#p: imperialism

[zatdummesmadchen]

So ummm. What

[nimrochan]

A BRIEF LESSON IN COLONIALISM

SINCE IT IS SUDDENLY A TOPIC OF GREAT INTEREST.

BRITISH COLONIALISM;

SPANISH COLONIALISM;

PORTUGUESE COLONIALISM;

ITALIAN COLONIALISM;

FRENCH COLONIALISM;

JAPANESE COLONIALISM;

ARABIC COLONIALISM;

AMERICAN COLONIALISM;

ISRAEL;

WOW. SUCH COLONY. VERY SETTLE.

WORDS HAVE MEANINGS. CAN WE STOP PRETENDING THIS WAS EVER ABOUT COLONIALISM?

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK.

[typicalsimswhore]

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[kropotkindersurprise]

August 22, 1989 - Huey P. Newton, revolutionary socialist and leader of the Black Panther Party, was assassinated on this day in 1989. The Black Panther Party rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s for raising the revolutionary consciousness of the oppressed Black communities in the United States. Newton’s writings and leadership have left a permanent mark on the Black liberation movement and the socialist movement broadly. Newton elevated the Panthers to the role of internationalist revolutionary socialists who sought to fight US imperialism in order to liberate the most oppressed communities within the country. Newton, like many others in the Black liberation movement, was a target of the FBI’s COINTELPRO, which sought to sow division between revolutionary leaders and organizations. [link]

[xclowniex]

Can't believe I have to say it again, but recognizing arab imperialism and how it's negatively impacted jews living in the middle east does not in any way make it fair for Palestinians to suffer.

If you are of the belief that we need to ignore or erase arab imperialism because it deligitmizes the pro Palestine movement, you are antisemitic and anti history.

There is no single country which has a 100% amazing track record. You can still recognize the bad history whilst also recognizing that the people of said country deserves better.

[cer-rata]

TW: racism

I think the way that comic book media has uncritically pushed anti-Arab racist propaganda (among other kinds) for decades upon decades is an important thing to acknowledge. Like it's not just a couple of bad apples here and there, it's always been pervasive. So many stories, so many villains, so many Arab coded fake evil countries. That kind of thing desensitizes people, dehumanizes entire groups. The politics of media designed for young men and boys (and not just them but for years that was the only audience that mattered, thanks sexism) has consequences.

Seriously, what was this:

As far as I'm aware this never even got an explicit retcon.

I was a little Muslim boy in the mid 2000s reading a Death in the Family because I wanted to know what happened to Jason Todd, and I didn't understand the depths of the propaganda that was being fed to me. I was so desensitized to hearing about terrible things happening in the middle east, and evil terrorists that I didn't question it. And my parents talked to me about what was going on and how it was wrong. But I was still a little kid and I loved Batman and I wasn't at the point where I could really look at the narrative critically, to realize that the authors have worldviews that are biased. I don't think I even grasped that different people wrote the characters. Iran electing known super-terrorist-serial killer-baby eating clown The Joker to represent them because he understood their values is yes, notably crazy, but most of this stuff isn't so loud and obvious, and we didn't leave it in the 80s. Just look at what happened to the depiction of Talia and Ra's post 911 and how they progressive became less human. So just think about the generations of kids reading this crap who had no counter messaging at all. Where does that leave their empathy?

I'm not saying that everything we're seeing is the fault of comic books, that's stupid and reductive and insulting to the complexity of the reality. But what I'm saying is that a lot of these narratives are actively complicit in the kinds of inhumanity we're seeing. Marvel thinking it's appropriate to throw Sabra into a movie in current day is a glaring transgression but it's not some kind of strange outlier. Lots of those films are actively funded by arms of the American military, just look at Captain marvel and Iron Man. And if anyone likes imposing an agenda onto the narrative, it's the military. A lot of this is baked into the fiction, and we owe it to ourselves and others to actively contend with what that means.

I dunno I'm just mad, and disappointed and maybe a little guilty that it took me this long to really realize the full state of things. I spent a lot of time blindly consuming. Like these books were created to be aspirational, to show good people trying to make a better world. But as always happens when art is completely beholden to money, they still serve the politics of the ruling class at the end of the day.

[hussyknee]

Video description:

Preface reading: "Rafeef Ziadah, 12/11/11, London". The video begins showing a young woman on a stage, her hair cut in a sharp, short bob, wearing a gauzy black dress with red accents to match the stage wall behind her. She speaks into a mic in a blend of Canadian and Palestinian accents:

Transcript: "I'll start with this poem I wrote. This poem—when the bombs were dropping on Gaza I was the media spokesperson for the coalition, doing a lot of the organizing, and we'd stayed up to about six o'clock in the morning perfecting every soundbite and by the end of—you know most Palestinians get tired and start pronouncing our "P"s as "B"s so we could become "Balestinians" by the end of the day. So I was practicing my "P"s all night, and the next morning one of the journalists asked me, "Don't you think it would all be fine if you just stopped teaching your children to hate?"

I did not insult the person, I was very polite, but I wrote this poem as a response to these types of questions we Palestinians always get."

