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       #Post#: 495--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: Penny For Your Thoughts Date: July 25, 2020, 11:20 am
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       It is best to eliminate all the extra groups under the label of
       PoC to stop them from jockeying for status vis-a-vis each other,
       especially for status dispensed by the ruling system. People
       should be made to see that the enemy is the ruling system and
       shitting on others to curry the favor of Jewish masters only
       makes them a collaborator at the end of the day.
       As for changing the name, the label "non-white" is the implict
       assumption already of the label "people of color", if I am not
       mistaken, so changing the name is not of so much importance as
       removing the internal subdivisions.
       #Post#: 520--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 26, 2020, 12:25 am
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       "Should the POC term be discarded in favor of something like
       "non-whites""
       Yes, which is why I use "non-white" all the time, but "POC" only
       reluctantly when someone else has used it first, and even then
       try to convert it to "non-white" when an opportunity arises.
       POC is a stupid name as it implies "whites" somehow lack
       "colour" which is obviously untrue. At worst it reinforces the
       gaslighting that "whites" actually have white skin, something
       which far too many people still believe despite seeing otherwise
       with their own eyes every day.
       [img]
  HTML https://compote.slate.com/images/4cd2fba5-0c67-439c-96b7-ebe97db71b0b.png?width=780&height=520&rect=617x411&offset=46x63[/img]
       "White" Carlson's skin colour is obviously more distant from
       optical white than "non-white" Omar's and Duckworth's skin
       colours.
       [img]
  HTML https://i1.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/comp-1594395285.png?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644%2C362&ssl=1[/img]
       "Non-white" Navarro vs "white" Thiessen - same phenomenon as
       above.
  HTML https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ocasio-cortez_yohoted_getty-gn2020.jpg
       "Non-white" AOC vs "white" Yoho - same phenomenon again.
       That something like this even needs to be explicitly pointed out
       is a sign of how psychologically powerful Eurocentrism is. But
       pointing it out is the start of pushing back.
       Bonus video:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1fl9U5gq2U
       #Post#: 523--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 26, 2020, 1:27 am
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       OLD CONTENT
       “Argues that some people shouldn’t be in the debate because
       they’re the wrong skin color”, says Carlson, referring to
       Congressman Cedric Richmond’s statement about how “white” people
       cannot relate to “black” experiences.
       LMFAO. Carlson does not even realize the irony of that statement
       considering this is Carlson’s skin color:
       [img]
  HTML https://a57.foxnews.com/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/694940094001/5d8954da-4039-4ee5-b42d-c5ebe7798b51/1e28d052-aa1c-4104-99f1-156519e824ff/1280x720/match/931/524/image.jpg?ve=1&tl=1[/img]
       ---
       What colour skin is this?
       [img]
  HTML https://i.insider.com/5810e568362ca425008b4fe6?width=1100&format=jpeg&auto=webp[/img]
       Is Trump's skin closer to the colour of his shirt collar or to
       the colour of the wall behind his left shoulder? (If you are
       having difficulties, please make use of the NBC logo behind his
       right shoulder for reference.)
       And no, it's not just Trump either:
  HTML https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2019/09/2018-04-18T200000Z_1822510061_RC16D16AEE40_RTRMADP_3_USA-JAPAN-1024x617.jpg
       Do you see any non-Trump skin here which is closer in colour to
       Trump's/Pence's shirt collars (or even Pence's hair/Bolton's
       moustache) than to Trump's skin?
       Let's try a non-politician:
  HTML https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/70/c7/1970c7656137ca604097898a92db6c1d.png
       Hogan's moustache is roughly the same colour as the dog, the
       ceramics and his cap, all of which are within the casual range
       of white (though only the drink can is strictly white). His
       skin, on the other hand.....
       Let's go outside the US too:
  HTML https://live.staticflickr.com/8152/7153374057_c483c50257_b.jpg
       What skin colour is this? (Hint: compare with background
       colours.)
