#and the government does fuck all for indigenous communities

[artschoolglasses]

Americans not giving a shit about the wildfires burning down forests and homes in Canada until smoke starts spreading across the border. Meanwhile Indigenous communities across the country are far more likely to be impacted by the fires and I’ve seen all of one link to a charity and about nine million memes. 🙃

#yeah yeah hashtag notallamericans or whatever the fuck #I’m just irritated watching people whine or centre themselves #like sorry your clothes smell like smoke gladys but people have lost their fucking homes #and the government does fuck all for indigenous communities #so you know who’s gonna end up getting more aid #but sure brad can’t go out for his usual morning jog because of the canadians #also all these fucking news articles making ir about america as if canada has somehow done this on purpose out of spite #someone buy me a punching bag for my birthday thanks #artschoolrambles

[bijoumikhawal]

got reminded of the "saying Arabs conquered and colonized North Africa is Zionist because obviously no one saying that coulx possibly draw a distinction between North African Arabs and Palestinian Arabs, and even drawing a distinction between Arabs and Imazighen is colonizer shit" school of thought

#cipher talk #I have seem Zionists co-opt the language of MENA Indigenous groups but MF that doesn't mean we're WRONG #It means they're stealing our talking points to appeal to more left leaning people #How is it you can recognize that they've co-opted the language of social justice and that that doesn't mean social justice is bad #Until the people YOU dispossess are mentioned and suddenly you're doing step 8 of the 8 steps of white settler colonial denial #Just like the Israelis do! #And yeah like. Some people don't draw the distinction. That's a product of intergenerational trauma and how our communities #Get manipulated by the US and shit. I've also met Arabs not from North Africa that refuse to draw a distinction #And see a discussion of how Arabs have hurt Indigenous Africans as an attack on them when it doesn't make sense to do so #I've also met a lot of people who DO clearly draw a distinction because the material conditions of Palestinians are that of Indigenity #Are your material conditions as a postcolonial North African with an Arab name and a mosque and skin that isn't black that of Indigenity? #Do you not have people with your face in the government (regardless of how shifty it is)? Did someone take your land or your churches land? #Do you struggle with employment? Is your tongue not the most common one? Are your cultural clothes looked at with distaste? #Are your girls targeted for kidnapping and rape to force them to not be of your culture? Are your women called whores who WANT rape? #Are you harassed by cops? Does the government try to take your kids because they have bullshit adoption laws? #Do your kids get arrested at 12 or 13 and almost sent a thousand miles away from home before pressure stays the order? #Is your language called feudal? Do people tell you they hope it dies soon? Is your name a barrier in your life? #Did they drown your fucking village? #Because all of these are things Copts and Nubians can say yes to #Before I even start on the shit done in the Maghreb or the fuckery about how Egypt defines 'Amazigh territory' (which is very complicated)

[undyinglantern]

im so sorry but its so incredibly bone chilling to think about how the guatemalan civil war only ended less than a year before i was born; how cushiony it is to think about how distant and far removes the american civil war of 150 years ago was

#'peak violence between late70s to early80s' cannot stop thinking about how my parents came to the state in the 80s #dont know exactly what year but does it even fucking matter #'civil war' is so misleading too because it was literally largely a war between the poor indigenous and the fucking puppet government #set up by the united states no less because of vested interest ALL BECAUSE OF ONE ENTIRE SHITTY FRUIT #im sorry bananas arent bad or anything i dont have anything against them but im literally shaking in anger that these people were willing #to commit genocide over a stupid piece of shit fruit to the point of literally fabricating lies about soviets or communism or whatever tf #just so they could justify ownership over their stupid ass crop and in order to not have to pay the workers actually growing these crops #btw i dont mean to downplay the american civil war either please dont get the wrong idea from this #its just. you'd think maybe something wouldve changed. improved over those 100 years. and yet

[phoenixyfriend]

That one post about great domestic policy and HORRIFIC foreign policy just does not stop being true

Domestic Policy Win: The American Museum of Natural History in NYC is closing down two entire exhibits of Native American belongings in order to comply with a federal order that requires museums to obtain the consent of indigenous nations in order to display artifacts of native origin. The linked ProPublica article specifies that the exhibits in question are the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains Halls. To quote:

The new federal regulations, which went into effect this month, prohibit the display of items subject to NAGPRA without tribal consent and ban all research done without tribal consent. In addition, the regulations closed a loophole that had allowed museums such as the American Museum of Natural History to keep ancestral remains and burial items by claiming that they are “culturally unidentifiable” — meaning in their view they could not be connected to present-day Indigenous communities based on available evidence — and therefore could not readily be returned to tribes.

