#colonialism and anticolonialism

[maaruin]

Changes in Dune Part 2 I liked (not necessarily exhaustive):

Feyd-Rautha being tested in the same way that Paul was tested. A great way to turn them into parallels.

(Implicitly) Irulan getting the title Empress by marrying Paul. It bothers me that in the book she keeps being referred to as Princess. Even if Paul wanted to give her nothing else, at least the title is her right as his wife.

The Great Houses rejecting Paul's ascension. It was strange in the books when they accepted him and then he said "Let's do the Jihad anyways."

Most of all: The rift between Paul and Chani. The movies do go for the theme of resistance against foreign rule more explicitly than the books. The only thing I am wondering is: Are we supposed to just assume Chani is right, or is it at this point an open question?

#dune #dune (movie) #dune part 2 #feyd rautha harkonnen #irulan corrino #paul atreides #chani kynes #(is she a kynes in the movies?) #colonialism and anticolonialism #adaptations

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

"While we mourn, we also fight."

Anti-colonial graphics by Klee Benally

#decolonize #anti-colonial #anticolonialism #free palestine

[ecoterrorist-katara]

on “Zutara is a colonizer x colonized ship”

“Colonizer” is not an ontological category. It’s a role within a specific geopolitical power dynamic, and therefore it can change — or even cease to exist — when these geopolitical power dynamics change (like when, idk, a Gaang of teenagers overthrow a genocidal imperialist colonial regime to install a new monarch who vows to stop the genocide and imperialism and colonization and bring about an era of love and peace)

I know it’s a bad faith anti argument, but it bothers me more than most anti Zutara arguments because I think it is indicative of a very pessimistic, defeatist attitude about power relations in general. Any type of oppressor is not a fixed role. It’s subject to change, and indeed ATLA’s message is that it’s your obligation — and your right, your power — to fight for that change, even if you’re just a ragtag group of kids against a whole empire. Calling Zuko a colonizer is not only a baffling misunderstanding of what colonization is, it also implies that even when you successfully challenge and restructure oppressive power dynamics, old sins cast long enough shadows that there is nothing you can do to be free of them. It’s one thing to acknowledge the complexities of a close relationship with someone who used to benefit from your oppression (indeed that’s kind of the whole arc of The Southern Raiders where Katara confronts the ways in which she has projected the trauma of her mother’s murder at the hands of the Fire Nation onto Zuko, who is now a valued ally). It’s quite another to claim that neither of you can ever escape the ontological categories of oppressor vs victim even if you’ve both changed the world.

#Also the water tribes were never even fucking colonies so even the premise is wrong but other folks have talked about that #The colonizer does not exist without the colonized that’s like anticolonialism 101 #source: my anticolonialism seminar where I first read The Colonizer and the Colonized #Zutara #Zutara meta #atla fandom critical #Pro Zutara #anti anti Zutara #look what the antis made me do they made me type anti twice #my meta #ATLA colonization discourse #which apparently warrants a tag now lmao

[chamerionwrites]

Aimé Césaire saying that colonization works to decivilize the colonizer truly lives in my head rent-free

#this is the essence of the v problematic anticolonial critique in so much 19thc literature (eg heart of darkness) right? #(and also its more modern inheritors eg apocalypse now and the Doing An Imperialism Makes Our Soldiers Sad genre of war story) #it glosses right over the crucial 'systems of rapacious cruelty are bad IN THEIR OWN RIGHT BECAUSE BROWN PEOPLE ARE HUMAN' bit #but in that one limited sense - that cruelty also brutalizes the perpetrators - it is very much the same critique #anyway i guess my brain continues to find ways to circle back round to discourse on colonialism no matter the initial topic #lit tag #no more war #imperialism #imperial violence always comes home #cultures of dissociation #aimé césaire #i am also choosing to tag this #sherlock holmes #as like solidly 98% of the stories in which the murderer is a former colonial officer or official are ROILING w this exact anxiety #(especially the hella racist ones. lol.) #i mean loads of authors in that time period are doing it but i have a tag for acd so. #my posts

[jeremiasdorap]

#prey #rrr #the woman king #avatar the way of water #white colonialism #anticolonialism #decoloniality #decolonialidad #antiracism #cinema #movies #2022 #oscar #black people #no colonialism #naatu naatu #india #africa #comanche #naavi #revolution #equality #no more colonialism #enviroment

[nando161mando]

💕Today is February 14th💕— Have A Happy Colonizer Fucks Around and Finds Out in Hawaii Day!💕

#february 14 #valentines day #1779 #hawaii #history #rest in piss #rot in piss #captain james cook #happy valentine's day #happy valentines #anti colonialism #anti colonization #anticolonial #indigenous #indigenous rights #class war #161 #1312 #colonialism #colonial violence #colonization #colonial america #colonial history #colonizers #colonisation #colonists #colonisers #ausgov #politas #auspol

[feeling-solar-punk]

The Psychology of Israeli Propaganda

literally begging y'all to watch this. it was so well done and maybe if it blows up The Algorithm™️ might spread it. it's an hour long and so so worth it please.