  HTML https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cFKsGhO63R8/maxresdefault.jpg
       Putin is a camouflage expert:
       [img]
  HTML https://cdnuploads.aa.com.tr/uploads/Contents/2020/03/25/thumbs_b_c_d3bb3e0243bbfb722c579c74e5166bf3.jpg?v=204723[/img]
       Is the wall behind Putin white? (Hint: compare with his shirt.)
       So what does that make Putin's skin?
       ---
       Skin Colour Analysis, "White Lives Matter" edition:
       [img]
  HTML https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/GOAL/9b/51/white-lives-matter-plane_1snp8m4zyuj8c1k7rtoldgi7jy.jpg?t=-577599542&w=1280&h=720[/img]
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       e/incoming/article18479652.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_Jake-Hepple-a
       nd-Megan-Rambadt.jpg
       I only see a white sky.
       [img width=1280
       height=960]
  HTML https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/group_images/ap_311627956509.jpg[/img]
       I only see white T-shirts.
  HTML https://cdn.igvofficial.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/11164259/tattoo-fail.jpg
       I only see a white phone.
       ---
  HTML https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/06/26/14/30088760-8463337-image-m-10_1593178178819.jpg
       [quote]You know, as a quote-unquote rich, white, Christian male,
       people look at me a certain way.[/quote]
       I am looking at you in a way that includes thinking: "If the
       colour of your skin is white, what colour is the wall behind
       you?" (And of course you are not a Christian, you **** racist.)
       ---
       [quote]To be "white" in the first place requires a suspension of
       objective reality; you have to willingly deceive yourself to
       accept the membership card for the "White Club." You have to
       look in the mirror and see a complexion that is nowhere near
       "white" and say, "I'm white," and it is at that point that
       you're ready to believe anything else no matter how absurd. No
       human being is colored white, nor even comes close to the color
       white. - JAM[/quote]
       #Post#: 524--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 26, 2020, 1:42 am
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       By the way, Regis Philbin just died:
       [img]
  HTML https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rc81a.P_29kFs5SjrGoxmQ--~B/aD0xMTQ3O3c9MjAzNDtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/deadline.com/f291e1642a7c8f9068f9337d71fca85c[/img]
       Yep, skin same colour as Trump (and their neckties). Definitely
       not the same colour as their shirts.
       #Post#: 1497--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 12, 2020, 3:58 pm
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       One less psychologically colonized person in the world:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-man-fasted-four-days-112650576.html
       [quote]A 38-year-old man from the Indian state of Telangana has
       died after fasting for four days to pray for Donald Trump’s
       recovery from Covid-19.
       According to his family, Bussa Krishna Raju worshipped the US
       president like a god, and was shocked and disturbed to find out
       about his coronavirus diagnosis.
       Mr Raju refused food and started praying for Mr Trump’s recovery
       when he found out about his infection last week. Mr Trump tested
       positive on Thursday 1 October, and was treated at the Walter
       Reed Medical Center for several days.
       Mr Raju’s family told the Times of India that he collapsed on
       Sunday while having tea at his relative’s residence in the
       village of Toopran in Medak district. He was taken to hospital
       where doctors declared him dead.
       A close family member told the Times of India: "He was upset
       when he learnt about Trump testing positive for coronavirus. He
       spent sleepless nights, starved and prayed for the US
       president's recovery for the past three-four days. He died of
       cardiac arrest today around noon."
       Mr Raju has previously been in the news earlier this year when
       he installed a 6-foot statue of the US president at his home and
       started performing rituals, calling his residence the “Trump
       Temple”.
       Mr Raju said at the time that he had been praying for Mr Trump’s
       re-election, as well as his wellbeing and that of the First Lady
       Melania Trump. He claimed that even before installing the
       statue, he was worshipping Trump for over four years.[/quote]
       Many more still remaining:
       [quote]Mr Raju is not the only Indian to show his affection for
       Mr Trump. In the past the Hindu Sena, a right-wing fringe group,
       has prepared songs for Mr Trump’s welcome, celebrated his
       birthday and carried out photo exhibitions where they gave up
       offerings of cake to a poster of the president.[/quote]
       With bloodlines like these floating around the gene pool, no
       wonder India got colonized by Britain (as well as by Portugal,
       France, Netherlands and Denmark)! Indeed, looking further back,
       these were probably the same bloodlines which sided with the
       Vedics when they first arrived!
