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sarroora · 13 days

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Germany insisting on being on the wrong side of history. Still being crazy Nazis so of course they’ll support a genocidal nonstate like israel.

I feel bad for the good Germans out there. This is beyond mortifying.

#free palestine #and fuck israel #and fuck Germany for this too #palestine genocide #ethnic cleansing #culture erasure #settler colonialism #Israel is a terrorist nonstate #usa is a terrorist state

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arianaofimladris · 1 year

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Now and then a realization comes to me – how much of cultural identity, local customs and folklore was lost in Poland because of our history in the past century or so. I don’t mean the big and obvious things like our flag, language, our anthem and such. Those we as a nation managed to keep in over a century when Poland did not exist and those are not lost today.

I’m not a historian and I made no research on this matter, I’m just analysing what I see basing on the recent history I know and the example of my own family (and my environment). And what hit me recently is that I don’t have things like local customs characteristic to my town/area, or a traditional gear to recreate and wear on occasions. Yes, there are parts of Poland that still have those, like mountain folk or Kashubia. I work with a guy from the mountains and when he showed me some pics from his son’s christening, all the people wore traditional gears. I admit a part of me was a bit jealous, considering that I enjoy sewing and would gladly make an outfit for myself. Of course, I still could recreate one of the traditional outfits from across Poland, but – they mean nothing to me.

I feel like our situation after the WW2 is largely to blame. Poland was a very young country then, ruined after just 20 years of regained independence. The Russians forcefully moved people all over the country, mixing them for exactly this purpose – wiping out the cultural integrity, something Poland had not lost during the partitions time. Now I come from so called Recovered Teritorries, lands that were incorporated into Poland after WW2. People came there after the war from all sorts of places, either looking for a new start or having been forcefully relocated. Each of my grandparents came from completely different part of Poland, or even from terrains that are no longer Polish today.

And the result is – the parts of Poland I come from don’t have shared history longer than two-three generations. There are traditions within families, basing on what people had known. My mother had different traditions for Christmas or Easter than my father. In time they mixed of course, and of course there are some “general” traditions for Christmas etc, but then it shows in details that some came from specific places and are not widely known.

I don’t know if it is the forced mixing that did the trick, or if it was because the times after the war were simply too hard and why would you care about how your grandmother did Christmas or what she wore on official occasions, when you are a lone mother with three children, running away through half of the country to erase your past and conceal the fact you worked for Home Army (Armia Krajowa). Or when you were forced to live there far away from your family, because you had the misfortune of being forcefully taken into Wermacht and ended up as a prisoner? I guess if I asked my friends or my neighbours, they would likely share dozens of such stories.

In terms of family heritage – there is nothing older than two-three generations. The few precious oldest things I have is a wooden box from my gran, which she got from her father as a child. Or grandfather’s watch. Small items you were able to carry.

In a way, the events of the last two centuries made us (in some parts of Poland at least) a very young nation despite having a thousand years of history as a country. It’s not something I normally acknowledge, but now and then it just pops up. I guess I might have liked to put on a traditional outfit for Christmas or birthday, or perhaps for some patriotic event – and I would have liked it to be something historical and not a white-and-red tshirt like fans wear on sport events. I have none. It’s not a complaint or something that upsets me, but once I realized that, it’s hard not to see it.

I’m not even sure what was my point of writing it all down, since I guess no one will read that. But now as I finished writing, I can’t not think about our neighbours in Ukraine facing now the war and possible cultural erasure on parts of their lands. It’s been nine years already and it shows in the people I work with. I really hope they will not face similar fate.

#Poland #Poland history #Polish culture #Culture erasure #Soviets #Polish history #Personal thoughts #Aftermath of cultural cancellation

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spaceshipsandpurpledrank · 3 months

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#talkin #tik tok #canada #genocide #free palestine #free gaza #Palestine erasure #cultural genocide

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tuurverheydepoetryandprose · 2 months

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Last thing I will say about all of this. Many Hbomb critics are pretending that plagiarism is just an academic or capitalist problem that has no ethical consequences outside those frameworks.

Those people clearly did not watch the video.

Plagiarism is bad because it often involves misinformation.

Plagiarism is bad because it often deprives its victims of the means they need to survive.

Plagiarism is bad because it erases people, their stories and history in general.