Foreign Policy Fail: The United States, the UK, and several other nations, in response to claims that several members of UNRWA were involved in the Oct. 7th attacks, have cut funding to the relief agency in question. The Al Jazeera article profiles the Palestinian response, and also specifies that this funding was pulled after the UNRWA launched an investigation in response to Israel's allegations that 12 members of the relief agency were involved.

Australia, Canada, Italy and the United States said they would halt funding to the agency, while European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the 27-member bloc would “assess further steps and draw lessons based on the result of the full and comprehensive investigation”. Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom then also joined the list of countries pausing financial aid to the UN agency, whose facilities where displaced Palestinians sought shelter have been repeatedly attacked in Israeli air raids. Ireland and Norway, however, expressed continued support for UNRWA, saying the agency does crucial work to help Palestinians displaced and in desperate need of assistance in Gaza. - Al Jazeera

"One million displaced people are currently taking refuge in and around UNRWA buildings. They are the ones who will suffer as a result of this decision," said Mr Gunness, adding: "The curtailing of UNRWA services will also destabilise the region at a time when Western governments are trying to contain a regional conflagration." [...] The US, Germany and the EU are among some of UNRWA's biggest donors. - BBC

Unfortunately, the WSJ article is paywalled, so I can't access the full thing for a quote.

Anyway. Call your reps. I'm not even talking to just the Americans this time, call your fucking reps. If they aren't donating to UNRWA, then make them do something. Is the organization possibly a security risk, and the concerns legitimate? Maybe! But you cannot cut the funding that is keeping 2.3mill people alive on an already shoestring budget and not immediately put a backup security net in place.

Until then, pick a charity with a good rating, donate and signal boost it, and politely harass your politicians.

Politely as in "don't shout at or cuss out the staffers that man the phone lines," because they are not your reps, but also because your number is going to get blocked and then you won't be able to pressure them in the future. Do be firm, though.

I'm personally picking the PCRF this time, since one of the three remaining hospitals in south Gaza has been evacuated and shut down, and the evacuees reportedly include women who just got C-sections, which means the evacuees also include newborns, and medical care is in high demand. They're also currently focused on providing clean drinking water to the people of Palestine. That said, so is food, and shelter, and winter clothing. Pick a need, find a charity, and toss them some money.

#yes this was mostly my way of guiding people to charity sites again. and pushing you to push your reps #current events #united states #indigenous peoples #palestine #israel #gaza #death tw

[beardedmrbean]

God the amount of people on here I’ve, not just lost respect for, but become completely repulsed by in the last few days. People I share fandoms with who every so often would reblog those stupid “goblins are Jews so anybody who puts them in stories is antisemetic and should be shunned!!!” Which I usually just rolled my eyes and moved on. Those same damn people are on here justifying Jewish people getting slaughtered and kidnapped. And even if in their minds it’s truly just about “Israel vs Palestine”, not a fucking peep has been heard from any of them about the attacks now occurring to Jews around the world. “Punch Nazis! Listen to Jewish Voices! Be aware of antisemitism!” All goes out the window now I guess?

Gonna be setting everything to do with this situation to 'mature' and tagging "middle east mess" from here on in, this situation is far too much for lots of you and I get that I'm trying to balance things out best I can.

Go into your settings to the "content" filtering as well as "tag" filtering and punch in any terms you can think of to get most of this all off your dash.

Schrödinger's POC.

One thing I've come to realize in my observations over the years is the majority of the different activists, really loud ones at least, don't actually care about the causes they claim to care about, they don't actually want things to improve for people. Having perpetual victims while they themselves are not victims seems to let them look like they're trying to help and stand up for injustice and victimized people while still covertly looking down their noses at them.

Israel is a great example of that since they do a pretty good job mostly on their own surrounded by enemies on all sides, gotten a little less dangerous over the decades but they're still in the danger zone and generally still thriving.

