#decolonize hawaii

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

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Just for fun...

There's a weird Noble Savage idealism which verges on a fetish, a perception that primitive peoples were all peaceful and harmonious... until European people came along.

But it isn't true. Look at your likelihood of dying a violent death in tribal societies.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2013/05/the-long-bloody-history-of-aboriginal-violence/

The long history of Aboriginal violence — Part II

TRIBAL warfare and paybacks were endemic. In "Journey to Horseshoe Bend", anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow described a black-on-black massacre in 1875 in the Finke River area of Central Australia, triggered by a perceived sacrilege:

"The warriors turned their murderous attention to the women and older children and either clubbed or speared them to death. Finally, according to the grim custom of warriors and avengers they broke the limbs of the infants, leaving them to die ‘natural deaths’. The final number of the dead could well have reached the high figure of 80 to 100 men, women and children."

Revenge killings by the victims’ clan involved more than 60 people, with the two exchanges accounting for about 20% of members of the two clans. (When Pauline Hanson, then member for Oxley, quoted this account in 1996, an Aboriginal woman elder replied, "Mrs Hanson should receive a traditional Urgarapul punishment: having her hands and feet crippled.")

Escaped convict William Buckley, who lived for three decades with tribes around Port Phillip, recounted constant raids, ambushes, and small battles, typically involving one to three fatalities. He noted the Watouronga of Geelong in night raids ‘destroyed without mercy men, women and children.’

Historian Geoff Blainey concluded that annual death rates from North-East Arnhem Land and Port Philip, were comparable with countries involved in the two world wars, although Blainey’s estimate could be somewhat on the high side.

Other black-on-black massacres include accounts from anthropologist Bill Stanner of an entire camp massacre, an Aurukun massacre in the early 20th century, Strehlow’s account of the wiping out of the Plenty River local group of Udebatara in Central Australia, and the killing of a large group of men, women and children near Mt Eba, also in Central Australia.

Strehlow’s wife Kathleen Strehlow wrote:

“It would be no exaggeration to say that the system worked as one of sheer terror in the days before the white man came. This terror was instilled from earliest childhood and continued unabated through life until the extremity of old age seemed to guarantee some immunity from the attentions of blood avenger or sorcerer alike for wrongs real or imaginary…children were not exempted from capital punishment for persistent offences against the old tribal code.”

The Murngin (now Yolngu) in NE Arnhem Land during 1920s practiced a deadly warfare that placed it among the world’s most lethal societies. The then-rate for homicides of 330 per 100,000 (which Jarrett suggests could be grossly under-estimated) was 15 times the 2006-07 "very remote national Indigenous rate" of 22, and 300 times the 2006-7 national non-Indigenous rate. That Murngin rate was worse than in Mexico’s present Ciudad Juarez drug capital (300 homicides per 100,000), and more than three times worse than the worst national current rate (Honduras).

And they didn't even have to kill.

http://hawaii-guide.info/past.and.present/history/tahitian.takeover/

Hawaii Tahitian Takeover

Around 1000 A.D., Tahitians from the islands of Ra’iatea, Bora Bora, and Huahine arrived in Hawaii. With their larger statures, they easily overpowered the islands’ inhabitants, descendants of Polynesian settlers that had arrived several hundred years prior.

Although the Tahitians didn’t slaughter the natives, they reduced them to commoners, calling them menehune (an insult meaning “people of small status”) and imposed their own political system and customs on them.

The people who are purported to be Hawaii's "indigenous" or "first nations" or "first peoples" aren't. They're invaders, colonizers and occupiers who arrived second, subjugated the people who were already there and made them second-class citizens.

[artistwalkswithcolor]

Oh this pisses me off 😡

[deancaslover]

No one asked but I hate that Jensen is playing golf in Hawaii. Golf. In Hawaii. After what happened last year.

Decolonize Hawaii.

