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hussyknee · 9 months

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Another thread by Senator Ben Ray Luján here.

A book on the subject (haven't read it myself):

One of the sources in another one of Alisa's furiously impassioned twitter threads have been debunked, so I didn't include that. But she claims that her own family was caught in the fallout zone when her mother was a baby, which eventually led to her and large numbers of her community developing cancer. It's human for that kind of grief to be caught up in inaccuracies. People are already being ghastly and racist to Hispanos and Indigenous people criticizing the hype for the movie. They're not attacking Oppenheimer for being Jewish, they're criticising the erasure of the human cost of these bombs and the continued valorisation of the U.S military's actions in World War II as some kind of moral saviourism.

While Oppenheimer himself believed that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally justified (they had planned to drop them on Germany except they surrendered before they could), he also felt had blood on his hands and regretted his role as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". He spent the rest of his career vehemently opposing further development of thermonuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb accurately predicting the concept of mutually assured destruction. This eventually made him a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Scare and his clearance was revoked. I haven't seen the movie (Christopher Nolan is the kind of casual white racist I avoid on principle) but people who have seen it say that it doesn't glorify nuclear weapons and depicts the man himself with the complex moral nuance that seems to be accurately reflective of his real life.

The backlash to Indigenous and Hispanos people's criticisms and to people pointing out that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocides is also frustrating because...both world wars were a clash of genocidal empires. The reason they were world wars is because the countries colonized by Japan, China, the European powers and the US were all dragged into it, whether they wanted to or not. Jews were one of the many colonized peoples that suffered in that time, who were left to die by everyone until they could be used to frame the Allied powers as moral saviours, establishing a revisionist nostalgia for heroism that powers the US military industrial complex to this day.

As early as May 1942, and again in June, the BBC reported the mass murder of Polish Jews by the Nazis. Although both US President, Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, warned the Germans that they would be held to account after the war, privately they agreed to prioritise and to turn their attention and efforts to winning the war. Therefore, all pleas to the Allies to destroy the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ignored. The Allies argued that not only would such an operation shift the focus away from winning the war, but it could provoke even worse treatment of the Jews. In June 1944 the Americans had aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex. The Allies bombed a nearby factory in August, but the gas chambers, crematoria and train tracks used to transport Jewish civilians to their deaths were not targeted.

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Uncritical consumption of World War II media is the reinforcement of imperialist propaganda, more so when one group of colonized people is used to silence other colonized peoples. Pitting white Jewry against BIPOC is to do the work of white supremacy for imperialist colonizers, and victimizes Jews of colour twice over.

Edit: friends, there's been some doubt cast on the veracity of Alisa's claims. The human cost to the Hispanos population caught downwind of the nuclear tests is very real, as was land seizure without adequate compensation. However, there's no record I can yet find about Los Alamos killing livestock and Hispanos being forced to work for Los Alamos without PPE. There is a separate issue about human testing in the development of said PPE that's not covered here. I'm turning off reblogs until I can find out more. Meanwhile, here's another more legitimate article you can boost instead:

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protoslacker · 1 year

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He said that whoever created the Yup’ik translations just lifted full phrases from a compilation of language and folklore from Far East Russia known as the Rubtsova texts. It was published in the Soviet Union in the 1940s. . . I mean imagine if someone, you know, took all of your folktales and then interviewed your great-grandmother about her experiences growing up. And had all of this information recorded, and wrote it down, and then scrambled it and stuck it in various different ways and made kind of a collage out of it,” Holton said. “It’s offensive.

Gary Holton quoted in a report by Emily Schwing at KYUK. FEMA sent ‘unintelligible’ disaster relief information to Alaska Native people impacted by Typhoon Merbok

I got to this report by way of a story at Insider.com. which captured the grift well, but left me wondering about the trauma it caused. This Alaska Public Media reporting explains that important part of the story.

The Insider article links to an Alaska State page on boarding schools, as well as previous Insider reporting about the remains of children left buried at the former site of schools.

Alaska Native Language Center

#colonial trauma #alaska #indigenous languages #history

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toshkakoshka · 1 year

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tbh i think the reason why filipinos never usually rise up against issues is due to the abuses of colonialism burning into how local authorities “discipline” their people— because it’s the only thing we know how to do.

i just think it’s sad that our culture basically tells us not to do anything about it despite it not being “deserved”, which will still allow for authority to abuse that cultural aspect— which will be the reason we end up stuck with dictators and police corruption and people who support them either out of delusion or fear.

