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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: May 11, 2023, 11:11 pm
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       Japanese girl's Euro-Nepotism
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 11, 2023, 11:25 pm
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       "Japanese girl's Euro-Nepotism"
       No, this is Eurocentrism, because she herself is non-"white".
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepotism
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       > The term comes from Italian word nepotismo,[5][6] which is
       based on Latin root nepos meaning nephew.[7]
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 18, 2023, 7:36 pm
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       Mainstream journalism finally catches onto the obvious:
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/making-sense-of-nonwhite-white-supremacists-151210784.html
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       > experts who study racial identity and extremism say there are
       a variety of reasons why nonwhite people might be drawn to the
       movement.
       >
       > Many say that one of the main appeals of racist groups is that
       they can offer some people of color an opportunity to distance
       themselves from their own backgrounds — which they may view as
       inferior — and to gain some of the perceived power that comes
       from being aligned with whiteness.
       > ...
       > “What’s the best way to distance yourself from feeling like
       you’re part of an oppressed group? It’s to align yourself with
       those who are part of the oppressors.
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       Woke comments:
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       > Explanation? Self hating, wannabes that wish they were white.
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       > even though blacks would never admit it, I do believe they
       subconsciously submit to white folks as their masters.
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       > Ask Clarence Thomas.
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       > many non African races...don't want to be associated with
       'blacks'...when labeled as 'colored.'
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       > Only DUMB LATINOS side with white supremacists. The ones that
       do will wake up one day and find the barrel of that gun pointed
       at them.
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       > white Hispanics look down on darker-skinned Hispanics just as
       some Caucasians look down on darker-skinned races in the US.  No
       one should be the least bit surprised that some of their ilk
       would be drawn to the supremacists.
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       > After reading the article the first person I thought of was it
       Ted Cruz
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       > Those are self-haters who have psychological issues about
       themselves and/or their race. The best example of this is
       Michelle Malkin, she's a product of filipino immigrants and yet
       she's advocating outlawing all immigration whether legal or
       illegal. She was once talking about the "Affirmative Action" and
       how it disadvantaged white people... while talking she
       inadvertently and in a 'freudian slip-of-a tongue' said, "we"
       while talking about white people.
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       > White supremacists don't have to be white - but remember all
       white are white supremacists
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: May 19, 2023, 1:49 pm
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       Whiteness is truly a dangers disease, it weakens non-"whites" by
       making them hate themselves and their racial origins, it also
       makes them doubt themselves and not trust their instincts so
       that it is easier for "whites" to exert control on them. It's
       very important for non-"whites" to have respect for themselves
       and their racial origins so that they can stand firm and with
       pride when having to deal with the racist "white" gaze.
       I'm grateful to 90rf and Zea_Mays for their websites, which have
       opened my eyes to this danger.
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: May 31, 2023, 2:52 pm
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  HTML https://www.cbc.ca/television/i-was-ashamed-of-being-chinese-learning-about-my-ancestors-first-years-in-canada-changed-that-1.6858176
       I was ashamed of being Chinese. Learning about my ancestors'
       first years in Canada changed that.
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       >
       >
       > For the first 37 years of my life, I'd lived confidently
       believing that my family, like many Chinese Canadians, had begun
       our lives in Canada as part of a wave of immigration from Hong
       Kong and beyond during the 1970s. And then last year, in the
       middle of the pandemic and amid a surge of anti-Asian sentiment,
       I started to dig deeper into my family's past and discovered
       that it wasn't our first time as settlers in Canada. Our story
       began more than 100 years ago, in the era of the Chinese Head
       Tax and The Chinese Exclusion Act, when the government was
       determined to prevent people who looked like me from becoming
       citizens of this country.
       >
       > As a young jook-sing — a Cantonese slang phrase for a
       Western-born and/or raised Chinese person who identifies more
       with Western than Chinese culture — in north Scarborough, I was
       more concerned about erasing all traces of my Chinese identity
       than learning about where my family came from. And you can
       imagine why. You see, I never saw myself in North American
       media, TV or film. There were never any stories that were by and
       about people like me. The only portrayals of Asians at the time
       were pumped full of stereotypical tropes: yellow-facing in shows
       such as Kung Fu starring David Carradine, we were background
       extras that were weak and sex-less, and/or we were the evil,
       conniving "Fu Manchu" character. I became so ashamed of being
       Chinese that it was easier for me to come to terms with my queer
       identity at 13 years old than my ethnic background.
       >
       > Back in school, little was taught about Chinese Canadians (let
       alone stories from Indigenous peoples and other non-European
       communities) in history class. If we were mentioned, it was one
       tiny, you-had-to-find-it-using-a-magnifying-glass, paragraph
       about the Chinese Head Tax or Chinese working on the railway.
       From the education system to pop culture, zero value was placed
       on the stories of Chinese Canadians; it's no wonder my
       impressionable young mind thought this meant that my family and
       I didn't matter, and didn't belong here.
       >
       > But my world changed last year: I became a born-again Asian.
       Like so many of my fellow Asian Canadians, I was grappling with
       the anti-Asian racism that reared its ugly head during the
       pandemic. In doing so, I began to reclaim the Chinese heritage
       that I had shunned my whole life.
       >
       > On arrival, he was forced to pay the $500 Chinese Head Tax to
       enter the country.
       >
       > He was eager to bring his family to this land and begin a life
       together, but those dreams were stolen from him in 1923 with the
       introduction of The Chinese Immigration Act (commonly called the
       Chinese Exclusion Act), which banned the entry of virtually all
       Chinese immigrants. It was the first and only immigration law
       that banned entry by race, and it would keep people like my
       great-grandfather, other naturalized Chinese immigrants and
       born-and-raised-in-Canada Chinese from bringing over their
       families until the law was repealed in 1947.
       >
       > During this time, white people, specifically from Commonwealth
       nations, were given huge financial incentives to become settlers
       in Canada. With The Empire Settlement Act of 1922, the Canadian
       government entered into an agreement with the British government
       to subsidize their citizens to work in Canada and to ensure
       "British values" dominated. These British immigrants were even
       encouraged to bring over friends and acquaintances, while people
       like my great-grandfather, who had paid dearly to enter Canada,
       were forced to become "married bachelors," unable to bring over
       even their most immediate family members.
       >
       >
       > For many Asian Canadians, the pandemic forced us to confront
       some uncomfortable truths. From being blamed for giving the
       world "Kung flu", asked, "Where are you from? No, where are you
       really from?" our entire lives, to seeing our elders violently
       attacked and others killed, it's become clear that no matter how
       integrated we are in Canadian society, we are first viewed as
       Asian — foreign, never quite fully belonging or loyal to this
       country. I've had to acknowledge this othering and finally start
       to unpack the racism I'd internalized since childhood.
       >
       > With this year marking 100 years since the Chinese Immigration
       Act was passed, I have begun to take pride in my background.
       Having pieced together my own family's journey to Canada, I am
       able to paint a better picture of where I descended from so I
       can honour my ancestors and their sacrifices.
       >
       > My ancestors —  like my great-grandfather Lee Chuen Oy — were
       brave and strong. They faced an unwelcoming environment and they
       persevered. They were resilient in the face of adversity, never
       once complaining about the racist society and government[they
       should have complained] that stole their dreams when they were
       trying to build lives, businesses and families.
       >
       > It took me 37 years but I can now finally say that I have
       never been more proud to be Chinese Canadian
       >
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       Racist apartheid colonials are definitely experts at making
       non-"whites" not feel part of the country in which they were
       born in. I understand the deep pain that comes with feeling like
       an outsider in ones own country, a pain which i don't think I'll
       ever be able to forgive those who have made me endure this, fuck
       the commonwealth.
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 7, 2023, 9:47 pm
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       It is the same everywhere:
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/tunisian-black-women-skin-colour-033056234.html
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       > "In Tunisia people are always questioning the fact that I'm
       Tunisian," says activist Khawla Ksiksi, a black Tunisian
       citizen.
