くたばれ

A cat in the lap is worth

the world

The universe

how are you capable of moving in my stopped time

the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

despite mass arrests by NYPD and several students (including rep ilhan omar’s daughter, isra hirsi) being suspended for their participation and having their university identification deactivated, the gaza solidarity encampment is still going strong well into its second day. def recommend following independent reporter talia jane who is taking part and providing live updates. (talia was the first reporter to break aaron bushnell’s self immolation in february; she was one of the reporters he contacted personally prior to the protest.)

I keep seeing white book reviewers complain about how Babel is so very in your face and obvious about its rage at colonialism as if they would not twist the meaning of the book to fit into their convenient little worldview and find a way to say 'ok.. BUT' if it were NOT so clearly and explicitly laid out I'm sorry but it's true.

I'd honestly say Babel is important just because it flat out states the Opium Wars were (or. Would be) imperialist wars, which. Do you know HOW many articles casual and scholarly deny that lol you can forgive the average person for considering it a fair war because every English language source from the dawn of time till this very day does everything in its power to convince the reader it was two sided and not at all imperialism like lol not even slightly imperialist uwu. The best researched and most unbiased books on the topic (that don't regurgitate the McCartney myths) still frame the imperialism as an honest mistake Britain stumbled clumsily into and felt Very Bad about after. When I say it's such an important book for a Chinese reader it's because our early modern history is so destroyed by modern propaganda and politics lol at least this book addresses it in English and places it in the larger framework of British imperialism.