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Welcome, I'm Sonia ๐ค
Here you will see politics, fun and everything that I am and think.
Here ,it's freedom for all in respect to each others, with our religions and especially BIPOC and LGBTQIA+.
Loud on the humanization of the Global South at every lvl.
Love to interact!
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Tonight โ as the new crescent moon marks the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan โ Jill and I extend our best wishes and prayers to Muslims across our country and around the world.
Day 118: "Israel" has killed 27,019
#Palestinians
since October 7.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that the Israeli occupation has killed 27,019 Palestinians and injured 66,139 others since it launched its aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Moreover, it added that the
spreading positivity on your timeline!! this is a video of a palestinian girl showing her cat to the camera! even in the middle of such atrocities, the palestinian children are still smiling and taking care of their pets. we have to keep going for them ๐
PEOPLE ARE BOYCOTTING GENSHIN IMPACT OVER REWARDS AND NOT OVER BEING ONE OF THE MOST RACIST POPULAR PIECE OF MEDIA THAT GAVE US A "POSITIVE APARTHEID STORY", HATE MELANIN, GOT INTO EVERY RACIST TROPES ON NOMADS POSSIBLE AND MOCK NATIVE AMERICANS ?
FOR REWARDS ?
I hate it there.
/ sexual assault , pedophilia
Yves Saint Laurent is a pedophile who was drugging and raping little boys as young as 6 years old teenagers in Morocco in all impunity. They were having sex parties with prostitution of minors.
Stop glorifying him.
// sexual assault , pedophilia
Herbert took this fromย โlong live theย martyrs" that was chanted by Algerians when Benyoucef Benkhedda arrived in Algiers after gaining independence from France.ย
Having ppl clap for that white French American Zionist saying this is a disgrace to resistants and history.
Actually no.
Boycott as much as you can.
Targeted is the very strict minimum what everyone has to do.
Next you can use the app "No thanks" to scan your products and see their association or not with Israel.
Alternatively you can use the website :
While Israel continues its genocidal aggression against Palestinians in occupied and besieged Gaza and uses starvation as a weapon of war, Carrefour-Israel provided thousands of packages to Israeli soldiers while they participated in the
#GazaGenocide
.
#BoycottCarrefour
"If they'll do this to Israel, we're next."
American Senator Lindsey Graham expresses his concern that the US might be pursued on charges of war crimes.
Sumeru & the vicious circle of stereotypes in fiction
A thread
Played the game since 1.1, I'm AR 60.
There's plenty of threads about what's "culturally" wright or wrong but haven't seen one on how to it's core Sumeru is showing to be a legacy of Hollywood outside of the West.
Since we all know Mihoyo mostly uses Pinterest and nothing else as actual references, I've checked, the references are dolls made by a white American lady ๐คฃ
Page 1 : Hibari kun, Our dreams at Dusk, Nabari no ou, Fushigi Yuugi, Goodnight I love you and Mikagura School suite
Page 2: Kinpri, Kuroko no Basket
#knb
, Hรดkago Hokenshitsu, Kanojo ninaritai, Fafner and Prunus Girl
official Eurovision account liking a tweet calling my jewish ass antisemetic was not on my bingo card but here we are
@Eurovision
you should actually be ashamed of yourself
Nah that pisses me off. I get it, game needs to treat the players well.
But if you have time to complain about rewards, you should talk about Palestine, Sudan, Congo, West Papua, Haiti instead.
Orientalism isn't a cute word for "half naked dancer outfits".
It's a dangerous view and dehumanization of the East and it's racism.
Like "it's not racism it's just orientalism" doesn't mean anything.
Page 1 : Hibari kun, Our dreams at Dusk, Nabari no ou, Fushigi Yuugi, Goodnight I love you and Mikagura School suite
Page 2: Kinpri, Kuroko no Basket
#knb
, Hรดkago Hokenshitsu, Kanojo ninaritai, Fafner and Prunus Girl
I'm tired of this racist fandom
That "quest" is just pure trash from the sellout with a racist agenda from the writer that is Jebrael "I don't have anything to do with those brown ppl and will help this white man who say slurs" to his stupid biracial "let's stay open" daughter.