       In other news:
  HTML https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/what-influences-south-korean-perceptions-on-immigration/
       [quote]largely disparate and anecdotal evidence suggests South
       Koreans are concerned about non-Korean immigration both from
       elsewhere in Asia and from the Middle East, in particular.
       ...
       African asylum seekers have found a similar hostility. Limited
       comparative research finds that majorities of South Koreans do
       not support accepting non-Korean and especially Muslim refugees,
       especially compared to accepting North Koreans. Meanwhile,
       limited evidence suggests that immigration from European and
       other Western countries does not elicit the same concerns
       ...
       In particular, 62.92 percent either disagreed or strongly
       disagreed with encouraging Africans to move to South Korea, with
       majorities not supportive of encouraging Middle Eastern (54.6
       percent) or Southeast Asia migration (56.38 percent) either.
       In contrast, Europeans seem to be an outlier for views on
       non-ethnic Koreans with only 30.46 percent of South Koreans
       disagreeing with encouraging their immigration. Of all groups,
       European immigration was the only group in which a majority of
       respondents (52.98 percent) stated they neither disagreed nor
       agreed with encouraging immigration. Notably, more people
       supported encouraging Europeans to immigrate to South Korea than
       similar encouragement for ethnic Koreans from China or North
       Koreans.[/quote]
       As I keep saying, discrimination by most "non-whites" is
       motivated not by ethnotribalism (contrary to identitarian claims
       of everyone being ethnotribalist), but by Eurocentrism. More and
       more hard evidence confirms this. If the identitarian 'extended
       family' narrative of people hard-wired to favour those most
       closely related to themselves were actually true, we would not
       be seeing results like the above.
       
       The real question is, how much of Eurocentrism is cultural and
       how much is genetic? But in order to isolate the genetic
       sources, first we must eliminate all the cultural sources of
       Eurocentrism.
       #Post#: 2158--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 12, 2020, 11:04 pm
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       OLD CONTENT contd.
       "Many Indian Americans from this category also promote negative
       stereotypes about "blacks" for not achieving the same level of
       success."
       Yes, I recall we began a discussion about this in the past. The
       problem is that they fail to challenge the axiom that succeeding
       under capitalism is worth respect. So it is up to us to
       challenge this as often as possible by emphasizing how
       capitalism has ruined the world beyond recognition, as well as
       by emphasizing the ugly personality traits (e.g. greed,
       aggressiveness, insensitivity) that capitalism tends to select
       for success (exception: pop culture icons). Once people learn to
       see capitalism as a general societal negative, they should
       logically proceed to viewing most winners under capitalism (not
       counting pop culture icons who genuinely inspire society in a
       positive direction) with disgust, and conversely viewing losers
       under capitalism with relief - at least they did not contribute
       to making things even worse than they already are!
       This is why, for example, we are anti-gentrification (an issue
       that deserves its own topic). Walking around a de-gentrified
       neighbourhood gives me an instant burst of relief, as I can
       think to myself: "Finally this neighbourhood has reverted to
       only simple essentials, and the inhabitants are satisfied with
       this!" On the other hand, as soon as the gentrifiers turn up and
       start opening all kinds of new businesses, it feels like
       mini-colonialism all over again, and I feel an urge to vandalize
       all the gentrified units.
       (This True Left position must not, however, be confused with the
       communist (and hence False Left) position of hostility towards
       all people who grew up rich, and solidarity with all people who
       grew up poor, without regard for their personalities. We despise
       people who want to make themselves rich, even if they grew up
       poor and are poor at present, no less than we despise people who
       are already rich and want to stay rich, or worse, become even
       richer. Whereas we respect people who - without deliberately
       trying to - happen to own plenty of money but who prefer to live
       frugally, no less than we respect poor people content with
       living frugally.)
       ---
       I am more worried by the attitude described in the following
       article:
       theconversation.com/white-mens-privilege-in-emerging-economies-i
       snt-measured-it-should-be-75557
       [quote]On the same day I interviewed a white Dutch man living in
       Gurugram, just south of New Delhi, I spoke with a black
       Congolese migrant. Their contradictory experiences speak
       eloquently about the impact of skin colour on shaping migrants’
       everyday experiences.
