#fuck ethnonationalists

[umeji-imeji]

Ink study on Welcome to Demon school! Iruma-kun (volume 33, chapter 291) by Osamu Nishi Well, this took a while! Honestly I despise Narnia's ideas, but I wanted to draw him so badly - with this prompt I had no choice

[sforzesco]

hey! hi! the cartoonist cooperative has an e-sim drive for gaza, offering art for e-sim donations (instructions etc in the link)

[bijoumikhawal]

I would like one (1) YouTuber who talks about anthropology and comparative religion in Europe to be not a fucking racist, not even a little for the love of g-d

[weasel-the-scout]

Next year, in Palestine.

[butchlifeguard]

you, article writer for dazed! are you normal about disabled people?

[determinate-negation]

every news article about the idfs military strategy right now (or really just lack of any legitimate military strategy) and their vindictive sadistic attacks on civilians because theyre failing at fighting a guerilla army shows that theyre operating like the fucking einsatzgruppen but no you cant say that its gonna make some brainwashed ethnonationalist feel uncomfortable

[irhabiya]

genuinely so tired of seeing this bullshit from israelis who don't know how to do a single thing but victimize themselves. yes, you're a bad person for living on occupied palestinian land and benefiting from apartheid if you have the means to leave. boo fucking hoo everyone thinks you should be ashamed of being a colonizer and an ethnonationalist pig, am i supposed to be sympathetic to you.

you're even more of a disgusting piece of shit for bothering palestinians with this garbage as they watch their people get slaughtered by the thousands

[spaghettioverdose]

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Omg how do people on this site like communism! I read somewhere that communists eat babies!!

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It's true my grandfather died opposing the soviets in the war 😡

He fought for liberty and freedom

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Communists persecuted my family for no reason

They took our home and our farm

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Omg that's so fucked up what the fuck

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Communists are literally so fucking evil they literally kill you and eat your baby

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Communists do not eat babies. This myth has been disproven several times including by anticommunist sources. It originated from like 3 nazi groups, two CIA agents and some weird ethnonationalist cultist.

[Several paragraphs of quotes and citations from relevant papers and articles from both communist and liberal sources and even one where the US very clearly admits to lying about communists eating babies]

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[Links to a series of articles that cite other articles that cite three nazi groups two CIA agents and one ethnonationalist cultist and also like a link to one guy with a youtube channel with 700 subscribers]

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Why do you literally love putin you tankie

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YOU CANNOT HIDE THIS IN THE TAGS ASDGHGS

[Screenshot of "#clink clank here comes the tank"]

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[genlosscharliie]

just saw someone compare rojava to israel i'm going to start killing

everytime someone calls the aanes a u.s. base an angel loses its wings

[noandpickles]

Can we talk about Across the Spider-Verse as a metaphor for immigration policing?

First, we have the watches. A pass that lets you cross borders that were previously immutable. They (and the little electrostatic wristbands) also prevent you from being constantly penalized (i.e., glitching) for being in the wrong dimension. But access is heavily controlled by a central authority that's obsessed with making sure that, with few exceptions, everyone stays where they started. (Hobie instantly challenges this structure from pretty much the moment he appears on screen. Want a watch? Make your own. Fuck these assholes who try to control free movement.)

Then, we have the Go Home Machine. A device (or creature??) that reads your DNA to figure out where to send you. That description instantly set me on edge. It sounds like an ethnonationalist's dream. Everybody ends up where their genes are "from" (however you define that, whatever arbitrary point in history you choose to define people's "true origin"), regardless of where they want to be or where they actually live.

And then we have Miles. Miles, the New Yorker with Puerto Rican and African ancestry. Miles, born and raised on Earth-1610 but with traces of Earth-42 in his DNA. He had every reason to expect the Go Home Machine would send him home. But based on something in his genes that has nothing to do with where his home actually is, it sent him to a place he'd never been. And that's not a glitch in that kind of system. That's exactly what it's designed to do.