That and they very rarely get involved in a difficult fight, much easier to virtue signal over a video game than it is when there's some fairly complex geopolitical forces at play. And hating Israel is the easier of the two routes to go in this one, you'll also be seeing the folks that say it's not Jews it's "Zionists" even if the overwhelming majority of Jewish people are Zionists.

Which hey, you're all entitled to your opinion but before you go and start bashing Israel on a hourly basis go ahead and look at all the other countries out there and see how you feel about them and decide if you honestly think you're judging them all by the same standard or if you're judging Israel (or any others) more harshly and then ask yourself why that is.

Amnesty went in to Ukraine at one point after several schools had been targeted by russia, amnesty pointed out all of the obvious signs that the ukrainian military had been using those schools as weapons cache's or staging grounds or any of a number of other military purposes and they declared that to be a big no no and properly laid the blame on the ukranian military and government. You made it a military target by putting troops there.

Oddly even though it's widely known that hamass does the same thing, somehow amnesty still goes after Israel who will "knock on the door" of places they're about to level that are legitimate military targets, if they're also civilian buildings. hamass using the roof of a building as a place for a communications array/radio tower they'll get a dummy bomb dropped in their lap and civilians have their 30 min notice to evacuate because it's going down in 30 min one way or the other, but somehow that's not good enough.

and Oh lord I was in the notes of a couple different post and people talking about the Jewish citizens of Israel not actually being the same people that are the indigenous population to that area, which dna tests have proven that wrong, but hey they're out there repeating talking points made up by goebels so remember that next time these people call someone else a nazi, granted they're stupid enough to call actual Jewish people nazis to their faces showing that they've really just turned that word into something that's on par with butthead at this point.

Circling back round, like I said most of these activists they don't want conditions to actually improve for anyone, because they won't be special little guys helping out the poor oppressed people, they'll just be ordinary.

Cancer researchers would be very happy if they got put out of a job, professional activists not so much.

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This is all beyond very tragic both for the people of Israel and the people of gaza who just want to live their lives free of fear and hate, it is interesting to see people doing 180's on their stances on things like rape and child murder/infanticide and such given who's doing it this time round, if I were Jewish I would be seriously reconsidering my position of I want everyone who wants to and can responsibly do so to own all the guns they like, but having one isn't for me.

I'd cut that last bit out, I'd be armed everywhere I go.

There's lots of issues on both sides of this conflict, but only one side went in to a music festival and murdered 260+ people and dragged off hostages to rape, torture, and maybe attempt to bargain with at some point if the mood strikes.

That's not something the good guys do.

Side note, I'm surprised I haven't seen a specific insult tossed out between members of the Jewish community who are on different sides of this issue, for the curious it's a german word and I'm not going to type it out.

Had someone throw that one at me once which confused me given my lack of being Jewish, loses all it's punch at that point.

#anonymous #middle east mess

[precambrian-sea-pancake]

Antisemitism is bad

Islamophobia is bad

Zionism is bad

Killing innocent people and taking hostages is bad

Blowing up civilian occupied places is bad

Genocide is bad

Hamas is bad

Israeli government is bad

Freeing hostages is good

Supporting Palestinian is good

Freeing Palestine is good

Hamas is NOT Palestine

Supporting Palestinians does not mean I support Hamas.

Wanting to free the hostages does not mean I support Israel.

For the love of god why do people not understand this? Why do people keep using gatchas and acting like you can only care about one thing?

Why does our government send billions to Israel but not to their own citizens?

Homelessness here is rampant. Towns are destroyed in fires. Indigenous people are freezing to death. POC communities are terrorized daily. Lgbtq people are losing rights. Women are losing rights. Working class people can barely afford to live by themselves.

But sure, send that much needed money to a country that is playing this war so carelessly.

Ukraine is still being invaded. There’s a genocide going on in Congo.

The only side that needs support are the civilians. They’re the ones suffering in this situation. Not just Palestinians and the Israeli hostages, but the working class people who live in countries that don’t support them.

People are fucking dying and all these governments see is statistics.

It is so frustrating how people in power lack basic empathy.

Every day I open social media or turn on the news I see suffering. I see videos of kids being injured, trapped, and grieving.

But Israel and the western world don’t see that. To them those people are just consequences of war. You’d think that after seeing their people slaughtered and kidnap they would want to prevent others from experiencing the same thing, right? Well they don’t care. They don’t give a fuck.

That’s the problem: politicians don’t give a fuck.