       The Dutch gentleman, who is in his 30s, told me he increased his
       business team’s success rate in closing business deals just by
       showing up.
       If you bring a Western guy … then they really feel important, so
       if I come in there I almost feel like a God. […] Honestly, every
       meeting where I have been, they give me business afterwards … I
       always see that the business is increasing when I’ve been there.
       Not that because I’m so good, [but] because I’m a Western guy.
       The Congolese gentleman had been living in India for about a
       decade. He had recently lost his job and been evicted from his
       apartment. He suspected that in both cases his dark skin was to
       blame. Africans have a very hard time finding housing in South
       Delhi’s more middle-class colonies because people don’t like to
       rent to Africans. Africans also report being vulnerable to
       sudden evictions and being harassed for rent money even when
       it’s not due.
       The Dutch man’s white privilege makes him more effective in the
       workplace. It also imbues him with special status in the gated
       residential community where he lives with his family. He rents
       rather than owning an apartment, but was invited to sit in on
       meetings with homeowners – a privilege not extended to Indian
       tenants.
       ...
       In both South Africa and particularly in India, white men from
       the west benefit from positive stereotypes. People believe they
       are wealthy, are a boon to the economy and are “legal” migrants.
       In India, one factor stands out far above the rest. Almost every
       single white man from a “developed” country whom I interviewed
       candidly explained the positive effect his white skin had on his
       migration experience. Many felt a mixture of discomfort and
       surprise at the power they’d gained by moving from a
       white-majority society to a white-minority society. At home they
       looked like everybody else. In a country like India, their
       whiteness set them apart.
       It also gave them an exponential social and economic advantage.
       They report being ushered into nightclubs and concerts and,
       according to one 20-something American man living in Bangalore,
       receive a lot of positive attention on dating apps like Tinder.
       Whiteness is a selling point for many employers. I interviewed a
       British man in his 60s who was the headmaster at an elite South
       Indian private school. During a speech to parents, he explained
       that he was happy to relocate to India because one of his
       great-grandparents was actually Indian. His employers were
       unhappy that he’d mentioned this Indian heritage. Part of the
       school’s cachet and competitive advantage derived from having a
       “genuine white guy” in charge.[/quote]
       The last paragraph says it all..... Thoughts? How can we destroy
       this sickness?
       ---
       More of the same awareness:
       www.youthkiawaaz.com/2019/01/indians-are-the-biggest-racist-peop
       le/
       [quote]We can still argue that there is no racism in India, but
       news of attacks on Nigerian students in Delhi and Bangalore
       prove otherwise. The attack on African nationals is probably due
       to a racial stereotype from 19th-century European colonisers
       that they practice cannibalism. It has been engraved in our
       minds as well, thanks to our country’s association with Europe.
       ...
       The truth is that every foreigner who is not white is treated
       badly. People assume that they are only here for the drug trade
       and prostitution. Indians themselves want to live in other
       countries, but will look down at and stereotype everyone from
       the African continent, seeing them as “tribals” who came here
       for illegal trade. The bias is that a foreigner who is white is
       always right.
       ...
       Indians even carry their racist bias abroad. They will sit with
       groups of other Indians who speak their language, looking at
       African-Americans, and say “Woh dekh, kya kala hai na woh (Look
       at him, he is so black)!”
       I was scrolling through several comments containing abuses and
       racist slurs against Nina Davuluri for winning Miss America in
       2014. I saw Indians saying “How can she win the contest? She is
       so black!”[/quote]
       Nigeria never colonized India. In fact, Nigeria was a fellow
       victim of the same colonizer. What we would expect to have (in a
       sane world) is rapport between Indians and Nigerians (and
       indeed, more broadly, all former victims of colonialism around
       the world) against our common oppressors. Instead we have the
       exact opposite: worshipping the oppressors and throwing fellow
       victims under the bus (in a perverse attempt to imitate the
       oppressors' biases).
