#btw i am a settler myself.

[khizuo]

the whole thing about israeli settler "leftists" not being truly "left" due to them upholding their illegitimate settler state is also true for usamerican "leftists" who don't fight for the full decolonization of turtle island btw

[canichangemyblogname]

It seems many colonial conclusions rely on an ahistorical analysis or critical lack of historical context. I saw a post today that claimed there are no terms for US colonial expansion and the people who support it. And— like— yes there is? And a problem is that the words for it are still regarded with positive connotation by most of the US public today.

May I introduce you to:

While coined in 1845, the term refers to an ideology of U.S. expansionism that dates back to the first colonial contact between Europeans and First Nations People.

We also have three terms for the people who subscribed to this ideology, two for the earliest settlers: colonist and pilgrim, and one for the later settlers who expanded west: pioneer. The change in terms came with the change in power following the Colonist Revolution against the British, with “pioneer” being used as early as the 1780s.

However, an overarching term commonly used nowadays is just “colonizer,” and if you did not know this, then there are not enough indigenous North Americans in your life.

Now, I don’t expect non-US Americans to have known this. And, I’m also going to be honest, this post isn’t primarily directed at non-US Americans because the people I hear claiming that the US has no terms for its colonial ideology are Americans themselves. So, this is primarily directed at them.

I know you learned this in history class. Stop lying to people in an intellectually dishonest attempt to paint decolonial movements as hypocritical and supporting a double standard that refuses to call out or critique US imperialism. The only reason you aren’t hearing analysis and critique of US imperialism and expansionism is because you’re not seeking it out and surrounding yourself with people who support movements like Land Back.

Contrary to what Elon Musk and white supremacists like him want people to believe, “decolonization” is not a dirty word and it is not a call for genocide (most of them claim it’s a call for white genocide, specifically).

[spot-the-antisemitism]

Saw some of your reblogs regarding Wikipedia and I, as a Wikipedia editor, can only sigh. While there are existing vigorous vetting processes for editors editing "contentious topics" (i.e. Israel/Palestine), there are still plenty of editors who are pro-Palestine and yes, its remarkable (/neg) how the Zionist page has changed to include non-Jewish or anti-Zionist commentary that criticises Zionism.

There is often a war of information on Wikipedia, and you should check their talk pages as editors dispute on the use of some phrases like "settler-colonialism" and some would bring out books that mention Zionism as such. An example:

I.e. to say: More books on Zionism said its colonialism! (Despite those books being anti-Israel) And such it's the mainstream view!

Btw, folks, if you wish to edit such topics on Wikipedia, please dont use sockpuppets and such, because they would ban people over it. Like the crossed out person in the screenshots despite them defending Zionism. I also know a propal editor who also got banned because they insulted an admin for being a Zionist

Also another thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Zionism/Archive_22#Settler_colonialism

Oops app only gives me a ten images limit. But the talk pages are wild as non-Jewish editors try to explain Zionism while basically ignoring Jewish sources, apparently.

I dont usually edit these articles myself; they are a hotbed of arguments. My edits are more limited to stuff regarding transit in my own country.

But then, I personally know other left-wing editors who are anti-Semitic and/or anti-Israel. In a Wikipedia discord I was in, there was a thread on the ongoing conflict but the mods have to shut it down because of people sending inflammatory anti-Israel propaganda in the thread.

In the end, it's a war on information. I personally try to keep my head out of this conflict on Wikipedia, because I'm not as knowledgeable nor am I also armed with adequate sources to prove the contrary. But if anyone want to pick their battles, they must come armed to prove your points. You note how even in the Zionism lead itself theres multiple citations? Yeah, thats the norm for anything related to Israel-Palestine.

Wikipedia has some of its failings and this is one of them, as anti-Zionist sources overwhelm Jewish sources.

Dear Orion,

thank you for this deep dive

I wish there was more we can do

Cecil

[interstellarflowers]

FREE PALESTINE from a small fanfic writer and uni. activist returning to tumblr.

i just wanted to hop on to say that as someone who writes for things such as stranger things (or rather has written) that i encourage you to consume other peoples work ethically and to boycott the show or at least do what you can to not allow profit, block accounts, do not stream it via netflix or otherwise. i call out specifically stranger things just because i have written for it in the past, and some of their cast members have displayed some of the most heinous acts of racism, colorism, and colonialist support that i have seen. i will never accept this as something i can look past, and neither should you. genocide is never excusable, and apathy and support of it should never be tolerated. i am strongly anti-zionist, and if you're someone who believes in humanitarianism, or someone who identifies as a leftist, or someone who is also BIPOC or LGBTQ*, then i implore you to educate yourself further on the liberation and history of Palestine, and to get involved in whatever way you can whether this be through donating, supporting Palestinian creators, sharing content and information, protesting, or otherwise. also before someone even TRIES it with me, my family is jewish, i went to hebrew school growing up, i was adopted from the system into a judaism practicing household, and what israel is doing right now, is not jewish, even insinuating that this killing spree, hatred, genocide, and racism is jewish absolutely twists my stomach into knots. genocide is not a jewish value, the israeli government is incredibly incorrect, they have no right to do what they're doing now, they had no right to displace people, they are not indigenous to Palestine. despite common american and eurocentric historical events, no, you can't just show up somewhere decide its yours, give it a new name, and get offended when people say that its colonization and stealing. it is. you have colonized, you have stolen land, you have become the oppressor, you are the oppressor, and now youre committing a mass genocide. never again means never again. they must be held accountable, this is evil. i consistently come back and leave writing fanfic i battle a number of health issues which end up impacting my mental state and i was working on graduating university (graduated this semester btw, heading to johns hopkins now for grad school) but another reason why ive found myself less active is because of the ignorance i see on this platform sometimes. its extra difficult to want to return to a platform and community when i come back from witnessing and experiencing police brutality and force on my campus in response to our encampment, witnessing my friends, peers, and professors be arrested and physically harmed, be verbally assaulted, assaulted, abused by admin, etc. and then come on here and see people refusing to partake in even the bare minimum. its is crucial to the survival of the remaining Palestinian people that we give this cause our all, and fight for their lives, they have been failed and abandoned time and time again, do not turn your backs to them, do not ignore this.

