GrumpyVicky

up shit creek without a paddle
#veille #infodoc #traduction #angers #nantes

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Apparently, we’ve reached the point where forcing a woman to disappear under a burqa is “cultural sensitivity,” but criticizing it is intolerance.

Wear one for a day. Then explain to Afghan women why this is their “culture.”

Five years of Taliban rule: No school, No university. No work. No freedom. Now, even a woman’s voice is treated as forbidden. Morality police patrol the streets with guns and whips to make sure women disappear.

If your idea of tolerance requires women to surrender their faces, voices and freedom, you’re not defending diversity, You’re defending an Apartheid against women!
@UAGApartheid
@EGACampaign

[Scotty Doug @scotty_doug3]

@BulwarkOnline

[Cecile Fadat 🌹 @FadatCecile]

« Notre cause est juste » : vive un autodafé inclusif made in #LFI !

#cambon #charliehebdo #BarbaraButch

[Le Gorafi @le_gorafi]

Jordan Bardella avoue être « furieux » d’avoir dû apprendre à sourire pour rien

[Alex Vizorek @alexvizorek]

Petit message pour nos amis espagnols 🫶🇪🇸🇧🇪
#espbel

[C dans l'air @Cdanslair]

Arbitrage France/Maroc: "Pour moi c'est incompréhensible. On sait qu'il y a une rivalité très forte entre la France et l'Argentine. Le fait de désigner un arbitre français pour arbitrer l'Argentine était une erreur. Et pour corriger une erreur on en fait une autre." @JPhLeclaire

[Le Gorafi @le_gorafi]

France 2 recrute l’équipe du Paraguay pour une nouvelle épreuve de Fort Boyard

[VolleyActu @VolleyActu]

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Après ses victoires contre l’Iran et Cuba, l’équipe de France enchaîne aujourd’hui face à la Serbie pour disputer son 3e match de cette 2e étape de VNL.

📆 • Samedi
🕝 • 20h30
📺 • VBTV, Twitch

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📸 volleyballworld

[AuPalais @palais_au]

Chappatte, toujours d’actualité hélas

[Tristan Mendès France @tristanmf]

L'article de Marie Claire https://t.co/fNAfyXTJ72

[Decimaitre @Decimaitre]

En France, on a les moyens d'interpeller 267 000 fumeurs de joints par an et 40 000 trafiquants de shit mais pas de traiter 94% des plaintes pour viol.
Ce n'est pas qu'un manque de moyens. C'est un choix. (Source chiffres 2024) https://t.co/gSQJIIEUbU

[Vie De Carabin @VieDeCarabin]

Message de santé publique à diffuser largement.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Donald Trump says the Bible is his all-time favorite book. Just don't ask him anything about it

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Hantavirus = 3 deaths, all Westerners

Media goes nuts

Ebola : 85 deaths and rising RAPIDLY, all people in Central Africa

Media : Meh

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

So why does "indigenous vs. colonizer" almost always mean Europeans, and almost never Bantu, Turks, Arabs, Slavs, or Han Chinese?

A few reasons, in descending order of how much they actually explain:

1. Recency and documentation. European expansion happened in the era of the printing press, photography, census records, and treaties. The Bantu expansion left no paperwork. The Arab conquests are 1,300 years old and mythologized as religious destiny rather than conquest. When the receipts exist, the case is easier to make, and Europeans left receipts.

2. The winners wrote the framework. Modern human-rights language, postcolonial theory, and the very category of "indigenous peoples" were built in Western universities after WWII, primarily to process European guilt over European empires. The tool was designed for one job. Asking it to evaluate the Arab conquest of Egypt or the Turkic conquest of Anatolia is like asking a tax form to diagnose a disease. It wasn't built for that.

3. Christendom is critique-able; other civilizations aren't. You can write a bestseller attacking Western Christian civilization from inside a Western university and win awards for it. Try writing the equivalent book about Arab-Islamic conquest from inside Cairo or Istanbul. The asymmetry isn't about history. It's about which societies tolerate self-criticism and which punish it. So the critical literature piles up on one side and barely exists on the other.

4. The Soviet inheritance. Cold War-era anti-colonial framing was deliberately shaped by Moscow to delegitimize the West while giving its own empire and its allies' conquests, a pass. That framework outlived the USSR and still structures a lot of academic and activist vocabulary today.

5. Race makes it legible. European colonizers usually looked different from the colonized. Turkic conquerors of Anatolia, Arab conquerors of the Levant, and Bantu expansionists in Africa generally didn't look dramatically different from the populations they absorbed. The visual contrast made European empire easier to narrate as racial, and once a story has a clean visual, it travels.

6. And finally, Jews. The framework's selective application reaches its most absurd point when a people indigenous to a specific land, with continuous presence, language, religion, and archaeological record tying them to it for three thousand years, get labeled "colonial settlers", while the actual seventh-century conquerors who Arabized the region get labeled "indigenous." At that point the framework isn't describing reality. It's laundering a conclusion.

The label isn't tracking who got there first. It's tracking who it's currently fashionable to blame.

[Fondation pour la mémoire de l'esclavage @fondation_me]

La FME exprime son indignation après l’annulation par la mairie de Vierzon de la cérémonie de la journée nationale des mémoires de la traite, de l’esclavage et de leurs abolitions, qui prive ses habitants d’un moment d’unité républicaine essentiel. 1/4
https://t.co/JhVV4Mhbb2

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

All these restaurants and cafés in Europe that have the sign “No Zionists Allowed” hanging outside, why don’t you be a little more brave like your ancestors and swap “Zionists” with “Jews”?

[Monty Python @montypython]

"Who does he think he is?"

#MontyPython

[Anouk Charbonnier 🇪🇺 @ADPCharb]

🤣 excellent

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Vaping is linked to lung and mouth cancer in major study, as experts warn: 'It is NOT safer than smoking' https://t.co/yC79EVkaRi