#Orientalism

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Orientalism is why. K-Pop has actually been popular outside of Korea for decades, but when it gets big specifically in the West, suddenly it's a nefarious plot to increase #KoreanSoftPower.

Alex Brown

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Look, all I’m saying is, as someone who has one white parent and IS biracial, there’s so much stuff that can fuck you up and it’s a much more nuanced

Zaina Ujayli

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Dune is a racist, white savior narrative that relies on people’s ignorance of Arab Islamic history to make itself creative. Here is why you shouldn’t applaud Dune’s casting diversity… Dune

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If y’all think France’s Islamaphobia is rooted in an urge for oil and the need for a black sheep like the United States or a fear of losing “culture” and

Movies Silently

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Quick and Dirty Guide to the Original Flash Gordon Serials:The first serial is probably the pulpiest and definitely the one most fixated on sex. The entire plot revolves around assorted

Dostoevsky's Idiot ☭

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A threadCore and PeripheryJust before starting first chapter of Orientalism, Edward Saeed puts a quote from Karl Marx, a political philosopher(my fav too) with perhaps the most influence on progressive

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This is a really bad take. It's not okay. Cis women co-opting a trans experience - like being a woman with a dick - doesn't validate the wholeness of my

Sachiko Ishikawa

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Okay—we need to talk about white people’s idealization (fetishization) of Japan.You know why white cishet men love Japan?Because a) expat culture and white privilege b) orientalism c) classism d) sexism

Ugly Anarchist (ACAB)

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I think one of the reasons D&D has historically struggled breaking with a really Eurocentric model is that it doesn’t really believe in cultural differences just alignment ones so most

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I have been voicing out about the cultural appropriation issues prevailing in K-pop, but this time... I have to be honest: It kinda feels like confronting people condemning lyrics "네가"

LA Review of Books (LARB)

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We're posting a series of #ShortTakes on our current time of quarantine and #COVID19. First, @ERICGUDAS on the social distancing inherent in the freelancer's life.https://twitter.com/LAReviewofBooks/status/1239378366215737344 .@Kate_Gale of @

Pallando the Blue

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RANT ABOUT THE INDO-EUROPEAN QUESTIONEver since the emergence of historical linguistics as an independent branch of research, we have been aware of the existence of Indo-european languages. The reconstruction of

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GERARD WAY HAS PROFITED FROM RACISM: a threadthis is a thread to show and explain instances of racism within gerard way's work. this list is non-exhaustive and made from memory,

Joshua Luna

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I've been quarantine-binging vampire shows & wondered why Asian guys are rarely vampires. Then I realized that since modern vampires are “heroes” meant to uphold whiteness, we don't fit that

Harmeet Kaur Kamboj

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Every Friday night since NY's stay-at-home order began, my queer #chosenfamily joins together virtually to watch @RuPaulsDragRace. It's a couple hours at the end of a long and lonely week

Wokal Distance

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1/DECOLONIZINGGENDERThis decolonizing gender event promoted by Billion Dollar brand Lulu Lemon says "resist capitalism."What is decolonizing?Why would I do it to my gender?How do Billion Dollar brands resist capitalism?All this