#Colonialism

lucy gray baird 🦝🌽

raccorns

white christians and mormons have an extensive history of “adopting” (often straight up kidnapping) Black and Indigenous children to forcefully assimilate them into their white cultures. for Natives, their slogan

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MarchingHere

This is unfair. "Filipina" has been used since the Spanish occupation, as part of a movement to assert women's rights. Pinoy and Pinay have been used by Filipinos in America

Silver Spook

SilverSpookGuy

Goodbye, racist colonizer. Fuck your feudal, classist, eugenicist family and empire. #PrincePhilip Nice to see the Westerners coming out to stan their dying empires that colonized and genocided the world,

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD

Arrianna_Planey

"Health is a human right"First, we have to consider who is included in (and reciprocally, excluded from) the category "human."Then, we have to interrogate whether "rights" are understood in terms

Elephant Man

AngryLevantine

Jews were murdered less than 100 years ago for being, as the Nazis themselves put it, Oriental/Negroid "mongrels". In other words, for not being white.Fast forward to today, the same

Ọláṣùpò Ajia

idrismonsur

Many Africans have been brainwashed and gaslit by Western education that they do not understand the full extent to which Western industrialisation has underdeveloped Africa.https://twitter.com/Olwethu_Mkhize1/status/1330657481622745091 I he

wilfred chan

wilfredchan

growing divide between leftists who embrace vs reject cold war dynamics. one camp supposes inter-imperial conflict as given (even desirable) and are already siding with a geopolitical bloc. other sees

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__muofhe

I’ve never really managed to explain exactly why the building style of structures in South Africa is so out of place. Except for the fact that it’s not vernacular. But

Siddhant Adlakha

SiddhantAdlakha

The replies to John Boyega’s (simple, sensible) tweets on racism indicate the need for a refresher on what racism even is, and why you can’t be racist to white people,

Min Jin Lee

minjinlee11

The assailants who are attacking Asians and Asian Americans believe that we are worth attacking. Who told them this? Why? Each person is responsible for his crime. Yes. However, when

Tasha Suri

tashadrinkstea

I promised myself I wouldn't do this but:A major reason so many historical romances are whitewashed is because the minute you bring POC into your regency world, you have to

Laura Kressly, MFA, BA, BLM, ACAB

shakespeareanLK

Over the weekend, I saw a lot of discourse against sunbathing in parks with the argument being that doing so means "you can't control the environment around you". Consider -

Izak Novák

izak_novak

Is China trying to build hegemony? Is it imperialist? No, and any comparison to US hegemony or imperialism requires an immense amount of mental gymnastics especially when China-Global South relations

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spacejessss

Maybe this is why many WOC won’t want to be looped in. Because when they make change happen it doesn’t get acknowledged or celebrated the way white women do and

Sri Thiruvadanthai

teasri

Why India-US was improbable in the 1950s. 1. Indian leaders, with the history of colonialism, did not really want to be subservient to anyone. A US-India relationship would have been

Talvi (she/her)

Hellawyn

In France we've got a debate about how young girls should dress in high-school. It includes said girls being shamed for wearing clothes that are absolutely appropriate.Meanwhile rape culture is