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2012-09-02
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Dying at the absurdity of having a white man do the preface for a classic of decolonialist literature.</a></div>
binaohanWed, Aug 29 2012 13:13:30</a></div>
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"Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a program of complete disorder." -Fanon #t</a></div>
binaohanWed, Aug 29 2012 13:17:13</a></div>
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"the cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich." -- Fanon 40 #t</a></div>
binaohanWed, Aug 29 2012 13:25:18</a></div>
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Wow. Franz Fanon is saying everything I've been needing to hear. (even as I realize there are likely problems laying in wait).</a></div>
binaohanWed, Aug 29 2012 13:27:33</a></div>
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@neetainari Right? Like. I'm six pages in and my mind is blown.</a></div>
binaohanWed, Aug 29 2012 14:05:13</a></div>
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@neetainari I just started wretched of the earth... I might finish in 20 years. lol.</a></div>
binaohanWed, Aug 29 2012 14:07:44</a></div>
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Thank you #Fanon for comparing Christianity with DDT.</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 04:34:40</a></div>
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"when the settler seeks to describe the native fully in exact terms he constantly refers to the bestiary" #Fanon #t</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 04:37:15</a></div>
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"those hordes of vital statistics, those historical masses, those faces bereft of all humanity" #Fanon #t</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 04:38:31</a></div>
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"As far as the native is concerned, morality is very concrete; it is to silence the settler's defiance" #Fanon #t</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 04:44:52</a></div>
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comments</div> </li>"There is a difference between knowing the path, walking the path, and just bitching about the path."</a></div>
Thu, Aug 30 2012 04:46:07</a></div>
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comments</div> </li>@JustBiyuti did he really just position settlers as sctapy insurgents and indigenous people as rigid hegemony?</a></div>
Thu, Aug 30 2012 04:49:45</a></div>
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comments</div> </li>@JustBiyuti *scrappy</a></div>
Thu, Aug 30 2012 04:50:35</a></div>
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@metalmujer that isn't what I'm getting from it. Context is that decolonization is necessarily violent and not conciliatory.</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 04:52:30</a></div>
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@metalmujer the quote continues "to break his flouting violence-in a word, to put [the settler] out of the picture"</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 04:53:49</a></div>
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comments</div> </li>@JustBiyuti ahh. okay.</a></div>
Thu, Aug 30 2012 04:57:52</a></div>
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@metalmujer I would have included the whole quote from the beginning, if not for space.</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 05:02:15</a></div>
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"the native can see clearly...if decolonization has come to pass or not for his minimum demands are simply that the last shall be the first"#t</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 05:03:14</a></div>
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comments</div> </li>@JustBiyuti K. Overall, do you like what he's saying?</a></div>
Thu, Aug 30 2012 05:03:19</a></div>
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@metalmujer So far... yes. Reserving real judgement until I finish. So far, the underlaying philosphy seems flexible enough to centre us.</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 05:07:33</a></div>
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@metalmujer Like, the writing is clearly man-centred, but if your philosophy states it must put the last, first, then trans fem/women must +</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 05:09:04</a></div>
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@metalmujer + necessarily be centred b/c of how targeted and violent colonization has been for us. (then again, this is me reading/updating)</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 05:10:13</a></div>
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comments</div> </li>@JustBiyuti makes sense. I don't trust the Cis nor academia and for good cause tho.</a></div>
Thu, Aug 30 2012 05:12:04</a></div>
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comments</div> </li>@JustBiyuti you have to be seen as human at some level to be counted in that partial ordering.</a></div>
Thu, Aug 30 2012 05:13:36</a></div>
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@metalmujer Oh. For sure. He was also a psychiatrist in the early 20th century. I've all kinds of reservations about that.</a></div>
binaohanThu, Aug 30 2012 05:15:16</a></div>
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@metalmujer *nods* This is actually one of the things I'm liking best about him: his philosophy hinges on the recognition of humanity.
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