       ---
       Colonial era propaganda sought to exacerbate caste divisions, so
       that “whiteness” could be upheld (similar to how the Vedics did
       back in the day). However, less westernized Indians (although
       traditional) are less racist, and even vegetarian, certainly not
       the same as the original Vedics who were meat eaters and extreme
       racists (what could be the reason for this?) It seems the only
       ones interested in upholding casteism are pro British Empire
       ZCs, and Turanian WNs.
       ---
       "However, less westernized Indians (although traditional) are
       less racist, and even vegetarian"
       So are they actively trying to decolonize India, perhaps
       including in the aspects covered here? If so, please introduce
       them to this forum; it would be nice to have some help with
       decolonization.
       "It seems the only ones interested in upholding casteism are pro
       British Empire ZCs, and Turanian WNs."
       You make it sound like this is only a few people (which I wish
       were true). I am not so optimistic, especially with movies
       exacerbating the problem:
       mediadiversified.org/2019/01/13/blackface-and-anti-blackness-in-
       bollywood-an-endemic-problem/
       [quote]With its immense influential power, Bollywood and mass
       media in South Asia have maintained the idea that having fairer
       skin is better. This is entrenched in the minds of hundreds of
       millions who consume South Asian cinema on a daily basis. The
       notion of conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards has found a
       home in South Asian mass media, including Bollywood, where they
       are reinforced through various types of consumable media in a
       myriad of ways.
       Pop culture influences the way we compare ourselves to others.
       Bollywood’s massive influence has created a society where
       self-hatred due to colourism in South Asia is common, and
       conversely, how a society views its own people is reflected in
       how its biggest entertainment industry reflects them.
       Bollywood’s continual ignorance of the various shades of beauty
       in favour of whiteness epitomises how South Asians promote
       anti-Blackness. Fairness and skin-whitening on camera is already
       harmful, supporting the stereotype that whiteness equates
       happiness. Bollywood also works in anti-Blackness through the
       narrow lens of caricatures and stereotypes. Its history is rife
       with racist views towards Black people.
       Global superstar Priyanka Chopra has built a career off
       colourism. In the 2008 movie Fashion, she plays a small town
       girl and aspiring model who, after making it to Mumbai and
       Bollywood, gets attracted to debauchery and decadence. Her
       negative spiral hits a “rock bottom” when she wakes up one
       morning next to a Black man. This is imagined to be her
       character’s lowest point despite her drug abuse, alcoholism and
       previous nefarious acts. Fashion went on to win multiple awards.
       For Bollywood, as an aspiring model, the worst thing you can do
       is position yourself sexually next to a Black person. Your skin
       has to be fair, so does your partner, it seems. For Chopra’s
       character, sleeping with a Black man was deplorable.
       ...
       ambaqqt Ishq, another 2009 film, has one of the main characters
       undergoing a random security search at the airport. Detained and
       led by a white security guard, his mood appears relaxed until a
       Black security officer walks into the room. He’s instantly
       filled with fear before being thrown around and undergoing a
       cavity search. This is supposed to be funny but epitomises the
       offensive minstrelsy still being portrayed.
       The weeds of white supremacy are still entangled firmly in
       Bollywood. Blackface and racist caricatures still exist.
       Minstrelsy is very much a part of how many South Asian people
       view Black individuals. And when Punjabi icons like Diljit
       Dosanjh, whose Twitter followings alone are in the millions,
       help further this vile image, it’s detrimental to how society
       treats its very people. Dosanjh launched his career through the
       2012 movie Jatt and Juliet. In it, he breaks up with a woman
       after imaging their future children in blackface when he finds
       out she is moving to Africa to be part of a charity program.
       ...
       Actors like Nandita Das are attempting to change mindsets by
       championing organisations like Dark is Beautiful. But, as she
       told The Guardian, she’s had to deal with directors attempting
       to lighten up her skin: “They always say to me: ‘Don’t worry, we
       will lighten you, we’re really good at it,’ as a reassurance.
       It’s perpetuating a stereotype that only fair-skinned women can
       be educated and successful.”
