Shoutout to Metamatar (Who has sadly left Tumblr, of their own will, probably for depressing Current Events reasons I'm guessing) for showing me this, and I think it's worth sharing.

It's a response to that one "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" paper by Tuck & Yang that's been going around a lot and I think it addresses a problems with that original paper well.

Like, said original paper has some stuff adjacent to good points. Like, "landback" does, in fact, mean at least returning some of the goddamn land ("Give all national parks back to the native nations, we can figure the rest out from there" is my general position), and the idea that we do need to center the fact that harm is still being done to redress it.

But like, on the rest of Tuck and Yang's paper... well, it came off more than a little ethnostate-y to me, if you get my drift. Like, I was not surprised to learn they're apparently zionists, because that's where a lot of their logic leads.

While Marxist and leftist scholars have sometimes produced interesting analyses of genocides, the amateur goofballs on this site have a tendency to try to reduce everything done to class and the profit motive. While the genocides of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Circassians were very much motivated by profit (at least to some degree), many others were not — such as the Armenian genocide, Holocaust, or Cambodian Genocide.

Still, class reductionism is far more palatable than the Soviet Union's official analysis of the Holocaust, which went:

5. TV show of the year?

Oh I did a terrible job of keeping track of what shows I watched an my brain is a sieve, hmm...

right! Black Sails! I finished that this year. Easily best pirate thing I've seen this...ever(?). Amazing, boundary-breaking, 10/10 if you ignore the bad bits.

11. Something you want to do again next year?

Oh go on a big financially irresponsible international trip with friends, for sure. Week in New York was one of the best times I've had in a long while.

ty for the work you do on this blog in general :)

I read an article recently explaining the very same thing:

What an absolute banger of a look, right?? Lewis truly delivered yesterday, going absolutely above and beyond... I needed a fainting couch and I still do. He made me loop the Sailor Moon theme for almost an hour.