#Colonial

It's important to remember, that while in the U.S. we're now having conversations about when/if you can go unmasked (I'm still not, because random people don't know I'm actually vaxed),
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This is indeed the popular British narrative -- that Britain's role in the slave trade was to end it, that the British empire decolonised so much more peacefully than the
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The youths of Nigeria has woken up to realize the darkness you’ve left us all in. You’re from a failed generation that evidently couldn’t manage this country for 60 years.
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Penal transportation was also used as a method of colonisation.The earliest days of English colonial schemes, new settlements beyond the seas were seen as a way to alleviate from criminals
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I hate anything Victorian and reject the obsession with that awful period in human history They literally stole gorgeous bengali muslin to make ugly white smocks and then killed the
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The narrative about the "great" Western democracies buries the fact that they were built on colonialism. These "democracies" couldn't get to where they were without the subjugation and exploitation of
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"The first cause was a self aware singularity.The truth is ∞"Yajnavalkya, 2000 BCE"There is nothing permanent. Not even the self. The truth is 0"Buddha, 500 BCE"Truth is multifaceted. Both 0
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Montreal is one of the biggest covid hotspots in the world and I'm going out to buy gourmet doughnuts. This feels like the kind of stuff Romans did while Nero
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i tell myself everything is gonna be fine even if it won't because I know that pessimism wont get me anywhere. it's really really hard to climb out of those
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On Liberal Zionists:'The ultimate propaganda goal of any nationalistic apparatus is to fuse the perception of “self” with that of “nation” into a cohesive identity that is loyal to the
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U cannot develop people,dey’ll develop themselvesJulius NyerereAfrica’s further transformation, advancement rests acknowledgment, validation&mainstreaming of Africa’s own traditional,authentic,original,indigenous knowledge in education, policy/re
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Another important point is that you don’t even need to have played D&D for D&D to be a discursive force in your life. It is beyond the relationship that an
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Here goes...*draft KS3 curriculum*N.B. Most of it is built on fab work in @histassoc's Teaching History - by too many brilliant people to name here.Each enquiry is 3-6 lessons long
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A must-read by @the_ayeminthant. To anticipate any unnecessary comments: it's not distracting from the real story. @clarissaward's CNN trip to #Myanmar encapsulates the coloniality of Western engagement with SE Asia,
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Ukrainians in Russian empire and in the Soviet Union were blacks in the racist America. They were claimed to be "dirty", "stupid", their language was mocked, their national cloth and
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Northern Ireland has only ever mattered to middle-class English people when they could say the EU brought peace here. The poverty, mental illness and suicide, paramilitary violence and lack of
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