Lana

[ًyeray•♡ @yerayherr]

“me voy a recompensar” como si en algún momento me privara de algo o me dijera no a mí mismo

[優しい小さな灯 @haruki_memo_]

TLでふと流れてきた「日本人は原爆を投下したアメリカを今でも憎んでいるか？」

という投稿と、そこに群がるリプ欄を見て、同じ日本人として背筋が凍るほどの強い羞恥心と絶望感を覚えた。

リプ欄に並んでいたのは、「全く恨んでいない」「むしろ戦後の復興支援に感謝している」「過去に執着しないのが日本人の美徳」といった、自画自賛の美談ばかりだ。

だが、一人の日本人として客観的にこの光景を見たとき、あまりにも歪んだ二重基準に吐き気すら覚える。

誤解しないでほしいが、私はアメリカへの憎悪を煽りたいわけではない。

全ての元凶であり、戦争を始めた始作俑者は日本自身なのだから、そもそも私たちにアメリカを恨む資格など最初からない。

冷静に歴史を振り返ってほしい。

私たちは自ら真珠湾を奇襲して戦争を拡大させ、その苛烈な反撃・報復としてアメリカに二発の原子爆弾を落とされ、焦土にされた。

つまり、徹底的に叩きのめされ、暴力で屈服させられた相手に対しては、「恨んでいない」「感謝している」と尻尾を振ってへらへら媚びへつらっているわけだ。

では、私たちが一方的に侵略し、塗炭の苦しみを味わせた中国などの近隣諸国に対してはどうだろうか？

彼らは自国を踏みにじられ、膨大な民間人を虐殺されながらも、必死に自衛のために抵抗したに過ぎない。

しかも敗戦後、彼らは日本本土に対して一切の武力報復や虐殺を行わず、それどころか巨額の戦争賠償請求権すら放棄してくれた。

それなのに、今の日本社会やネット空間はどうだ。

徹底的な報復として核兵器で民間人を焼き尽くした強者（アメリカ）には「恩がある」「未来志向だ」

と平伏する一方で、理不尽に侵略されながらも一切の報復をしてこなかった寛大な被害者（中国など）に対しては、感謝や謝罪どころか、南京事件や侵略の歴史そのものを否定・矮小化し、「いつまで過去に執着しているんだ」「卑屈な民族だ」と口汚く罵倒している。

自分をボコボコに痛めつけた絶対的強者の暴力には怯えて忠誠を誓い、殴られっぱなしで報復すらしなかった相手には居直って唾を吐きかける。

これを「寛容」とか「道徳的成熟」と呼ぶのは、お笑い草でしかない。

それは寛容などではなく、ただの「強者に屈服し、反撃してこない相手を舐めて見下す卑屈な奴隷根性」そのものだ。

自らの犯した侵略と虐殺という加害の歴史からは卑怯に逃げ回り、他者から受けた暴力の恐怖にだけ従属する。

この救いようのない欺瞞と精神的な歪みを自覚できない限り、私たちがいくら「平和国家」や「誇りある日本」を掲げたところで、そこに本物の国格など宿るはずがない。

こんな卑屈な国、私が誇りに思いたい日本じゃない。

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is exactly how history gets twisted, castrated, and morphed into full-blown propaganda.

There is nothing more insensitive and criminally offensive than blaming the poverty in Africa solely on the premise that Africans failed to learn trade, statecraft, and management techniques from their colonial masters. This analysis would only be correct if colonialism was a joint venture where the colonizers brought in their technology and superior machinery, engaged in training the locals on how to use them, and set up a robust educational system to support and sustain that development.

Colonialism never assumed this shape or form. It was evidently a one-way, abusive relationship where the colonizers violently imposed their will and mandate on their colonial subjects. The only technology brought to them were the machine guns used to subjugate the people. The heavy machinery used to refine and process their agricultural crops and mineral wealth was stationed exclusively in the capital cities of the colonial empire. Even the machines that were supposed to assist or facilitate the extraction of this mineral wealth were not brought into the besieged countries, simply because it was cheaper to use bullets to force the people to work nonstop under the scorching sun with bare, medieval farming tools.

The railways built in several parts of Africa and the rest of the Global South do not count as development either. They merely served as a logistical mechanism to facilitate the extraction of resources from the slave plantations to the seaports, not to connect the people or facilitate domestic trade. The schools and courtrooms erected also do not count. They were never fully-fledged learning grounds designed to build professionals who would manage the country for the greater good. Instead, they were grooming grounds for clerks and typists whose sole purpose was to manage the administrative paperwork of wealth extraction. The newly trained judges only served the function of upholding the criminal declarations of the empire whenever it was time to steal indigenous lands or unjustly imprison critics of the colonial plantation.