#vent #free palestine #ceasefire #I need a break from social media #I feel like crying all the time because this stuff is so awful

[hussyknee]

does marxists dni include anarcho communists who use dialectical materialism/marxism or just marxist leninists

Idk man my country's had a communist government and two Marxist uprisings and they were all a bunch of twats that fucked over everyone as much as the neoliberal government did.

This is going to sound like a rant but it's just me going through a spiel I've had to explain over and over (and I'm still half asleep). If you're for some glorious armed rebellion or believe the only reason communism didn't work in all the other countries was because of the US, or think that all the totalitarianism, ethnofascism and genocides were overinflated, or all the drastic failures was because it wasn't "real communism" then that's what the DNI is for. This shit isn't theoretical to me. I'm tired of the ideology of some white dude two hundred years ago that keeps getting people killed being the be-all end-all of western leftists. There's a reason indigenous activism and most actual decolonial academics don't fuck with communism. And in my experience, communists and anarchists and neoliberals in the West are identical in the experience of BIPOC and the Global South because y'all are racist and ableist as hell. None of you bother to unlearn your imperialist conditioning and US exceptionalism, you're more attached to your minority trauma than liberation and solidarity, and you just want to stuff the world into the shape you have in your head rather embracing decolonization as an evolving and contextual process. Theory and ideology can't teach you humility, compassion, decentering and just listening to the conversation of actual colonized people without inserting yourself.

*shrug* You don't have to agree with me, but if you can listen to Global South people who've lived under communism without going "um, actually" you're welcome to follow. I actually do have communist friends in my own country I can talk with because we've experienced the same shit. But my politics are based on human nature subjected to the power dynamics played out again and again in the patterns of history and looking at what this stuff looks like in practice. And I ain't nobody's comrade.

#really i'm not going off on you i'm just exhausted #asks #anon #western leftists #decolonization #knee of huss

[tragicallyphosphorescent2]

i ask this coming from a place of genuinely wanting to dismantle colonization and my own settler identity, but what does someone without any connection to any land do? I can't return to Europe because my people were literally kicked out, and even then I don't have the financial means. Land does need to be returned to its original stewards, but i would be stateless unless you count Israel and birthright, which fuck no

Sorry but I have to ask: Are you really sure? Have you really researched or tried to move to Europe that you speak so certainly? Were you personally kicked out? Is it really so impossible for you to live in Europe? Not in France? Not in Italy? Poland? Hungary? Or even Finland? Lithuania? Hell England? Spain? Iceland???

If you were concerned about community I and other would really do everything to help you find community and connection. Your concern based on your grandparents or great-grandparents however is quite unfounded considering that Europe isn't invaded by Nazi Germany currently and hell even Germany is not under Nazi regime today.

This isn't to say that there is no concern or safety but that also exists in the US (idk if you're American) and even in Israel. Actual Holocaust survivors live terribly in poverty there. Not to mention all the all the discrimination against Mizrahi and African (Ethiopian or else) Jews there. Or even Sephardi Jews who had been living in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa for centuries.

Israel doesn't care about yo ur safety it cares about doing colonization and genocide. Even if Israel was truly the safest place for you it would be selfish to sacrifice others for your safety. Nvm that a fascist state can never be safe for you. I'm sure as a Jew you'd know that. No matter how safe it seems to you believe me in the end they will come for you! "First they came for the communists..." and all that. Speak out!

In the end none of that is import cause you do not have to migrate anywhere. You can just lawfully purchase land form Indigenous people that hasn't been stolen. Provided that you respect them and their land. So you wouldn't stateless. So money is not much of a problem here. You can get help as a poor person. Land Back also means abolishing Capitalism.

Though I should say that the ultimate goal of anarchist is of course to get rid of all stated altogether and abolish borders and governments. Unless you mean a state for Jews? Which need I remind you that you are absolutely NOT entitled to having a nation state? Nobody is entitled to it actually so...

