Tag: colonialism

navigatorsnorth:

aceasadhd:

worm:

mapsontheweb:

Thomas J. Maslen imagined a big river in the middle of Australia, 1830.

thomas j. maslen: *drawing a massive big river in the middle of his map* sick, I hope that’s real

@navigatorsnorth Nav is the government hiding a huge river from us? Nav I demand answers!

I’m not at liberty to say.

Non-Australians being shocked and confused by the ‘inland sea’ hypothesis is kind of wild to me. Most of the history of white explorers that I learnt by the age of ten was, ‘they went west/north/south and expected there to be water, there wasn’t, they died’. The idea that there was some massive body of water in the middle was incredibly pervasive, and there just wasn’t one map with a sea or river drawn like that. The closest thing we have is
Kati Thanda. It’s a salt pan which occasionally gets filled with water once in a blue moon (the birds come from hundreds of miles around when it does), but it is in NO WAY drinkable, or surrounded by bountiful, arable land like the early white people hoped. You can live in the red centre, but you have to do it lightly, knowing how to find water, what is safe to eat, and moving when you need to. That’s what the Aboriginal people did for seventy-odd thousand years, before white people came (and what many still do, when on their country/traditional lands).
If you want to know more about the inland sea theory Passing Strangeness has a good blog post here.

stardustedflower:

jehovahhthickness:

luvyourselfsomeesteem:

straggletag:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

i scrolled passed this several times before actually reading it. i’m not used to two white men talking sense…

Alton Brown is no fucking joke a legend. 

Alton Brown definitely is a Culinary genius. I go to Culinary school and on assignments where I studied Southern cuisine I made a serious point to call it Soul Food or Black Southern Cuisine and emphasize that it’s entirely rooted in the black culture and slavery. I will never let ppl forget it is black people who educated white Americans to cook. There is a lot of of culture appropriation and whitewashing even in Culinary and they will have you believe whites are the masters of Southern food and Korean BBQ I swear ta gawd. 

I love both of these chefs

“Not used to two white people talking sense” 😂😂

THIS is how you do it. I love cooking shows, but I regularly have to turn off or change channel from entitled white dudes shovelling shit talking about black food or Indian food or Asian food without talking about slavery or colonialism, or doing so only using euphemisms wreathed in ‘glory days’ white supremacy. YOU CAN SAY BLACK. YOU CAN SAY SLAVERY. BY NOT DOING SO, YOU’RE ERASING THE ORIGINS OF THE FOOD YOU CLAIM YOU LOVE SO YOU CAN STOMACH IT WITHOUT FOR A MOMENT CONSIDERING YOUR PART IN THAT SYSTEMIC VIOLENCE.

The Super Soldier and the German Psyche

actuallyclintbarton:

katiebakes641:

Hoo boy, we’re going deep down the rabbit hole with this one.  I hope you’ll bear with me, as this might be will be a disturbing post.  Here, have some shirtless!Seb as a precautionary measure:

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He’s laughing at me because I’m kind of a masochist.  Anyway, check back with him if you need to.

I have German heritage on both sides of my family – my paternal great-great grandparents came over sometime in the early 20th century (don’t know much about them) and my maternal grandmother grew up in Nazi Germany.  Plus I was a history major specializing in European history from 1871 to the Cold War.  So…I know some things.  You could chalk up all that to another reason this movie was like catnip to me.  That said, it will take a bit to unpack all of this, so bear with me.

The idea of there being a superior race was pretty much unheard of before European imperialism and the Atlantic slave trade.  Before then, Europeans didn’t have much cause to compare themselves to the rest of the world.  But over the course of the 17th-19th centuries, that small part of the globe came to control the remaining 85% of the world.  Suddenly, they were faced with millions upon millions of “savages,” and had to justify their superiority.  Their right to subjugate the rest of humanity.

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Eugenics started [in America], Germans just ran with it.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS.  This is something that we do NOT get taught (or that we didn’t get taught when I was taking community college history classes, let alone high school), and I know it’s just an aside, but THANK YOU.

Nazi Germany based all its initial forays into eugenics on programs in America that were active in over 20 states.  That may not really be the topic of this post (which is a good one), but it is very very important to make sure people know.