the Palestinian struggle intersects with issues of race, colonialism, state violence, and human rights, in supporting Palestine it means that we are advocating for human rights overall and challenging the overarching system of oppression. recognizing the ongoing systemic oppression, genocide, and attack on Palestinian people and working towards resolution means working towards a movement of ending colonialism and other systems of oppression. as someone who is in both communities, BIPOC and Queer people are familiar with systemic racism and colonialism, the fight for Palestinian liberation against the Israeli government is also a fight against settler colonialism and racialized violence. by supporting Palestine, Queer and BIPOC individuals affirm their opposition to all forms of systemic racism and colonialism.

justice is not a zero-sum game. justice is a shared goal where freedom for one group contributes to freedom for all. in supporting Palestine we foster global solidarity, demonstrating that collective liberation is intertwined and it has been proven to be in multiple BIPOC and Queer liberation movements throughout history. find resources below, and if youre in the nyc area, feel free to reach out to me if you want to coordinate or need someone to attend protests with:

https://linktr.ee/columbiasjp

[kael-writ]

I honestly think (some) Irish citizens' gatekeeping of the right of people descended from Irish immigrants to associate with our heritage is kinda fucked up.

I've thought about it a lot and like, I get hating Americans in particular. I hate being American. I think mocking Americans is a great activity I myself enjoy.

But like, there just is something fucked about the idea that people should assimilate when they immigrate, right? The degree to which Irish-Americans (that hated term!) assimilated into whiteness is actually a really bad thing. The forgetting of history and debasement of culture sucks. It's kinda a good thing for people to rediscover our roots, particularly connecting with anti-colonialism and learning Irish Gaelic.

Americans who arent Native Americans (also Latines generally, who tend to have some indigenous heritage) are all immigrants. With the exception of the descendants of slaves, these immigrants, particularly white people, are also colonizers, settlers.

Yet at the same time, people who came over from the famine (a genocide) in particular were desperate, they didnt necessarily wanna have to leave home, there's so many Irish immigrant songs and writing about not wanting to leave home, missing home, wanting to connect with "The Old Country". & while comparing it to Black American oppression is ridiculous, they did face hate.

Connecting with your heritage isnt about race. Whiteness is nothing. Irish people weren't even White at first because White Supremacy is made up bullshit. I dont think it's cool to wanna link your ethnicity as a white person to Irish roots you dont know shit about or whatever. And I will call out all day Irish-Americans and Irish-anyones who are racist, of which there are plenty on both and all sides of the oceans (Australia included ie).

But like, finding out who my great-(however far back it may or may not be) grandparents were, that's something, even if my ancestors were pricks. That tells me about my family, which tells me about myself.

I get hating the plastic patty shit. I hate it too. As an alcoholic I particularly hate Pattys Day being a drinking day. (eta Shit, I personally hate Catholicism. Fuck St Patrick).

Ive heard the same from Mexican-Americans about Cinco de Mayo. And btw heard the same about having their connection to their heritage dismissed from at least one friend.

idk how common this is to the second gen on immigrant experience in general but Ive certainly read lots from Asian people in particular about wanting to connect with a disconnected heritage, and how painful it is for Black folks to have had theirs stripped from them. Which is different for us with white privilege.

Also here worth noting being Irish is NOT about being White, many Black Americans and Black Irish citizens and in general people of color have Irish citizenship and/or Irish immigration heritage. Obviously for Black Americans that can have roots in slavery and that's fucked up and complex and not something I can tell you about.

Anyway, at the end of the day, talk shit (and better yet make jokes, lots to work with) all you want, a little shit talk is something I try to take in good humor, I dont wanna argue too much, I just wanted to put this out there.

I have a loud voice and I come from a family of obnoxious fucks, but I am sober and poor, and if I ever do get to go to Ireland I promise to do my best to not be tooo fucking obnoxious at the very least.

[queermarzipan]

I came across this post awhile ago and I feel prepared to reblog it with my thoughts now.

When I first came across this list, it made me wildly uncomfortable. This was partly because of my own internalised antisemitism (due mainly to my warped view of zionism*), but other parts of that discomfort persist even now, and I'm going to try to explain why. (I am fully aware of how this looks, btw, lmao. Goy feels uncomfortable about a list of antisemitic beliefs made by a Jew and tries to argue that they aren't actually antisemitic. I am AWARE. Just. Bear with me. This is a communication issue.)

No. I believe that Israeli settlers, and the Israeli citizens and international bodies that enable them, are definitely working to "replace" the citizens of Palestine, in the very basic sense of kicking out Palestinians and moving Israelis in, but "Jews en masse" — no. "Jews en masse" aren't doing anything.

No. Jews are an ethnic minority (except within Israel), all Jews are "real" Jews, any Jew can be a "PoC" or "white" or something outsde that binary, depending on how they define themselves, etc. etc. Jews are not "pretending" to be any of these things.

No. This one is a common enough trope that I've actually had plenty of practice with repeating its falsity to myself, and I'm pretty confident in saying that if that belief of covert control ever did exist in my subconscious (and I'm almost certain it didn't; the actual real governments of the world do enough to be mad at out in the open air), it has at this point been thoroughly excised.

