#colonialization

[gostugh]

I watched the day 1 qsmps2 vod and suddenly became a real ashswag fan so here is reverse colonialization trio I guess

[kasmikassim]

It's not Korean/Asian culture. It's just Korean culture.

Stop saying Kpop Demon Hunters has "Korean/Asian culture". There are plenty of Asian countries that have VERY different cultures from Korea. Korea does not represent all of this vast continent. Talking like this is a disservice to other cultures that do NOT share Korea's culture and do not need to be grouped up with it, and it's also an erasure of Korea as a part of one amorphous blob of "Asian culture", which does not exist.

We say Norwegian fairytale; we don't say "This is a Norwegian/European fairytale". We say "Irish traditions"; we don't say "Irish/European traditions". We recognize that cultures within Europe deserve individual recognition; yet we still talk about individual Asian countries as if Asia is one giant monolith and all its countries blend into one another. It's just another way of saying "The Orient"; at this day and age, it can't even be excused with 'ignorance' -- it's just lazy and racist.

Korea has a long history of repeatedly being subjugated and genocided by their neighbors, especially Japan literally erasing their language among other things. Stop proliferating this in spoken tradition by erasing their individuality. This movie is beautiful and shows amazing bits of Korean culture - not "Korean/Asian culture".

[system-of-a-feather]

Just gonna slide this here taken from "addressing racial trauma in behavioral health" course I'm taking for my work because this absolutely does not apply to the Theory of Structural Dissociation what so ever

[scretladyspider]

saw someone asking on Twitter what Ireland’s beef with the Queen is which is, uh, wow what a question

[callese]

[antiwaradvocates]

“We are not American! We are not American! Say it in your hearts, say it when you sleep. We are not American, we will die as Hawaiians. We will never be Americans...They took our land. They imprisoned our queen. They banned our language. They forcibly made us a colony of the United States.” - Haunani Kay Trask

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

I remember when I was talking to someone about a book character (who shall remain nameless bc I don't want opinions on that character messing up my point), and I said "from an outside perspective they look like a murderer" and they told me that 'from an outside perspective' is a technique oppressors use to show the victims as the bad guys. And it's true. From an outside perspective the character I was talking about looked like the bad guy. But they were only defending themselves from people who tried to kill them.

You're absolutely right. Context is always going to be important because people don't live in a vacuum.

Sure Palestine may look like the villain, if you strip the context behind the HAMAS attack, the hostages, etc,

But if you remember that Hamas was an organisation made initially by Israel as a way to throw Palestinian political forces into dissaray and sow conflict, then what picture do you see?

Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It

Hamas wants to destroy Israel, right? But as Mehdi Hasan shows in a new video on blowback, Israeli officials admit they helped start the gro

If you remember that Palestine lives under occupation (with Israel controlling their food, water, electricity, medicine, etc) and has went through displacement and genocide since 1947, then what picture do you see?

If you remember that Zionism wasn't a religious creation, then what picture do you see? Sure Zionism is mentioned, but in Herbrew it's a different word from the one they use now. The Zionism we refer to is a nationalist movement founded by Theodor Herzl, and later continued by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who wrote in his essay: "Zionism is a colonising adventure and it therefore stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot—or else I am through with playing at colonization". Sure Jewish people need a safe place to exist free from anti-semitism - but creating that space through colonisation and hurting other Semite groups will never be ok.

If you remember the racism that founded Israel and continues today, then what picture do you see? Do you not care of the Beta Jews who were forcibly sterilised or the Arab Jews who are treated as second class citizens?

The legacy of racism toward Mizrahi Jews

The publication of the protocols of the riots in Wadi Salib, disclosing the racism of Israel’s founding generation toward the Mizrahi Jewish

Israel Forcibly Injected African Immigrants with Birth Control, Report Claims

Israel under fire for forced birth control programs targeting immigrant women.

Being black and Jewish: Ethiopians bear the brunt of Israeli state racism

The state’s refusal to fully acknowledge the Judaism of Ethiopian Israelis even now cannot be detached from the fact of their skin colour

If you remember that Media outlets are using pictures of Palestinian children as Israeli children, lying, using stereotypes and using fake ai generated images of beheaded children, what picture do you see? If you remember how Israelis refer to Palestinians as animals. If you rememeber that Israeli's watched with popcorn in their hands cheering at the IDF bombing Palestine, then what picture do you see?

If you remember that Hamas holds IDF soldiers hostage in order to free the Palestinian people, the children included hostage to Israel, both in open air prison and in jails without being told their 'crimes' then what picture do you see? If you're not willing to read the article the stats: 5200 Palestinians are in Israeli jails, including 33 women, 170 minors and more than 1200 placed under administrative detention.

Hamas says it has enough Israeli captives to free all Palestinian prisoners

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri says group expects fighting with Israel to continue.

If you remember that. if you remember the colonisation. Then you see a different picture. But how will you see that full picture without the media?

If you remember the genocide. if you remember the colonisation. Then you see a different picture. If you research youself, (because trust me when i say this is just a small amount of the horrors that Palestine is forced to endure), you will find what the media has hidden. The full picture.

FROM RIVER TO SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE