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Samih al-Qasim, tr. by Abdullah al-Udhari, from Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry; “Slit Lips”

[Text ID: “I would have liked to tell you / The story of a nightingale that died. / I would have liked to tell you / The story… / Had they not slit my lips.”]

play-now-my-lord:

should stolen indigenous land be used by settlers as collective industrial farms and central cities or used by settlers as decentralized smallholder farms and walkable towns or used by settlers to mine uranium for perfect renewable power or used by settlers for camping and wildlife preservation. We asked 100 white leftists and filmed the sissy slapfight that emerged

akajustmerry:

Text reads: Despite a performance from Lily Gladstone that practically redefines gravity with the force of her glare, Killers of the Flower Moon is far more interested in her suffering at the hands of her husband than her personhood. We experience Mollie and her family through the eyes of her husband Ernest, and Ernest’s Uncle, the “King”. Details of Mollie’s life before or after Ernest, is not shown, but conveyed derisively through Ernest and his uncle’s discussions.ALT
Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), William K Hale (Robert Deniro), and Ernest Burkheart (Leonardo DiCaprio) smiling in a still of Mollie and Earnest's wedding scene.ALT
Text image reads: Even if Ernest didn’t knowingly poison his wife (at first), he did knowingly assist in the organised murder of people she cared for. What does it matter whether white men like Ernest weren’t aware of the full extent of harm they caused? Scorsese and his creative team’s storytelling in Killers Of The Flower Moon, despite the best intentions and efforts to be culturally appropriate, hinge the film on the monstrousness of unknowing white complicity. But why should a white perspective, even a monstrous one, be the focus at all? Ironically, Scorsese told Time magazine he moved away from hinging the film on the FBI investigation like in the original book to focus on the Osage themselves, saying, “after a certain point, I realised I was making a movie about all the white guys… which concerned me.”ALT
Mollie and her sister weep over their mother's dead body as Ernest and William Hale watch.ALT
Text reads: In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s acclaimed novel, The Sympathizer, Nguyen proposes that white Americans are no longer as concerned with being seen as vengeful or virtuous or even good or bad, so much as they desire to, “command the bright lights of center stage”. Indeed, time and time again throughout film history, films billed as advocating for marginalized people focus as much, if not more, on the humanity of their oppressor. Schindler’s List, 12 Years A Slave, Dallas Buyer’s Club, The Nightingale, Green Book, Oppenheimer, and countless other films prioritise the anguish of the perpetrator in stories in lieu of advocating for the victims and survivors of such horror. Unfortunately, Killers of the Flower Moon, despite the efforts of the filmmakers to be inclusive, falls into the very same paradigm that maintains a hierarchy with marginalised perspectives at the bottom.ALT
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Text reads: This sentiment was echoed by Christopher Cote, an Osage language consultant on the film. Cote told The Hollywood Reporter at the Killers of the Flower Moon premiere, he had some “concerns” about the film, stating, “As an Osage, I really wanted this to be from the perspective of Mollie [Burkhart].” Cote acknowledged it would take an Osage filmmaker to do that, but that Scorsese did a great job representing his people. However, Cote also said, “but this story, this history is being told, almost from the perspective of Ernest Burkhart and they kind of give him this conscience, and kinda depict that there’s love. But when somebody conspires to murder your entire family, that’s not love.” Cote went on to say, “This film was not made for an Osage audience. It was made for everybody not Osage.”ALT
Mollie and her sisters wear traditional Osage robes and fan themselves with fans on a picnic rug.ALT
Text reads: Killers of the Flower Moon is a film about white people, for white people. It is a film about how white people stole land and stole the lives of First Nations people for money and power. It is a film for white people who find their collective guilt more compelling than compassion. Indigenous people are more than what we’ve endured. We are more than a source of guilt and regret, we are more than brutalised sickly bodies and drunks, and we are more than the tragic collateral of white colonial capitalism. We are people with our own realities, love and lives that exist beyond the guilty white gaze.ALT


READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Can’t Escape Its Own White Gaze by Merryana Salem / Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023). Dir. Martin Scorsese

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ororomunroedontpullout:

It’s wild seeing people go “okay it’s clearly Stockholm syndrome” to freed hostages thanking Hamas, saying goodbye and smiling/waving to Hamas as the IOF takes them and then also Israel keeping hostages under tight media supervision and advising them not to speak on their experiences when in actuality what probably happened was during this time the captives learned closely the the propaganda of their government that paints Hamas and Palestinians more broadly as monsterous subhumans wasn’t true. You can’t deny that hostages have consistently reported they were treated well and that the real fear was from the constant bombardments.

Comparing that with Palestinian captives being released after years of torture and abuse, some unable to even recognize their families, mothers crying over the lost years with their children, all of them detailing the horrors they face AND the fact that israel is keeping the bodies of those who died during imprisonment to finish out their sentence, them telling release children that they will be back, banning celebrations and expressions of joy in public at the release of captives as “supporting terrorists”

Idk just the more you see the more warped everything is.

Gonna bring this up


'I know my story. I know my truth': The woman behind Stockholm Syndrome says it's all a lie
A 23-year-old bank teller caught up in a siege inspired the psychological term Stockholm syndrome. But 50 years later, experts say Kristin's
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Exactly the idea that people are using a debunked misogynistic copaganda instead of facing the truth is wild

anathema1868:

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Female prisoners raise victory signs after their liberation at the hands of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.

[Quds News Network]

gayvampyr:

nativenews:

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here is an article detailing the US involvement in the Sudanese genocide

The US and the Sudan Conflict: Motives and Ability to Influence Events
The United States and Saudi Arabia announced on June 17, 2023 that both sides to the conflict in Sudan—the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and th
Arab Center Washington DC

this Medium article about Congo is paywalled but should work with 12ft.io extension

Silent Suffering: Unmasking Racism’s Veil on the Congo Genocide
Since 1990, a devastating genocide has been unfolding in the heart of Africa, claiming millions of innocent lives- several of whom have…
Medium

ororomunroedontpullout:

Also another thing: people keep saying that the Israel Palestine conflict can’t be understood in racial terms because not all Israelis are white regret how race is constructed. It’s not a biological reality. White people aren’t born white, they are made as the interests of white supremacy fluctuates. To deny any racializatipn of Palestinians and Arabs within this conflict is to not see how race is a made up thing used to justify the domination of others. the stark parallels Black Americans feel as we watch Zionists do what is a kin to Blackface but with Palestinians, the musician calling Gaza “a Black bitch” to a crowd of cheering people, the utter whiteness of pro Israel marches, the history of forced sterilization of Ethiopian Jewish women, the controlled immigration from certain non white jewish populations, the racial stereotyping that aids in the dehumanization of Palestinians. It’s all plain as day that Zionism is also a white nationalist project in many respects.

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

fluoresensitive:

I think a lot of people make the mistake of thinking whiteness is neutral, but it’s not. There is nothing neutral about a race that needs constant violence and brutality to keep itself “pure”.

jewishvitya:

The way they’re acting like “ceasefire” means “go blow yourselves up” is just. A ceasefire is nothing. It’s less than the bare minimum. It’s not “rebuild what you destroyed.” It’s not “pay the victims remaining of the families you killed.” It’s not “rehabilitate Gaza.” It’s not any of the demands that could be made in this situation. It’s just… Stop. Stop killing them. And even that is treated like it’s so fucking extreme and if you call for it you must want Jews to die. Politicians with an agenda can really demonize anything.

sillyfunnyguy:

why should palestinians have to leave behind their land because israel wont stop killing them. why should anyone have to leave behind their life and memories and sentimental value just because an aggressor is left unchallenged. please think this sentiment through and delete it from your thoughts. instead of blaming an oppressed people for living in a hostile land, ask who is making that land hostile to live in.

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