Plagiarism is bad because context matters and plagiarism deprives people of the means to understand the true meaning and value of expression or information.

Plagiarism is bad is because people have a right to be recognised for their work. For some dead, their contributions may be all that is left of them. Plagiarism robs people of their legacies, their identities, their histories.

If you don’t think that matters, you clearly don’t respect people who create very much. Or history. Or culture.

Some people don’t mind being erased, some people really don’t want to be known. That is a choice and to foist that upon anyone while leaching of their expression is deeply dehumanising and harmful.

The video was about that. People pretending like it was just focussing on James and why he was bad did not watch it. Stop spreading misinformation to suit your personal grudges.

#james somerton #hbomberguy #plagiarism #harry brewis #culture #internet culture #erasure

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fixing-bad-posts · 3 months

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you may want to make your fan content public fic it's actually so beauty you're hope

#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #erasure poetry #fandom posting #fandom culture #fanfiction #fan content

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peridot-tears · 11 months

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Hey MDZS fandom. I want you guys to be careful interacting with this person.

If you don't already know, Chinese people have had a long history with cultural erasure when it comes to taking on English-language names. It started with imperialism, and continues as a way to "assimilate" and avoid mockery of our language in western countries.

For Chinese diaspora like myself, it's another form of racism we face, to the point where some of us are reclaiming our names in everyday life. Here's an article about this movement happening across Asian diasporas in the United States -- just to name one instance out of many.

The responses to this post reflect that:

You can see that my comment assumed "good faith." However, OP deleted these comments and blocked me. (That didn't stop other people from calling it out as well, though I have to assume that if OP was so offended by my comment, the next few people will receive the same treatment.)

I honestly didn't like whipping up the diaspora statement -- that I wrote with multiple Chinese diaspora fans of MDZS, all of us hailing from multiple different countries and backgrounds, our ancestry coming from completely different regions of China -- because it meant that we were encountering another microaggression.

If you ever wonder why MDZS and danmei fandoms in general seem to be so bereft of Chinese diaspora voices, that's absolutely because of these microaggressions: Someone makes a joke, writes a story, writes some meta, that is culturally ignorant at best, offensive and harmful at worst, and when we gently correct them, explaining why it's racist, the person in question shuts us down, dismisses us, gets defensive, or worse.

Regardless of where you are -- fandom, social media, on the street, at work, at school -- as long as you are interacting with other people, your words matter and affect other people. That includes being racially offensive, even if you didn't intend to be. It's how you respond to the people you've insulted that reveals your character, how willing you are to be complicit in their mistreatment.

My rule of thumb has always been this -- if multiple people, including those of the culture you've just made a microaggressive joke about, find it unfunny, racist, or harmful, then you listen. Dismiss or ignore them, then yes -- you absolutely are racist.

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heliomanteia · 4 months

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I looked at how they depicted Olympus in that last episode. You know, trip to Olympus. Percy's biggest whoa! in the entire book. Then I went back to reread description from the TLT book and:

From the top of the clouds rose the decapitated peak of a mountain, its summit covered with snow. Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces-a city of mansions-all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires. Roads wound crazily up to the peak, where the largest palace gleamed against the snow. Precariously perched gardens bloomed with olive trees and rosebushes. I could make out an open-air market filled with colorful tents, a stone amphitheater built on one side of the mountain, a hippodrome and a coliseum on the other. It was an Ancient Greek city, except it wasn’t in ruins. It was new, and clean, and colorful, the way Athens must’ve looked twenty-five hundred years ago.

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My trip through Olympus was a daze. I passed some giggling wood nymphs who threw olives at me from their garden. Hawkers in the market offered to sell me ambrosia-on-a-stick, and a new shield, and a genuine glitter-weave replica of the Golden Fleece, as seen on Hephaestus-TV. The nine muses were tuning their instruments for a concert in the park while a small crowd gathered-satyrs and naiads and a bunch of goodlooking teenagers who might’ve been minor gods and goddesses. Nobody seemed worried about an impending civil war. In fact, everybody seemed in a festive mood. Several of them turned to watch me pass, and whispered to themselves.

Well...

Does this look like a colorful Ancient Greek city to you. This is not even Ancient Greek architecture.

