Pride comes before the fall ☠️🇮🇱

L'orgueil précède la chute ☠️🇮🇱

People who think Palestinians wanting equal rights to live on their own land equates to wanting to genocide Jewish people are actually telling on themselves

For the colonized, to be a moralist quite plainly means silencing the arrogance of the colonist, breaking his spiral of violence, in a word ejecting him outright from the picture.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

You'll always be here for me, won't you?

Canada's Untermenschen

the moment a european tiktoker opens their mouth about the us or americans i just know they’re gonna say the wildest shit i’ve ever heard in my life and be so confident in their inaccuracy

Indigenous Hawaiians really had a good system going: wake up reaaally early and do most of the days work while it's cool and by the time the sun was up and it got hot the work was done and you're free to surf and socialize. I wish the white people realized they themselves could work smarter and not harder and get time to relax. Instead of calling Hawaiians lazy (and being genocidal about it)

Under attack? This perpetual victimhood is just absurd. The IDF has been bombing over the border in Egypt and Lebanon and this week killed an Iranian leader in Syria but have the audacity to claim that THEY are the ones under attack?

Just a taste of some of the insanity that's happened since the weekend.

Volume 2 ❄️

I’m not gonna lie the further I read (past tense) into the baru cormorant series the more I was underwhelmed by it’s engagement with Colonialism, maybe bc it was actually trying to Solve colonialism (via the scale of individual relationships operating as a microcosm of Greater Powers) and stop being a tragedy. I like tragedies they make me feel things

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Friday, November 17, 2023

"[W]e have colonized the future. We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, and nuclear waste, and which we can plunder as we please." – Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

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Watching the new Percy Jackson episode, and while by no means is the show perfect, I do love how they updated the blending of Greek mythology and the American Gothic for social commentary.

What I mean is Echidna, the mother of monsters, is some respectable-looking vaguely southern white woman who is able to convince the police on the train that three kids shattered a train window and used those institutions to isolate the kids so she can target them and scare them for the chimera's hunt. The way that the police especially treat Annabeth. Now, as a young black girl, she has to know how to ask if they're getting arrested, and gets called out by the police for her tone.

And then, at the St. Louis Arch, we see Grover upset because of the museum, which is basically a monument to Manifest Destiny (literally, there's a shot where the words are in full display in the background). And while they say, "Grover is upset because he doesn't like it when people hurt animals," they explicitly depict America's colonization and destruction of indigenous communities as The Bad Thing. It adds another layer of flavor for the whole "Pan is missing" - it's not just about Climate Change. It's about the extermination of indigenous groups (the centaurs they saw on the train, the reminder that there used to be more of them until humans started killing them). They say "humans" are bad, but they're showing us Western/American colonizers.

Also, a rare yet interesting moment of conflict between Annabeth as a daughter of Athena and Grover as a Satyr. Annabeth insists that the museum's commodifying and glorifying of American colonization is "not what the arch is actually about, it's about architecture and math," but Athena is the goddess who protects social institutions and a patron goddess of the state, law, order, industry, and war. The Industrial Revolution and Western social institutions definitely contributed to colonialism; just saying. We also see in this episode that Athena can be arrogant and cruel - letting a monster go after her own daughter because she was embarrassed.

Anyway, idk. Maybe I'm overthinking this but these were the things that popped out to me on first watch, and now that I think about them more, I would love a continuation of these kinds of themes and tropes in future seasons, if we get them.

• Mossadegh media: newspaper & magazine articles, editorials

Emmanuel heard pride in the Englishman's voice; he was filled with the joy that comes from being supreme ruler of your own piece of Africa.

  —  A Beautiful Place to Die (Malla Nunn)

Holes in their heads