Uh. There are definitely Jews who are doing at least one of those things, yeah. "immigrating to a new location with the intention to murder those who already exist there" is definitely something I believe a not-insignificant number of Israeli settlers have done ; "desiring to murder Arabs, Muslims, or Palestinians in their homelands by means of genocide in order to control a region at the exclusion of all other ethnicities" seems like an exact map of the current Israeli govt.'s goal in Palestine apart from the "control" bit and the implication that no other ethnicity but Jewish would be allowed into Israel once they occupy all of Palestine. And I feel like those details of your example are significant, so I'll just say — I don't think I can definitively rule out the possibility that at least one Jew thinks like that. If you mean "do you think that Jews as a collective are uniquely genocidal according to these examples?" then no. But according to your own examples of positions that are, in your words, "uniquely genocidal", I cannot find it in myself to completely rule all Jews out of the category of "uniquely genocidal".

Uh. Some Jews are definitely living on stolen land/in stolen homes in Palestine. That's like. The whole point of Israeli settlements/settlers. If you mean all Jews, then no; but I cannot in good conscience cease to call Israeli settlers the thieves I understand them to be.

Um... I can sum up the specific Jews I disagree with on the Palestine/Israel conflict as being "Jews who agree with the oppressive regime the State of Israel is enforcing in Palestine". "Loyal IDF soldiers" and "Anti-Palestinian Israeli politicians" both wield power in ways I don't like. There are also literal labels for ideologies that I fundamentally oppose — namely Kahanism and Revisionist Zionism — and whose ideas are held by some Jewish people. Again; if you mean "do you think all Jews you disagree with can be collectively labelled?", then no. But any group of people who hold a belief can be referred to with reference to that belief.

I'm at the point, now, where if I'm still antisemitic according to this list, I don't know how to unpack that on my own. I need help. If I am still being antisemitic here, please tell me how. I've read through several of your conversations with antisemites, and have to say that you have incredible patience; I am endlessly appreciative of the links you share, particularly ones to other tumblr posts, and your willingness to educate even in the face of staunch ignorance and blind hatred. I am asking you to yet again use your free time to educate. If you do, I will be endlessly grateful. God bless <3

*When I first came across this post, I was under the impression that "zionism" was a term for "agreement with the Israeli government's occupation of Gaza and goal of expanding Israel". I was not aware that it contained any more nuance than that. That is because I was experiencing the effects of massive misinformation, mostly context-based, about what the aim of zionism as a movement was, and, by proxy, what zionists as people believed. I could at any time have checked if my understanding was correct by going to Wikipedia and engaging critically with the characteristics of various types of zionism; I did not, for reasons I will detail here but which do not absolve me of responsibility for failing to educate myself in this very basic way.

Firstly, I am simply not in the habit of checking the definitions of new words I come across. I mostly learn definitions via context and foolishly believed that I could apply this principle — which is not 100% accurate even when dealing with completely politically-neutral words — to an ideology I had never heard of before. This was stupid, self-serving, and lazy.

Secondly... The ubiquitousness of the message is impossible to overstate. Even looking at the situation now, from the outside, I can barely even fault myself for falling for it. It's everywhere: To be zionist is to be pro-Israeli airstrikes. To be zionist is to be against Palestinian self-determination. To be zionist is to be okay with Palestinian suffering. To be zionist is to be anti-Arab. To be zionist is to be genocidal. To be zionist is to be pro-Benjamin Netanyahu.

None of these ideas are true. I was inundated with them every time I engaged with Palestinian activism or awareness. I am positive that I did harm during this time; If nothing else, I uncritically reblogged posts that demonised Zionists and Zionism, which spread the distorted view of zionism presented in those posts to wider audiences. For that I can only apologise, and hope that posts scince, and this post in particular, will help to mitigate the damage done by educating my followers.

How do you know if you’re antisemitic?

Well, if a Jew telling you you’re antisemitic won’t make you believe it, here is a guide to help you figure it out yourself.

1. Do you think Jews, en masse, are ACTIVELY REPLACING/ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE some other group — especially a somehow more deserving group? (For example, White people, Black people, African people, Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, indigenous people, etc.) Do you feel there are JUST TOO MANY JEWS IN A GIVEN LOCATION?

2. Do you think Jews are PRETENDING TO BE SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE NOT? (For example, White, PoC, “Real” Jews, Indigenous/Native, an Ethnic Minority, Devoted Citizens of [YOUR COUNTRY] etc.)?

3. Do you think Jews are CONTROLLING OR ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL SOME INTEGRAL ASPECT OF SOCIETY? (For example, the government, media, banks, business, medicine, etc.)

4. Do you think Jews that you criticize are UNIQUELY BLOODTHIRSTY OR GENOCIDAL — especially when hoping for personal achievement or cultural supremacy? (For example, trying to stage a global war so they can control the world; using/consuming blood of Christians and babies to do satanic rituals; sexually seducing non-Jews in order to contaminate bloodlines and erase other pre-existing identities; immigrating to a new location with the intention of murdering those who already exist there; desiring to murder Arabs, Muslims, or Palestinians in their homelands by means of genocide in order to control a region at the exclusion of other ethnicities, etc.)

5. Do you think Jews are APPROPRIATING A PRIVILEGE THAT THEY DO NOT DESERVE AND THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM? (For example, freedom, wealth, power, whiteness, G-d’s favor, a safe home in the Levant, Arab land, colonial power, representation as a minority group, etc.)

6. Do you think Jews at large or the specific Jews you disagree with and who wield power in a way you disapprove of CAN BE COLLECTIVELY LABELED? (For example, might you call them slaves, vermin, insects, dirty, scheming, communists, fascists, Nazis, satanic, Zionists, scum, etc.)

IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS YOU ARE AN ANTISEMITE. This is literally textbook antisemitism. If you answered, well yeah but only “the Jews in Israel” or “the ones who vote for Bibi” or the “ones who moved to my town/country/region” or if you saw something on one of the lists and think “well no fair! That one is actually true,” your exception isn’t exceptional. You haven’t found the one true bad thing that Jews ACTUALLY are. It’s not some conspiratorial propaganda to equate reasonable beliefs with hate. You’re just hateful. Some part of you hates Jews. And you have to confront what that part of you is and you have to destroy it if you want to engage in any conversations that impact Jewish welfare anywhere in the world.

One way to start deconstructing is to ask yourself “Why do I feel this way?” “From whom did I learn to think this way?” “Who in my life approves and supports me thinking this way?” “Am I comfortable telling a Jewish person I feel this way in person?” “How do I think a Jewish person will feel/What do I think a Jewish person will think if I tell them this?” “Do I care what they feel or think? Why or why not?” “How would I feel/what would I think if someone felt this way or thought this way about me or an identity I value deeply?”

[ang3lv3rm1n]

Btw I may be reblogging posts about Kamala Harris but I do not like this woman. I do not like her, and quite frankly I do not want her for president. I could not bring myself to genuinely like and support someone who thinks that the systematic genocide country is in the right for committing systematic genocide and saying that the reason for murdering babies and blowing up hospitals is because a couple of the people being genocided had the gall to become furious and vengeful and may or may not at some point have breathed in the direction of the child that no longer has a head, or got their scraped knee tended at the pile of rubble that was once a hospital a decade ago.

However, Donald Trump is even worse about this stance. Not to mention all the rest of the insanity that comes out of his mouth and his twitter. All the things he set in motion and caused to begin in 2016 being blamed on Biden by Trumpers to make Trump look better. I am genuinely terrified this idiot is going to win the electoral college. I feel as though my vote does not matter living in a deeply red state. But I refuse to be part of the reason a person who not only endorses but encourages genocide and basically wants to tip the scales even further towards a dangerous direction its already headed and I'm scared. I'm scared okay. Who the fuck am I supposed to vote for. I can't fucking stand either of these people.

I started out wanting to make this a nice and pretty essay about voting for harris even if she is just genocidal asshole #2 instead of genocidal asshole #1 but why the fuck should i have to. Why do people like me have to be so terrified of this. Why. I don't like either of these choices. Why ate there only two. I'm 19 and I can't drive and I live in a town in the united states in the year of 2024 that won't even build a public pool because they'd have to let black people swim in it too. I'm trans and I'm queer and I want to marry my boyfriend but I don't even know if next year I'd be able to do that because I don't know what's going to happen. I want to continue my transition, I want to marry my boyfriend, I want to foster kids someday, I want to not be so fucking scared. I want to see on the news on my stupid little phone screen I don't even care if it comes by a fuck ass destiel meme one day I want to wake up and see that gaza is free. That the occupation forces have left. I want to see that for Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Ukraine. I want to see that for the whole of everything that is happening in Africa I can't even remember how many countries are being taken advantage of by occupational forces. I want to see that everyone I have donated to is safe and healthy and happy. I want costa rica to be free and Hawai'i and Alaska and everywhere all the places that I live anf everyone lives and I cant fucking do this anymore. I cant pretend like it even fucking matters which fascist wins this years "Lets see if this one will destroy the settler state called the united states of america from pure incompetence and a bit of fire"

Yeah anyways vote for kamala harris I guess fuckin none of it matters Im not even a human i'm just a rst im just a fucking rat im not even human im just an angel yeah none of this exists just my little cage and my little wheel to run on.

[dullahandyke]

You guys keep falling for people going 'lol you're identifying the wrong way' wrt queer identities so I made you a flow chart

Is your anger against this label because it facilitates genuine harm towards others (eg. MAPs)? Godspeed and good luck to you.

Is your anger against this label because it is Using The Label Wrong and doesn't gel with your personal definition for this label (eg. MOGAI, bi lesbians, lesboys)? I'm sorry, but there's always gonna be people who identify in ways that you disagree with, and with something as intangible as queer identity, their stance has as much merit as your own. If you get ticked seeing someone IDing as both homosexual and bisexual, ask yourself if they're genuinely hurting anyone, and if not, let them be. You will never know the intricacies of someone else's identity, and if that's how they choose to define themselves, well, tough shit.

[existencevalue]

Decolonization is not a metaphor. Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang

Hopefully the link works, otherwise I guess try and find it online. Its a hard read, but well worth it.

Main points I got from the article (basically tldr):

"Though the details are not fixed or agreed upon, in our view, decolonization in the settler colonial context must involve the repatriation of land simultaneous to the recognition of how land and relations to land have always already been differently understood and enacted; that is, all of the land, and not just symbolically. This is precisely why decolonization is necessarily unsettling, especially across lines of solidarity. “Decolonization never takes place unnoticed” (Fanon, 1963, p. 36). Settler colonialism and its decolonization implicates and unsettles everyone (Pg 7)."

Basically give all land (water, earth, air) back to indigenous people and learn and respect their original cultural treatment of land

"The absorption of decolonization by settler social justice frameworks is one way the settler, disturbed by her own settler status, tries to escape or contain the unbearable searchlight of complicity, of having harmed others just by being one’s self. The desire to reconcile is just as relentless as the desire to disappear the Native; it is a desire to not have to deal with this (Indian) problem anymore" (pg 9).

"these are all desires for another kind of resolve to the colonial situation, resolved through the absolute and total destruction or assimilation of original inhabitants" (pg 9).