#letra #colonialism #dictatorship #colonial trauma #filipino culture #i tried searching for ppl who also spoke about the connection between colonialism and dictatorship #but i havent found much sources besides a few opinion articles #so here’s my thesis statement on the relationship between colonialism and dictatorship #its also reference for my video game

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screaming-heart · 1 year

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when you’re healing, you will fuck up. maybe you’ll relapse, maybe you’ll do something you know is gonna hurt you, maybe you’ll deprive yourself of something you need, whatever. but healing isn’t linear, its wibbly wobbly and weird. you’re not terrible for messing up, you’re not terrible for not being ready to move forward, you’re not terrible for not being perfect. you still deserve healing, and you still deserve respect.

#osdd system #actually did #dissociative identity disorder #trauma shit #trauma #The Colony Talks #childhood trauma #DID System #actually osdd #actually traumatized

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historyisnightmares · 2 years

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America’s “Soul”

Bitch, what soul.

More of my nation’s soldiers die from suicide than combat. We tried to waste entire peoples in Vietnam and Afghanistan. These two facts are plenty of proof that America’s soul has been thoroughly and brutally mutilated.

It’s not going to get better until we start paying attention to history- actual, painful, honest history- not the patriotic propaganda that makes it into our textbooks. Soul wounds are even harder to treat than shit policy, and the longer they’re ignored, the more enmeshed and debilitating they become.

#american history #american violence #colonial violence #colonial trauma #social suffering #america's soul #soul wounds #veterans issues #moral injury #societal decay

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freakbleeds · 2 years

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just a reminder to TAG POSTS ABOUT RACIALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE AND ABUSE ACCORDINGLY, especially if you’re white. yes, it’s vitally important to spread awareness about the horrific abuse colonized and marginalized ethnic or racial groups face, but it is also a trigger for anyone suffering from generational trauma rooted in oppression. and while you’re at it, STOP POSTING VIDEOS AND PHOTOS OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR IF YOU ARE WHITE. just. stop. your white guilt is not welcome. your “tragedy porn” is not welcome. our trauma is not here to be exploited for your shock value.

WHITE PEOPLE CAN AND SHOULD REBLOG THIS!

#white people reblog this #generational trauma #colonial trauma

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tuungaq · 4 months

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do we think fitzjames ever grappled with the specific unsparing details of his colonial crimes in china and afghanistan (“smelled of roast duck”) beyond his own trauma before he died? as in, his own complicity in the machine aside from vanity? or are we not ready for that conversation 🤪

#Rachel watches the terror #I say this as a fitz enjoyer!!!!#we talk a lot about the trauma of colonialism imposed on James but he perpetuated too so lets have that conversation #one could argue that when he helps Silna get away it’s a slight attempt at atonement but even that’s ambiguous #for all we know he refused to look at it till the bitter end #james fitzjames

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sylwanin-was-right · 1 year

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Im not sorry but people who keep treating Neytiri as "psycho" and "racist" and "evil" for how she treated Spider clearly do not understand how racism, trauma, nor colonialism works lmao

#neytiri is a deeply traumatized indigenous woman who i would argue experienced #every colonial trauma we've endured including r*pe #so when shes runningon CPTSD and adrenaline yet when she takes her resentment and rage out on spider #ppl act like shes fucking evil. sorry but spider is not a victim of anything but circumstance 🤷🏽‍♀️#oel.mine #avatar 2 #avatar film #avatar way of water #james cameron avatar #avatar the way of water #avatar spider #miles socorro #neytiri #avatar 2 spoilers #avatar spoilers #awow spoilers

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alma-n · 8 months

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FowlFest 2023, day5, favourite scene

Heavy tlc spoilers

Artemis,

Help me.

We don't possibly talk enough about this scene. And theres no valid excuse for that!

We all, including Holly, know what he did was for the better; and he did not in fact let her die.

But imagine being stabbed through your heart with a fucking cursed sword, and you ask the one and only person you trust to save you in that situation for help, only to be watched to death before their very eyes.

And Holly had never asked for help. I don't remember her doing it after either. She does shit on her own. The agony, the pain, and oh boy the TRUST, for her to do that.

Its painful.

Yes, Artemis in fact didn't let holly die, but she is to forever have nightmares about that moment. And in her dreams, Artemis does indeed only care enough to glance her way briefly.

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handweavers · 2 months

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it's funny coming from a family where half the members on both sides very very very clearly have adhd (both dx'd and not) because it means everything about having adhd and the struggles with like. basic functioning and restlessness and needing variety and flexibility with work and a flat out inability to do a 9-5 desk job are so normalized for us like "of course being a responsible organized adult is absurdly painfully difficult and everything is sensory hell and constantly struggling with insomnia & abusing depressant substances to make our brains and bodies quiet down is normal. that's just what being a person is like right?" and everyone is like "yeah it is actually, for us. let's all try our best to live with that"

#also generational trauma from ww2 & colonialism on my dads side where all of us are insane with grief all the time constantly

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the-anastasia · 2 years

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Colonized communities right now.

