Aditya Iyer 🍉
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Freelance Journalist. Postcolonial Hist MSc alum @lsehistory . Words: @AJEnglish @hyperallergic @newint @scroll_in . Writes about culture & history. Immigrant.
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Latest stuff from me. I wrote an essay fort Art Dusseldorf's new series on "Sustainability in Art", about digitisation only being the key to sustainable and equitable museums if initiatives are committed to breaking the colonial power dynamics of the past
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The South African Apartheid Regime was backed by three countries to its wretched end; Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom. We can hear the echoes of this history as a free South Africa prepares to take Israel to court for genocide
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No reparations, no education, no understanding, no absolution, no attempt at reconciliation - just a demand for forgiveness, unearned.
Germany asks forgiveness for Tanzania colonial crimes
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That patronising Caucastic smirk is something all of us have seen in our lives. It comes out whenever you speak about things White people have no desire to learn or care about, but since their empires have all fallen they can no longer kick our teeth in to silence us.
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@AamerAnwar
: "What do you call it when over 32,000 innocent people have been massacred? What do you call it when you surround a hospital and bomb it? What do you call it when you line up doctors & nurses and shoot them? What do you call it when you deliberately target children?"
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I dread the damage Sunak will inevitably wreak domestically; but I am also worried about his foreign policy re India. We've seen upper caste NRI diaspora groups successfully combat anti-Hindu Fascist criticism by labelling it as "Hinduphobia"; and that was before a "Hindu" PM 🧵
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The etymology of the concentration camp is derived from the colonial Spanish "Reconcetracion" colonial policy in Cuba, where an est 1/3rd of the then population died. You can pretend it isn't a specific method of colonial murder all you want.
"Camps" is a word I would avoiding using when it has anything to do with the relative suffering of Jews and their enemies.
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There is no such thing as "Hinduphobia" - it is a myth concocted by Hindu Fascists to try and detract from the ethnic cleansing being conducted by the BJP and its allies in India. As others have pointed out, it is a tactic they have borrowed from the Israeli occupiers.
What do Hindu students want? 💭
Listen to Hindu youth represented from 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺 & in
@HinduYUVAUSA
@HinduStudentsC
@nhsf_uk
@KOAYouth
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Like many, I too was taught to hold Western journalism as the highest standard at J-school. The reality is, and has always been, that it is our brother and sisters in the Global South we should look towards for inspiration; not the bloodstained mouthpieces of Western imperialism
الصحفي الصغير له قصة اكبر من عمره.
This small journalist has a story to tell, which is older than himself
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I just learned that
@freeblackuni
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1/2 Barkha Dutt's op-ed in the Washingon Post which effectively compares Western criticism of Narendra Modi and his Far-Right politics to imperialism is yet another sobering reminder of how mainstream Indian centrist media whitewashed Modi in 2014. This was a man who went...
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"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum." Churchill's 1919 War Office Memorandum. One of many examples of Churchill being a White Supremacist scumbag
St Paul’s Cathedral has caused fury after branding Sir Winston Churchill an “unashamed imperialist” and “white supremacist.”
@IanpayneLBC
asks: is there any justification for these remarks by the cathedral?
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I am sick beyond words. Every day is a new atrocity. Every day is a new war crime. Every day. And it is still bankrolled and supported by the West, sanitised by its servile fetid press, and drowned out by Zionist propaganda. My god
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A gentle reminder following the news that BoJo's withdrawn; IF Sunak does become PM it's not a win for "diversity and inclusivity". A multi-millionaire who supports the inhumane Rwanda deportation policy doesn't magically become progressive because his parents were born in India.
