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Re: Re: Racist bullying
DIR By: rp
Date: March 19, 2021, 8:42 am
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What empire is the first picture?
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Re: Re: Racist bullying
DIR By: Dazhbog
Date: March 19, 2021, 10:42 am
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> What empire is the first picture?
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Portugal:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire
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Re: Re: Racist bullying
DIR By: rp
Date: March 19, 2021, 10:46 am
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>
> [quote author=rp link=topic=35.msg4952#msg4952
date=1616161332]What empire is the first picture?
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Portugal:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire
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Ok.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 31, 2021, 2:30 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBmV0bG59u4
Related:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/colorism-spectrum-black-communities-yet-155118445.html
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> I was sitting at a lunch table in 10th grade when an
amber-skinned boy told me that I was the darkest girl he would
go for. I remember being annoyed by his assessment that I had
barely made the cut for desirability, but as a teenage girl
wrestling with her own perceptions of beauty, instead of being
outraged, I accepted a moment of simultaneous praise and
devaluation.
>
> That experience of being temporarily placed on a
lighter-skinned pedestal simply because I was a noticeable
gradient lighter than a few of the chocolate girls around me, is
just one of many within Black communities that showcase the
nuances and subtleties of colorism. It’s those subtleties that
can make the problem even harder to see and easier to
perpetuate.
>
> From hit reality shows, to the lyrics of our favorite songs,
to uncovered stories from Black Hollywood, the reality of
colorism continues to show up in Black entertainment and
culture. Though many of us are aware of this centuries-long
issue, Black communities have yet to truly reckon with it.
> ...
> Colorism is a system of power that favors lighter-skinned
people and it has a history of enforcement by government,
educational, and media institutions.
>
> The emotional scars inflicted by dark-skinned girls and boys
who bully lighter ones are not “the same” as the systemic scars
left by employers preferring less qualified but lighter-skinned
Black men over dark-skinned men or a criminal justice system
that is 65 percent more likely to convict people widely
considered to be very dark.
>
> That said, healing is messy and while the ways that colorism
shows up in our lives may not be the same, we are all unified by
our right to be seen and for our pain to be acknowledged. We all
have blind spots in one area or another, and centering
compassion can help us find them.
>
> I used to think that lighter-skinned girls were celebrated,
but in recent years I’ve come to understand that being
exoticized and fetishized is not “the same” as being celebrated,
and being likened to a trophy is not “the same” as being
cherished. In some cases, it may even increase the risk for
violence.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 2, 2021, 1:05 am
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HTML http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-10/12/content_33154166.htm
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> Uygur faces are finding their way to movie screens, phones,
and billboards across China.
>
> Members of the ethnic minority group have facial features that
Chinese brands have deemed “attractive,” creating opportunities
for talented Uygurs to break into the entertainment business as
singers, models and TV stars.
> ...
> Though he cautions that Han Chinese still far outnumber the
number of Uygur models, many of his Chinese clients are “looking
for a face that have some Asian characteristics, but also have
some kind of white Europeanness to it.”
> ...
> In many ways, the shift in beauty standards correlates to a
rise in purchasing power. Increased disposable income is a
calling card for international brands looking to take advantage
of the new market.
>
> The brands bring their own standards for beauty, revealing the
Western bias in defining beauty, even in local cultures.
> ...
> A 2012 McKinsey survey of this group found that “this
generation of Chinese consumers is the most Westernized to
date.”
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 3, 2021, 11:47 pm
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Eurocentrism not only does not end when "whites" are a minority,
it often amplifies as the rarity of "whiteness" makes it even
more 'valuable' in the minds of the colonized:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/grew-majority-minority-country-still-184200923.html
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> Trinidad and Tobago, known for its Carnival and sunny beaches,
is a compelling study of colonialism’s enduring psychological
wounds. Trinidad was invaded by the British in 1797. Tobago, a
nearby island, was annexed to Trinidad in the late 1800s.
