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When the origin of your ancestors and family name is such a small village that Google AI keeps insisting it's not a real place and you actually want the fictional duchy in Dungeons & Dragons that also uses the name.

#my name is from a real place!#current population is 53

catchymemes

They supporting

my-dailydreams

deactivatedatsomepoint

One day, western leftists will need to come to terms with the fact that Arab and Islamic colonization very much did and still does exist and that the negative impacts are still felt by ethnic groups that have been and still are violently colonized and brutalized by that colonial power.

deactivatedatsomepoint

It’s actually really narcissistic to think that only white European or American countries can do wrong or violently colonize peoples and places. It simultaneously erases the suffering of indigenous peoples who suffered extremely at the hands of non-white colonial powers and infantilizes non-white people by believing they somehow aren’t able to do bad things.

You should be able to recognize that some groups can be oppressed minorities in America and still be majority oppressors in other places.

thenablade

Historically, Islamic colonizers have been just as insanely violent and destructive towards native cultures and people as Christian ones.

People just don’t want to admit that the Islamic Golden Age, like the Dutch Golden Age, doesn’t justify the widespread slavery and brutal war campaigns that occurred under multiple caliphates and sultanates such as the Delhi Sultanate, the Umayyad Caliphate, Timur, the Ottoman Empire (specifically the late stage Ottomans) and the Mughal Empire.

Did the Mughals, Ottomans, Umayyads, Timur etc patronize great artists, poets, scientists and create great architecture? Did they occasionally rule over long stages of peace and prosperity? Absolutely, but you can use this argument for the Bri’ish, the French, the Dutch etc and it still wouldn’t erase their atrocities.

hugewoman

sprinkledsalt

My supervisor is from Algeria, and has told us a bit about her experience coming from a Berber culture. I know “Berber” isn’t always considered an appropriate term, but she’s only described herself, people, culture, and language as “Berber”, so I’m just using the terminology she’s used for herself (and our Algerian clients also say they speak “Berber”). I believe the specific language she speaks is Kabyle, in addition to French and Arabic. She told us a bit about the anti-Berber discrimination she faced in Algeria, and how a security officer at the airport realized she was Berber after seeing her name on her passport, and began mocking her. She wanted to argue back, but was 8 months pregnant and afraid of being thrown in jail. She and her husband were on their way to America, and her husband told her to swallow her pride and think of the baby, because they were almost out of there.

Anyway, how many Westerners even know that there were already indigenous groups in North Africa before Arabs arrived? Not many!

rosalui

there's a general widespread american-centric issue with people thinking that social and racial dynamics within their own country in the 21st century somehow reflects the power dynamics of the rest of the world throughout history

english-history-trip

snoutbeetle

Is a language dead if it has more than *squints* half a million daily speakers despite centuries of imperialism?

Fucknuggets.

taksez

Sometimes you wonder if they can function outside their imaginary world

brunhiddensmusings

the english want the welsh language to die so people dont notice that 80% of ‘english mythology’ has been lifted wholecloth from wales, had the serial number filed off and covered with a union jack

andordean

My favourite.

randomingoftherandomness

Cymru am byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ❤️

no-one-expects-deactivated20220

It’s a beautiful language, like Gaelic, Scottish and Irish. All languages are important for our history, it teaches us who we are, and who we were, it’s our true indigenous tongue.

iris-collects

Welsh was never a "dead language" because it was too strong for it's enemies to kill.

submalevolentgrace

the welsh government wants to force everyone to learn welsh? man that sure sounds totalitarian, imagine if the english government forced everyone to learn english smh smh

annabelle--cane

like as a feminist and an asexual if you ever imply that not having sex / not having "enough" of it is a conservative or reactionary trait I will be running you over with a bus pronto

annabelle--cane

you do not need to have sex ever. if you don't want to then you can just not do it. you don't need to have sex in order to mature as a person. you don't need to have sex to prove that you don't think it's immoral. you don't need to have sex to be a good partner. you don't need to have sex to be physically and/or mentally healthy. all of these goals can be achieved by hundreds of means other than sex. you can chose to do it for any reason you want, but you can also chose not to do it for any reason you want, including just not really feeling like it at any given time in any situation. the only thing not having sex says about your life and character is that you decided not to have sex. you can really really just not do it and that will be 1000x better for you in every conceivable way than making yourself do it when you don't want to.

I enjoy Star Trek but I don't identify as a Trekkie. To do so would make me feel like I was cheating on Star Wars.

#this feeling must be left over from the 1900s 🤔#star trek #star wars

littlegirlinvisible

HAPPY PRIDE! 🌈

Interview with the Vampire (2022 —)

#iwtv #happy pride 🌈

fruitgravies

the failure(s); the many loves of the vampire lestat

prints • insta • twt

orpheusilver

just blocked someone for an anti-tofu url. never let your guard down

orpheusilver

a number of people seem to be interpreting this post as being about blocking people for silly petty reasons That is not my intention. This is a specifically pro-tofu post And it is serious to me. fuck you if you hate tofu

tyrantisterror

The core appeal of Willy Wonka is that he's a nigh-omnipotent maniac who uses his near limitless powers over reality to trick shitty people into killing themselves. You can't make him the protagonist of a whimsical coming of age tale - you have to treat him like Jason Voorhees, or Dracula, or any other horror icon. Give him some new victims and new interesting kills and set him loose, that's all audiences want.

bcomic-blog

I feel like I watched a somewhat different movie...

tyrantisterror

fluidstatick

Gene lobbied hard for Wonka to be introduced as a feeble limping old man who suddenly falls into a forward somersault and leaps to his feet, because "from that moment on the audience won't know if he can be trusted." On a related note: the director told Gene what would happen during the boat scene, but none of the other actors were prepared; to this day, none of them are sure what he ad libbed and what was scripted.

My favorite detail, though, is his performance of Pure Imagination. On the surface, the song is charming and inviting, but if you look closely at him throughout the scene, you'll notice that Gene never blinks. He looks around, down at his feet, up at the trees; his eyes never fully close. He moves erratically, stuttering up and down the steps of the chocolate room. The lyrics are warm and friendly, but his face is blank. He bows to permit his visitors to run amok, but his posture is stiff. He helps Violet and Mike reach a couple of treats, but there is no joy in the gesture. The final post-chorus feels like a dirge, a threat, and a warning, all at once; Wonka sits in repose under a tree, but his eyes are glassy and dispassionate. "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination; / living there / you'll be free / if you truly / wish / to be.......... "

Fantasy in excess, like anything else, will destroy you; that's the real message of Gene Wilder's Wonka. He taunts his guests with unrepentant disdain, and doesn't care if they live or die. He toys with their emotions, their safety, and their grip on reality, feeling no regret or remorse, no pity, no compassion. Fantasy is colorful and compelling, but it's false, and ultimately empty. Wonka is a walking maladaptive daydream, and as far as I'm concerned, that's the real reason the 1971 film has endured in the culture for so long.