#get fucking indigenous with it !!!!!!!!!!
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babykittenteach · 2 months ago
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No but fr having an indigenous family broken up for its own good by the state and one of them leave her homeland to go get a Real Education is not just counter to the original story's characterization, it's not just erasing the colonialism commentary for the sake of failed feminism presumably based on the girlboss objection to portraying women as caretakers and the classist objection to blue collar jobs, it is an act of colonialism.
It is in fact so ridiculously an act of colonialism that it should come off as such to anybody able to think about media critically for a few moments, but to anybody familiar with what the US did to many indigenous peoples via the faux benevolence of boarding schools, including to native hawaiians, it's fucking revolting.
Like, shoutout to removing Pleakley's gender exploration, to removing the cop villain in lieu of just having the mad scientist remain one, to removing some of Cobra Bubbles's nuance, to removing commentary on race and colonialism, etc etc, but mainly: this did a colonialism.
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hilacopter · 2 months ago
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Setting 2 coexisting facts straight:
- The Palestinian as a distinct Arab identity was largely formed as a response to the establishment of Medinat Yisrael in an effort to justify destroying it, cleansing the Jews and painting Palestinian Arabs as the only true indigenous people to the region. Both Jews and Arabs living here used to be called Palestinians at large, Palestina and Eretz Yisrael were interchangeable names.
- Palestinians as they are now known have been living in the Levant for literal millennia and cleansing or expelling them would be just as unjustified of doing so to the Jews or any other indigenous population of the region and they deserve self determination, label or not.
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hearthfire-heartfire · 5 months ago
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no one on the english-speaking side of this site gives a fuck about japanese people except as paper dolls in their fantasies. y’all don’t notice or care when we’re targets of violence in america STILL and you don’t notice when our history on this continent is being erased because you can’t fucking recognize it in the first place! even as we relive it.
i’m tired of the gentrification. i’m tired of vandalism, arson, and censorship. i’m tired of arguing about the atrocity of the a-bombs and the incarceration and model minority shit. i’m tired of people using my heritage as an escape, both in imagination and in physical reality. i’m tired of people’s fake familiarity that leads them to correct my grandmother’s accent coming out of my mouth.
if you don’t show up for nikkei where you live, if you don’t even know how, you don’t belong anywhere near japanese culture.
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crimsonphantasmagoria · 6 months ago
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I think they decided to quietly retcon the idea of vallaslin as slave markings in Veilguard. I don't think it gets mentioned even once. We never see any Dalish characters respond to that or grapple with what that might mean to them. This was revealed 10 years ago, the news should have spread by now! We also never see Solas depicted with vallaslin, despite the fact that Cole implies that he did have Mythal’s at one point. I feel like that would cast a very different light on their relationship if that was ever actually addressed...
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thatneoncrisis · 4 months ago
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re whitewashing in tlt spaces. i feel like id be way more chill with seeing lighter toned harrow, bc at the end of the day she IS lightskinned you can just look at the cover of nona and that whole "skin the color egg carton" this is like. fanciful and kind of strange if your mind goes to the white or grey ones but like
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absolutely within the range of human skin tones. its tan but its not like a dark chocolate brown. gives you enough to work with. but on top of just making harrow incredibly pale a lot of the time she is just. drawn like a white girl. just zero indication that she isnt entirely pakeha let alone maori if you didnt already have that info in your back pocket.