I'm incredibly excited to announce that after months of work, our animated short, "Shadows in the Sand", will be airing LIVE at
#HoYoFair2023
!
Experience Jeht's story of blood, sand, and betrayal like you never before. Tag all the Jeht fans you know!
#HoYoFair
#GenshinImpact
People need to realize orientalism isn't just some bad sexualized outfit.
It's an entire set of cliches, racism, cultural appropriation and xenophobia.
Right now the most important is a ceasefire in Gaza, boycott following the BDS and even more with the app "No thanks", Keep Eyes On Sudan and look at the # of the same name, stop buying vapes and keep your electronics if they're ok for Congo.
If possible give money.
Keep sharing
The character inspired by Ziryab and called by his name VS how Ziryab nicknamed "Blackbird" for his dark skin and beautiful voice is usually represented even in orientalist works.
The 2020 Tokyo Anime Award Festival ranking of the "Anime fans award" is out and here's the top 50!
Keep in mind that it's mostly a popularity contest but it's always intresting! Do you see your favorites animes in this top? โจ
Yumeiro cast closing for Ready!!! who got attention for their amazing 3DMVs but closed after about a month and Sega distracting everyone by the release of Project Sekai is still wild.
@hulknaps
That reminds me of Disney also shutting down Lumberjanes when they bought 20th Century Fox...
That strike against creativity needs to stop, I was very exited for Mouse guard when they also stopped the project because Disney have to stay safe ๐
He also wrote a comics that is supposed to be humoristic and is just a lot of violence and pedophilia.
I'm not putting the full cover because there's naked children drawn on the bottom part of it ๐คข
Hope the "world's leaders" had fun making their useless condamnation tweets yesterday.
The colonizers are doing the same exact massacre again because they can.
YouTube recommended me this scum so reminder that he is a zionist that keeps spreading lies and also unqualified as a "doctor" since he sides with deaths and against the health of Palestinian people and who should be fellow health workers.
A racist can't be a doctor.
The story?
A region splitted by skin colors apparently since NPCs on the forest side also have arab names but are whitewashed.
Alhaitham is the poster character of this, his IRL counterpart being a brown man who mostly lived in Egypt but it would not fit the narrative pushed.
Conculsion
Arguably Genshin did some right especially cultural (look it up) but it's very surface lvl still, in the messages and the writing, weโre at the usual low level of racism and dehumanization you can find anywhere when it comes to fictions and SWANA regions.
@HeartfulBallad
To every "but it's fiction they can do anything they want it's not like they want to base their regions on X culture" .
This is from the latest survey, they do.
We then meet Eremites (perjorative term in CN). People who want to get their independance back by bringing their deity to life and don't trust the Akademiya who opressed them and are you fight them for living in their own home and... here we got again with the Western moral...
The tone is set, this region is not about fiction taking from history, it's ficition taking for other works of fiction that have been made mostly by Europeans and Americans.
And let's see how by quickly going through the stories, factions, and characters and how we haven't moved.
The desert is shown as a divine punishment and green as positive and associated with paleness .
Truth is that thereโs green in North Africa and the Middle East too but it dosenโt fit the racist imagery people have so collasped civilization without cities it is once again.
The main story is apparently "the Akademiya are the villains" and what happens?
- Lots of weird comments + desert dwellers used like a slur
- Harass the only brown woman there Setaria and make it about the Scarlet king
- Help save a pale man that get the title of "Village keeper"
According to the video about the OSTs, the rainforest part issupposed to be South Asia and the desert the Middle East . But clearly it is not what is presented in the story.
Rainforest don't have a single character that looks SA, Forest got Parsis which are SA and desert has NA.