       Whiteness, in a world still recovering from the effects of
       colonialism, has created the myth amongst South Asians that it
       equals wealth, advancement and prosperity. A colonial hangover
       mixed in with a caste system which dates back thousands of years
       allows us to see Black people as lesser than, as pawns to
       exploit on our own way to success. It’s a conditioned belief
       inherent in us like knowing how much haldi to put in a daal.
       It’s a long road to unlearning conditioned anti-Blackness within
       our community’s cultural success, but unless we fix the way we
       view it, we will forever be at the mercy of white
       supremacy.[/quote]
       What we need is a heavy dose of movies and TV shows set in the
       colonial era that portray the colonialists as the villains.
       ---
       "casteism is promoted by foreign colonialist forces, in contrast
       to its characterization by the False (orientalist) Left as a
       uniquely Indian phenomenon."
       I agree. But is merely exposing it as colonialist-promoted
       enough to convince people to discard it? I worry that it is not,
       and believe that we need to work on other countermeasures at the
       same time.
       ---
       "What we need is a heavy dose of movies and TV shows set in the
       colonial era that portray the colonialists as the villains."
       There's already a fair bit of those in Bollywood:
       en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thugs_of_Hindostan
       en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manikarnika:_The_Queen_of_Jhansi
       ---
       Yes, but Indians seeing movies about the British Empire
       colonizing India is unlikely to make them feel solidarity with
       Nigerians (for example). what needs to happen is that Indians
       must see movies about the British Empire colonizing Nigeria (so
       that they root for the Nigerian anti-colonialist heroes), while
       Nigerians are the ones who need to see movies like those you
       linked to (so that they root for the Indian anti-colonialist
       heroes). This is how we build rapport.
       Even better would be crossovers.
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 12, 2020, 11:26 pm
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  HTML https://www.businessinsider.com.au/psychology-biases-that-benefit-white-men-2015-2
       [quote]In a recent Australian study, researchers asked 29
       confederates of a range of genders and ethnicities to board
       buses, attempt to pay for the ride with a fare card that was out
       of money, and then ask for a ride to a station over a mile away
       when it didn’t go through.
       In a Times op-ed, Yale law professor Ian Ayres said that the
       study “uncovered substantial, statistically significant race
       discrimination.”
       He continued:
       Bus drivers were twice as willing to let white testers ride
       free as black testers (72% versus 36% of the time). Bus drivers
       showed some relative favoritism toward testers who shared their
       own race, but even black drivers still favoured white testers
       over black testers (allowing free rides 83% versus 68% of the
       time).[/quote]
       #Post#: 2436--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 22, 2020, 11:03 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dear-latinx-celebrities-don-t-213227534.html
       [quote]There's a troubling pattern in Hollywood; the
       announcement of Black milestones in the industry is often
       followed by Latinx celebrities reducing those advances to a mere
       stepping stone. The spirit of the argument for Latinx
       representation then becomes "why them and not us?" instead of
       "yay for them, now time for us."
       ...
       only division and blame is produced by directly linking Black
       progress to Latinx stagnation.
       While artists from all marginalized communities undoubtedly
       deserve increased equity and opportunity, each accomplishment
       for respective demographics should not set off a rush for the
       presumed last slice of diversity pie. This reoccurring battle
       between POC stars for the representation spotlight plays into a
       white supremacist system that habitually pits communities of
       color against each other, and more often than not, exposes a
       deeply embedded presence of anti-Blackness.
       Within the Latino community, a history of anti-Blackness dates
       back to the Spanish colonialization of Latino America where a
       caste system structured by race viewed Black people as bottom
       tier. Casta paintings, 18th century lineage guides that
       prejudicially depicted racial mixing, even warned that bearing
       children with a Black person would lead to subpar, ill-mannered
       children. Similar to how white supremacy is still alive and
       thriving, anti-Black sentiment is still present in the Latino
       community and is most discernible in the hesitation to wholly
       accept Afro-Latinos as Latinos, and thus, Afro-Latino wins as
       Latino wins.
       ...
       Sidelined communities have been conditioned to treat diversity
       and representation as a revolving door in which one has to wait
       their turn to cross the barrier. Though this view was born out
       of the uphill battle to make change, it prevents people of color
       from infiltrating spaces together.
