Die könnte auf der #Erde interessant werden, wenn der #Klimawandel weiter fortschreitet. Auch wenn das Sprichwort lautet, dass Du #Geld nicht essen kannst, vielleicht klappte es mit Steinen.
Making the circumcision controversy controversial: Going meta and taking aim at the messenger(s): Reply to Wamai et al.,
de Camargo Jr et al., 2015, Global Public Health
"For those of us who study the use of rhetoric in science, their commentary offers a fascinating example of many of the well-documented observations made by authors working in Science and Technology Studies."
Continuing the Mad Men approach to ecological space colonization, this sequel explores the growing pains of a company town becoming a democracy, a corporation losing its monopoly, and two species of people figuring out how to live together.
How do you name your devices? I name my devices after #philosophers. I've had Schopenhauer, Kant, Diogones, Socrates, etc. But for this newly installed laptop using #GNOME#Silverblue, I decided for something a bit different.
My new system is called Fanton, after Frantz Fanton, who studied the psychology of #colonization - that is both the colonized and the colonizers. His statement that colonization dehumanizes both still rings true today.
I'm especially interested in the potential conflict between concepts of #land#landback and #property and rights concerning #geography between cultures who associate themselves with belonging to the land vs. so-called true nomadic or semi-nomadic cultures (not so much pastoral nomads who still have a sense of belonging to a specific geography).
Added bonus if there is an intersection with #leftist, especially #communist critique.
On this final day of Black History Month I’d like to share about the origin of African countries.
The “Scramble for Africa” was the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers between 1870 and 1914.
#SouthKorea on Thursday #protested against Japan's repeated territorial claim to the #Dokdo islets, called #Takeshima in Japan, lying halfway between the two countries.
Throughout the ages, colonizer has successfully used the same tricks to steal land from #indegenous : starve them !"
For decades on the West Bank, #Israeli settlers and the IDF soldiers who protect them have both denied #Palestinians access to their crops and ripped the trees from the ground to deny their caretakers a living. Because it takes a number of years after planting for new trees to bear fruit, it’s obvious why they do this.
...
Historically it’s often been the case that those who wanted to colonize a land used attacks on treasured resources to dispossess and even eradicate those reliant on them. To see this closer to home we need look no further than the 19th century campaigns in North America to wipe out bison populations, including one led by the US. army starting around 1870. This was done with the expressed purpose of forcing Indigenous peoples reliant on these herds onto reservations.
By taking away a peoples’ way of life like this, European colonizers attempted to degrade and eventually destroy their cultures. In Canada, and likely in the United States, what was done to indigenous people is often dismissed as something that happened, “long ago” (even as it continues in many places to the present day).
"There's no use fighting over the deeds of the first settlers. What's done is done, and we must live with it. But it's within our power to change the way we've been living with it..."
Does karma work for groups as well as individual souls?
If so, how would you even define the contours of that group?
Culture? Then what about people with multiple cultural influences?
Ancestry? Then what about mixed race people?
Does everyone get bad karma from colonization in proportion to the fraction of the genes or cultural influence they get from colonizers?
Belief? Do you get bad karma in proportion to how much you believe in colonization in the abstract?
The fairest way to do IMO it is action. You get bad karma in proportion to how much bad stuff you do yourself.
Is there maybe some kind of collective soul that each individual can have multiple of in different proportions.
That seems very unfair to me because it means that people can be judged by what people they are related to do. But it's consistent.
@Hyolobrika
> Does karma work for groups as well as individual souls?
I think the point of this dialogue is that any divine justice works at the scale of the universal and eternal. At the scale of human beings, as the famous quote from the Terminator films puts it, "there is no fate but what we make for ourselves".
Love, but not for the colonized: responding to repression of Palestine solidarity at CUNY
"However, what we find particularly affronting and are driven to address here is the insidious way in which WAC coordinators weaponized the language of love, antiracism, and care to silence support for Palestinian liberation. This hypocrisy is part of a broader trend in left academia and is thus important to address."