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response; and I perfected my English and I learned my UN resolutions—But still, he asked me, "Ms. Ziadah, don’t you think that everything would be resolved if you would just stop teaching so much hatred to your children? Pause. I look inside of me for strength to be patient but patience is not at the tip of my tongue as the bombs drop over Gaza. Patience has just escaped me. Pause. Smile. "We teach life, sir." Rafeef, remember to smile. Pause. "We teach life, sir. We Palestinians teach life after they have occupied the last sky. We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies. We teach life, sir." But today, my body was a TV’d massacre made to fit into sound-bites and word limits. And— "Just give us a story, a human story. You see, this is not political. We just want to tell people about you and your people so give us a human story. Don’t mention that word: “apartheid” and “occupation”— This is not political. You have to help me as a journalist to help you tell your story which is not a political story—" Today, my body was a TV’d massacre. "How about you give us a story of a woman in Gaza who needs medication?" "How about you? Do you have enough bone-broken limbs to cover the sun? Hand me over your dead and give me the list of their names in one thousand two hundred word limits." Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits and move those that are desensitized to terrorist blood. But they felt sorry. They felt sorry for the cattle over Gaza. So, I give them UN resolutions and statistics and we condemn and we deplore and we reject and— These are not two equal sides: occupier and occupied. And a hundred dead, two hundred dead, and a thousand dead. And between that, war crime and massacre, I vent out words and smile (not exotic), smile (not terrorist) And I recount, I recount a hundred dead, two hundred dead, a thousand dead. Is anyone out there? Will anyone listen? I wish I could wail over their bodies. I wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp and hold every child, cover their ears so they wouldn’t have to hear the sound of bombing for the rest of their life the way I do. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre And let me just tell you, there’s nothing your UN resolutions have ever done about this. And no sound-bite—no sound-bite I come up with, no matter how good my English gets—no sound-bite-no sound-bite-no sound-bite-no sound-bite, will bring them back to life, no sound-bite will fix this. We teach life, sir. We teach life, sir. We Palestinians wake up every morning to teach the rest of the world LIFE. Sir.

End transcription.

I think this twitter thread gives some necessary political context for the poem, so you can really understand the cruelty and barbarity of that question, and why Western media insistently shies away from "political" answers:

Cursory Google check corroborates all the info except for the number of peace settlements Israel's rejected. I can't find the exact number off the first page of Google and my head is throbbing too much to look deeper. I'm going to leave that for y'all to fact check.

(I went and looked Rafeef Ziadah up to check whether she's still alive (because that's what we do with Palestinians now) and she's safe in London, teaching Politics and Public Policy at King's College. You can find the rest of her poetry here.)

[screamingfromuz]

those brilliant tags were in a reblog to one of my posts, and I can't start to say how important the things said here.

modern Israel and modern Palestine are an invention of a colonial powers, this goes to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and many other countries across the globe. But you don't call them a colonial project don't you?

Was Zionism influenced by colonialism? Yes, just like the Palestinian nationality was influenced by colonialism, and every other national movement under European colonial rule. The existence of colonialism had an effect on the world and how people perceive their identity, surprise!

Modern day Jordan took most of the land of British Mandated Palestine, and the borders for modern Palestine/Israel you think about, from the Jordan riven to the Mediterranean sea, were invented by the British as well.

Britain invented Modern Palestine. So if you want to talk about colonialism in the Levant, you don't get to ignore the history.

[biscuitscheesebiscuits]

Reading physical copies of The Queen's Thief series for the first time and realizing that the maps in them are inconsistent???

[skyrim-forever]

Alright which table you sitting at?

[frmulcahy]

Finished listening to the audiobook of Conclave.

No fucking turtles 😡

[thererisesaredstar]

Political prisoners of USA fascism (1968)

[usafphantom-2]

Japanese Zero chased by an American P-40 "Flying Tiger

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[marxistmuslimah]

Addendum to my previous post so read that one so this can make sense (it wont anyway but it might help)

The pro Israel camp is very cool and chill with anti Arab, anti Muslim and anti Palestinian ideas and statements, with many of these people falling on both the left and the right, so lets start with "Well Muslims are actually all antisemitic and their religion is a bastardization of ours" and "We really feel sad about what's happening in your part of the world! Of course, it's entirely self-inflicted. you are facing the consequences of what happens when you elect and support Hamas" which is... a lot

First. Grouping an entire religion as one thing is pretty insane to me and I think it should be to anyone else. It would be like saying "All Jews are pro crimes because the IDF" saying something like that about any group of people is an insane thing to do.

Second. Does Islam copy a lot of stuff from Judaism, yes. does it do the same thing to Christianity, yes. are parts of Islam antisemitic, unfortunately yes. but saying that it is a bastardization of Judaism or that muslims are naturally antisemitic is pure madness.

Now some more moderate or left wing Zionists will say "Well obviously all that stuff is pretty racist and Islamophobic and I would never believe in any of that stuff" and to those people I would say, good job you're not a Kahanist or anything :)

Third. In 2006 Hamas was voted into power in the Gaza strip and in 2007 after the Gaza civil war they took over the strip as theocratic dictatorship in the model of Iran, now does that sound like Hamas is the democratically elected government of the Gaza strip? Also there is a hint of Operation Cyclone in the creation of Hamas but that's been talked to death (but not enough).

Now there have been and are many protests against Hamas's rule in Gaza before the Oct 7 massacre, a notable one being in July of last year which was due to the economy, power outages and Qatar not paying people (not much has changed) and as you would expect of a dictatorship this was put down very violently.

Fourth. Saying shit like "Well they deserve it for electing Hamas" they didn't "Well citizens followed the attackers into Israel" yes they did, but I don't think some 13 year old in Rafah was even near Israel so why are they dying? This sort of thinking is the same thing as "All Israelis deserved Oct 7th cause of the IDF and west bank settlers" same person on the different side.

[nexttimeisnotthesame]

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[gotyouanyway]

i do honestly think hell bent had the worst take on rassilon which is a shame bc he had the best costume by far