Racist chuds looking to pick a fight with any immigrant they come across is just another thing that unites the north and south

Yeah but Dublin had roving bands of racist thugs hunting for immigrants and beating up cab drivers like a year and a half ago, it’s not unique to the north

The streets are absolutely choked with tear gas (and pepper spray and smoke) so the masks are to keep the horses from getting that in their eyes.

LAPD police chief on CBSLA talking about how they’re overwhelmed by getting shot at with fireworks, rocks, and bottles of piss. Admitting on TV that they got peed on by protesters, amazing.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/live/

Edit: https://www.twitch.tv/woke for different angles/feeds

They got a bunch of cops pinned under a bridge (by lobbing shit at them from above and firing fireworks at their cars). Cops had to abandon their cars and now they are dropping flaming cardboard down onto the cop cars, and when the cops come out to put out the fire they shoot fireworks at them.

Edit: they got the car, it’s going up like a torch

I wonder who stands to benefit from perpetuation of the pathological obsession with pacifism and nonviolent protest against state violence? Who would want to turn MLK into a peaceful saint that can be called upon whenever resistance threatens the status quo?

"The Martin Luther King Junior Centre for Non-Violent Social Change, with an operational grant of $2 million, was set up by, among others, the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Mobil, Western Electric, Procter & Gamble, US Steel and Monsanto. The Center maintains the King Library and Archives of the Civil Rights Movement. Among the many programmes the King Center runs have been projects that “work closely with the United States Department of Defense, the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and others”. It co-sponsored the Martin Luther King Jr Lecture Series called ‘The Free Enterprise System: An Agent for Non- violent Social Change’. " - Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story

That’s still not a great metric of ethnic cleansing. Relative populations of white people in Canada are decreasing, does that mean there is ethnic cleansing of white Canadians? Of course not. The same also goes the other way: an exploited group’s relative population increasing does not mean they are not exploited. Population levels are not on their own a very useful metric for trying to understand whether a group is being oppressed.

There are much better arguments to use that are clear indicators of oppression/systemic violence, since population on its own is not inherently correlated to racial discrimination. It’s so much more effective to point to, as you mention yourself, the exclusion of ethnic minorities from the one-child policy, or the increase in life expectancy, the elimination of absolute poverty, the increase in health care, cultural/religious protections, civic engagement, etc in Xinjiang (or other regions with large minority populations) to dispel myths about Chinese targeting/elimination of minority populations.

Oh they probably wouldn’t, I’m just saying that I have seen this literal argument, that if the entity is trying to get rid of Palestinians why is their population increasing, as a way to refute the oppression of Palestinians pre-2023. So to use it in this case is just not a strong argument, because that isn’t really a metric of oppression.

Much clearer to point out the increase in living conditions, education, employment opportunities, health care, transit, places of worship, cultural protections, political engagement, etc. and the decrease in street violence and poverty, in Xinjiang, which is something that absolutely at no time has ever occurred for Palestinians.

This is a horrendous rebuttal. The Palestinian population has, in fact, gone up since the Nakba, and quite often this fact has been used to dismiss the policy of apartheid and ethnic cleansing that the Zionist entity employs.

If you want to argue against nonsense claims about China’s policies regarding its ethnic minorities, then focus on concrete facts, such as the lack of any corroborating evidence that there is a genocide happening. If you want to compare it to Palestine, instead compare the overwhelming flood of footage and primary source evidence of the atrocities being perpetrated even under Internet blackout and blockade, and how it would be comparably impossible for there to be a targeted policy of genocide within China that didn’t have any footage or photographic evidence in the modern age.

Raw population number is itself a terrible argument against violent repression and discrimination (Palestine is not the only example of a violently oppressed people whose population has grown, either)

I will second Rashid Khalidi’s work, including The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

Musa Budeiri’s The Palestinian Communist Party, 1919-1948

Ilan Pappé’s Britian and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1951 and The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947 - 1951

Gershon Shafir’s Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882 - 1914

Nur Mashala’s Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Ghassan Kanafani’s The 1936 - 39 Revolt in Palestine is a really good essay as well

This comment is bullshit because any term can be “linked to the autogynephilia bs.” That’s the fault of the oppressor, not transsexuals. Queer people are bs now because queer is linked to British fascist movements that did gay bashing? Transgender people are bs because it’s linked to the transgenderism woke mind virus bs? This is a pathetic argument.