"Decolonization" is a knee-jerk reaction by settlers who want to erase any interaction btw them and indigenous people b/c of guilt.

It is an attempt to quickly (but ineffectively) reconcile current and past effects of colonization (chattel slavery, criminalization, divesting, etc) so that these effects will be "solved" and effectively out of sight, out of mind

Also a strong emphasis on settlers wanting to be considered as indigenous, so as to justify their settlement of said land

"Yet settler moves to innocence are hollow, they only serve the settler" (pg 10).

Basically outlining the concept intersectionality

Effectively "I can't be an oppressor when I myself am oppressed" and "its not a problem for me, therefor I shouldn't have to do anything about it"

Move to Innocence section

White people claiming "grandmother was indian" (concept of women as property [Indian princess concept]), never "grandfather was indian" (male Indians are savages). Also the possibly of sexual violence if the grandmother was Native American are much higher, especially if they were chattel slaves.

"That is, Native American is a racialization that portrays contemporary Indigenous generations to be less authentic, less Indigenous than every prior generation in order to ultimately phase out Indigenous claims to land and usher in settler claims to property" (pg 12).

"One-drop concept": effectively, if any of your ancestors are Black, then you are also Black

For Black people, Black identity (and all the negative connotations thrust upon that) increases with each additional Black ancestor

For Native American, it is diminishing (basically become gradually more white)

"Known as the Pocahontas Exception, this loophole allowed thousands of white people to claim Indian ancestry, while actual Indigenous people were reclassified as “colored” and disappeared off the public record" (pg 13)

Ok wtf. As of 2004 6 of 8 tribes aren't able to get federal recognition bc of this :///////

"Ancestry is different from tribal membership; Indigenous identity and tribal membership are questions that Indigenous communities alone have the right to struggle over and define, not DNA tests, heritage websites, and certainly not the settler state" (pg 13).

"Settler fantasies of adoption alleviate the anxiety of settler un-belonging. He adopts the love of land and therefore thinks he belongs to the land. He is a first environmentalist and sentimentalist, nostalgic for vanishing Native ways" (pg 15-16).

"Decolonization is stillborn - rendered irrelevant because decolonization is already completed by the indigenized consciousness of the settler. Now ‘we’ are all Indian, all Hawaiian, and decolonization is no longer an issue. ‘Our’ only recourse is to move forward, however regretfully, with ‘our’ settler future" (p 17).

Basically being "adopted" by the indigenous community, but ignoring their core values, then just kinda doing what you want because you're "one of them now". But also ur still a settler so you have the benefit of knowledge from both identity /sarcasm

"Vocalizing a ‘muliticultural’ approach to oppressions, or remaining silent on settler colonialism while talking about colonialisms, or tacking on a gesture towards Indigenous people without addressing Indigenous sovereignty or rights, or forwarding a thesis on decolonization without regard to unsettling/deoccupying land, are equivocations. That is, they ambiguously avoid engaging with settler colonialism; they are ambivalent about minority / people of color / colonized Others as settlers; they are cryptic about Indigenous land rights in spaces inhabited by people of color" (pg 19)

Didn't get this one too much tbh, I think it was just an emphasis on intersectionality.

Decolonization is different than social justice work effectively, different goals and purposes

The rest of the article talks mostly about the hypocrisy of the Occupy movement (how its goal of redistributing wealth fails to recognize that land owner ship is most of wealth) and the social injustices of the prison industrial complex.

It also talked about Incommensurability, which is effectively stating that to decolonize would require an establishment of a new world order. The gist of it (to my understanding) was that it would abolish settler colonizer concepts. Think landownership, forced assimilation, "asterisk people" (basically portions of the population that are so small the are effecitly ignored), war for property (oil now, salt in the past, and water in the future), and moves to innocence.

I was a little upset that they didn't offer an explicit option to what they thought would allow this to be realized, but they did make it clear that, "... decolonization is not obliged to answer those questions - decolonization is not accountable to settlers, or settler futurity" (pg 35.) Which hey, fair enough, but it does make it difficult for me to understand what me as an individual can do.

They just make it clear that the solution isn't really known, but no matter what, it won't be easy.

I guess the best thing I can do is to listen to Indigenous voices and fight back against settler colonialism as best as I can. After that it seems kinda like just wait and hope all that leads to some major action being done.

Anyway thanks for reading this if you did. I mostly just did this for myself to help me remember the article and to make sense of it.

Pls forgive for any grammatical or spelling errors as I wrote this on my phone (I know dumb idea) so it might not be perfect :P but Im trying my best

[marvilus-magpie]

So I mentioned in the tags of my last art post that Danse is tagged as a Minuteman by the game after Blind Betrayal and I was asked by a couple people how I found that out.

Well, it all started here:

This little clip was taken from the fallout wiki. BTW please don’t send Danse to the airport after BB to test this it’s awful :(

Now, I know wiki’s are often full of crap, so I never take anything I read from them seriously unless I can confirm it another way.

If I was a smarter person I could probably go digging into the game files and find out that way, but I’m not, so I figured out a way to test on my own...one that didn’t involve starting an endless battle at the airport. It’s pretty easy and most people can test this themselves if they are interested.

In my game the Minutemen and the Brotherhood are not hostile towards each other. Vertibirds and patrols pass by my Minuteman settlements all the time without incident...unless I am traveling with Danse and am an enemy of the Brotherhood myself and as the General of the Minutemen that makes my settlements enemies with them as well. When I dismiss Danse and am no longer considered an enemy, we’re all friends again. Unless...