[soup-mother]

youtube you literally could not fucking force me to watch some fucking seppo cops LARP ethnonationalists if you put a gun to my head

[the-cornuthaum]

It's really nice of Babel to confirm basically every negative preconception I had of Theresis.

The man started undermining his sister's every effort decades - decades - ahead of the civil war because he could not stop dickriding his revanchist hard man rhethoric for a single fucking second, and then treats it all as a Very Mature Tragic Sacrifice he has to make.

He's completely sincere about it, which I appreciate greatly, because I hate the hollow hypocrisy ethnonationalist revanchists are usually ascribed in fiction. He's completely sincere about everything he says and does because from his PoV it is a very mature tragic sacrifice he must make for what he considers the good of all Sarkaz, but it built on him directly, and immediately, reneging his promise to Theresa to actually give her time to work.

I just hope that come Chapter 14/15, he does not actually survive the end of this arc and gets the gentle, quiet rest that Theresa and Amiya represent. Please, HG. Don't put him in a hole for future developments like Talulah and Kaschey, but actually cut that thread for good. Six feet under, as they say.

[socialistexan]

I legitimately just saw someone say - in response to someone saying they are uninformed on Palestine and need to make sure they get the right information before saying their opinion publicly so as to avoid spreading misinformation (which is a good thing!) - "well, all you have to do is just scroll on tiktok and you'll learn everything you need to know about Israel Palestine."

What in the holy g-d damn hell are you fucking talking about?!

You can learn everything you need to learn about Israel-Palestine by just scrolling on tiktok?! Are y'all fucking okay, dude? Are you that fucking online?! That's beyond parody level.

I spent an entire college-level course studying it (from a Jewish pro-Palestine professor) and I barely scratched the surface of it all. I went in with a pretty soft prospective of lets just all get along, and coming out the other side of it knowing so much more on the Zionist prospective and the whos and how's and whys and still ended up adamantly pro-Palestine. But also feeling like I was still wanting for information, for prospective, for ways of convincing people through understanding. I also am now armed with a deep mistrust.

It is good to stand up against genocide. It is bad to spread misinformation that may help the case of those commiting genocide. It is also bad to support theocratic ethnonationalists! Sometimes a thing as simple as being against genocide (we all should be but sadly here we fucking are) requires even the most minute amount of time to think things through and look into things as much as you can to avoid fucking up

A simple answer and simple actions that are guided by you wanting something to be true can be so comforting. This side is the good side, only good thing and true things come from this side, and them? They're the bad ones, only bad and false things come from them. That's just impossible.

Learning to keep your mouth shut when you don't have an informed enough opinion to feel comfortable to publicly speak on them is a skill that I wish more people had.

"Scrolling through tiktok will teach you every thing you need to know about Israel Palestine." Absurd. That one is going to live in my brain for a long fucking time.

[hussyknee]

it’s rare to find a sinhalese person (online atleast) who is supportive of tamil self-determination. genuine question: among leftist circles in sri lanka, how common is such a stance?

I don't know whether I'm a reliable source to answer this question because I'm very jaded about this in general. A couple of days ago, someone on the Sri Lanka Reddit started up discourse about Maitreyi Ramakrishnan's choice to reject identifying with the country that tried to genocide her people, which I'm still chewing wire about. I'm a very isolated person with a very small social circle of like-minded leftist friends. They're mostly not SinBud and anti SinBud nonsense, but none of them are Tamil and I'm the one who really convinced them about Eelam I think. The people I learned from, who are out there doing the work of building inter-ethnic dialogue and overturning Sinhalese propaganda, might have a more hopeful view.