       ...
       So instead of playing into the white supremacist's game of a
       revolving door, stepping over one another to reach the inner
       circle, activists of color need to instead address the biases in
       their own communities that prevent them from dismantling the
       door altogether.[/quote]
       This is what I have been saying.
       #Post#: 3622--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 25, 2021, 1:20 am
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       As you read the following article, consider how Eurocentric the
       victims have to be to so easily fall for such a scam. I have
       encountered first-hand many similar (albeit smaller-scale) scams
       over the years, all designed to target Eurocentric victims. In
       each case, if the exact same scam were attempted by a
       "non-white" swindler, it would surely have failed. But because
       the swindler was "white", it succeeded, because psychologically
       colonized people automatically trust everything coming out of a
       "white" mouth.
  HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/18/bleach-miracle-cure-uganda-us-pastor-robert-baldwin-sam-little
       [quote]Revealed: group led by Robert Baldwin and part-funded by
       Sam Little claims toxic fluid will eradicate HIV/Aids and other
       diseases
       An American pastor from New Jersey backed by a British former
       clairvoyant is running a network that gives up to 50,000
       Ugandans a “miracle cure” made from industrial bleach, claiming
       drinking the toxic fluid eradicates cancer, HIV/Aids, malaria
       and most other diseases.
       ...
       The Guardian has learned that poor Ugandans, including infants
       as young as 14 months old, are being given chlorine dioxide, a
       product that has no known health benefit and can be extremely
       dangerous.
       ...
       Baldwin, who trained as a student nurse and is understood to
       have no other medical expertise, said he chose Uganda because it
       was a poor country with weak regulation.
       ...
       Little has posted a video online of a trip he made on 11 March
       to a village hospital in Kyenjojo district, in western Uganda,
       where he conducted a trial that he said would prove malaria
       could be cured with chlorine dioxide within two hours. Though he
       has no medical training, the Briton is seen on the video
       instructing workers in a tiny local hospital to administer the
       bleach according to the formula: 18 drops for adults, 12 drops
       for children aged five to 12 and eight drops for children aged
       one to four.
       The video shows nine people being given two doses of the fluid,
       including a baby aged about 14 months who screams in his
       mother’s arms as he imbibes it.
       ...
       The Uganda ministry of health was alarmed to hear about the MMS
       trials, saying it had no information about chlorine dioxide
       being tested in Ugandan hospitals. Emmanuel Ainebyoona, a
       spokesman for the ministry, said a government investigation had
       been initiated.[/quote]
       #Post#: 4179--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Psychological decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 13, 2021, 1:26 am
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       Another example of what goes on inside the mind of a "non-white"
       rightist:
  HTML https://incels.co/threads/i-wish-i-was-a-white-man-in-a-european-country.277246/
       [quote]I wish I was a western white men, how can I stop thinking
       about it?
       Spain and Portugal, smaller than Kashmir ruled over the entire
       American continent..! Which is atleast 10x bigger than india..!
       It must be cool to know that you belong to a race which
       dominated the entire world..! Made everyone thier slave..!
       I would be happy just by knowing the fact that I belong to a
       race which forced thier language on a continent 100x bigger than
       thier own nation ( latin America).
       I hate being a curry slave race, I hate indian culture, consider
       yourself lucky if you aren't born in this shitty curry culture.
       Curries have no modesty or respect, they always fighting among
       each other, scamming each other, what a filthy useless race.
       Also the western white women are probably the most beautiful
       women on earth. Desired by everyone.
       ...
       Wow, i hate being a curry.
       I love the western civilization. Thank you England for saving us
       indians from our terrible civilization. Churchill was right, he
       said that jokers will rule over india if we Britons left
       .[/quote]
       And from the replies:
       [quote]Being white in a white country is not that great. Being
       white in an ethnic country (especially in Asia) = you're a
       god.[/quote]
       We are not here to convert people like this - they are our
       enemies. We are here to expose them and ridicule them so that
       others can see what we think of them and hence be aware that
       anti-Eurocentrists also exist, and how superior we are compared
       to the Eurocentrists.
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