It's on screen for exactly 6 seconds before we cut to Zeus' domain, which looks like a boring platform with a number of similar-looking stone-cut thrones. That's it. That's the entire "daze" of the show.

The entire place is empty too. There's no one but Percy. There are no muses, or minor gods, or demigods, or literally anyone there.

They drained the fun out of Mount goddamn Olympus.

P. S. I'm just reminding you that the TLT movie Riordan hates with such burning passion made MO resemble Athenian Parthenon. Like it's still gloomy as hell but it looks Greek:

#🏛️#....does Richard know how Mediterranean architecture looks because it was not Greek not Roman not even Iranian or Egyptian.#Did the cultural erasure series culture....erase... again... no way.#Okay enough for me <3 #pjo show crit #pjo tv crit #pjo spoilers #🧍‍♂️#pjo

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alwaysbewoke · 1 year

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#african diaspora #rewriting history #accomplishments #systemic oppression #historical revisionism #cultural heritage #racial superiority #discrimination #historical erasure #colonialism #cultural suppression #racial injustice

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odinsblog · 4 months

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Russia has already erased Ukraine from its textbooks and history books. Now they’re doing this. It’s textbook propaganda + imperialism. It is quite literally cultural appropriation. It’s erasure.

👉🏿 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-museum-relabels-ukrainian-artists-arkhyp-kuindzhi-ilya-repin-1234657129/

👉🏿 https://huri.harvard.edu/news/ilya-repins-ukrainian-heritage-svitlana-shiells

👉🏿 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19333

#politics #ukraine #russia #illia ripyn #zinaida serebriakova #russian invasion of ukraine #cultural appropriation #erasure #revisionist history #art history #kharkiv #disinformation #russian propaganda #🇺🇦

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aro-culture-is · 5 months

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aro culture is desperately wanting an aro character that isnt asexual so that the aromantic community as a whole gets to have a shred of mainstream visibility in the current climate without being overshadowed by ace

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#Anonymous #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #aro erasure

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astraphel · 2 years

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On October 12, 1492, Columbus arrived on the shores of the Caribbean, the now-called Bahamas, and the Taíno people welcomed him and his crew with respect and great care. Their kindness was repaid with vicious cruelty and enslavement.

The horrors of genocide left no one untouched on Turtle Island and Abya Yala, but the Taínos were the first to encounter this scourge. There aren't enough people who call them by name and claim a ubiquitous "indigenous peoples" encountered Columbus.

Know and name the Taíno and the ways they suffered as a result of First Contact.

And also the ways they have persisted and survived to this day. Check out the United Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP) / Confederación Unida De El Pueblo Taíno (CUPT) as a place to start.

The Taino peoples are not a monolith and include many different tribes and areas.

Image 1: Cristobal Colón, 1893 "La gran batalla que tuvo el almirante con el Rey Guarionex y cien mil indios en la Vega Real" | Wikipedia

Image 2: "Distribución de los arahuacos taínos, caribes y guanahatabeyes en las Antillas, en el tiempo de la llegada de los españoles." | Wikipedia

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matan4il · 9 months

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I can't believe it's only Aug 12th and already there's a Xmas post on my dash.

Every single year I have to get through the non-Christian erasure that is Xmas season, the way that everyone acts as if the whole world celebrates Xmas, every year I have to feel like I'm being mean and raining on people's parades when I refuse to join in, or when I try to (as politely as I can) refuse to be greeted with Xmas wishes, every year I have to grit my teeth as every show has a Xmas special, every app and software has festive events and sales, changing into special Xmas versions of their icons, every media outlet wants to tell me about the joys of Xmas shopping and tourism, meanwhile I'm biting my tongue not to blurt out repeatedly that Xmas is when historically my people were targeted, brutalized and sometimes even MURDERED... and apparently Xmas season just keeps getting longer.

I don't mind that people who are religiously or culturally Christian celebrate it. I kinda mind it when non-Christians do, because that strikes me as the effects of commercialism and cultural colonialism, but hey. Other people are independent individuals, it's up to them to make their own choices, even if I personally make a different choice. And I'd never make anyone personally feel bad about their choice, either. What bothers me is that it's basically IMPOSSIBLE to opt out of Xmas celebrations if you're one of the people who don't want to participate. They're everywhere. They're in every place, they're in so many spaces that I otherwise love. And they just keep starting earlier every year. I wanna bang my head against the wall.