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Solidarity to
@ProfSunnySingh
@monisha_rajesh
@chimenesuleyman
for the awful attacks they've had to endure for calmly pointing out that a White woman's racist descriptors were, indeed, racist. Cannot even begin to imagine what it must feel like being an author as they are rn
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The fact the
#ICJ
can be so damning of Israel by just clinically repeating their words back to them speaks volumes
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2/2 ...from being known as the "Butcher of Gujarat" for allowing, tacitly or otherwise (as the recent BBC doc demonstrates), the 2002 Godhra anti-Muslim pogrom to occur as Chief Minister, to suddenly being a "refreshing change" to the moribund corruption of the INC
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Will he be prosecuted for war crimes when he returns to the UK? Or rewarded for practicing that most sacred of British traditions - scarpering off to assist in a bit of settler colonial violence?
British-born Israeli soldier Levi Simon recorded a video of him searching Gaza homes for supposed weapons, claiming to find money instead.
He then proceeds to rummage through personal belongings making derogatory comments about drawers filled with lingerie and nightwear
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Since Western news isn't reporting on this yet : yesterday an Indian Railway Police Force constable shot dead his superior and then went carriage by carriage identifying Indian Muslim passengers and shooting them whilst saying "If you want to stay in India vote for Modi & Yogi"
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"Hinduphobia" preys upon the ignorance of non-Indian communities and, especially, the tokenistic EDI conscious efforts of white liberalism. It doesn't exist - "Hinduphobia" is the Brahmanical version of "White Lives Matter".
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The English are serfs fr - sending condolence money to a monarch who doesn't have to pay inheritance tax and whose mum's funeral was an enormous cost to a public exchequer struggling to help the hoi polloi pay their electricity bills 🙄
The King has handed over money sent in condolence cards to him after the death of Queen Elizabeth II to the Fuel Bank Foundation - which provides emergency help to people living without heat, light and power. Plus an additional sum from The Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund.
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@PriyamvadaGopal
on the importance of speaking up against Hindu Fascism and Hindu chauvinism for those who aren't Indian. In Britain a proposal to recognise casteism as a specific form of discrimination was defeated thanks to certain Tory MPs, such as Bob Blackman (Harrow East)
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Snark aside, this is worrying. A trend over the last 15 years has been Indian diaspora groups in the West desperately trying to obscure the genocidal Hindu Fascist policies of the Modi government; especially as more Western commentators and politicians start to take notice
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Caste is the most violent form of social hierarchy on the planet. It consigns those at the bottom to a cosmic dustbin. It permits and justifies atrocities just because of someone being classified as a lower caste, or a Dalit.
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When the Whites say Britain is a "mature democracy" what they mean is that a sausage-fingered septuagenerian wearing a hat made of stolen jewels can give a random title to an unelected bloke so he can be Foreign Secretary as part of a government led by a PM no one elected.
The Rt Hon
@David_Cameron
has been appointed Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
@FCDOGovUK
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For those interested in learning about the FBU's vision, I interviewed their founder a while ago:
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Latest from me is a feature piece on how the revolutionary MN Roy initially left India to seek arms but founded what would become The Mexican Communist Party and influenced Lenin's policies on the "Colonial Question". My debut in the
@tribunemagazine
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The Free Black University seeks to create alternative spaces to the traditional university, because they believe there is no way to truly decolonise the university. For this, the Telegraph decided to unleash vitriol and hatred. The people behind FBU are young, committed activists
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Note that I used quotation marks not to avoid the sad reality of his caste privilige (though given he grew up here him being upper-class is more germane to understanding why he is such a wanker) but because, like all Tories, his real religious background is "liar"
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They can only resort to such tactics here. In India, opponents to the Hindu Fuhrer get assassinated (Lankesh, Kalburgi, Dabholkar etc), thrown into jail without cause (Umar Khalid, Siddique Kappan, Stan Swamy, Setalvad etc) or die under mysterious circumstances (Justice Loya)
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The Pope "apologising" to the First Nations for the Catholic Church massacring their children is meaningless for two reasons. First (and most importantly) is that apologies for colonial violence are meaningless without reparations. The Catholic Church became... 1/n
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I don't think people outside of India truly grasp the magnitude of the horror that Hindutva has augured over the last near decade. *Every* institution that is supposed to serve as a check to the legislative is compromised; Justices are rewarded for being loyal, or die suddenly
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Good ol fashioned eco-fascism. Hey why not just wipe out the percentage of the population that contributes the most carbon emissions and drain on resources? Oh, wait - that would mean most of you White people, which in turn means you'll suddenly find the topic retrograde.