South West Asia and North Africa are known for bearing some of the oldest Universities and have so many renown scientists, making it the region one of scholars make sense. Until you get a sense of dรฉjร vu worldbuilding from Hollywood and get that racism won over history.
From the start there was something off, the first character we meet in the game is Housseni, a man that is clearly very pale but bear an arab name.
And Iโve started questioning what was going to happen but then as we kept goingโฆ more of those NPCs.
Then the region came...
About 40% of the named NPCs deaths so far have been in Sumeru, the game with almost only light skinned playable characters.
The tread is already long because I go over so much more but you get the general idea that I'm trying to convey.
Mihoyo writing teams when they haven't call natives or tribes savages and haven't attached to whiteness who they call "civilized" from said groups for more than a patch
Colonial stories portayed tribes this way for opposing them and the fake narrative of the "nice white ppl who bring civilization "they made.
France papers and stories pushed this against Magrehbi tribes in the 20th century, which makes the character of Dehya of poor taste.
The 2021 edition of the Tokyo Anime Award Festival ranking of the "Anime fans award" is out and here's the top 50!
As always it's mostly a popularity contest showing the most devoted communites but it's always intresting! Do you see your favorites animes in this year's top? ๐
First group we meet are the corps of thrity who are basically servants who are protecting pale ppl and work against their own but seen as "good".
Also they are an Alibaba reference which is one of the few European made Thousand and One Nights tale.
"But the ppl are bad in the story" yeah, like the writers really came up with all of that by writing every brown characters like this.
Worth mentioning that slavery exist only in Sumeru desert and for Natlan in the very pale fictional world they made up.
- Doubt Dehya over her unapproval of the wall (did not end well)
- Fight " religious extremist eremites" and make it that actually THEIR deity was to blame and the pale one "saved them"
- Cyno being shown as almost clueless and brings judgment... but not for eremites actually
Jeht plays the "good brown person" once again , and the quest ends with a Star Wars reference.
The Eremites are definitely taken from Star Wars's Tusken raiders an Dune's Fremen, both already controversial racist ficitional portrayal "inspired" by the boudouins and Amazigh.
@thatslajxo
I looked up articles in English to add to it but only found things in French and Arabic so it's not surprising ๐ญ
His ex lover Fabrice Thomas wrote a book describing what happen.
The house in Morocco is now a museum and it's very debated.
There's a self insert bottle from the writers as they write their brown characters the same way Liloupar describes them in last picture and there's no moral since the brown ppl who are doubted ends up as traitors almost in an act of justification.
And it happens again later.
For the "You did not understand the movie, or, you didn't get the plot", read the article.
It's not about the end result of the movie or your idol Tony stark, it's about the racism, the stereotypes, the "good Muslim" vs the "bad Muslim" that are indeed a post 9/11 product.
Now the story quests...
Help Jebraeal a man who is โgoodโ for helping a racist to steal from the desert after he actually became human by fallying in love with a โcivilized pale womenโ and quitted his tribe while the other tribeman ALSO fall in love with her and killed her...
Games people wants to see animated the most from a animeanime survey:
1- DREAM!ing
2- World end heroes
3- Dankira!!!-Boys be dancing!
4- Readyyy!
5- Hoshinari echoes
6- Promise of the Wizard
7- Twisted wonderland
8- Otome yuusha
9- Hero's Park
10- Band yarouze!
And after that awful questโฆ you help ANOTHER racist man to steal from the eremites treasure of their ancestors. Indiana Jones and the Mummy style.
This was bad... and then another Jeht quest going deeper into the racist storytelling is next...
Jeht is once again mentioned in 3.5 as she โhelpsโ the scholars of the desert to connect with the ppl who opressed them and get them out of the desert.
Dehya and Cyno are written similarly which is a basic trope in western fiction and is appaling to see in one that isn't.
Boycott the BDS list, use the app "No thanks" for a total boycott, protest, share, be disruptive.
Ceasefire and humanitarian help are the priority and we're not stopping until Palestine is free.