[gaelic-symphony]

the outpouring of support ive gotten from the african community has been amazing. south africa does not fucking represent them. a lot of my friends are members of an ethnic group indigenous to east africa (literally the majority of the population lol), that has been oppressed for CENTURIES by a minority group that much like the palestinians, arent even indigenous to the area. my friends and their families said theyre called "the tall trees," because they control the government and tower over the indigenous people in terms of power - again, a lot like how "antizionists" (virulent antisemites lol) dominate any balanced conversation we try to have about Israel. anyway, unlike the racist white "south africans," real africans stand with us. ✊🏻

I always love hearing about communities all over the world supporting Jews! Sometimes we just need a reminder that there are goyim in this world who don't hate us. I wonder if part of why some African communities are more sympathetic to us has something to do with the large diaspora populations of many indigenous African ethnic and national groups.

The one thing I will push back on a little is the idea that Palestinians are not indigenous. It's true that they are the ethnic and cultural descendants of the Arab Muslim settlers who violently conquered and colonized the Levant, ethnically cleansed the region of most of its indigenous populations, and subjected the populations that remained to centuries of dhimmitude. However, many individual Palestinians are descended from members of indigenous ethnic groups who were Arabized following the Muslim Conquest, and the Palestinian nation as a separate and distinct ethnic and national identity emerged in connection with the land of Palestine and has existed there for at least the past few centuries, so while Palestinian indigeneity may not stretch back as far as Jewish indigeneity, I would argue that they have as much of a right to call that land their ancestral homeland as we do.

#asked and answered #anon #jewish #jumblr

[yay855]

Thinking on it, Lilo and Stitch’s original movie has literally one named white character, and all the aliens are white-coded (with one having a Russian accent and most having an American or British accent). The named human characters are mostly native Hawaiian, plus Cobra Bubbles who’s black and serves as a minor antagonist... and also someone doing what’s best for Lilo by ensuring she has a stable home that can care for her properly.

The only named white character in the original movie is Myrtle Edmunds, who actively bullies Lilo, and who Lilo tends to attack whenever Myrtle goes too far.

Thinking on it, two of the three main characters are female as well, and the third is an alien who straddles the line between person and animal. Furthermore, the leader of the alien government is a woman too, and her overly-aggressive military captain Gantu is fired at the end of the movie for kidnapping an innocent and endangering human lives, and threatened with worse if he tries to push back.

It’s just so uncommon to have a movie have a primarily POC cast, even animated, and to have subsequent canon largely maintain that. Even more importantly, the characters are mostly indigenous people, native Hawaiians, even though most modern movies tend to portray indigenous people as nonexistent at best.

And best of all, the movie itself is great! It’s a delightful film about the concept of family, and how familial bonds, both blood and not, are so special, and how painful grief can be. As Stitch says, “This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.”

Hell, the entire premise of the movie is based around Lilo and Nani’s parents having died relatively recently, and neither sister is able to deal with not just the gaping holes left in their hearts, but the gaping hole left in their ability to support each other, all of which is communicated without even mentioning the parents’ existence. Nani is desperately trying to get a job to support them both, trying to maintain a house and care for a little sister who simply isn’t coping with the loss of both their parents and doesn’t know how to deal. Cobra Bubbles is a social worker, a government agent with child protective services who retired from the CIA to instead help children in need of a better home; he actively gives Nani time (albeit not much) to try and give Lilo the supporting environment she needs to grow up happy and healthy, because he does recognize that Nani is trying her best and is desperate to do what’s best for Lilo.

The resolution is essentially “it takes a village”. Lilo and Stitch are both still troublemakers, but with a job and support from new family members- namely Jumba, Pleakley, and even Bubbles- Nani is able to do her new job in raising her sister without being too overwhelmed.

I just- I love this movie, okay? Lilo is peak autistic little girl representation, Nani is trying her fucking best, and Stitch just wants to be loved.

#lilo and stitch

[anti-racist-cottagecore]

What's wrong with homesteading?

so, first off i would like to say that i'm against homesteading, not farming. the two are not the same thing and the terms should not be used interchangeably. farming is where you grow crops and rear livestock. homesteading is a lifestyle based off self-sustenance, where you live in a homestead isolated from city life.

when you start delving into the history of homesteading, it gets more and more fucked up. i guess the most famous example of homesteading would be in (so-called) america from like, 1840 to 1940. basically, the us government 'opens up' large swathes of land that weren't theirs to begin with for white settlement (it's settler colonialism, babey). the only reason that all this land was suddenly available was because the government had fucking rounded up all the native americans and killed them or put them on reservations because the government saw the plains as a 'wilderness' that could be put to better use under the plough. so they start a big old propaganda campaign to get white folks to go and get their plot of land and build a homestead because of american freedom or some bullshit.