Speaking on a World Economic Forum panel, UN "Messenger of Peace", Jane Goodall, advocates reducing the global population down to 450 million—a 95% reduction from today's population:
"We cannot hide away from human population growth. Because, you know, it underlies so many of
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You might find some of their views to be a bit too radical, or ones that challenge your own privileges and modes of thinking when it comes to higher education and racism in contemporary Britain. That doesn't mean you send rightwingers after them to hound them for their work
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Gentle reminder - there'll be more bollocks about "Hinduphobia" now that California has banned caste discrimination. "Hinduphobia" is the Savarna equivalent of "White Lives Matter" - the flaccid response of a community outraged they can no longer treat people worse than dirt
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Anyone who thinks going to McDonalds - which is warm, has free wifi, and allows you to sit in there after paying for relatively affordable food - is somehow a marker of wealth is clearly a fool completely out of touch with how real people live day-to-day.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson says one family in his local constituency who regularly uses his local food bank, he also sees in McDonalds "two or three times a week."
How is this even possible? Does he have them under surveillance?
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Walter Mignolo's unabashed praise of Sai Deepak's pro-Hindu Fascist book is unsurprising given the tendentious viewpoints of "decolonial" thought as oppose to "decolonisation". It's also confirmed my suspicions that Mignolo knows little about the world outside the Americas
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Hindutva, the ideology of Modi and the BJP, was *literally* modeled after the Nazis. Golwalkar, a key Hindutva ideologue (and influence on Modi), even wrote "We in Hindustan have much to learn from the Germans about preserving our racial purity" in reference to The Final Solution
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Many years ago danah boyd argued that the digital white flight from MySpace played a significant role in Facebook's immense growth in 2010. I wonder if there is a similar impetus at work here regarding Twitter - I see no discussions about leaving on Indian & Tamil Twitter either
Is the user experience of Twitter actually breaking down in the non-Global North Anglophone world? I don’t see any intention to leave discussion on Brazil or Ghana Twitter.
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The filth of Hindutva is now openly being espoused in the UK as that shocking footage in
#Leicester
reveals. But they have been a significant presence in the UK for years, masquerading under organisation like the National Council for Hindu Temples, and bankrolling certain MPs
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A big part of their successful hoodwinking of western commentators and public discourse is natural ignorance. What they say and write in English is meaningless. It's what they've said and written in Hindi and Marathi that shows the barbaric extent of their wet-dream for India
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This goes hand in hand with communalism. In the specific Indian political context, "communalism" refers to ethnic conflicts and pogroms. The BJP (the current ruling party of the Union govt of India) has an ethnofascist ideology; as such, it regularly supports anti-Muslim pogroms
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Oh fuck off already. Ask her why she shoehorns in transphobia and a defence of Woody Allen into each of her moribund columns insteand of pretending she has been "cancelled"
The journalist
@HadleyFreeman
has recently resigned from The Guardian. She joins
@emmabarnett
to talk about her claims of being “censored” from writing about gender identity, trans issues and antisemitism.
Listen here ⬇
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This is why there has been such a frenzy on the part of the diaspora to regurgitate the phrase "Hinduphobia". They are terrified people will learn the truth of the matter; they are furious they cannot kill them to silence them like Modi's govt does back home.
