#Western

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

Quite often, Western European countries (Spain, Portugal, France, etc.) are accused of building their economy via the slave trade in the Early modern era. All this is presented as the

shai ☽

mendez1Dx

WHATS HAPPENING IN PALESTINE: a very important thread: please take the time to read and educate yourselves as the majority aren’t aware/ignoring the situation. Palestine is an Arab islamic country

Katie Turner

DrKatieTurner

Jewish communities have been forced to wear badges and other special articles of dress from the 13th century thru to Nazi Germany (No, the Nazis didn't 'invent' the yellow badge...far

Sai Deepak J

jsaideepak

1. If Hindutva is Hinduism that resists, well, it includes resisting the caricaturing of our Deities by Abrahamics, atheists or otherwise, & non-Abrahamics, atheists or otherwise. Given d history of

Makadiwata 🌿

makadiwata

Dear Filipinx-Americans, this isn’t how you celebrate pre-Filipino cultures and LGBTQIA+ history — not with anachronisms, not with bad takes, not with bad scholarship passed off as history. Pakiusap.(Images from

Pseudoerasmus

pseudoerasmus

Another Indonesia-related ephemera:I’ve wondered for decades! why Pinochet has been so much more reviled than Suharto in the popular imagination when Suharto was so much more lethal ?! There’s even

Lillian Li

lillianmli

1) Let's kick off May Chinese tech threads.In 2017, Ctrip was the undisputed OTA market leader with ~50% of China's online hotel bookings. They quashed competitors and lead a consolidation

Khaled Homoud Alshareef G20 🇸🇦

0khalodi0

The Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia: The Black PapersThe activity of the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia began clearly during the reign of King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, King of

Gopal Khanal

GopalNature

On the occasion of the International Freshwater Dolphin Day 2020, I explain the status of the Ganges River Dolphin in Nepal. @RiverDolphinNep @CESNepal 1/10 Once distributed widely across Karnali, Koshi

dom 🖤 shooter for idle

sunflowersoyeon

explaining all of idle's comebacks and why they are not problematic, a thread before i begin, i would just like to say that i am black and i am speaking

GreyFox

GFPhilosophy

Lately, I’ve been accused of being biased purely because my bio uses “riots” to describe what happened in HK in 2019. Having stayed in HK throughout the entire 7 month

cannabis gender reveal explosion

KivanBay

Let's do this! You voted to read about "food as race, diet racism" so that's what this thread is abouthttps://twitter.com/KivanBay/status/1043412823798296576 So, I'm going to start by sharing a long quote

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Someone asked me who was the most talented artist of my lifetime and I just threw out a random name. But the more I think about it, the more I'm

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

A specter is haunting Western democracies:It isn’t the surging pandemicIt isn’t mass deathIt isn’t catastrophic unemploymentIt is the supposed end of free speech and the advent of “cancel culture”https://trib.al/QxaMTjk Trum

Utibe R. Essien, MD MPH

UREssien

Before the grants are reviewed, the IRBs are submitted, the data are analyzed, and the manuscripts are in press, reporters will likely continue to shed light on the issues related

The Telegraph

Telegraph

Making face masks compulsory is not just a matter of public health. It's a cultural shift for Western countries.⁠⁠To help you navigate the New Normal, we have put together an