#Western

Interesting article on the Swiss embassy abduction case in Sri Lanka by @NZZ (in German). Worth a read altough many questions remain unanswered.https://twitter.com/sagisagt/status/1338950078871048192 The Swiss-Sri Lankan relationship is com
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Some of my good friends are local ex-poachers/now conservationists. They poached not out of gleeful super-villiany, but bc they were struggling to feed their families, often driven by neocolonialism. They're
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It's OK to be RACIST. #OK_to_be_RacistBecause it doesn't mean what it is supposed to mean. It's an Orwellian instrument of socio-political intimidation & control, like calling someone a heathen or
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Today, let's talk about the almighty Paul Kagame that according to the Western & highly rated media, he's the poster boy of Africa & the champion of a modern Rwanda.
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There is nothing more unenlightened — more wilfully ignorant — than attacking people for encouraging curiosity about the assumptions behind accepted truths. That James’s targets are most often Black is
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i muted that thread bc i don't rly care to make it an argument bc it's not. it's an observation bUT since soooo many of u wanna come for me
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The Armenian Genocide 1914The Assyrian Genocide 1914The famine of Mount Lebanon 1915The Greek Genocide 1913The Hamidian massacres 1894The Diyarbakır massacres 1895The Batak massacre 1876The Hakkari massacres 1843The Massacre of Aleppo
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Lord of the Flies is one of those novels that people remember wrong. People remember its central theme as "take away civilization, and we all turn into Hobbesian little monsters."But
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Tbh while islamically an age gap like this is permissible, we should be able to understand why many men specifically prefer young women who most likely haven’t finished (or even
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When Corporate Power Is Your Real Government, Corporate Media Is State Media"This is propaganda. There is no other word for it. And yet the only time western politicians and news
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this is cringey & made me uncomfortable bc i see that there’s a new effort to make young ppl pour out into the streets to protest navalny’s incarceration & larger
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The rift between the Globalist & Nativist wings of the Republican Party is interesting to watch. "A party is a political organ of a class" -Marx. Now the 2 classes
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woke up this morning and decided, yeah, actually I do have the time for this. so hot take: leading with science can be as problematic is leading with out it
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this may be a hot take but as a relatively apolitical person, after spending just a year in protest, i honestly can see why there's such strong anti-left sentiment in
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How do you know their religion, Rana? They could have been an Indian of any religious background (Ex: Indian American Christians support the Republican Party significantly more than Hindus). Oh,
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How balanced is the content in Google Arts and Culture? My new paper with @InnaKizhner, a quantitative analysis of @googlearts, shows it is a site of digital cultural colonialism, with
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