Thing is, there's no one "leftist" faction here because "left" doesn't mean the same thing as it does in the West. The Rajapaksas' party SLPP is socialist, a legacy of the SLFP that they branched off from, who was the party aligned with the USSR. They and their voters and their saffron terror acolytes (Buddhist priesthood) are all for public infrastructure they can rob blind and central government they can use to crush minorities, and build on the nationalist fervour of genocidal Sinhalese Buddhism that's served both major parties independence. There's quasi-communists, descendants of the ethnonationalist Marxist JVP that rose in opposition to the class corruption of ethnonationalist USSR-aligned socialist SLFP and enthonationalist US-aligned neoliberal UNP. The current JVP party itself is no longer communist; their coalition the NPP are mostly just very pro-union social democrats, and they've since distanced themselves from their ethnic myopia, possibly due to suffering much of the same state terrorism as minorities via militarisation and policies like the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). They're the most vocal about the abolition of the executive presidency, the removal of all martial law mechanisms and the PTA, defunding of military and police, and restructuring and executing the long-mismanaged socialist infrastructure. These are usually the working class and university students, but their base has been growing in other demographics too, since we "held our noses and voted" for the Yahapalana government in 2015 and it ended up fucking us over. But despite their sympathy with the suffering of Tamils and Muslims and favouring the devolution of power, most still cling to the idea that Sinhalese majoritarianism is a fair result of democracy.

The kind of pro-LGBT, anti-racist, feminist liberals that would pass muster with the western left otoh, are a minority of urban, English-speaking middle class. The younger of this crowd is increasingly favouring the aforementioned NPP (that is rapidly marrying the economic left with the social consciousness led by western dialogues that go against their traditional rural working class base), but that is very new and hampered by decades of Red Scare propaganda. The minority communities and the urban liberals traditionally vote for the current neoliberal party, that has distanced itself from their virulent nationalism over the last thirty years and basically modelled itself after the US Democrats (diet right-wing as opposed to nuclear right-wing) Their idea of reducing corruption and increasing efficiency is privatizing everything, makes the right pro-feminist and pro-LGBT noises, and coasts on the minority votes on the promise of never actively feeding ethnosupremacy, even if they won't do anything about it either. The Sinhalese affiliated with this party are deeply uncomfortable with if not entirely resistant to the idea that the North and East are Tamil lands colonized by the Sinhalese. Just like the quasi-communists, urban liberals are aware of the corruption and complicity of the Buddhist priesthood in ethnofascism and are prepared to do exactly as much nothing about it.

What I'm trying to say is that Sinhalese Buddhist ethnosupremacy is baked in to the Sri Lankan political fabric. "Left" means jack shit when it comes to whether Tamils have rights, in much the same way that the western left agrees on everything except Palestine. It's a political no man's land everyone tries not to look at.

The fundamental problem is that Sinhalese people who know enough about 1958, 1983, or the full scope of genocide perpetrated against Tamils during the last push of the war, let alone all 26 years of it, are very much in the minority. It takes a particular education to understand that "Sri Lanka" is a post-colonial invention that took over from "Ceylon", which was nothing but a construct for the ease of British administration. As far as I know, this education is confined to activist organizations and whoever followed my sociology program. So my kind of anarchist leftism that calls the war a Tamil genocide with their whole chest, calls the priesthood saffron terrorists, and recognises Eelam, is vanishingly small, afaik.

To be honest, I never really questioned the propaganda and narrative we've been spoon fed myself until I went to Canada when I was 23 to complete my anthro degree (became disabled and dropped out after). One thing that struck me was how racist the Sinhalese diaspora was. I was raised SinBud, my school didn't admit any non-Sinhalese, half my uncles were in the military, but these people that had left the country decades ago still hated Tamils and Muslims in a way that nobody else I knew did. I wondered whether this was what it had been like when it had all started; whether this hatred that seemed to have been preserved in amber was a true taste of what had ignited Black July. Suddenly the attitude of the Tamil diaspora towards the Sri Lankan government and Sinhalese people didn't seem so unreasonable.

