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Rainer Shea
rainer_shea
The worldwide economic shift towards China, which is being accelerated by Covid-19 and America’s economic collapse, represents more than a change towards a multi-polar world. It’s a collapse of the
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Jesse Singal
jessesingal
I saw someone famous unironically refer to food writing as a "colonialist project." I just think that you can't say stuff like that and then expect people to take colonialism
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☭ Shimmy God✨
mal_praxis
Look, white people cannot "decolonize their mentality", white people are the colonizer not the colonized. Their mentality isnt colonized so it cannot be "decolonized". It's possible I am off base
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Christopher J. Slaby
CJSlaby
I'm going to bed now (about 3 hours too late for a morning jog, unfortunately) so I'm not going to delve too deeply into this now but it says something
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Samuel Praneeth
SamuelvPraneeth
They're not being taught "Chinese" (whatever that means), that's a martial arts class, but the impulsive urge to point that out and then shift the conversation to Western colonialism as
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The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
IBJIYONGI
Pogroms are being perpetrated by Jewish Israelis. What a sentence. They’re not doing it because this behavior is somehow inherent to Jewishness. They are doing it because this behavior is
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Kaniku X. Nu’kezi
zaddybare
......I literally cannot trust white people and their motivations.Why? Because it doesn’t matter the motivation.Y’all are constantly & consistently causing harm to Black & Indigenous communities with nothing but a
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Woman of Minimal Substance🏳️🌈
YaaAsantewaaBa
I tweeted once how it made me uncomfortable that first gens so openly make fun of their parents' accents. Particularly their moms. Cos of the ties to colonialism, etc. And
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Rebecca Rowe
Rebecca_L_Rowe
I just saw Frozen 2: it's about how colonialism always lies, about how colonialist "gifts" are always for their own benefit and the detriment of others, about how colonists get
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Socialism with Welsh characteristics.
WelshSocialism
Read 2 articles today: one on "postcolonial" Wales and one on Welsh slave owners in the Caribbean. The second essay made the former, describing Wales as a "postcolonial" country absolutely
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hxnxss
the thing about the “Ethiopia was never colonized” discourse is that, when you really look into it, it’s a very narrow view of colonialism. i would argue it’s not even
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Ra 라뱌 🌞
rleeiaa
i dont really get this barrier that y’all put up between colonialism and imperialism because colonialism is just the second phase. Imperialism is the building of an empire, and there
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Priyamvada Gopal
PriyamvadaGopal
Minute people justify things like empire by talking about gender, or caste, or minorities are being emancipated by it, or make false binaries like gender freedom v anticolonialism please remember
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Courtney Milan 🦖
courtneymilan
Okay, one more thread about the problems of “solving colonialism” et cetera in historical fiction, because this is something I grappled with for a long time, and I’m not sure
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Niamh Cullen
niamhanncullen
Following from certain recentdiscussions in history I’ve also thinking again about Irish history, exceptionality and comparative frameworks. (1) Not being a historian of Ireland (nor of colonialism) I’m also very
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kerry stonks
maximum_sincere
The phrase “virtue signalling” should be reserved for actors like the State of Victoria going heavy on symbolic acts like acknowledgements and expensive ad campaigns while they continue the work
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