and no, this doesn't just apply to america! with a lot of these anti-homesteading cottagecore posts, i see ppl in the notes being like 'well i'm from australia or canada so this doesn't apply to me' and um. yes it does??? australia and canada are also settler colonist states, and everyone, especially white ppl like me, should try and educate ourselves about colonialism.

also, homesteading is fucking hard. the american homesteaders found out pretty quickly that self-sufficiency is a pipe dream. but despite all of this, there's been a rise in homestead type posts in the cottagecore community, and no it isn't racist to want to go to the countryside and live in a cottage and grow your own food, but YES it is misguided at best to talk about escaping to an 'untouched wilderness' away from society with NO appreciation for the indigenous people that have lived on that land before you.

cottagecore seems to love homesteading. unfortunately there is nothing cute about homesteading. i'm not saying that there's anything inherently racist about enjoying cute pics of flowers and lambs, but saying that you want a homestead is a dogwhistle at this point since it's linked so much to white supremacism, and also nazi 'blood and land' rhetoric. it's not a good sign that so many genocidal powers seem to love homesteading. it's not a good sign if a government suddenly has loads of 'empty' land that it needs to give away and put to 'good use'. so basically, you can still enjoy cottagecore, but you should absolutely be aware of the connotations behind it and. just be mindful of the things you're saying.

so there's your answer, anon! sorry if i came off as really bitchy, it's just that my bf is native so it's kinda personal for us, and i'm always gonna be bitchy about colonialism. i promise i'm not angry with you in any way, in fact i'm glad you asked! it's always good to educate yourself! but i'd definitely encourage you to do further research and read up about it. i'm both white and not involved with farming in any way, so i'm probably not the best equipped to talk about all of this, and if you wanna find out why homesteading sucks i'd recommend finding something written from a native perspective rather than from me, white american rando on tumblr.

if any indigenous folks wanna add onto anything i've said or correct me on anything, please do so. also if you have any sources or articles that link to this because i'm exhausted and i don't have the energy to find sources atm.

#homesteading #cottagecore #tw racism #tw colonialism

[paintedhyenadogs]

Malays who support palestine are a toss up between: good people and antisemitic shitheads and unfortunately the shitheads are the majority. Supporting Palestine is all good, no issue, but I know full well these same shitheads use Palestine to think that they are good people and not assholes. Lets go through the racism issue in Malaysia:

Malaysia has a big issue with racism that has been so deeply rooted in ourselves that we've become accustomed to it. This isn't just limited to the big 3 ethnicities (Malay, Chinese and Indian), no no no. It effects the indigenous people, the refugee population and the immigrant workers. (Under the cut)

For some reason malaysians (mostly malays), have a really hard time understanding that, hear this, foreign workers might want to go check out the places their work country might have as a tourist and not just a worker. Wow. Super crazy. The amount of racist bs I've heard spewed from these ugly mugged idiots (both the young and the old) never ceases to amaze me how we tout ourselves as a multiracial country, woi bodoh, kalau multiracial tu tolong lah belajar kurangkan racism tu, otak tu tuhan bagi tauu.

Then there's the Rohingya "issue". When it comes to refugees, the Malaysian government sucks at handling it, so much so that they fight back against the government to, yk, be treated better. When I give my money to help refugees I'd fucking hope they're treated well, my money isn't for the organisation it's for the refugees. I'd be pissed off to if the people who wanted to "help" me treated me like shit. I wonder if it has anything to do with colorism, cuz arabs refugees are doing fine last I hear (which you should take with a grain of salt obv). So does racism effect here? Yes, absolutely.

Now onto the indigenous communities, overall, malays specifically have a shit track record with the orang asli. From (historically) forcing them to revert to islam, to calling them uncivilized, it's a disgusting sight. I was in class when I was front and center being told that "Indigenous people need our help to become civilized muslim people" and I just felt disgusted. Like preaching Islam to people? I've no issues with that. But putting them down as uncivilized, dumb or stupid, is another thing. Especially when historically we've forced these people to adopt islam as their religion to get i.d's and denied them the process of being able to even BURY their dead with their chosen religion.

To any Antisemitic malaysian malay muslims who read this: You are no better than the colonists you claim to hate, be better.

