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Slavery is a Metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor” : Tapji Garba : Free Downloa

Response to Decolonization is Not a Metaphor.

Shoutout to Metamatar (Who has sadly left Tumblr, of their own will, probably for depressing Current Events reasons I'm guessing) for showing me this, and I think it's worth sharing.

It's a response to that one "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" paper by Tuck & Yang that's been going around a lot and I think it addresses a problems with that original paper well.

Like, said original paper has some stuff adjacent to good points. Like, "landback" does, in fact, mean at least returning some of the goddamn land ("Give all national parks back to the native nations, we can figure the rest out from there" is my general position), and the idea that we do need to center the fact that harm is still being done to redress it.

But like, on the rest of Tuck and Yang's paper... well, it came off more than a little ethnostate-y to me, if you get my drift. Like, I was not surprised to learn they're apparently zionists, because that's where a lot of their logic leads.

And I think this paper addresses why in far smarter terms than I ever could, while at the same time being committed to decolonization to a far deeper and smarter degree, in a way that's also closer to what most Landback people I know seem to actually believe...

[andmaybegayer]

all hail the 15 dollar apple usb c to 3.5 mm adapter I literally use it on my laptop bc it improves the audio quality so much!

it's so useful! Makes life much more predictable, especially if you're using very sensitive IEM's. So many laptops and desktops have junky noisy audio hardware that barely works. Phones are usually better but even they tend to be noisier than the basic dongles.

[thomasthetankieengine]

While Marxist and leftist scholars have sometimes produced interesting analyses of genocides, the amateur goofballs on this site have a tendency to try to reduce everything done to class and the profit motive. While the genocides of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Circassians were very much motivated by profit (at least to some degree), many others were not — such as the Armenian genocide, Holocaust, or Cambodian Genocide.

Still, class reductionism is far more palatable than the Soviet Union's official analysis of the Holocaust, which went:

"Well actually, the Nazis weren't especially targeting Jews above Russians and if you dare to suggest that they were, you're a Zionist and we're going to make sure you die in a mysterious car 'accident.'"

[st-just]

5 and 11! for the ask game

5. TV show of the year?

Oh I did a terrible job of keeping track of what shows I watched an my brain is a sieve, hmm...

right! Black Sails! I finished that this year. Easily best pirate thing I've seen this...ever(?). Amazing, boundary-breaking, 10/10 if you ignore the bad bits.

11. Something you want to do again next year?

Oh go on a big financially irresponsible international trip with friends, for sure. Week in New York was one of the best times I've had in a long while.

Also do the 'minimum 60 books a year and review all of them' personal challenge again, because it's good for me.

[txttletale]

um. what model of headphones do you have I might need new ones

hyperx cloud 2 they're pretty good and durable as shit i've put these bad boys throgh so mcuh and they've lasted me like years

[probablyasocialecologist]

really enjoyed the agroecology article you linked! have you been keeping up with sri lanka and the role that the failure of the transition to organic agriculture played in the recession? i do think the policy adoption was more about staving off a BoP crisis by reducing fertiliser imports, but any material addressing these tensions esp in the south would be very welcome.

ty for the work you do on this blog in general :)

I read an article recently explaining the very same thing:

Tucker Carlson says he knows why Sri Lanka fell. Don't believe him.

Hint: It had nothing to do with a green new deal.

[bauliya]

i just saw the notes in your atheism posts and genuinely you are braver than the troops.

my phone screen has shattered which makes looking at tumblr a pain and I'm just reading a 600k fanfic on my Kindle lmao

[juergenklopp]

seeing your new icon in my notifs is making me sigh audibly love it

What an absolute banger of a look, right?? Lewis truly delivered yesterday, going absolutely above and beyond... I needed a fainting couch and I still do. He made me loop the Sailor Moon theme for almost an hour.