If any Brotherhood pass a settlement where Danse has been dismissed to and get close enough to detect him, they will attack him. They won’t attack my settlers or my turrets and my settlers and turrets will ignore them...until that first volley hits Danse. Because Danse IS tagged by the game as a Minuteman and all the settlers and turrets are also Minutemen, the second he’s under attack, all hell breaks loose and the entire settlement teams up to mow down his attackers. That all only happens because the game recognizes him as belonging to their faction...and that’s good enough for me ;)

[evengayerpanic]

I don’t know if you are doing prompts but I have an idea of a jealous aster because someone is flirting with Ellie! I love your work btw! You word everything so well!

Dear Anon, I am so sorry it took me so long to get to this, it’s been a very long month that’s kind of put me in a bad place! I am slowly pulling myself out of it though, and trying to get caught up with prompts, so I present to you... the fic that you wanted! (Hopefully!)

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"I hate her...” A low growl escapes Aster Flores’ throat as she watches Ellie Chu talk to what Aster has now dubbed as her very worst enemy. Her eyes narrow to slits as she stares the look of true displeasure at her.

If looks could kill, this girl would be dead.

Aster is taking angry drinks of her Smirnoff Ice cooler, downing the whole thing less than two minutes after Paul handed it to her. Each sip is punctuated with an angry glare, and sometimes a grouchy grumble.

Paul watches her with concern, pulling the bottle out of her hands seconds too late. He sets it down beside him on the coffee table, and then opens his mouth in protest as she reaches across for his beer and steals it away. He closes his mouth in a sign that he’s given up.

And then she practically drinks his beer in a minute as well. Paul finally pulls it away from her, a sign that she might need a Munsky intervention. “Okay, who?”

Aster turns to glare at him, a grimace on her face at realizing that he stole her beer. She fixes him an obvious look before turning back to Ellie and pointing.

“That beanie-wearing, Settlers of Catan-playing, ‘Oh I just love your nails, Ellie Chu!’ wannabe witch...”

“Do you mean Heather?” Paul stares in amusement.

“Yes!” Aster pouts, stealing her beer back from him and finishing it. “She’s trying to steal my girlfriend!”

Paul pauses pensively for a moment, before pausing and taking his empty bottle back with a shake of his head. “And does Ellie know she’s your girlfriend?”

“Of course!” Aster pauses, Paul fixing her a knowing look. “Okay we may not have said it outloud.” He continues to stare as she shrinks even more against the look in his eyes. “We made out at a party once and she said she had fun and we should do it again.”

He smirks. “I thought so.”

“She said we should do it again! How does that not mean we’re something, at least?” Aster angry pouts.

Paul chuckles a little bit, shrugging his shoulders and lifting the bottle to his lips only to remember it’s empty now. With a grimace, he looks back at her. “You should go ask her to be your girlfriend, before Heather does.” He says with a tease.

Aster rolls her eyes, but then looks over at Ellie and Heather... the two are standing close to each other, and Heather is laughing at something Ellie said.

“Yeah, right.” She grumbles, before her eyes widen as Heather leans in to brush hair away from Ellie’s eyes.

“I’m going to go ask Ellie to be my girlfriend now!” She stammers, jumping up from the couch and starting off towards the two like she’s on a mission.

Paul laughs. “Good luck!” He shouts before looking down at his empty beer bottle, and yells once more after her. “And make sure you get me another beer!”

She probably didn’t hear him, and he’s okay with that.

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Aster interrupts Ellie and Heather just as they’re going from the topic of strategies in Catan to the other more difficult board games they’ve played.

“Aster! Hey!” Ellie lights up, her smile going from ear to ear as she shuffles over for Aster to join their conversation. “We were talking about starting a game of Catan! Are you in? Heather has all the expansions!”

Heather glares at Aster.

Aster glares at Heather.

Ellie remains oblivious.

“Well, I’ve never played actually.” Aster starts off, Heather immediately jumping in about how it’s fine they have a full table anyways, so Aster cuts her off quickly. “But I would love you to teach me, Ellie!”

Heather cuts in quickly. “It’s kind of a difficult game, it’s not for everyone, you might not like it.”

Aster is about to turn around to face Heather and say something, when Ellie jumps in for her. “Aster is top of our year, and brilliant! What are you talking about?”

Heather panics and tries to back track. “All I meant is that this game is more for history nerds, like us.”

“If my girlfriend isn’t allowed to play, I don’t want to.”

Heather balks at the word ‘girlfriend’ before shrugging her shoulders and turning away from the two of them, her interest clearly gone if Ellie is already taken.

“Your girlfriend?” Aster sputters, then sees the twinkle in Ellie’s eye, and immediately understands.

“What tipped you off?” She answers coolly, trying to slow her racing heart from hearing the words said.

“I saw you talking to Paul and glaring your hatred at us.” Ellie smirks, reaching her hand out to take Aster’s, squeezing it gently and rubbing her finger along the brunette’s knuckle. “You aren’t exactly subtle, Aster.”

Aster frowned. “I guess I’m not.”

“That’s okay.” Ellie smiled, turning to Aster and putting her hands on the other girls hips to draw her in closer. “It happens to be what I like about you.”

And then she drew Aster into her arms, pulling the girl so close that their lips had no choice but to press together. Aster froze for a moment, before curling her arms around Ellie’s shoulders and kissing her back.

Hard.

“So, you like me?” Aster finally asked, her breath a little shallow as she pulled back, lips bruised and swelling from the kiss. Her cheeks flush with heat.

“I mean... I did call you my girlfriend, remember?”

Aster blushes again, leaning in to kiss Ellie back just as feverishly. Her hands cupped Ellie’s cheeks and Ellie pressed their bodies together until you couldn’t tell where one stopped and the other started back again.

“Shit...” Aster gasped. “I owe Paul a replacement beer.”

