#call me maghrebi call me an arab call me moroccan I still have more knowledge than you

[mchiti]

instead of writing my thesis i'm having a fight with WHITE french people under an instagram post. Yarab help me because you can't win with them. The post was basically one french actor from the 50s talking and one french lady commented "he speaks so differently than today". So another user asked what's different, and she replied "old-fashioned, well mannered, nowadays french is tainted by arabic slangs". Of course languages evolve but out of all the explanations karen could have given us she had to complain about arabic influences. lmao. What MADDENS me more than anything is when they bring languages into it like you don't understand I'm not getting this degree for nothing.

So I said to this french karen: sis, change is inevitable. LANGUAGE CHANGE. The whole idea of purity is utter bullshit because languages change all the time, where is the purity coming from? All neo-latin languages like french, italian, spanish, do you know why they were born? BECAUSE LATIN ITSELF CHANGED. The latin they teach you at school when you study Cicero and all that - that's latin from the "golden age" of latin literature. It lasted like, 2 centuries. It was different before and it changed after. And after the fall of the roman empire - just imagine a whole empire falling down - of course latin was bound to change more rapidly: because with the falling of the roman empire you didn't have a stable school system anymore, or stable institutions. + the germans started coming, especially in france. LIKE FRANCE CHANGED ITS OWN NAME it's literally called "land of the franks" who were germans btw. it is the most germanic-influenced language out of the neo-latin languages (which is also the reason it's more distant than italian/spanish/portuguese). French, like Italian and spanish etc, come from a "tainted" latin from the middle ages - irregular, unstable, very distant from the norm, full of errors to the point if you look at latin written documents between the V and the VII centuries they don't even make sense, and that's because orally it was evolving into something else: romance languages.

Like imagine talking about purity for european languages who were born out of a very unstable, poor in lexicon and grammar latin spoken by "commoners". And by the way YOU went to colonise north africa. moroccan darija is considered hard to understand by other arabic speakers because it also has a lot of french influences. We should be the one complaining lmaooo

[sissa-arrows]

Me: *watching Arabs hate on colonialism and display anti-colonialism arguments while eating dinner*

Me: *wipe my mouth*

Me: so what is your stance on Western Sahaara?

(aka me waiting for ppl to show up and call u out on Fitna because they choose selective eyesight and hearing, so i can say once again beli machi Rjal)

Too many Arabs (especially the Maghrebi diaspora in France) think that way… and a lot of them will condemn Saudi Arabia or Qatar so it’s not even about Arab solidarity or whatever. They really have a blind spot when it comes to Western Sahara. In the diaspora it’s often a way to look united. The amount of times I saw people going “they already hate us so we shouldn’t be divided”

I do think being in the diaspora especially in a country as hostile as France means that we have to fight differently but it doesn’t mean putting aside our principles. It means we have to be careful about not accepting support from people who are not anti Moroccan colonialism because they hate colonialism but rather because they hate Arabs. The ones who say Free Western Sahara but won’t acknowledge the role the West especially Spain and France play in the colonization of Western Sahara (without support from the West, Morocco wouldn’t be able to sustain the situation)

That being said I personally only meet this type of people online. In real life the situation is more likely to be “What is Western Sahara?” than “I stand with Morocco”.

And the accusations of fitna get on my nerves. If they wanna get all religious on us please enlighten us how is that fitna to defend our Muslim siblings in Western Sahara but it’s not fitna to colonize, kill, torture and rape them? (While using the same Israeli drones who are used to kill Palestinians).

When Ben Bella (Allah yarhmou) said to the Organisation of African Unity “We fought for 7 years and a half against the most obstinate imperialism that could exist. We have no right to think about ourselves when people are still falling in South Africa, Angola and Mozambique.” He was right and he mentioned only African countries because it was about African unity but it applies to all struggles against colonialism and imperialism. Some Arabs will claim the Algerian victory against colonialism as an Arab victory (it was an Algerian victory not an Arab one not even an Imazighen one) and then turn around and be surprised when the grand children of those who fought and lost their lives stand against colonialism today.

(I’m not going to mention the Arab leaders they are sell outs to my knowledge Tebboune is the only one who stands firmly with the Sahrawi people.)