Hmmm I realized the past year I've been sketching alot more and I really like my art atm so I might start posting sketchbook pages here. Idk though I'll prob twt this and immediately forget.
shit like this is why i haaateee the Madagascar series. it mythicizes a very REAL African country, its land, its animals. but doesn’t include the people ONCE. doesn’t mention that it’s an actual place ONCE. the empty africa trope is by far my most hated racist trope.
Feel like this leaves out that Chinese was purposefully simplified to make it easier for the largely illiterate peasant population to become literate. National literacy requires socialism.
This idea that "XYZ script is uniquely bad for language" is just propaganda.
China's literacy rate is approaching 100% with its famously difficult script.
I don't think most people are fully grasping what happened to Omar Artan. Citizens of African countries cannot travel to the US without first navigating a highly restrictive, discriminatory visa process. Africans face the highest refusal rates globally, not only for US visas +
Fun fact: the idea that communists see women as public property was the argument employed in the Jim crow south against the CPUSA due to the party's work among black sharecroppers and proletarians in the 20s and 30s.
I absolutely hate when black people disregard certain black art just cus white people enjoy it “death grips makes music for yt ppl” like okay?? You think that was by choice? I swear some of u niggas pigeonhole black artists so bad and dont even realize how coonish it is
why does everyone want dresses with pockets? putting stuff in a dress pocket makes the dress look worse and i usually have too much stuff to carry so id need a bag anyway
To 19th and 20th Century communists, the majority of the population being uneducated was treated as a symptom of a structural oppression. Marx's footnotes on child education in factories are some of his most angry polemics. Now, it's treated as a moral stain.
ive been a kpop stan for years and have heard them talk about puffy face a lot but i still cant tell the difference/dont understand what it actually means