British rule in Trinidad and Tobago shared characteristics with
other countries also owned by the crown, including a political
system that stripped most of the country’s population of their
rights and humanity, policing that preserved white people’s
positions at the top of the race-class pyramid, and a primary
aim of extraction that molded the country into a plantocracy.
The queen would be removed as head of state only in 1976 when
the twin-island nation became a republic.
>
> For more than a century, Britain transposed its own ideas of
racial purity, comportment, language, society, and culture,
systematically dissolving and criminalizing ways of life enjoyed
by Black people in Trinidad and Tobago.
> ...
> I found my own Trinidadian upbringing confusing. On one hand,
I was made to believe that race mattered very little, echoing
sentiments of postraciality that surfaced after President Barack
Obama was elected. My schoolbooks emphasized that Trinidad and
Tobago was a rainbow utopia, evident by the shoehorning of as
many creeds and races as could possibly fit into small,
grayscale pictorial representations. I’d look at my face in the
mirror—my light but definitely brown skin, my broad
nose—clocking my features against the fact that my last name was
confusingly Chinese (my great-grandfather on my dad’s side came
from there) and wondering what the hell I was.
>
> I was Black when I traveled, a fact made clear to me on my
first-ever trip to America when I was seven. But when I was
home, in a society that was mostly Black and Brown anyway, I
could just be Trinidadian. My mixedness represented a kind of
ideal amalgamation that fit neatly into the nationalist
narrative our country’s first prime minister proposed—himself a
Black firebrand who stated in one breath that “Massa day done,”
but in another, “There can be no Mother India for those whose
ancestors came from India. There can be no Mother Africa for
those of African origin. … A nation, like an individual, can
have only one Mother.”
>
> On the other hand, I was made to believe that race mattered
very much. I never considered my Blackness, because I knew, deep
down and even as a child, what kinds of trauma my light skin
exempted me from. I desperately wanted to be white, not just to
look it but to feel it, to feel as though I was popular at
school, as though I was special, as though I could vacation
overseas whenever I wanted. My “diverse” and private Catholic
school made that abundantly clear, in which we were told once
that if we failed our exams, we would be accepted to only those
high schools—coded language for schools that were typically
all-Black and largely neglected.
>
> Theorists speak of decolonization as a process involving a
reordering of our society and culture according to Indigenous
worldviews. But even before this, even before Trinidad and
Tobago can reach consensus on what indigeneity means to such a
confluence of people, its most powerful must reflect on the
wrongness of a system that while wreaking psychological havoc
below, still graciously sees white and lighter-skinned people
sitting on thrones that have simply switched hands.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: April 4, 2021, 6:20 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/JordanSumbu/status/1290769754634870784?s=19
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 6, 2021, 12:27 am
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"Non-white" victim of bullying thinks it's OK to be a "white"
bully:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/asian-american-man-punched-hate-215522370.html
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> Asian American Man Punched in Hate Crime Asks for Attacker to
Get Restorative Justice, Not Jail
>
> Daniel Hutchens, 38, pleaded guilty to a bias crime for
assaulting an Asian American man at a Portland MAX stop last
year, according to Oregon Live. He allegedly approached the
victim and asked if he was Chinese before punching him in the
face. Hutchens fled the scene after the attack. The suspect, who
had already spent 100 days in custody, was sentenced to 90 days
in prison during his hearing on March 30. The victim, who did
not wish to be identified, requested to find a resolution that
does not add jail time for Hutchens
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[img]
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This is how sick in the head many victims of colonialism are.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 11, 2021, 10:40 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/huffpost/internalized-racism-asian-american-130000170.html
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> I Hated Myself For Not Being White For Most Of My Life. Here’s
How I Stopped.
>
> I used to hate being Korean. I grew up envying the
blond-haired, blue-eyed, skinny white girls on TV and the
movies. It was hard not to hate my small eyes and flat features
when all I ever saw in the media were portrayals of white
beauty. Even my parents wanted me to get a nose job and shave
down my cheekbones because that’s what they thought was
beautiful ― not our faces, but theirs.