[jyndor]

god it is so annoying to see every post about antisemitism devolve into a conversation about israel/palestine.

I have jewish cousins, two of whom are israeli american, and others who grew up poor. one of whom did birthright just because she wanted to be able to travel (and was horrified by the program btw). I want them safe and secure. i am not saying that they shield me from being antisemitic btw I am a non-jewish person, so like I am just saying that this is a little personal for me.

I don't agree with everything in that post (there are anti-zionist jewish people for instance so like... anti-zionism isn't inherently antisemitic, although there definitely is overlap; personally i don't call myself that; also omfg the idea that palestinian leaders HAVEN'T gone to peace talks is so disingenuous i almost didn't reblog it) and the notes are trash all over from all directions (literally saw an israeli settler say p*lestin lol that is so fucking gross i stg, and of course the antisemites saying jewish ppl are kicking palestinians off their land), but like... when will people STOP conflating jewish with israeli? i know this is complicated by israel and the us pushing this narrative, but COME on. the jewish diaspora is not israel.

its just so frustrating because that post has so much history and context about antisemitism and... it just gets bogged down by israel/palestine, which is a separate issue.

please let there be a post about antisemitism in all communities that doesn't devolve someday.

also is it antisemitism or anti-semitism idk i can never remember smdh

[captainimprobable]

So like, obviously antisemitism is bad, but Palestinians arent all evil, and you only ever post about Palestinians harming Israelis and Jews, and not Israelis harming Palestinians, the situation is a lot more complex than you're making it out to be. Sometimes oppressed people can be oppressors as well

Hi!I know Palestinians aren’t all bad! I never said Palestinians are all bad, and I want to make it clear that although I consider myself a Zionist, that does not mean I don’t care about the Palestinian people.This whole thing is complicated, and we’re probably not gonna settle it all on Tumblr.  The reason I post so much about Jews being murdered is because I care when Jews are murdered.  Which does not in turn mean I don’t care about when Palestinians are murdered.  What is very very difficult for me is the fact that the media and government are so vociferously anti Israel that literally all I ever hear about is the Big Bad Israeli Settlers murdering Poor Innocent Palestinians.  But when my people are murdered for existing, when an American citizen is shot in the head and their murderer’s family is compensated monetarily because he is considered a martyr, when social justice circles applaud themselves for being “intersectional”, but you bring up the term “antisemitism” and suddenly you’re being quizzed about your opinion on Israel and being told it’s really not that bad, I get upset. Which I think is understandable.There are many, many innocent Palestinian people, and I do truly believe they are being mistreated in a lot of ways.  While I believe a lot of it is the fault of Hamas and the PA, it would be stupid of me to pretend that Israelis have not had a hand in any of that.I’m not here to argue with anyone and I really hope this comes across politely because I’m not trying to rile anyone up! I think it’s important to have these conversations.But I’m going to be honest.  I can’t help that I’m biased.  I have family and friends who have been attacked or murdered. This is close to my heart and extremely personal for me, and because I have lost people that is what I post about. Because that is my experience.  And I desperately need people to stop ignoring the fact that this is happening to us, every single day.  Because every single fucking time I try to speak up and to talk about terrorism, I get people telling me that I’m not being fair.  I can be angry and hurt and I am not going to apologize for standing up for my people.I hope I answered this well and I hope you realize I am not anti Palestinian, I am anti Hamas, I am anti the PA.  On that we should at least both agree. If you have an issue with me being a Zionist I swear I won’t be offended if you unfollow. I think having conversations about this is important but it is also very likely we are not going to change each others opinions, and I always worry about starting these conversations because they turn angry and violent often. (You are not being angry and violent btw I’m saying that’s my experience with this conversation.)This could go on forever so I’m gonna stop rambling! I hope this made sense.

[bimiserables]

I really don’t know weather I would call myself a native. I am a direct decent of my country’s very first inhabitants but he only came here around 800 so technically he is a settler but there were no people living here before him. (I live on an island btw). Can anyone clear this up for me?

Since I haven’t seen any mention of it yet, except on twitter, i’d also like to remind everyone that not only is June LGBT pride month, but it’s also Indigenous History month!

Please take the time to support, uplift and remember your Native, First Nations, Aboriginal and otherwise Indigenous friends and family. We are here, we exist! We have a long and winding history that deserves to be heard and respected! The word ‘Indigenous’ is so wonderful, and so expansive, and includes so many different cultures under its arms. Go out, learn about our histories and our cultures. Talk to the Indigenous people around you! We’re everywhere!

And not only that, but also be sure to give extra support to LGBT indigenous voices in this community. We are a minority that is scarcely acknowledged, and in desperate need of it. Too many times have I gotten strange looks for being so openly Native and so openly a lesbian. It’s as if that combination is impossible for people to understand. Support our content, buy from our stores! Or at least just include us!

I’d like to wish a happy LGBT pride month, and a happy Indigenous History month to everyone, but especially us LGBT Native folks. This really is our month to be open about ourselves, and I sure intend to. 💗🏳️‍🌈

[recipereruns]

#TBT Recipe - ‘Side Pork and Mormon Gravy - Just Like the Kind the Pioneers Ate Before They Froze to Death’

WTF? No, not a new rap duo from Boise,  Side Pork is like thick bacon and Mormon Gravy is just like regular gravy but with special underwear! Kidding! It’s like regular gravy but WAY more polite. This recipe is from way back in 1872 and was common fare among early settlers. Why do I care? First, I have a deep admiration for pioneers. I think they were resilient, practical and brave. Second,  EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW HOW  EASY IT IS TO MAKE DELICIOUS GRAVY. Pioneers didn’t have easy open jars of Mormon Gravy or Mormon Gravy seasoning packets. Some of them didn’t have their toes.  Why am I bringing up gravy and frostbite in the middle of a sweltering July? Because I like to remind myself that when I start complaining about the weather to look down at my pedicured feet, count all my ten toes  and be grateful that I’m not a pioneer.

