From a piece I have started writing on colonial and anti-colonial violence:
One of the distinguishing features of setter-colonial violence, at least from an anthropological point of view, is that it is not only a racist violence but a very particular type of racist violence. It
@moesahily@bey_today Hmm i think hes neither a bad nor good person, just a product of all the systems we’re trying to tear down - and if his extremism is encouraged by that, well, that’s normal, you wouldn’t expect someone like peterson to give away his privileges with a smile
@moesahily@bey_today since it’s refusing to conform to current murderous systems, right) Now you do have a point, leftist groups & individuals do have to rethink their ways, cancel culture is crap, and we all have to reflect on our activism.
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#Lebanon’s minister of interior has been sitting on an arrest warrant for an MP who refuses to respond to judicial summons in relation to the Beirut Port Explosion. The minister of interior refuses to act on the judicial warrant, but has created legal reasoning (its very sad
Biquette the goat, sold to an abattoir after she stopped producing milk but was rescued by punks and then spent 10 years watching grindcore bands. She could come and go as she pleased and, in the words of her rescuers, “escaped death, lived punk”. Absolute legend.
Here Abu Ali speaks about his concrete "spiritual" (his word) intertwinement with his flock of goats, now with English subtitles. It's beautiful, beautiful what he says and you should pay attention to it.
https://t.co/pzvIzV1e6M