       > ...
       > Ms Ksiksi, who is a co-founder of the Voices of Black Tunisian
       Women collective, wants to challenge the misconception that
       black Tunisians do not exist.
       > ...
       > "They treat us not as Tunisians and treat themselves as not
       Africans."
       >
       > She argues that despite independence from France in 1956,
       Tunisians want to be seen as belonging to Europe, and the
       colonial viewpoint that black Tunisians are "dusty and unclean"
       lingers.
       >
       > "That's why we have a huge identity crisis in Tunisia. We had
       independence on paper, but the colonial politics are still
       here."
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 18, 2023, 4:47 pm
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       A simple psychological decolonization exercise:
       [img]
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  HTML https://www.dailydot.com/irl/white-people-refuse-to-move-sidewalk/
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       > a viral video advising people of color, especially women, to
       refuse to move for white people when walking and see how many of
       them move out of the way.
       >
       > Jacobs decided to try it, saying she’d never noticed that many
       white people don’t move for others. In her video, she covers her
       mouth, then gasps and laughs.
       >
       > The TikToker walks down a sidewalk and has to navigate between
       other people who refused to move for her. She appears to bump
       into people as a result several times.
       >
       > The TikToker’s video went viral with about 1.3 million views
       as of Tuesday. Jacobs wasn’t the only one who said they hadn’t
       noticed this before.
       >
       > “Never realized. (White people) be taking up majority of the
       block and expect u to move,” one viewer commented on the video.
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       Always remember:
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       >
       [img]
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: 2ThaSun
       Date: June 18, 2023, 5:28 pm
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       I've noticed this as well. I've always prided myself in simply
       getting out of other people's way as much as possible, whether
       walking, or driving. It seems most people do not share this
       attitude. I was beginning to think it's just a U.S. attitude
       myself. The amount of bad behavior I see from the general public
       around me on a daily basis is astounding and has certainly
       gotten worse since 9/11 I think? It feels like most people pay
       very little attention to what's actually going on around them
       here, especially how their behavior impacts others.
       "Pay attention to detail" was drilled into us in the U.S.
       military. The general public doesn't seem to be very good at
       this at all. Many U.S. citizens appear to go through life in a
       mode of complete tunnel vision...
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 18, 2023, 5:56 pm
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       Note the instant Giant blood memory rush from our enemies in
       response to this:
  HTML https://twitter.com/Henrik_Palmgren/status/1670294413510320130
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       > Those little soy bones will snap when they get bulldozed over
       cause I ain’t moving either.
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       > we don't. they do.
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       > I’m 200 lbs, USDA certified lean…they move.
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       > I don't move out of the way for non-whites, they move for me.
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       > I'm 6 foot 230 lbs if she wants to play chicken  over the
       sidewalk I win.
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       > I'll walk right through her
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       > she’s like 5’3 I’ll just walk over her
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       > Would be real easy to make her move out of the way lmfao
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       > Well, someone has to move aside unless she wants to get
       knocked down.
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       > A good tactic for when gooks don’t get out of your way is to
       slow your walking speed right down, works wonders
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       > Generally people move aside when I'm walking the streets of
       the CBD.  A resting grump face and a solid build seems to make
       them change direction.  The ones who don't find themselves
       experiencing a massive non-consensual change of direction.
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       > If they dont move, MAKE THEM move
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       > Id put my shoulder right back into it! I refuse to budge. I
       refuse to give an inch.
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       > Time for Ching Chong to find out,what happens,when you play
       stupid games
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       > Slap. Done.
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       > fast way to get knocked down
       >
       > i won't realy care about who tries to get in my way
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       > And she would get a sweet shoulder shiver that might bloody
       her nose...
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       >
       [img]
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       Re: Psychological decolonization
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: June 19, 2023, 3:00 pm
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       > I don't move out of the way for non-whites, they move for me.
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       These type of comments is why "whites" belong in concentration
       camps.
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