INGREDIENTS:

8 thick slices side pork (or thick-cut bacon strips) 

4 tablespoons meat drippings (Can use butter, ghee, margarine, vegetable oil as well) 

3 tablespoons flour** (Or ½ the amount of cornstarch) 

2 cups milk*** (Or any combination of stock, half&half, maybe heavy cream if you are crazy like me) 

Salt, pepper, paprika**** (I like to add the seasonings to my thickener so that the spices are infusing the whole time and not just at the end – really surprised the Mormon pioneers didn’t think of that. Too busy digging out dugouts in the snow to they didn’t freeze to death, I guess)

DIRECTIONS:

Cook meat on both sides in heavy frying pan until crisp. Remove from pan and keep warm.

Measure fat and return desired amount to skillet on a medium heat.

Add flour and brown slightly.

Remove from heat and add milk, stirring well to blend.

Return to heat and cook and stir until mixture is thick and smooth. Season to taste.

Serve with side pork on potatoes, biscuits, cornbread, or eat out of the pan. With a ladle. Or a turkey baster.

Gravy is just fat, thickener, liquid and spice. How you can f*&k it up is by burning the fat, not taking it off the heat fast enough after adding the thickener so it starts to clump which then makes it harder to blend into the liquid – which, btw, you should mix as fast as your litle wrists can go,. making sure you're getting all the bits from the bottom but not scraping the bottom. Mormon pioneers did not like things scraping their bottoms. Hence the special underwear.

Enjoy!

[letshavepunsoffun]

Btw, you are cute. Also, I now ship this anon with Us Alphys. Expect fanart and fanfictions.

I hope things get better for you, mate. Everyone deserves to be happy and live comfortably with themselves, including you. Don’t be hard on yourself, especially not in those situations. Just go about your life the way you want to, and as long as you’re not hurting someone (including yourself), no one has the right to judge you for it. Not even blood-relatives. And if they do judge you, then let them. If someone is low enough of a human being to discredit someone else’s feelings on their own gender, then just remember they probably won’t get anywhere in life without a smack in the face from someone a lot less kind than you. <3 Good luck, bab.

....You know... My neighborhood is actually a pretty scary one. And I don’t mean that as in, “It’s dangerous here because there are drug dealers and murders!” No, no... My neighborhood is rather good on that front. I mean people have literally vanished. Not a single trace of them left behind. The house next to me, the side the weed was growing on, there was an entire family there when we moved into this house. And like 4 or so years ago, the entire family was gone. They left every belonging in the house. Their animals were trapped inside. They even left breakfast on the table. Their car was still in the driveway, too. So they didn’t just drive away. One of the family members was this little girl in a wheelchair. They had just put in a ramp up to the front porch about a month before they vanished. No one knows where they went. There have been police out here, animal control, reapo... You name it. When one of those groups (I think it was animal control first...??) l finally got a warrant to go inside the house, half of the animals inside were dead and melted into the carpet from decay. What was left of them, I mean. Some of their bodies had been eaten by the other animals. About a year later, the house across from mine finished installing a wooden gate around their backyard. I remember this family because their kids were super loud, 24/7. But one day, after the fence was installed, it suddenly got really quiet. I hadn’t heard the kids for about a month. There was no “For Sale” sign, no moving vans. The cars in the driveway never left. Eventually I heard some people in our neighborhood talking about how that family vanished. Just like the family next to my house. Now... It’s not just those two houses with the families disappearing that is going on in my neighborhood. My neighbors, on the other side of my house from the vanished ones, have had several people come to them and say they’ve seen someone lurking around their yard in the middle of the night and before the sun rises. THAT one, I’ve actually seen myself. I was in 9th grade-- the reason I remember that is because I walked to school in 9th grade. Anyway, when I was about to get to the big, overgrown fence between me and my neighbors, I saw someone walk out from behind the fence and stand on the sidewalk about 20 feet away from me. And usually, it doesn’t bother me when someone is walking outside, before the sun rises, around me. People do it all the time in my neighborhood. But this was different. I was so scared that I completely stopped walking and just stared. The guy was almost completely shadowed over. But I could make out an outfit that I would recognize in an instant. I used to re-enact wars from American history. Revolutionary war, natives vs settlers, pirates vs settlers... and the civil war. So, I live in Kentucky. One of the states that was torn between the Union and the Confederacy during the majority of the war. The reason that’s important, is because I knew immediately that the man was wearing a Union uniform from the civil war. So I ran back to my house and told my dad, who was standing at the front door. When I went back to the fence, the man was gone. Now... my house has it’s own very confusing story to it. It’s a lot more than me just making a post every now and then saying, “The bathroom door just closed by itself” or posting a picture of someone possibly standing in the hallway. But this post is long enough. I should probably make a separate post about my house and all the dealings going on with it. ANYWAY. The reason I went off on this ramble about my haunted and scary neighborhood, was SOLELY to say that if my neighbors planted weed in their yard, they would have had to have done it quite a while back, because no one has lived there since that family disappeared. :) .... I’m good at getting to the point, right?

Yes. I am made of stardust. As are you. We all are. Science is cool, yes? Anyhoo, thank you for these wonderful asks, babs. <3 I love you guys too. and while I won’t send them to 10 people I love, I will virtually hug everyone who wants one, lol. Sorry. ^^’ I don’t usually send chain messages, positive or negative ones. Though I do appreciate them. :)