Give money if you can as well to "Care for Gaza, the "PCRF", and to families fleeing
The "omg no we're starting a war in the Middle East" is strating to piss me off.
No lives holds more value than another. No one is born as canon folder to the USA.
The USA and Israel are right now the biggest danger to a huge numbers of human lives and needs to be stopped.
Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces struck targets in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia use to attack U.S. forces.
We do not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world.
But to all those who seek to do us harm: We will respond.
Did she just said the "white" countries are Christians and the MENA ones Muslims...
Zionism is racism like if you ask me for Muslim countries my first thought is Indonesia then Pakistan.
Imagine if they make a grey mummy as a playable character next since it's what's missing on the bingo of Hollywood stereotypes while still having only 3 brown playable characters from a region called Sumeru /Jk
"Dismantling arab streoptypes : representation of arab countries" from 2011 is a good way to see that it's nothing new.
The "western" tropes where just given by skin color which is a shame as they've also mostly linked that side to Persia in the story and Iran deserves better.
@lbawram
Exactement, le pink washing est toute une stratรฉgie de propagande de dรฉshumanisation raciste absolument abjecte crรฉรฉ pour justifier la colonisation et le gรฉnocide.
Rain Dove a fait une vidรฉo parfaite sur le sujet en se rendant ร Gaza en Novembre :
for pride month id like to repost this video where this lovely person went all the way to palestine after receiving comments that Palestinians would kill them if they were openly queer over there.
@batlesbians
That is actually antisemitic to insinuate that. It's like when someone commit a crime and ppl say "well they're Muslim so ofc". Also some of the most virulent Zionist are those white American Christan ๐
The fact that both Sudan and Palestine are part of it yet people are still displaced, starved and killed in both really show that it's the most useless league in the world.
Full of hypocrites.
I've quitted the game after 3.5 at AR60 after 2.5 years.
As a person coming from 2 tribes, 1 Amazigh and 1 Arab it was also about self respect for me.
Idc that ppl play, I don't like that this story went through with the msg that it's fine and that more of that will be made.
The "I'm an evil brown man who couldn't get the "smart" white woman" antagonist, the "I'm racist but it's ok I'll get a PHD robbing" side kick and The "I will help that white man rob a grave will killing all those dirty brown ppl who live in the desert " traveler.
Some people read through that ridiculous racist bullshit and thought "wow good representation and great story I love it" and that's why I can't be bothered anymore to call people out on their bullshit.
Letโs celebrate pride with a thread of LGBT+ characters from anime and manga. I wonโt include very minor characters not characters that arenโt explicitly LGBT+.
#pridemonth
#LGBT
+
#manga
#anime
You can be Amazigh and black ๐ญ
Also Disney can keep their half assed attempt at stealing our culture while making sure to remove the essence of it and not casting a single North African for the roles.
Arashi Narukami from Ensemble Stars is a trans girl.
Ensemble stars is mainly a game but also have a manga and an anime.
Saw some discourse in the fandom but in the stories it's stated that she wants to be seen as a girl and therefore is one.
Not the battle of 2 companies that so far have been incapable of making a single character with melanin that can't fit in a paper on racism in fiction ๐
Exactly the same reason European talk about "stripping women of their hijabs" btw.
A woman chooses to cover for personal believes so people it's a need to take back control on their bodies.
Here's a 1958 propaganda from Colonial French army :
"Aren't you pretty? Unveil yourself"
Gaza is an extermination camp, torture camp but also a testing facilities for weapons and methods of murder.
So many crimes against humanity put against a population oppressed, murdered and displaced for 76 years.
I don't think we can even comprehend what is done to Palestine.
And ofc the 2nd part of that "Quest" featuring "racism is right because tribes are all traitors that want to manipulate ppl" ofc it's a tribe but there's no children, dehumanizing to the max.
And "omg the beautiful oasis linked to the pale ppl not link those dirty sand ppl".