#37q

[trek-tracks]

To be fair, it works like 90% of the time

[gothhabiba]

37q replied to your post “What’s an Armenian to you? White, Asian, Middle Eastern? Or Turks or…”

god najia this was like such a teaser for the scholarship abt racial logic & its history do you have any author names in mind that i can look up

I have a list of sources that are relevant to this on this post (I especially recommend the Fields essay–required reading if you’re looking into the origins of race imo). I know that another shift happened around the 1850s when “race” changed from being understood as an environmental phenomenon to being understood as a biological one–prior to this, people thought that environment created phenotype & therefore race, thus they were worried about European colonists “becoming Indian” just by virtue of living in the Americas, or thought that “black” people could become no longer “black” just by virtue of no longer being in Africa (look up “the case of Henry Moss”). over time though, as racialist science changed (perhaps with the visible evidence that “white” people had lived in the Americas for generations at this point and were not any less “white”), “race” began to be understood as something inherent & biological w/in a person or population. people even began to look in the Bible for evidence of “polygenesis” rather than “monogenesis”–the idea that the “races” had descended from one first human pair & had diverged because of their environment became briefly usurped (for some) with the idea that the different “races” were descended from different original progenitors (& some, of course, were thus “destined” to serve others). some of my classes have talked about this but I don’t have any readings about it off the top of my head

anyways this is an example of the kind of thing I’m talking about when I say that the modern concept of race is historically bounded & conceptually specific and owes its genesis to slavery & the genocide of Indigenous Americans in a way that doesn’t make sense when you displace it to talk about something going on in Europe in the 13th century or something

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37q replied to your post: whats sun/ moons postgame like 

i thought this was about astrology

whats my sag sun/ virgo moon endgame like? whats the meta lps build 

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

37q replied to your post: problem attic

its where we put all our burned bridges and crossed hearts

deep...

[incorrectfallenlondonquotes]

The Dawn Machine: have you tried yelling

Mt. Nomad: i have no idea what youre referring to but of course ive tried yelling

[laundryandtaxes]

37q replied to your post: That stupid SJ phrase “intent isn’t magic” was...

not to be that bitch but intent has everything to do with actions that bear karmic fruit

You're allowed to be that bitch but yeah, even in literal minor personal interactions we understand that your intent does mean a lot and dictates how we go about dealing with an interaction.

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37q replied to your post: honestly that could be the new copypasta, it’s...

copypasta is definitely still in internet vernacular. i know many people who still use it

thank you! every once in a while I find myself googling old internet terminology from when I was a teenager and trying to figure out if it’s evolved into like 5 different terms with wildly different connotations or something, or if it’s still in use just as a general thing

[memecucker]

37q replied to your post “I wonder how these ppl going “the East is full of SPIRIT and VITALITY...”

would you say its worth watching ? that sounds like an interesting depiction

Yeah I really liked it. Its one of the most ambiguous movies I’ve seen and I mean that in a good way and its motivated me to check out Shusaku Endo’s other stuff.

Without getting into spoilers I suppose its not clear if thats really a message of the movie as a whole (eg; Dutch traders that dgaf Christianity being outlawed make an appearance) but it is something thats more or less explicitly said by some of the characters and which is debated by others.