[radicalgraff]

Anti-militarist poster in Honolulu, Hawaii denouncing RIMPAC (The Rim of the Pacific Exercise), the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. RIMPAC is held biennially during June and July from Honolulu.

[autisticexpression2]

Ordinary settlers who have lived their entire lives on stolen land might be a bit nervous about indigenous repatriation. If you are one of those people, I recommend looking up Anglo-Indians.

You've probably wondered, "What happens to the people who just live here when the indigenous people get their land back?" The answer is pretty much nothing. Decolonization is about giving ownership of the land back to the indigenous government. It's not about displacing ordinary families who are just making ends meet. Displacing people from their homes is a big part of what made colonialism evil in the first place, and most indigenous people aren't interested in repaying evil with evil.

[frobby]

it's kinda crazy to me that some people can't fathom.....no going to hawai'i. Like they're telling you not to go there's a billion other places to go why would you vacation in hawai'i if the native people tell you not to??? Hawaiians telling you to not vacation in hawai'i like someone telling you to not come into their private house like they might have cool stuff in there but it's their fuckingg house. STOP FUCKING GOING TO HAWAI'I VACATION SOMEWHERE ELSE MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!!!

[quasi-normalcy]

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[houseofpurplestars]

Who will unruin this generation

[dougielombax]

Anyone who thinks it’s okay or somehow right to deny a people their right to any form of self determination can fuck right off and get in the sun!

Whether it’s regarding the Palestinians, Assyrians, Kurds, Tibetans, Circassians, Basques, Hawaiians, Welsh, Bretons, Talysh or any other people groups out there who I haven’t mentioned or recalled.

Including those who already have self-determination as well.

Anyone who thinks it’s okay to deny a people the right to any representation or to govern themselves is a dangerous idiot at best and a bumbrained fascist at worst.

No matter how they might try and justify it.

[paddy-garcia-70]

[tominnepics]

[fortressofserenity]

My ideal Philippines

I admit wishing a lot for nearly days and from time to time to cope with the Philippines becoming heavily sinicised in the future, as well as influenced by its other neighbours like Indonesia and Vietnam because I actually don't like how westernised this country is. I don't think it's a good sign because it makes us stand out like a sore thumb, that I feel we're too cut off from our neighbours for our own good.

It's changing but it seems the only major Asian influence most Filipinos are open to is South Korea, not so much with China due to our mistrust of this country. Ditto Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia even though it would be cooler if we did open up more to these four, perhaps five if you include Myanmar but it's the same outcome that I'd like to see the Philippines get subjected to.

This is the decolonisation that I want for the Philippines to have, something that's truly free from western influence and culture. A Philippines where it's not uncommon to find Filipinos with Tagalog names, a Philippines that's culturally closer to the east than west. I don't think it's a good thing for the Philippines to always look westward, when it's actually more convenient to look to one's closest neighbours more.

We're nothing but a nation of American sympathisers, despite America's own faults like its ruthless colonisation of Hawaii. Hawaii was once an independent nation in the Pacific Ocean, but got subjected to western control over time. That not a lot of Filipinos are this critical of western neocolonialism is a bad indicator of where the Philippines is at: too content with the west to do anything about.

[freehawaii]

SEEN YESTERDAY ON FREE HAWAI`I TV

[radicalgraff]

"Decolonize Hawaii"

Seen in Chinatown, Honolulu

[bipheonyx]

RE READ Babel just now and still wondering why this book has not had the world by a chokehold when it came out and ESPECIALLY now during a Genocide, when the descendant shadows and monsters of colonialism linger on and take the form of zionazi bodies with their claws deep in the Land of Palestine and the Empire remains now in a different flavor of whiteness, in Sudan, the Congo and Tigray, In Kashmir, in Burma, in Turtle Island, In Uighur/East Turkistan and Kalaallit Nunaat and Hawaii. In the hearts and lineages of all the colonized people and their children.

May we all learn, embrace and resist. Violent if it must be, for valid it is.

The struggle to decolonization continues.