war veteran, is referenced to as the blade, is used, betrayed, and fights for his life. He says that there is no safety except isolation. And yet, he retires and throughout it all there is his friendship with Philza, his cabin in the arctic, his suspicious stew; pieces of evidence that he never gave up hope that he could heal without violence. Pieces of that undying determination that both he and dandelions are known for. Dandelions can grow on rocks, on hard packed soil, in drought conditions, but they prefer rich soil like any other plant. Technoblade grows his hope in hard conditions, fights to keep that hope, and finds a place where it can grow. He finds a place where he can grow, and learns along the way that maybe faithfulness is not a weakness, and maybe you can live and grow with others.

[thehobomice]

Yall Ever Grow Up Getting Told To Pursue Your Dreams? I Have, But Now That I'm An Adult I Dont Have The Time Or Money To Do So.

Their Are So Many Day Dreams That I Would Love To See Come To Life Like A Mecha Anime In The LANCER Setting, Or An Action Adventure Cartoon In Pathfinder, Or Maybe A Spirit Island Cartoon With A Very Anti-Colonilism Message.

The Skills That These Would Take To Do Them Justice Is Far Beyond Me. I Dont Know Anything About Story Telling, Art Direction, Music Composition, Animation, Voice Acting. Its Not A Project I Can Do My Self, And I'm Too Poor To Hire Anyone Who Would Be Good At These. Would Anypne Even Like Them Besodes Me?

At The End Of The Day Its Easier To Give Up On Your Dreams, And Just Let Them Be Dreams.

[f0xd13-blog]

Anti colonilism but fascist because people hasn't been able to get out of that government since

[ikmalfahmirasmi]

Palestinian citizens of Israel are being rounded up. Israeli govt is hoping that under a “ceasefire” they can continue to carry out their routine criminalization of Palestinians while escaping public scrutiny. Do not let that happen. Share widely. #NoHate #freepalestine #palestine #gazaunderattack #ceasefire #israelarmy #israeliapartheid #colonilization #apartheid #visitisrael #ramallah #telaviv #benjaminnetanyahu #idf #alquds #baitulmaqdis #domeoftherock #westbank #gaza #gazastrip #palestinian Source : https://www.instagram.com/p/CPO4FHsF2kY/?utm_medium=copy_link @a7madabuznaid (at Palestine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPUBdePBPic/?utm_medium=tumblr

[celepom]

Squire

by Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas

Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire, and as a member of the subjugated Ornu people, Knighthood is her only path to full citizenship. Ravaged by famine and mounting tensions, Bayt-Sajji finds itself on the brink of war once again, so Aiza can finally enlist in the competitive Squire training program. It's not how she imagined it, though. Aiza must navigate new friendships, rivalries, and rigorous training under the unyielding General Hende, all while hiding her Ornu background. As the pressure mounts, Aiza realizes that the "greater good" that Bayt-Sajji's military promises might not include her, and that the recruits might be in greater danger than she ever imagined. Aiza will have to choose, once and for all: loyalty to her heart and heritage, or loyalty to the Empire.

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[sumeria]

betty is a butch lesbian who is presenting femininely and comphetting bc she is afraid of herself and her sexuality and of not having the good girl mask to fall back on, jughead is a gay genderfluid he/they and the hat is a metaphor for how he clings desperately to the weird-weirdo schtick when in reality he is the most normal out of all the lot and craves normalcy and stability and is constantly searching for something larger and even his own solid sense of identity, archie is a bisexual trans man struggling with external validation for his own individuality and acceptance of his identity as he himself even though hes completely hyperaware of Who He Is, and veronica is cis and bi and constantly coming to terms with the gentrification colonilalism and assimilationist history of her family xoxo

[evilelitest2]

What are you talking about? I said "colonilalism, not capitalism", because I said frontier was a construct of colonialism, but you acted as if I said "capitalism".

Oh I thought this was in response to the conversation with the North Korean tankie, I didn’t realize this was about the western genre.  My mistake, and looking back you were 100% correct saying colonialism, i misread that, very sorry about that on two fronts.  

[josebuencamino]

Blog 2

1. What does reading and writing "contrapuntally" meN in the context of colonial historiography?

The author used the example of counterpoint to illustrate the phenomenon of two independent entities interacting with one another under an accepted standard of hierarchy and motion. In the case of Colonial Historiography, reading and writing ‘contrapuntally’ includes maintaining an awareness for the dominant ideology in examining the interactions between the opressor and the subaltern, as well as the depictions of these interactions in text. This also means examining the motives not only between the interactions but in the writing of the text itself,not necessarily to unveil any biased lenses - as bias is universal in any text that has ever been written - but to obtain a better understanding of the social circumstances of the time. 