“overly sexualizes us” and yet you don’t identify as transsexual. This is a personal problem, where you personally don’t feel represented by a word, and yet you feel confident telling other people that the language they do feel comfortable with and use to self-describe is harmful and damaging to you. This is the height of arrogance.

Sure, say that you don’t want to be called transsexual. That’s fair. But that doesn’t make it your place to tell transsexual people, who you are not one of, that they can’t use it or it’s harmful of them to do so. And it’s absolutely gross to say that someone’s self-identification not matching your own choice is empowering oppressive ideologies, thereby oppressing transsexual people by refusing them the safety and right to self-identify in favour of the current hegemonic term transgender.

Edit: I also want to say that in your very comment you conflate transgender, transsexual, and trans as all being interchangeable and synonymous, but that is only true to you. To many people (and by the words’ very histories) these are not the same thing. To say transsexuals are harming all trans people and that they have to just use the hegemonic transgender or trans is to erase that transsexual is its own identity with its own history and its own communities of relationality.

I don’t agree that it’s your place to determine who should or should not use certain words to describe themselves, and I think maybe it is important for you to consider the idea of you determining who you are “comfortable” with self-describing as transsexual. Imagine if someone said they were uncomfortable with the language you use to self-describe and that it’s just harmful (for instance, this is a very common thing that people say about neopronouns, and is offensive for obvious reasons).

I have a lot to say about this, but I will keep this short: however someone self-describes is no one else’s business, and it is rather unkind for trans spaces to have people talking about certain designations as uncomfortable or “just harmful,” and also misses that transsexual is more prevalent in particularly non-Anglo contexts (especially in the Global South), and thus there is also a chauvinistic element to imposing language that is comfortable in your cultural context on people living in a different cultural context. Especially when so much of queer terminology is already based on the feelings of comfort of predominantly white queer people in Anglo-America, and often erases, diminishes, or outright rejects the linguistic identifiers of others.

People who speak French in Canada aside from racist white Québecois: Acadians who have deep ties to Indigenous communities resulting in Indigenous-French pidgin languages; Métis; North African migrants who have previously been colonized by the French and face the double-discrimination of their migrant status and their French language proficiency in a country that racistly demands they learn English, yet another colonial imposition.

This is a post written by someone who is deeply uneducated in: linguistics and history, and also seems entirely unaware of the existence of the Métis.

French is “inherently snobby” to you because of the history of French integration in the English language through aristocratic channels after the Norman invasion.

French within Canada is a diverse national identity: from the Québecois, to the Métis, to the Acadians, these groups have varied histories, interests, and national characters that make painting them as a solid group problematic, ahistorical, and, frankly racist in the case of the Métis.

I also noticed your shit-talking of the French nationalist movement in response to a comment on the FLQ, which shows further ignorance of the Québecois history of separatism. It’s absurd to say that French is somehow privileged on the national stage, and to so readily dismiss a movement that, at the time, was based on re-establishing Indigenous sovereignty and breaking down Canadian hegemony to supplant the colonial project with socialist intranational treaty nations as just “white settlers” shows how little you actually know about what you’re responding to.

Canada is half of a continent in size, trying to boil it down to a single mono-culture (and one based on very niche subcultures of media representations) is as settler-brained as it gets.

An tSionainn is classic, of course, as well as all her daughters, but the Three Sisters: an Bhearú, an Fheoir, and an tSiúr are pretty lovely. An Bhanna is a personal favourite.

Athabasca and Assiniboine are pretty great, as is the Don’s Anishnaabe name Wonscotonach.

Wolastoq is pretty excellent, the people who live there are even called the Wolastoqiyik because of how excellent a river it is.

Ford is trying to get SEZs, previously a tool of imperial extraction in the Global South, in Ontario. (They will still be tools of imperial extraction, but from treaty lands within Canada)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/special-economic-zones-ontario-government-bill-5-analysis-1.7547438

“The OCR has decided that in the contemporary US context, derogatory slurs against Italians and other “white ethnics” are okay given their prevalence in the police force, the worst of the well-paid working class, Jersey Shore (the television show and the place), and Staten Island (with apologies to the Wu-Tang Clan).”

https://www.tiktok.com/@chefsdoor/video/7430289791410900229

“Delicious Hot Cheetos Hummus Bites”

#arabtiktok has you covered (not surprised this seems to be from Mississauga lol)