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Thing is, whilst this all may not be public knowledge in the West yet, there are key groups who are aware. Academics regularly host conferences to discuss the realities of Hindu Fascism; and lawyers even succeeded in pushing through anti-caste discrimination legislation in the US
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We're entering a new era of surveillance - v neo-imperialist to monitor and suspend people over their private pro-Palestine views (the director in question "liked" a post on her personal Instagram account)
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It doesn't change the fact that camps have functioned as a specific method of ethnic cleansing (British in Kenya and during the Boer War, Americans in the Philippines, China's policy with the Uyghurs etc) utilised by imperialist and colonial forces.
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This has only increased since they formed a majority government under Modi in 2014 (though even the government they formed under Vajpayee inflicted significant violence, his claims of "coalition dharma" be damned) - and many of us fear full scale genocide is coming
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There's great reportage that explores the links between the Hindu Far Right and the Far Right in the West.
@watchthestate
@FriedrichPieter
are some to follow if you are interested in that. And I shudder to think about how all of this will worsen under a rightwing British-Asian PM
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Stunningly inaccurate (and nary a mention of the three WOC authors who pointed out that Clanchy was utilising eugenicist phrases and subsequently have faced hell). Or the fact the whole debacle began with Clanchy trying to intimidate a Goodreads review of her book
On the witch hunts of modern social justice movements - a product of social media frenzy and brittle, cowardly institutions.
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Fascinating point made by Professor Jens Lerche on the ongoing farmer protests in India: the BJP is the first Union government to challenge and go against farming groups and unions
#dismantleglobalhindutva
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Absolutely. I will never forget when I got my British citizenship - every white immigrant on that day was more than happy to pledge allegiance to the Crown as part of the oath, and every one of us who weren't white (my parents and I and a Kenyan young family) outright refused.
All these Brits on the isle saying that new citizens *have* to pledge allegiance are wrooooong.
You are *supposed* to but in some places they do not force you to take that oath.
How do I know this? Let's just say it's personal experience.
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These "low-value" degrees are how you understand how power works. The Tories are not-so-quietly ensuring that the rich and the privileged are the only ones who will have access to them.
🚨 | NEW: Rishi Sunak will announce on Monday that he will CAP the number of students wanting to study "low-value" degrees
[
@guardian
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Just like Patel, Braverman, Kwarteng, Sewell et all; melanin doesn't preclude you being adjacent and an accessory to structural racism
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Sanghera has spent his entire life writing for the establishment paper, and has only recently become interested in Empire now that he's sensed an opportunity to write turgid books about it and make some dosh - so this isn't surprising. It is infuriating and risible, however:
In a small group exchange I was added to re some British culture war stuff, I asked a pertinent question about silence. Note the response from one prominent 'anti-empire' voice. Enough said.
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Old enough to remember the Whites falling over themselves in a mad rush to Paris to chant "Je Suis Charlie Hebdo" and support French media's right to appalling racism
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India's recorded its hottest March in over a century this year (temperatures are at 40 degrees celsius) and it's not even summer yet. This is what climate change really is; and those who suffer from it are precisely those who are not responsible for it.
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"Visitors to the UK who incite Islamophobia, however, will be granted a party whip; those who incite anti-Black rhetoric, a senior leadership position within the Metropolitan Police."
Visitors to UK who incite antisemitism will be removed, says minister
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As
@PriyamvadaGopal
has stated, Hindutva thrives in the West under a paper-thin veneer of culture by making white liberals think that Hindu Fascism & Vedic/Brahmanical casteism are "Indian" heritage. When in fact they are prime examples of what Cesaire termed "native tyrannies"
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It's always a sure bet that White countries experiencing the violent consequences of capitalism at home will always go "but we aren't brown and poor y dis happen"
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1/n A dreadfully tendentious, ahistorical, and frankly Eurocentric "understanding"of British colonialism in India by the 90 year old Amartya Sen, no doubt relieving the glory days of fustily debating "history" in the 1950s. Some thoughts:
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@PhilipPullman
Moral courage like yours where you likened the three WOC authors who objected to Clanchy's racist language to ISIS and have subsequently studiously avoided replying to them (or indeed anyone) critical?