#malaysia #racism #colourism #Palestine

[musesacquiredlikebruises]

God if I see one more "you live in America, you can't have a valid opinion on what's happening in Israel/Palestine" as if we're not one of the worst cases of a colonized state in history. As if Canada specifically isn't responsible for the genocide of its indigenous population, resulting in less than 2% of them remaining. As if our government isn't still carrying out acts of violence and control on their already impoverished indigenous communities through withholding essential services, death, and forced sterilization. As if we haven't been in the process of unearthing the tragedies of residential schools for the last few years, finding thousands upon thousands of children who never made it home. As if the US isn't using Israel as it's miltary puppet and has its hands in all 3 of the current ongoing genocides in the world. As if we can't understand being the secondary victims of colonization, of being born onto land that our ancestors stole that does not belong to us. As if we can't understand having the knowledge and empathy in understanding how we got to the place we have, and instead of continuing the cycle, we push for reparations and justice instead, even if that means losing claim to land that does! Not! Belong! To! Us!

We understand what's happening. We live in the aftermath of what is currently going on. We understand very clearly where this is headed, which is why we're being as outspoken as we are. Grow the fuck up and realize that this situation can be understood by people across the world because we have also lived it.

#free palestine #we understand more than you give us credit for #and i realize this won't change a single brainwashed mind #but for anyone doubting if they have the place to speak on this #read! research! use the knowledge we have of our own current privledge! and then use that to amplify Palestinian voices

[aquilathefighter]

bunch of whiners on texbirds crying about the decision to change all eponymous bird names acting like they never asked anyone about this-- all sorts of marginalized folk in the birding community have been trying to make this happen for YEARS! I daren't get dragged into it with my government name and personal email but god does it piss me the fuck off

one man invoked "cancel culture" and the fact that Audubon will have to change their name next (ignoring that the American Ornithological Society who is the org that manages both scientific and English common names for North America has NO RELATION to Nat'l Audubon Society) and unironically yes! I don't understand the attachment to an old dead white guy who was a stringer and full of shit half the time!!!! Fucks sake

It all started with someone wanting to save Montezuma quail as a name, because it does honor a venerable indigenous leader, Moctezuma II! but the old fogies of TB are gonna take any understandable criticism and drag it into the pig shit with them...

#aquila talks #bird world drama

[placedupon]

I'm reading wretched of the earth, and I'm really interested in what Fanon has to say about revolution in general but also who consitutes the peasants/rural class as well as who the lumpenproletariat are within the US. Theres the duel problem of the masses not being overwhelingly Indigenous-- in all settler colonies, the physical majority of people Are white (which is why a lot of communist theory about the working class has a difficult time fitting into the US). Then there's also the issue that here, the working class is not necessarily majority rural! So that makes me think that the lumpenproletariat are not in fact a single class, nor necesaarily a single racial group, but those in prisons. In the US, the largest laboring class has consistently been not peasants, but people who've been enslaved. This also makes sense with what Fanon's saying-- any decolonial movement that does not include the most ignored, abused, and exploited class will always be corrupted by the colonizers! Of course Mao & communism succeeded in China because he was taught by and worked directly with the masses! The US is just so fucked that the greatest groups of "laborers" have always been people enslaved by the US government

#im rambling

[tepehkwi]

btw when are 'leftist' anarchists going to wake up from their utopian fantasy world daydream and realize that the rest of us aren't going to fucking take them seriously because they have more in common with "we want small government" conservative libertarians than they do with actual leftists?

like what exactly are your plans for disabled people? do you accept that you might actually have to come up with laws? laws to guarantee that disabled people aren't going to fucking get left behind and trampled over in your stupid cottagecore ass commune idealized version of the future? what are you going to do for indigenous people to make sure we aren't steamrolled over? you think we're all going to be living in lawless utopia autonomous zones? have you considered whose land you're still occupying in conjuring up those anarchist fantasies? and how about doctors? does your anarchist vision of the future still have the infrastructure in place to make sure the person i'm seeing for my chronic illness is licensed? and are you also willing to accept that you might have to come up with laws that don't even exist yet, laws that prevent doctors from abusing and over-extending their power over intersex and disabled and trans people and women and people of color and our bodily autonomy? do anarchists actually know what it means to protect the vulnerable?

#anarchist ideology is not fundamentally different from libertarianism you're all individualists at your core #and that should embarrass u