#everyone is bonding and it’s beautiful #shared trauma #check out Irishtwitter and Blacktwitter #black twitter #irish twitter #british colonialism #colonialism #colonization #intergenerational trauma #queen elizabeth dead #queen elizabeth ii #queen Elizabeth #the queen #loki #mcu loki

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batsarebetterthanpeople · 1 year

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And another thing! Literally any queer story that takes place during the colonial age would have a huge gaping hole in it if it didn't have anticolonialism as a theme. Especially one that centers indigenous people. Like the reason that every culture had their own concepts of gender until something happened and then suddenly the gender binary was ubiquitous is because western European colonial powers made their view of gender the only acceptable one as part of christianizing and colonizing the world. You're not gonna have a show set in 1717 in the Caribbean where the love interest is a gay Maori man and the main deuteragonist is a non-binary mestizo catholic and just skip over colonialism. Like these are exactly the people who western gender roles are being forced on at fucking gun point during this era. Jim and Ed are both mixed race characters who's gender and sexual identities are in active defiance of the colonial powers that be. And this is the fucking Stede Ed and Jim show.

And there's something to be said for the fact that Stede's toxic masculinity plot line is internalized and Ed's struggle with toxic masculinity is largely external in the form a white guy who rubs elbows with the British Navy when Ed doesn't behave to his standard of masculinity. That choice didn't come out of nowhere and it shows a deep understanding of where homophobia comes from. That's not to say that precolonial communities of color were paradise for people that we today would consider queer but the rich tapestry of sexual and gender expressions that existed in those communities were erased in the name of colonialism. That's going to affect literally any queer person at the time when OFMD is set. These two things are inextricably linked.

Like when David Jenkins says a lot of what we're taught about being men is wrong, motherfucker who taught us what a man was. Who taught Ed what a man was? Who taught Stede what a man was for that matter? It's the white dad with the English accent who is violent (derogatory) and overbearing.

Like you get what I'm saying right? Like it's a silly little rom com but also it must necessarily be that deep because of who these characters are and when and where they exist.

#ofmd meta #Our Flag walks the line like a fucking tight rope acrobat and I'm not gonna let fake fans sleep on that #like they depict things aesthetically without actually depicting them sometimes #ill talk about the aesthetics of episode 9 all fucking day #in universe what happens is Ed signs a paper with an x either because hes illiterate or because he doesnt want to sign it #and is resting on the assumption that hes illiterate to get away with not signing it either as longform fuckery or to soften the blow #and he signs it to save his white boyfriend from getting fucking shot #and then he goes to a privateering academy where he does enjoy folding socks and he's liberated from his black beard and hes cool with that #everything is more or less his choice which makes it palatable and doesnt completely take the tone somewhere dark and harrowing #BUT ALSO what were seeing is the British Military forcing an indigenous man to sign a document and he does so with an x #and then taking him to a secondary fucking school ass school away from his community where hes forced to change his appearance #but also they let him keep his hair so that they dont step on that particular trauma #im vibrating what the fuck is this show #how do they do it?#Like seriously this has been a comedy show?????#And don't tell me I'm reading into it too much episode 2 primes us to think about colonialism

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odinsblog · 1 year

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Using stock footage shot by the BBC, the series chronicles the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of capitalist Russia and its oligarchs, and the effects of this on Russian people of all levels of society, leading to the rise to power of Vladimir Putin.

From the documentary, TraumaZone

#politics #chechnya #russia #colonialism #ukraine #trauma zone #russian imperialism #russian colonialism #imperialism #putin #vladimir putin go fuck yourself #vladimir putin

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allthecanadianpolitics · 1 year

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Three northern Alberta First Nations have signed an agreement with the federal and provincial governments to be responsible for their own child welfare systems. The chiefs of Loon River First Nation, Lubicon First Nation and Peerless Trout First Nation gathered Tuesday with members of their communities and representatives of the federal and provincial governments to celebrate the agreement. "Today there is hope, hope that we can begin to truly heal intergenerational trauma that has impacted our children for too long," said Chief Gilbert Okemow of Peerless Trout First Nation, which is about 500 kilometres north of Edmonton.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canadian news #canada #canadian #Indigenous #First Nations #child welfare #colonialism #intergenerational trauma #Loon River First Nation #Lubicon First Nation #Peerless Trout First Nation #Alberta

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priestessofcreation · 5 months

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A (brief) analysis on Generational Curses in Frozen

...through Agnarr and Iduna.