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I will say this to anyone in the UK who is confused at what happened in
#Leicester
- Hindutva is an ideaology inspired by Hitler (literally one of its main idealogues wrote approvingly of the Final Solution) and the chant "Jai Shri Ram" is their "Sieg Heil"
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Ah I see it isn't "real" and "verified" until a White journalist has seen it
CNN reporter Clarissa Ward is the first Western journalist to enter Gaza since October 7.
She describes what she witnessed in Gaza as "harrowing," "chilling," and "sobering."
Clarissa entered Gaza with an UAE medical team. There was an Israeli military strike near the field
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Same here because the way they were introduced to me in British schools was like innocent, interesting explorers. I was fortunate enough to have grandparents who wanted to know what their former colonial overlords were teaching their grandkid, and subsequently tell me the truth
If you identity with the colonized peoples of the world, you likely have a memory of your schooling. My memories always go back to how innocent the terms colonist & pioneer sounded. They were the adventurerers. They were the future. Schools continue to justify colonial violence.
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@AjeebAurat
Not surprising from a man whose entire career rests on him being a pukka Neo-Orientalist. I hope he hasn't brought the virus with him to Sri Lanka on his neocolonial sojourn
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The largest non-governmental landowner not due to the grace of God but by being enthusiastic co-signers for the slavery, rape, pillaging, massacring, and mutilation practices of European settler colonisers. Instead of maudlin pleas, give back the land you stole, maybe? 2/n
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This throne was looted from Seringapatnam by the marauding East India Company. The DCMS has placed a "ban" on its export back to the country it wa stolen from because the British don't like giving up their colonial loot. Astonishing story
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@suchitrav
Presumably these ultra nationalists are enroute to Gujarat to strip the Chinese provided bronze cladding from the Statue of Unity?
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There are only 2 things keeping me from succumbing to abject despair over the horrors Israel is inflicting upon Palestine. The first is prosaic; we have no right to do so when the Palestinians are still defiant. The second is the solidarity marches & the upswell of public support
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"Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe." - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of The Earth.
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Good. Balfour was colonial scum and the architect of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.
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Palestinians = Hamas, women's rights in Gaza are terrible so genocide is a-ok - the slippages are truly revealing!
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@sarahditum
I know you think you're being "subtle" but it's very evident (and telling) that you're only responding to your fellow White people in your mentions and replies. *That's* the kind of "purity" that makes Clanchy and you lot think it was ever acceptable to use eugeniscist terms
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It has shattered India, and led to lynchings of Indian Muslims, the destruction of their homes, and their legal rights as citizens being violated, all under the auspices of the Hindu Fascist govt of Narendra Modi. It cannot be allowed to flourish in the UK
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So the British Museum, the world's largest chor bazaar, is suing one of its former senior curators for...being a thief? I suppose the issue for the BM is that stealing for personal, rather than institutional, gain goes against their code of conduct
The British Museum is suing its former senior curator Peter Higgs, alleging he stole or damaged at least 1,800 objects and sold them over 10 years to 45 buyers around the world over eBay, the BBC reports.
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Had the privilege to chat with
@profdanhicks
about his new book "The Brutish Museums", The Benin Bronzes, the faux culture war in the UK, and why repatriating looted artefacts is a matter of urgency for European museums. My latest for
@AJEnglish
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Second- the whole "I personally ask for your forgiveness" shtick which elides over the fact that the Church as a whole historic entity owes all its adherents, property, legal benefits, prosperity etc to its encouragement of European barbarity by making it an individual plea
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This took place 10 years AFTER the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that the Whites oh so love to bang on about, by the way.
An African infant on exhibit in 1958 at the Human Zoo in Brussels, Belgium. Europeans talk about a singular depraved group of people.