2. what musical terms used, and how are they translted in describing historical events?

The term ‘Enharmonic Engagement’ serves as a blanket analogy for the interaction being described in this particular chapter, and most likely the others as well. It is a fitting analogy, in how two cultures of entirely different aesthetics, structures, and functional parameters find themselves in the same spot – in time, in space, and as the author describes, in language – yet their experience of that same encounter can relate to their respective social systems in completely different ways, allowing for the same meeting to exist as two phenomenons.

3. What do the terms intercultural comparatives, comparative ethnology and relativism mean? how do these approaches in writing affect a coloniL historiography?

An intercultural comparative is an attempt to explain another culture using one’s own. Comparative ethnology also uses one’s own culture to explain the practices of another, but presupposes an element of immersion. In the article, it was explained that Relativism sometimes finds its way into these processes of inquiry, as to explain another’s culture using one’s own to a certain degree is to take it out of context.

4. describe how writing history can become a hegemonic activity?

It was explained in the reading that some of the early Spanish historiographers equated the music of the indigenous peoples they were learning to live among to that of classical western civilization as if to substabtiate the need to subjugate and ‘civilize’ them. It was for these reasons that accounts were sometimes exaggerated, especially those pertaining to the exotic and the passionate. And thus, the writing of accounts can be a tool to extend dominion.

[helloarchersfield-blog]

A Husband's Place Is No Small Thing

A Husband’s Place Is No Small Thing

As-Salamu Alaikum The loss of a husband’s position, along with the father’s, in society is one of the primary reasons of it’s disintegration. The reasons are multitudinal now what with capitalism, corprotization, feminism, colonilization, invasion, starvation, war and more things I am sure. It might seem like a far-fetched theory, but it is not. When the world elite found every horrible,…

[bendwaves]

* IDK.

this is part one bc i have a lot to say but i’m gonna ramble a lot so it’s part one of many rambles.

okay so this is what i’ve gathered from my INTENSE wiki read of the southern water tribe. their government system is federal parliamentary elected chiefdom. so that means people are elected into power and they run on a cabinet based system  that is state run , or a union / body of a political entity. as we see in canon , the southern and northern water tribe operate VERY differently. while they run on chiefdoms / tribal chiefdoms their traditions and cultures are very different. 

in the southern water tribe the gender boundary isn’t so pervasive. we see female water benders who also serve offensively , however we also see that sexist beliefs are still predominant as sokka says some pretty out of pocket shit sometimes! which isn’t inherent, that’s learned. which could imply that women , while they could fight and take part in battle , were still not the same level of strength as men were considered in the southern tribe. and katara was regulated to house or wife work. 

it’s also important to note that their entire bending style was eradicated do the the imperialization of the fire nation. an entire STYLE because almost all the benders were eradicated. it’s already shown in canon that the northern style benders have a different , cultural way of bending in comparison to the southerns or else katara wouldn’t have wanted to learn so badly. how they bend , while holistically the same is fundamentally different. they also are the center / worship of the yin and yang deities / moon spirit. the southern tribe doesn’t seem as connected to the elements / deities , which shows that they’re perhaps more separated than the other tribe. 

so how does this fit to katara ? katara grew up with her mother obvi before she was taken. she’s the only water bender left. she never had a proper teacher and she probably grew up in a water tribe that was far removed from their deities and cultural roots. she was also trained in fighting with a weapon , if they couldn’t find a teacher suitable for her. so i wouldn’t be surprised if katara knew her way around a boomerang or a spear , but just chose not to use them bc of her bending powers. i also see her learning the art of sabotage and complete reversal of her opponent’s moves from her training with pakku. but that’s a diff point. 

my katara is super into learning about her culture. and doesn’t want to see the north and the south as two separate entities. they’re the same people who gain their power from the moon. who live in tundra conditions and wear blue and live by the ocean and have their economy fixated upon such. she wants to learn from them but she’s also super into learning about her own culture that was stripped away from her people due to colonilization and imperialism.  i headcanon that she uses primarily more southern bending styles than northern bending but also does a heavy mixture more often than not. she uses southern bending to become more attune with her culture but more often than not , she wants to see the tribe as a whole rather than two parts even tho she knows people say otherwise. 