This is what religious / cultural coercion feels like. Yeah, even if it's done unintentionally by many.

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eretzyisrael · 4 months

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by Francesca Block

A New York City public school is being accused of “Jewish erasure” after a map from one of its classrooms surfaced showing all the countries of the Middle East except Israel, which is labeled “Palestine.”

The Free Press was shown a photo of the map of the “Arab world,” hanging in the art classroom at PS 261, a public elementary school in Brooklyn. Rita Lahoud uses the classroom to give lessons to pre-K and elementary students in the “Arab Culture Arts” program, which is funded by Qatar Foundation International (QFI). QFI is the American wing of the Qatar Foundation, a nonprofit owned by the ruling family of the wealthy Arab state, which harbors leaders of the terrorist group Hamas.

Tova Plaut, a New York City public school instructional coordinator for pre-K through fifth grade classrooms, said she found the map “concerning.”

“It’s not just that we’re experiencing Jewish hate in NYC public schools, we’re actually experiencing Jewish erasure,” Plaut said. “And here is proof of that.”

Rita Lahoud did not respond to an email seeking comment. The principal of PS 261 deferred comment to the Department of Education.

A close-up of the “Arab World” map at PS 261. (via X)

After The Free Press emailed the Department of Education to ask if the map remains in the classroom after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, a spokesperson wrote back: “Why would it not be?”

Nathaniel Styer, the DOE spokesperson, added in his reply that “this is a map of countries that speak Arabic.”

Around two million people living in Israel are Arab, which is just over 20 percent of the country’s population. Many of them speak Arabic.

The emergence of the map comes after a Free Press investigation showed how educators in American public schools are increasingly teaching students to hate Jews. One curriculum—the Brown University Choices Program—which presents ideas of Israel being an “apartheid state” and “a military occupier” taught to one million public school students nationwide, has been distributed by QFI.

#tova plout #jewish erasure #new york #rita lahoud #arab culture arts #qatar #qatar foundation international

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fixing-bad-posts · 6 months

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literally i am a boobs girl and want feminism and women ok legit

#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #erasure poetry #wlw mood #wlw culture #wlw positivity #wlw post #sapphic #i love women #women loving women #queer

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cynthicaster · 2 months

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hey cuties!

i noticed @headspace-hotel expressing surprise at how elementary and high school teachers are banning aave from schools under the pretense of "preventing gang activity", something that has bothered me for over a decade. personally, I have also heard teachers refer to it as "gibberish" or "incorrect" and uh ???? especially when the same students who used these words followed all of the "rules" in essays and presentations and even interactions with the teachers, only switching dialects with friends.

i was wondering, do any of you have experience with

1) an (english) dialect being erased or banned in an american school

2) an (english) dialect being erased/banned in an (english-speaking non-american) school

3) a (non-english) dialect/language being erased/banned in a (non-english-speaking) school or

4) a (non-english) dialect/language being erased/banned in an (english-speaking or american) school

this includes calques, loanwords, creoles, pidgins, etc.

ofc i do not mean curse words, which schools pretty universally ban.

some examples i have heard are aave, malayalam, and various indigenous languages from the americas.

these do not have to be your dialect or language, they can be any you have noticed. i do not speak aave, and am asian/white, but i have just noticed it in my schools until late high school.

please rb for sample size, cats and robots!!

do reblog or reply with experiences if you have em, i would like to hear, and will rb yours if you want!

this includes if you have no experience with this, why do you think you haven't?

if this happened to you, that is truly awful and i truly hope that that person or administration or government gets fired 🤭

love y'all! 💚

(side note: why would anybody ban "y'all" it is the most useful piece of nonacademic language ever istg)

#linguistics #language erasure #prescriptivism #poll #my post #dialect is a crucial part of culture #to remove it is to seek to kill the culture.#dialect #language #please rb for sample size cats and robots

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harminuya · 8 months

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azris who say "look at the mosques, they don't care about those in armenia" need to understand that there's HUGE difference between the goverment and people not caring about an old building and a whole goverment plan to get rid of ANY Armenian cultural site, claim these are not armenian after removing the armenian inscription on it, call it "artifically aged" or when the church is demolished say "oh actually it never existed" . Shut up.

#armenian erasure #cultural genocide

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