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Decolonial secular humanist & analyst. Autistic & ADHD, white, Mad. I got hit by a car end of 2020 and my hand doesn't work properly now. There is no absolute objective frame of reference. UK based she/her. DMs open. COVID kills. Wear a mask N95+

at university they'd have explained it wasn't actually true but you're meant to prove you can accept and believe the simple lies before you're allowed access to complexity even though the lies make it so much harder to understand the complexity

related this claim that there's one and only one Proper form of english, and one and only one Proper way to understand and use it, really put me off the subject and i'm still mad about that tbh it scares me how dominant it still is in some spaces bsky.app/profile/reco...

r@recombobulating.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I remember this argument coming up in English class in school, the teacher was telling people off for saying words like 'innit' and 'aint' and responded to pushback claiming it as a dialect of English by just insisting it was not Proper and therefore always wrong.

the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better

The Europeans who encountered these societies to colonize them, didn't actually think they'd encountered their inferiors because it was obvious to them they'd encountered sophisticated cultures & they say that in primary sources. They had to convince themselves these folks were lesser to dominate.

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d ago

The facts are that it's only the conniving deception of white supremacy that has anyone think European societies or their descendants like our American one, were more advanced, sophisticated, or civilized than those of folks all over the world, all throughout Africa too.

i'd say "pay attention to who has kind things to say about rod liddle, the racist pedophile, following his death" but to no surprise it is the entirety of the mainstream british press

I love & appreciate big donations, but I’m not asking for them or any other one-off support. I am only asking for that weekly/monthly 7, or 5. You may give a chunk today, but in two months when virtually no one cares about Gaza anymore, who will stand by these families? Us. Make a pledge of care.

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 2d ago

I’m back to the giving circle, but I imagine no one can see this. So why keep trying? Because H has never had to ask for help. We've kept his family housed and help his kids access medication. This is why we do this. Our donors on average give a weekly 7. chuffed.org/project/hope...

A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle". Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”

This woman has been crying out for anyone to care about her father's survival. Every day is THE day to answer. His lifesaving surgery has been delayed for over a month. The longer we wait, the more dire & urgent things become. Anything helps at all. chuffed.org/project/1550...

A Fight for Survival: Help Umm Omar and Her Children in Gaza

​Under a sky that has forgotten how to be gentle, a tattered canvas tent clings to the earth. Within its fragile walls lives Umm Omar, a 38-year-old mother of six, alongside her husband. Stripped of…

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it is hard to convey the terror i feel every day and how much metabolic stress and damage is constantly brutalizing my body and the body of every homeless person moving through a world where we are not seen as people or part of society.

"socially constructed" does not mean there is no basis for a phenomenon in the physical world. it just means how we describe and categorize that thing is not a given and can vary across time and culture. what is life? are viruses alive? how many biological kingdoms? all socially constructed.

And this is why white supremacy can actually be solved. Because it is not an immutable condition of the world & it has only been the world's condition for a relatively short time. It has a beginning point & can have an end point. If you as a white person commit to halting it.

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d ago

The Europeans who encountered these societies to colonize them, didn't actually think they'd encountered their inferiors because it was obvious to them they'd encountered sophisticated cultures & they say that in primary sources. They had to convince themselves these folks were lesser to dominate.

As a disabled and queer Asian archaeologist, I cannot separate the politics of my existence from archaeology. To demand an ‘apolitical archaeology’ from me is to ask me to suppress and make invisible parts of my identity.

They do not want to engage with their place as white in the convo. Their image of themselves as "good" (built in whiteness and white supremacy mind you) would be ruined and just even merely thinking that might happen has them on fuckshit. Just...the...thought of not being "good" has them like this.

That's white America's whole problem. They other white supremacists by making them into stupid ogres. So they don't have to examine white supremacy in themselves. Or consider that the erudite & intelligent founders of their country were white supremacists.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 4d ago

Here's the thing. The people who had these massive plantations were not dumb. Thomas Jefferson was not dumb. They modeled themselves after British gentry, complete with elite education for the sons, down to the Southern genteel accent that is a cousin of the English one.

i'm pretty sure that the so called 'literacy crisis' is actually an objectivism crisis it isn't that people can't read and interpret text it's that they can't figure out what the Properly Approved interpretation is because meaning is always subjective and frame dependent

Pleaae help Britt, they're ~$700 short for rent. DUE IN LESS THAN 4 HOURS TODAY! Britt & Topaz will die if unhoused & forced into the street with ICE still rampaging, not to mention the heat! 💕💸 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Linktr.ee/hiitsbritt

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homeless: 16 months, deeply marginalized, & chronically ill household. will not survive without help. pls help answer if thriving is possible.

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In this essay, I argue that contemporary uses of the term "decolonisation" (including its seemingly unalterable location in the granting of independence to former colonies) are much narrower than the radical histories and struggles from which it emerged. folukeafrica.com/the-trouble-...

The Trouble with Defining Decolonisation: A table analogy and some reading

But remember, “The demand that Rhodes must fall should not be heard as a demand that Rhodes must read Fanon.”

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