#youtube #indie nile #dragtherapy #drag therapy #palestine #free palestine #anticolonial #anti colonialism #anti zionisim #international court of justice #genocide

[radicalgraff]

Mural inStrasbourg in memory of 8 May, 1945, when the French colonial army massacred 45,000 Algerians in the towns of Setif, Guelma and Kherrata.

On the same day that the French celebrated liberation from foreign occupation, Algerians took to the streets to obtain their own. Those demonstrations were repressed in blood on the orders of the colonial French State.

Today still, French imperialism exploits and plunders the countries of Africa and sows wars between the people to preserve its economic interests.

Sétif, Guelma, Kherrata!

We don't forget! We don't forgive!

#anticolonialisme #anti-colonial #anticolonialism

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

#russian imperialism #russian colonialism #the prison of nations #russia #anticolonialism #stop putin #putin war criminal #stop russian invasion #ukraine resistance #stop putin's agents usa #putin war ukraine russia #defend ukraine #stop putin allies #help ukraine #ukraine war

[maaruin]

I lean towards thinking that Paul was right to take leadership over the Fremen and then take power over the Empire, and Chani's wish for Fremen indepence but continuing isolation on Arrakis is misplaced.

Spice - because it allows safe interstellar travel - is too important to the Empire to let Arrakis go. If the Harkonnen's fail, other Houses will try and will continue to try. So if Arrakis cannot be left alone and independent, giving the Fremen a place in the power structure of the Empire is preferable to continued war and supression.

However, this might have also been achievable if Paul merely insisted with the other Great Houses that the Emperor abdicated and he is recognized as the Duke of Arrakis; the Houses could then have chosen a new compromise Emperor together. But we do not know if the other Houses would have accepted that or if they would have tried to conquer Arrakis for themselves - that would have resulted in the Holy War anyways.

(Also, the fact that House Harkonnen was tolerated by the Emperor while House Atreides was marked for destruction because they had a "weak heart" may mean that the galaxy lives under more misery than necessary and Fremen rule could change things for the better. Unfortunately we don't see enough of this world to really know.)

#dune #dune (movies) #dune part 2 #house corrino #house atreides #fremen #space feudalism #colonialism and anticolonialism #rulership #the question of just war #paul atreides #chani kynes

[fishyyyyy99]

Via @toongrrl-blog

#christopher columbus #anticolonialism #anti colonialism

[asg-stuff]

The new film based on Frank Herbert’s epic is full of anti-imperialist imagery, but it amounts to nothing more than a Hollywood version of colonial resistance struggle. (via 'Dune' Is Anticolonialism as Imagined by Megacorporations - Left Voice)

#film #Dune #anticolonialism #white-saviour #Frank Herbert #religion #messiah #megacorporations #Hollywood #anti-imperialist struggles #Paul Atreides #colonialism #elites

[aguacerotropical]

im living for the boris / pricans just completely demolishing gringo arguments about how “bu bu but bad bunny is a white cis straight american man :-( how can u not see its discrimination for him to win awards :-(“

Like gringos have a 101 understanding of colonialism, imperialist racism, queerness in the Caribbean and just straight up dont care or wont read anything that contradicts their arguments. pure entitlement

#my answer to the above bad bunny is a white cis man is that #1) he’s already admitted his privilege and held up Black musicians #3) he’s quote unquote straight but hes done drag has called out beauty salons for not doing his nails hires trans woman as choreographers #4) hes publically called out and shamed PR media for transphobia and racism after the murder of a trans woman here #5) has used his platforms to vocally call out and even organize against colonialism. #His music holds up and honors PR culture and pride in a circumstance where the US govt is displacing and killing us #Like he’s not fucking Harry Styles. Dude puts his weight into social justice and anticolonialism movements #And thats more than all US leftists have ever fucking done for PR. Wont even acknowledge how their govt kills us for profits #Bad bunny #so NO he doesnt possess the institutional privilege others in the USA do. He’s famous bc caribbean ppl support him bc he represents us

[nando161mando]

Barbarism vs Civlization, anti-colonial French cartoon, 1899

#barbarism #civilization #anti colonialism #anti colonization #anticolonial #french #cartoons #cartoon #comic #comics #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #colonialism #colonial violence #colonial america #colonial history #coloniality #colonialization #class war #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #anti imperialism