Spoilers for Dangerous Secrets

A lot of people say that Agnarr and Iduna were terrible parents. I am of the mind they weren't terrible people, but they were completely unequipped to handle the situation with their daughter and the people they thought would be able to help were only of limited help.

forever angry that Grand Pabbie didn't say Love will be your ally instead of Fear will be your enemy

However, I want you to consider where Agnarr came from for a moment. He was the child of an absent mother and an abusive father. A father who hated magic and was "killed" by it at the same time. Agnarr witnessed it all and furthermore grew up in a very anti-magic Arendelle while he was being trained to be king.

And yet, he had a daughter who had magic. Beautiful, cold, unlimited magic. Not only did he love her, but he allowed she and her sister to play with the magic freely when no one else could witness it. The only time he buckled down and responded in fear was when Anna got hurt.

And even then, he only separated Elsa from Anna until they could figure out how to control it. He didn't treat Elsa like a monster. He was kind and calm and passed on the best coping mechanism he had (that was toxic mess, admittedly). The problem is, years went by. He was king as well as the father of Elsa. He had so much on his shoulders, but even still, when his wife confessed her truth and told him straight-up that they had to do this right and tell the truth, he listened. He even agreed to take a journey into a killer sea (which is canon even without Dangerous Secrets) - knowing that he might be leaving his daughters behind forever - to help his daughter.

There are some parents who aren't even brave to defend their child against an emotionally abusive relative.

Agnarr wasn't perfect... but in some ways he broke the generational curses that his father passed onto him.

As for Iduna?

Iduna didn't have an generational curses until after she was separated from her home and forced to endure a lifetime in a culture that hated who she really was and where she came from. The generational curse comes in because the secret of Elsa's magic was ingrained in Iduna's darkest secret. She didn't want her daughters to be rejected. She didn't want Elsa to be feared for another reason.

"But if she had been honest, Elsa would have been saved earlier on!"

You ever... been in a world like that? In a life like that? Are you neurodiverse? Queer? Trans? Refugee? POC? Indigenous? Female? Have you ever been in a situation where you had to hide your authentic self/thoughts/beliefs/feelings/words because to embrace your authenticity might lead to rejection, harm, or even getting killed?

Iduna faced that every damn day of her life.

Worse, she married the man who ruled the very kingdom that hated her. Thankfully, he did not. Agnarr was surprisingly forward-thinking.

But the hate of Arendelle is what brainwashed Iduna into believing that whether her Northuldra origins are good or not... it is better to keep it hidden for her daughters' safety. For them to know the truth would only make everything so much worse, right?

Unfortunately, Iduna probably knew from the very beginning that the Northuldra, Enchanted Forest, the Spirits, and Ahtohallan are the key to all of this. That would mean she would have to tell Agnarr. The love of her life. The man that she was told would turn on her if she ever said the truth. She could get run out of the kingdom along with her daughters. And on top of all of that, they would lose their father. She would lose... be rejected by... the love of her life.

That kind of pressure and pain can paralyze you and your children and your children's children... but Iduna finally said something because the pain of her daughter was worse than the pain of everything else that could happen. Iduna pushed through all the fear and told Agnarr the truth. And she too volunteered to sail into a killer sea to help her daughter, knowing she might not return.

Some parents don't even want to go to their kids' talent show.

If you wanna blame anyone, blame Arendelle and more specifically, Runeard. Agnarr knew his father was a monster in the end, so bad that he drove Rita out. Agnarr wasn't perfect for the situation with Elsa, but he did loads better than his ancestors. And Iduna - that fearless, free Northuldra girl - told her husband the truth knowing it might get her killed. It is so much more complicated than "they were shitty parents."

Did they fuck up? Absolutely. Is Dangerous Secrets considered canon by Jen Lee? No.

But the fact that Agnarr and Iduna went into that sea is!

#tw abuse #tw emotional abuse #tw colonialism #tw othering #frozen #frozen 2 #generational trauma #analysis #tw generational trauma

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thepeopleinpower · 2 months

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Zionist and pro-Israel blogs to block! Feel free and encouraged to add any more that you know of and I’ll add them to the original post, especially blogs that reblog and add their shitty ignorant misinformed Zionist rhetoric to pro-Palestine or anti-genocide posts.

smartass-newyork-jew

queenwille

bottlepiecemuses

Issues-of-thepresentday

meshlasolus

liberalbartokas

bill-the-dog-for-the-check

aliciabenissa

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martydom7

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