necropolitics and Black death are rife in video games, once you see it you won’t stop seeing it everywhere. Black people are treated with similar tropes as in books/films with an added interactivity with the world creating a whole different axis for necropolitics to operate
crazy how just a little bit of reading into postcolonial game studies reveals how often games will casually reproduce imperialist attitudes; stuff like fog of war mechanics, resource extraction loops, civilized vs barbarian binaries, etc... it's everywhere
The fundamental reason a lot of cis people have no idea what hrt does to trans people is because they subconsciously believe males and females are separate species.
a lot of straight women’s idea of “feminism” goes no further than how they wanna be treated by their male partners because the only future they can conceive of is as some guy’s wife, and they get very upset if you suggest that maybe they didn’t come up with that idea on their own
The ruling class has to destroy social media and the Internet because these were starting to make up for the educational systems they already destroyed. The more people learn about the world, the less they’ll believe the lies justifying its present organization.
i like how hiring discrimination is completely legal now but like just for trans people. i like living in a world where the immediate sociological reaction to my existence is “you should kill yourself” constantly everywhere i go
its actually crazy how much i was lied to about diy hrt by liberal trans people with large platforms and then i started actually talking to average trans people online and a vast majority of them do diy and are completely safe
Parenti talks about this in his famous “yellow” lecture. Denial of education and literacy is denial of a full existence, of dignity and opportunity, of one’s very humanity. The less you know about the world, and the less you can learn on your own, the easier you are to control.
@D31984832@MilkySalt2@ScottNguye74303@SkinnyTuna No — I wonder why that is? Could it be the centuries of brutal colonial violence and theft perpetrated by Europeans on Africa?
Nah, that’s too contrived. Black people are probably just lazy
“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat.” — Roger Freeman, adviser to Reagan and Nixon, arguing for limits on access to education. The US is functionally illiterate by design. Literacy is a tool of freedom, something that is intolerable in the land of the free.
your average cīs man believes that deceiving and isolating a woman into sex isn't coercive or assault but also believes that trans women sexually assault men by "deceiving" men into being attracted to them. this is one of the most horrifying papers i've ever read.
we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.
the problem (well not THE problem, but A problem), is that we’re telling everyone to start organizing, but we’re so atomized that most need to follow a different step first: get to know people.