>
> I was ashamed of how we looked to everyone else: uncivilized,
loud, smelly with garlic breath, and dumb with our broken
English and awkward accents. I hated how enmeshed and closed off
my family was and how it seemed like nothing outside of us was
allowed in and we weren’t allowed out.
>
> I used to hate being around other Asians ― in part
because like most Korean Americans, I grew up in the church and
thought that all Koreans were judgmental Christians, but also
because I refused to accept that I was anything like them.
>
> I hated how Asians traveled together in flocks and how
abrasive their languages seemed compared to the calm consistency
of English. I used to make fun of other Asians, believing I was
nothing like them, and trying to convince myself that I was more
American ― or more white ― than them.
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Pick one.
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> Cathy Park Hong, author of “Minor Feelings: An Asian American
Reckoning,” writes, “Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the
way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst
enemy.” I became my own worst enemy from the moment I arrived at
LAX at only 3 years old, beginning what now feels like a
lifetime of assimilating to whiteness and desperately trying to
be seen and accepted.
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This (in bold) is probably the best line in the article.
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> For a large part of my youth and young adulthood, I spent my
time in America fawning out of survival. Fawning is one of the
trauma responses, similar to flight, fight or freeze. Fawning is
when you people-please to diffuse conflict in order to
reestablish a sense of safety.
>
> I fawned by aiming to please white people and viewing myself
the way they saw me. I fawned by laughing off racist jokes,
microaggressions, fetishizations, and the repeated belittling of
my cultural background and how I look.
>
> I learned early on that this is what I would have to do to
make it through alive. I laughed off countless “open your eyes”
jokes and I begged my parents to buy me Lunchables so I wouldn’t
have to bring smelly kimchi to school for lunch. A friend once
told me I smelled weird, so I became accustomed to spraying
myself from head to toe in perfume to mask the smell of Korea
whenever I left my house.
>
> I distanced myself from other Asians, thinking I had found the
solution to all of my problems by aligning myself with white
people, clinging to my proximity to whiteness. Instead of just
quietly minimizing myself and my racial trauma, I simultaneously
perpetuated and mocked Asian stereotypes and rejected the parts
of myself that didn’t fit the white mold. As the saying goes, if
you can’t beat them, might as well join them.
>
> I fawned into the model minority myth, designed to pit people
of color against each other to uphold white supremacy. I fawned
and tried to survive the only way I knew how, by blending in
― only that was never actually possible.
>
> It wasn’t until I got older and I was able to explore my
culture outside of my family of origin that I could appreciate
these parts of myself that I desperately tried to keep hidden.
> ...
> In Korea, I learned about our painful history and just how
much colonialism is rooted in racism. I learned about how long
we’ve been carrying and passing down this trauma from generation
to generation, until it reached me and my family ― the
first to make it to the land of opportunity and freedom and have
a go at the American dream.
> ...
> Now when people ask me what was once a very dreaded question
― “Where are you from?” which really means, “What are
you?” ― I proudly respond that I’m Korean American because
I want to normalize the fact that this country is made up of
humans of all colors, shapes, sizes and ethnicities. I view
myself from my own lens instead of filtering myself to appeal to
white people because I want to show the world that this is what
America truly looks like.
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OK, but if fawning is merely a survival reaction by an ethnic
minority living among a majority of a different ethnicity:
1) why does one "non-white" minority living among a different
"non-white" majority not fawn to that majority group? (Did
Ghandi try to be "black" during his time in South Africa? LOL)
2) why does a "white" minority living among a "non-white"
majority not fawn to that majority group? (
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/orania/
Duh!)
Until we recognize that fawning is only ever directed towards
"whites", we have not reached the root of the problem.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: April 21, 2021, 2:11 pm
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"Non-White" defends "Prince" Phillip:
HTML https://twitter.com/tunkuv/status/1380499302280220675?s=19
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>
> I liked Prince Philip.
> He was...candid.
> My favourite line was his saying aloud that a badly installed
fuse-box somewhere in Scotland seemed to have been "put in by an
Indian."
> I've never met a decent Indian electrician.
> Have you?
>
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