she’s also been raised as a strong independent female. it was just her and sokka raised by her grandmother, kanna who also took no SHIT. it’s easy to see that katara and sokka , probably from their parents influence , held at least some weight / social standing. katara was raised to be a strong thinker , someone who didn’t take things sitting down. she’s bold and passionate and forthright and why it’s such a shock to be denied learning how to teach when she’s in the north. she is grown under the assumption that equality is a basic right and she doesn’t let her gender become a barrier but rather a strength. she’s female and PROUD. SHE’S DONE SHIT. SHE’S MADE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND STRIDES SHE’S BADASS I WAS GONNA META MORE ABOUT THE SOUTHERN TRIBE BUT THIS JUST BECAME ABOUT KATARA.

[k2029655-blog]

COLONILISM(15/11)

I just finished reading an article about how the french have assassinated over 20 African leaders since 1963. That is something I've never known and it was interesting to read. I'm trying to educate myself on colonialism in Africa and the aftermath of it as much as I can. It is so deep and complex and obviously still going on, but I'm the first generation of Congolese parents from Europe and I think that it is important for me and the rest of the first generations to learn about the history of our ethnicity. This also brought up the question of why I was learning all of this 1: on my own and 2: online. These momentous historic moments have changed so many people's lives and are still changing lives. Not to mention that Colonislim is a result of systematic racism, another subject that should be thoroughly thought in school. so why am I only learning about this now? I feel as though subjects like these should definitely be compulsory in school. It is important for young ethnic minorities to learn their life circumstances from a young age. Why they aren't in their home countries. Why they are a minority in the country they live in. These subjects should not be something you learn on your own, because had I not been interested, I would've gone my whole life not knowing anything about colonialism, something that still affects my life 100 years later despite the fact that I don't even live in Africa and never have. ONLINE LEARNING IS NOT THE WAY. this should change.

[ordinarymanjournal]

one of main street on my city. Fort de Kock established at 1825, the mark of colonilized in Minangkabau Main Land.

Bukit Tinggi, West Sumatera

[kobulo-blog]

Как убрать потертости с обуви? 🥾 Даже качественный материал постепенно изнашивается и теряет свой внешний вид 😒 Но, не спешите расставаться с любимыми ботинками. Мы расскажем, как убрать потертости и вернуть обуви презентабельный вид: ⠀ 🥾Специальные средства по уходу. Сегодня на рынке большой выбор кремов и спреев. Они имеют несколько назначений: ⠀ ▪️Помогают избавиться от потертостей; ▪️Маскируют мелкие дефекты и царапины; ▪️Защищают от негативных воздействий влаги и грязи. ⠀ ❌ Старайтесь не использовать крем-воски низкого качества. ⠀ ✅ Отлично зарекомендовали себя торговые марки: Colonil, Salamender Professional, Saphir, Tarrago. ⠀ ▪️Удалить затертости с кожаной обуви можно, используя «жидкую кожу». С ее помощью можно сделать незаметную латку на поверхности при помощи обычного бинта. Главное правильно подобрать цвет. После высыхания изделие будет как новое. ⠀ 🥾 Народные методы для чистки. ▪️Убрать потертости на кожаной обуви можно при помощи обычной зубной пасты (не гелевой). Для этого нужно нанести каплю пасты на нужный участок и растереть. ⠀ ▪️Можно использовать содовый раствор. На 100 гр. воды – две столовые ложки соды. После обработки поверхность протереть влажной тряпочкой и высушить. ⠀ ▪️Сильно залоснившиеся части можно обработать моющим средством для посуды. Одна столовая ложка жидкого моющего на один литр теплой воды. Раствор хорошо вспенить и тщательно обработать поверхность при помощи мягкой губки. Таким способом можно удалить затертости и с лакированной обуви. ⠀ ▪️Для обработки замшевой обуви часто используют простую канцелярскую резинку. С ее помощью просто «стирают» белесые места. Чтобы не повредить применяйте мягкий ластик. ⠀ ▪️Избавиться от черных полосок на белых туфлях или удалить потертости с лаковой обуви можно при помощи жидкости для снятия лака. ❗️Проверьте, чтобы она не содержала ацетон. Это может нанести вред окрашенным поверхностям❗️ ⠀ ✅ И помните: всегда легче предупредить неприятность, чем бороться с ее последствиями. ⠀ Соблюдайте наши советы, и любимая пара снова будет выглядеть, как новая 😉😌 (at Борисовские Пруды) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5YObmbFWv4/?igshid=5uy8bw0vznz2