Notices by Caro S. (heidentweet@todon.eu)

@inquiline
AFAIC Europeans invented the whole race thing, so ...

@EF
Sure, I know in the 15th century growing xenophobia in China put a stop to their global expeditions, but that's not the racism this exchange is about. We're talking American racism which has its roots in European racism, which has its own history.

So here are some historical sources on the European origins of European racism, by professional historians:

Classical time:
https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/clas112pomonavalentine/chapter/rebecca-futo-kennedy-why-i-teach-about-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-classical-world-https-eidolon-pub-why-i-teach-about-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-classical-world-ade379722170/

https://eidolon.pub/

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691125985/the-invention-of-racism-in-classical-antiquity

Medieval:
https://www.medievalist.com/articles/race-in-the-middle-ages-and-white-supremacy-in-medieval-studies

There's a lot more, but I have more to do today. Bye.

@inquiline

@villebooks
Where are Palestinians in Gaza getting donations from if not via Mastodon et all?

Sure, the occupation tracks all communication people still need to pay for food, rent, medications, everything. So every €10 does count for survival.

Re internet: all communication goes via eSIMs connecting to Israel or Egypt. Connecting Humanity got the EFF Award in 2024 for this.
I know several accounts on here who were vetted by videocall by Molly Shah on bluesky. From the Sameer Project, who really can use financial support at the moment, I know that they also gave cash to people unable to set up their own Chuffed accounts, so who knows how many of 1,9 million people trying to survive this genocide by having to beg for survival have set up a Chuff. 10.000? 100.000?

People can always contact Palestinians and check their area code or use video to see, or simply donate to Palestinian led mutual aid groups:
https://itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-on-how-to-support-mutual-aid-groups-in-palestine-as-humanitarian-crisis-deepens/
And https://palestinetoolkit.org/mobilise-from-home/direct-aid-for-palestine/

People in Gaza really can use every € 10 as the media focus is elsewhere and so donations dropped significantly.

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

#MutualAid #Gaza #FreePalestine #StopGenocide

RE: https://flipboard.com/@euronews/russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine-89mnilrcz/-/a-TT489V_fSLupa5Z6NHRpnw%3Aa%3A89340020-%2F0

That's where all the surveillance, repression of rights like demonstrations, and data centers come in, because all our governments have known for decades what's coming:

#Kassandra #WesternDemocracy #ClimateChange

@umbe

Same for us Europeans, being Israel's biggest trading partner and some of our countries a good 3rd and 4th arms suppliers.

@personalescrito

"Welcome to the Decolonize Palestine myths database. Here you will find a continuously updated list of some of the most prominent myths and talking-points related to the Palestinian question, as well as their debunking.

We stress that these articles are not designed to teach you how to argue or manipulate your audience. That dubious distinction is relegated to Hasbara fellowships and manuals. Instead, we believe that light is the best disinfectant, and that when taken as a whole the historical record speaks for itself."

https://decolonizepalestine.com/myths/

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

#DecolonizePalestine #hasbara #FreePalestine #history #Israel #Zionism

#ABetterWorldIsPossible #capitalism #humanity

@jasmijn02 Omdat wetenschappers er de ballen verstand van hebben wat leven in armoede of onderaan een kapitalistische maatschappij is.

Ik heb zoveel van dit soort aannames langs zien komen, ook bijv. bij studenten sociaal werk. 😞

@meeoo

@meeoo @jasmijn02 Zat onderzoek dat geld geven gewoon werkt, maar dan verdienen de onderzoekers niks meer. Nul wetenschappelijke integriteit hier.p, IMNSHO.

@Infoseepage @GLaDTheresCake @grb090423 @workingclasshistory The facts are simple: your ancestors settled on land that wasn't theirs and imposed their European capitalist way of living and worldview on the Indigenous peoples. That's the part of being complicit in genocide, at the least by benefitting from genocide, *all settlers and their descendants* have, and also people like me here in Europe.

You defended the mass execution of Indigenous people *resisting their dispossession and genocide* by pointing to their acts of violence, while the very violent dispossession and genocide by Europeans, because of European notions of land possession and straight open land theft of the Untermenschen*, wasn't started by them. That's why your defense of that mass execution is at bottom a genocide defence.

* There are strong links of colonialism with fascism, see e.g. the works of Césaire and Fanon just to name a few.

@Infoseepage That last sentence is where you give away the colonizer worldview which is exactly how your ancestors were part and parcel of the genocide of the Indigenous peoples in so-called America.

If you by any chance are interested in learning how that sentence shows your ancestors' colonization and part in the genocide, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's book Theory of Water could be a small start.

@GLaDTheresCake @grb090423 @workingclasshistory

@Infoseepage This is a "this part of the White genocide of the Indigenous peoples is completely justified" genocide defence. Not today, colonizer.

@grb090423 @workingclasshistory

@janneke Het is niet jouw leed. Het is het leed van Palestijnse kinderen op 1 lijn zetten met een ietsje pietsje minder leed in de verschrikkelijke bio-industrie. Zou ze eens moeten proberen met Nederlandse kinderen.

@lindarosesmit @touaregtweet

@aral Ah, yes. My mistake. I see your hashtags indeed with the empty line, but no subsequent change in hashtags. Never mind.

@aral just a tip: put all the hashtags at the bottom of the text, with an empty line above them. Most apps etc will put the hashtags smaller at the bottom of your post.

@skinnylatte I really enjoyed this!

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Also GFMs for community kitchens and more!

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@sudan #MutualAid #FreeSudan #Sudan #StopWar #FamineRelief

@msteenhagen

This is why I remind people when they use ableist language, as this is White supremacist eugenic thinking. Imani Barbarin has a lot of good stuff on this on her social media (she's not active on Fedi). She's a disability activist and communication expert.

Also, to add to this thread: this is Dylan Rodríguez on Lexical Warfare, which is about exactly these points to. Words, lexicon, and narratives are battle grounds and the right has been very effective with this. They made a lot of liberatory words into their opposites. Unfortunately, with e.g. "woke" and "identity politics" the White left has helped them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7XMGrYtMSI

#LexicalWarfare #PropagandaWorks #AbleismIsEugenics #ImaniBarbarin #DylanRodríguez

"Under capitalist structures that tie people’s worth to their productivity, where value is determined largely by how productive you are, ableism is used to frame disability, "non-productivity" as a terrifying identity to hold. Ableism therefore doesn’t only affect disabled people but affects everyone: we are all being judged on our ability/inability to be a good productive and obedient worker for the capitalists/fascists."

https://abeautifulresistance.org/site/2025/2/27/disability-day-of-mourning

#Disability
#DisabilityDayOfMourning #DisabilityActivism #AntiCapitalism #ableism #sanism #resistance #capitalism

Political meme on (*points around to everything going on now*), with eye contact:

#EyeContact #Politics #democracy #WesternDemocracy #reality #HopeIsADiscipline #EUpol #NLpol #USpol #Israel #Palestine #Sudan