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September 11th holds special significance for the Dalits of Tamil Nadu because it is the day they honour freedom fighter and civil rights leader Immanuel Sekaran. Back in 2016, I went to his village, Sellur, and spoke to his daughter about his legacy:
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@PriyamvadaGopal
@DailyMailUK
Sue her for emotional trauma on top of libel and race hate. I mean you were forced to read the Daily Mail ffs.
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As the wonderful
@KGuilaine
recently said "whiteness has very little to do with skin colour".
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@ThylacineReport
Yes! And read too. The sentences aren't flowing like they used to; to the point where I sometimes feel like another person has written the draft I'm looking at
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@LalehKhalili
The way it's worded to make it seem like she's a victim tho. Until you start thinking "hmm who WERE the French resisting in 1944?" 🤔🤨
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Remembering that interview where ol' Cumberbundle said his mum told him to use a different name in case someone demanded reperations
Benedict Cumberbatch's family could be forced to pay reparations to Barbados for running a slave plantation on the island in the 18th and 19th century.
When the plantation was forced to close his family were given £6,000 in compensation - in today's money that's £3.6million.
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@ISASaxonists
Chuckles' is also getting coronated with St Edward's Crown - the same crown given to King Charles II as a gift for giving his royal assent to formally begin the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Filth of an enslaver in his veins and on his brow.
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Make no mistake this will be the defining story of the Tory government's shameful conduct during an unprecedented national crisis - time to support the journalists who are *actually* holding power accountable
Lots of journalists are now (finally) waking up to the Great Procurement Scandal.
We have been covering this subject for months, and if you've been shocked by the stories of the past few days, wait until you read this thread... 🔽🔽
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An open declaration that some Pakistanis are deemed to be worthy of concern and rescue because they happen to be British citizens - whereas those who drowned off the Greek coast are merely human beings deemed to have no significance. Sickening
Please parse this sentence from the BBC for me
"We've just learned that Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, who are on board the sub, are British citizens."
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There's a special hell reserved for the likes of Braverman and Patel - and all skinfolk who earn their place at the white supremacist's table by climbing over the mutilated bodies of their kinfolk. "Invasion" of refugees barely a day after a lunatic petrol bombed a migrant centre
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Whenever atrocities and violence are meted out to Black and Brown bodies you can bet your arse there will be White men in suit making a profit.
“We do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire, this would only plant the seeds for the next war” - Robert A. Wood, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN
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Most of the so-called Left in Britain (from Labour to other organisations) refuse to even deal with casteism. In no small part this is because it is endogamous, and they can pretend they can't "see it" like racism (not that they usually have much to say on the latter anyway?
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"The paintings are believed to have been given as diplomatic gifts during this period of transfer of power." - "believed" is doing hella work here as a potential euphemism 🤨🤔🤔🤔🤔
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@PhilipPullman
Is there a chapter on what happens when white public figures liken brown women who call out racist language in their white peer's book they to the Taliban and ISIS? You know, like you did?
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The myth of "dying quietly" is disgustingly antisemitic as is par for the course for Zionism. I only just read about Max Nordau's vile concept of "Muskeljudentum" and its attending implication that survivors of the Holocaust were somehow weak
Better to stand alone than to live at the mercy of others.
We are the first Jews in 2000 years who refuse to die quietly. We will continue to stand, to prosper and thrive.
We have survived exile, the inquisition, crusades, programs and the Holocaust.
We will prevail.
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An excellent dissection of how mainstream British journalism has responded to the Trojan Horse Affair NYT podcast (including *that* odorous comment piece in the Guardian a couple of days ago):
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It's like James Baldwin told us: "Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."
Polite reminder that doing anything well and with integrity takes a shitload of time.
(Other motivational quotes are available)
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The real danger of having a British Indian Tory PM is that their hatred for the poor is matched by their unreasoning adoration for maths lessons
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That image of a Palestinian prisoner flattened into a mass of flesh and pulped organs by an Israeli bulldozer will haunt me for the rest of my life. This is the first genocide that is being simultaneously documented and broadcast - and those responsible are allowed to continue
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