Then, later in the same uni term, I went to an art exhibition of a white artist who travelled the world collecting information about their genocides and made art about them, and found a painting depicting Sri Lankan Tamils in 2008. Promptly had a meltdown. Went to the lady and told her tearfully that it was all propaganda, we didn't really hate Tamils, not even my uncles in the army hated Tamils, it was a war, the LTTE had terrorized us for my whole lifetime. Bless the woman, she didn't fight me, just let me cry at her and patted my hand and pretended to take me seriously. This made it easier for me to really think about what I knew once I'd stopped wailing and stamping. It prompted a years-long self-interrogation and fact finding that made me unearth how much brainwashing had been done to us by everyone, from our families to our school textbooks to news media. It's like the air we breathed was propaganda. And I still didn't know a fraction of what life had been like for Tamils (or Muslims) and the scope of atrocities perpetrated by the Sinhalese until I began my Society and Culture degree at the Open University when I was 30. The first year textbooks were only broadstrokes facts, but at last I found out about Gnananth Obeysekera, Prageeth Jeganathan, Stanley Thambaiya, Malithi DeAlwis. Their work on nation-making, ethnicity, historical revisionism, genocide and ethnic conflict and state terrorism...everything I should have been taught as a child. The chapters on the rapes and murders and shelling and war crimes and IDP camps were..indescribable. That was what properly radicalised me about Tamil self-sovereignty, because there's clearly no possible way the Tamil people will ever be safe and safeguarded under a Sinhalese majoritarian government.

I had to drop out of that programme too because of my health. But during the mass protests against the government in 2022, I learned even more about Tamil indigeneity, the extent of JR Jayawardena's crimes, and the persecution of Marxists and victims of the '71 and '89 insurrections. So much of the protests and their encampments were directed and galvanized by social media, that organised online and in-person lectures, teach-outs, and live discussions that anyone and everyone could attend right alongside the protests. I've never seen that kind of truly democratized, free, egalitarian civic education and discourse before. That was the very first time I saw academics, survivors, refugees and human rights activists being given a respectful platform, the masses hearing firsthand accounts from people of the North and East and witnesses of Black July. April to July 2022 was a truly golden bubble of time where I saw people finally start listening, believing, and challenging all their convictions. It was the closest we ever came to realising the hope that things could be different; that we could, as a society, understand how Sinhalese ethnosupremacy had been the black rot killing this country from the first, stop being racist Sinhala-first cunts and actually hold any of these murderers accountable.

Teach us to hope, I guess.

But I suppose it's no small thing that I learned about the Tamil resistance and struggle and taught all my friends about it. I'm sure they're informing their own circles in small ways too. These tendrils are hard to see, but they exist and grow. Especially with the fall of the Rajapaksas and their Bhaiyya contingent, more people can see ethnosupremacy for the grift that it is, and the younger generations are less defensive, more willing to listen and eager for justice and change. So I guess the answer is: not very common, but less uncommon than it used to be.

[determinate-negation]

genuinely insane to me how like… i’ll see black activists and muslims go to huge efforts to defeat reactionary ideologies in their communities and then watch as self-described anti-zionist jews make excuses for ethnonationalist genocidal fear-mongering in our own. absolutely zero self-awareness or reflection.

yeah its really fucking annoying and theres this attitude even from some self professed anti zionists where they believe anyone supporting palestine is suspect of antisemitism and have to go to the utmost lengths prove that there not antisemitic but they have absolutely zero interest in proving to people that theyre not racist or islamophobic and will be offended if it was ever implied 👍👍

[metamatar]

wasn't meant as a critique BTW, I don't think this is something I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to critique others on, just as you guessed I see you talk a lot about the cynical use of anti colonial language to defend religious institutions and reactionary social beliefs in India particularly that I assumed you would not be particularly sympathetic to the framing of 'indigenous spiritual and emotional wisdom' in contrast to 'material wisdom'.

I'm very hostile to that framing! I don't think indigenous knowledge production is purely non material. Its relegation to the purely spiritual and emotional realms is buying into racism. And this rhetorical division is a move made by both the white racists and the homegrown blood and soil ethnonationalists. I think Balamurji Natarajan also makes this point about caste; where its material logics are obscured and its "culturalized" to provide it an immunity to critique. There's an understandable desire I see to retreat entirely from decoloniality as a paradigm, and look I get it, if a field valorises people like Gayatri Spivak you want to say fuck subaltern studies. But I think even people with strong universalist and marxist impulses like me have a lot to pick up from here from the left side of the field.