Therefore, blaming the colonized for not learning how to build railways, skyscrapers, and modern technology from their colonial masters is nothing but a severe manifestation of historical ignorance. Furthermore, the fact that this documentary is based on the Congolese experience makes the entire narrative a total sham.

The Congolese were not only exploited, subjugated, and subjected to genocide by the Belgians. The most damning reality is that the moment they truly voted and rallied behind a revolutionary leader who would work for the betterment of the Congolese people shortly after gaining independence, that leader was violently overthrown. Patrice Lumumba was couped out of office, humiliated on the streets of the Congo, gunned down by a firing squad, and his body was later dissolved in acid. All of these acts were orchestrated by a coalition of Western intelligence agencies, a fact that is now well-documented in history books. In place of Lumumba, Mobutu Sese Seko was ushered into power. He turned the Democratic Republic of Congo into a neo-colonial slave plantation for global powers to exploit as they saw fit, all while Western governments protected his brutal regime.

This is not just about the Congo. We are witnessing in real time how France has carried out the exact same playbook in the Sahel, currently teaming up with proxy forces to topple revolutionary governments and return the Sahelian states back to their default settings as neo-colonial slave plantations. This is the grim reality of virtually all sovereign states in the Global South that once served as plantation farms for Western oligarchs.

The sad reality is that the people who produce these documentaries, and those who amplify them on social media platforms, see, know, and understand all of this perfectly well. The Western journalists who write and depict Africans as savages unfit to govern themselves know this is not the case, but they keep pushing these propaganda pamphlets because it helps sustain the system of extraction. It ensures that the working-class citizens living within the imperial core do not see the poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America as the foundational sine qua non that sustains the technology, infrastructure, and industrialization they enjoy in the Global North.

They have to be propagandized into seeing our poverty as a testament to our supposed laziness and lower intelligence quotients, rather than as the direct result of centuries of over-exploitation. Even though it has been meticulously proven by economists that for every $1 sent to the Global South in aid, about $14 is extracted and shipped out to subsidize the luxury of the Global North, this information is neatly wrapped up and tossed away. It does not conform to the prevailing narrative that Africa and the rest of the Global South remain grossly underdeveloped despite trillions supposedly spent on "aid."

Of course, the workers of the Global North are also slaves to this exact same capitalist system. But as long as they are housed in nicer prisons and conditioned to see the rest of us working in the open fields of the Global South as "lesser" than them, the capitalist ruling class will continue to sit at the top of the food chain for the rest of human history.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.

You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.

You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.

You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.

You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.

You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.

Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.

[jazz @allergictojoy]

se conmueven con las fotos de hace 25 años de las torres gemelas pero le hacen la vista gorda a esto que está pasando justo ahora

[Mrv👌🏻 @maiatamarin_]

Şu video bile şükredecek ne kadar çok şeyimizin olduğunun kanıtı..

[pabllo vittar de nova iguaçu @miguelcarvos]

Ai sinceramente sem querer ser insensível mas não sei pq todo ano lembram desse troço como se tivesse sido a coisa mais hedionda que já aconteceu na Terra. Há literalmente pessoas palestinas sendo bombardeadas pelos eua agora e ninguém se comove nesse tanto.

[goes @goescore]

eu me recusando a dormir porque não tive tempo suficiente para mim depois do trabalho

[kantmiss evershot @ktwenaaa]

@Bilalfnd2 At the end of the day, it’s like, what makes you guys so special that the entire world has to mourn your tragedy, when this is everyday for most war torn countries in the middle east?

[𝒂 @coxrab]

@PopBase First the wrong D & now T, but never the DT.

[t. @lighttmylove]

AND FUCK JOLENE!!

[Dorian @dorian_2x]

me in 5th grade passing out the white boards and giving my opp the dirty one

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

British colonialism in Africa in a nutshell:

Two kinds of British came to Africa...

1. The ones with guns to kill and steal the land...

2. The ones with the Bible to deceive...

[bobbi loves vampires ❤️ @hiimbobbi]

They need to call up Atlanta’s best and brightest. Sorry but y’all not gonna play in my sister’s head like that. They gotta invent new lace.

[two number 45s, one with cheese @wano_obsidian]

@miiagarro Absolute power will not absolutely corrupt me because I'm built different and pure of heart 🤞🏾

[Mo @m0m4ll4]

Every time a new MCU trailer drops I just start thinking about this again and wonder why they even still really try

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Apple TV might be money laundering. They make amazing expensive shows and don’t tell NOBODY about them.