and so much shit contributes to this its tazs descriptions in the book just focusing on how pointy and scrawny she is, its fanartists not really getting the nuances of how to draw poc outside of "white person" and "black person", its the fact that irl maori obviously have a vast array of different ways they can look and some of them can be white passing and that doesnt make them less maori, its that fact coming into conflict where in a book if you have a main character you say is maori but is lightskinned, white passing and has zero connection to maori culture, language, and wasnt even born on earth and its been 10000 years since that particular ethnic group has even existed. what does that mean. how would the text change if she was just pakeha
#im zeroing in on harrow bc like#gideon has a connection to her father who like. was straight up born in new zealand#out the gate he gave her a maori name when he claimed her as his daughter its like relevant to whats going on#re john being an indigenous character who like. did an extinction event#he is directly responsible to the eradication of his own culture everyone in the empire speaks english!#if they werent then gideons name would have already been kiriona no need to translate!#its kind of horrifying in an interesting way that the only shit he thought was worth preserving And sharing with everyone was like#neoclassicism. but with more bones and biblical allegories#its all just greece and rome all the way down the only thing his daughter gets is a name its so. GAH. FROTHING AT THE MOUTH#and then the camera pans to harrow and its like. well this affects her too right. this affects everyone if shes also maori then shes also#been denied her heritage her language her people her customs they jsut dont fucking exist#and then on top of that shes canonically light skinned and there can be#nebulous arguments made for her being white passing or racially ambigiuos. the artist for the covers takes liberties i genuinely dont think#harrow looks like how he drew nona. that is a different girl. even if we get rid of the smile#i dont think this is like a condemnation of the text or the author or even the fans really#but its like. god imagine if this angle about being maori as an active identity was like. in the books. at all#its like how the books have gay poeple but the queer angle is all necrocav shit gideon being a lesbian isnt like. revolutionary#thats not why her attachment to harrow is like. interesting or nuanced.
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wittyworm · 1 year ago
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Going to be making stickers and posters and spreading this around my town hopefully soon. the green square is going to have a QR code that will have a bunch of resources and ways to help. Iv gathered some of my own but if anyone has resources they think would be helpful or have suggestions on ways to best do this (its just me and my sister) id really appreciate the help.
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zhooniyaa-waagosh · 2 years ago
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Seeing a lot of truly vile takes on indigeneity from non-indigenous people being antisemitic and I personally think I should be able to attack all of them with my teeth.
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marklikely · 1 month ago
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maybe the lilo and stitch ending is actually just a marketing gimmick. in which case it worked bc my cousin and i are already looking up cam rips to watch since we cannot believe they would actually have nani give lilo up to go to college
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dimmadoome · 1 year ago
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Now that Biden has proven that he was willing to listen to yall and step down....are you going to vote for Kamala Harris or are we just going to slide further and further into fascism because you personally are to uncaring to actually try to help the thousands of POC and trans people who will die if the Republicans take office?
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comradekarin · 1 year ago
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when you’re in a “shipping random white m|m/w|m ships to spite the bwwm ship” and your competition is every fandom ever like you guys fucking suck lmaoooo suddenly it’s no chemistry! heteronormativity! he’s gay and she’s a lesbian! platonic only! poor acting! she is an independent woman! even the elite ships aren’t safe for as soon as the girl looks physically different than their (usually book) canon counterpart, the people are up in arms. like suck my dick
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ladyimaginarium · 1 month ago
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britcision · 1 month ago
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Anyone who ever tries to justify voting conservative because of Gaza to me ever again is going to get a goddamn earful about the active and ongoing genocide here in fucking Canada
That the conservatives especially are trying to pretend never happened and certainly never needs to be mentioned or taught
I have friends who were involved in the 60s scoop court cases. It wasn’t “a long time ago”, it happened and happens to people who are still alive and kicking today
It’s called the “60s” for the alliteration but it covered the mass stealing of Indigenous children from 1951 to 1991
The fucking NINETIES
Because yes, we should all support the Palestinians and do all we can to make it stop
But we’ve got genocide at home
And that has to matter too
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elkkiel · 1 month ago
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kinda realizing I don't know jack shit about Canadian queer history????? I've only ever learned about it from an American lens and I don't think I could name a single Canadian queer activist. guess I've got my Pride Month Queer Enrichment Activities™ decided then lol
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mothcrumbs · 16 hours ago
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starting to realize mom had a super weird life
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prissyprince · 2 months ago
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I actually had barely touched v5 until we started planning out the game.
And yeah, ok, I feel the hate now.
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milo-by-the-fishtank · 1 month ago
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I’m very accepting of almost every religion, except Mormonism, I could never fucking accept Mormonism. Like unironically, if I was friends with somebody and then they turned out to be Mormon, there’s like a 50-50 possibility that I would stop being friends with them. I can’t even say it’s less about the religion itself, because I’ve actually peaked my nose into the Book of Mormon, and holy fuck guys. Then on top of that all the weird fucking shit that the LDS church has done 
I’m trying to say is that my true prejudices are against other white people and Mormons
This does not mean that I’m mean to Mormons though, this is counter productive to the agenda
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