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a LOT of women agree with this but men likeâŠ.. universally object its hilarious
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I get the concept of embracing ugliness but I think in practice itâs a terrible idea
like it doesnât subvert the beauty standards that already tell you, you are. it still forces a label on you. youâre either pretty or youâre ugly. like I donât wanna be either of those things. I just want to be allowed to exist.
and like telling 15 year olds to accept and embrace that theyre ugly instead of educating them that the reason they think that is not because they are, But because of the artificial standards created subliminally and explicitly by movies, makeup companies, and magazines
and especially for young woc, like so many young girls think theyâre ugly because they donât have pale skin, theyâre not skinny, they have big brows, big noses, strong features, etc
To tell them âyeah you Are ugly, embrace thatâ is đŹ like instead of undermining those standards and just letting them Live without feeling like they need to change, it reinforces them
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This reminds me of the time my boyfriend and I were walking around a store and he was wearing a shirt with a shark face on it. A group of 4 children followed us around the store whispering about shark man. They made up powers for him. Now Iâm left with the tale of Sharkman
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Africa is looking to upgrade its transport infrastructure to boost intra-continental trade and regional integration. The African Integrated High Speed Railway Network is one such projectÂ
Part of the AUâs Agenda 2063, the project aims to build on existing national railways and rehabilitate or construct 12,000 km of âmissingâ linkages. At least 20% of the pilot phase is expected to be completed by 2023. The project is a key element of the African continental free trade area agreement, signed in March by 44 countries.
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On Camus
There are two clear reasons for why I hate Camus 1) Whenever he mentioned Algerians in his writings, he wrote about them with this contempt and racism (practically calling them barbaric at times) 2) His fake-ass, self-centered defense of the continuation of French colonialism in Algeria. In that light, it is horrible that schools can teach Camusâ writings and philosophies without pointing out the problematic nature of his attitudes towards Algerians.Â
My dislike for Camus is especially reinforced now that I am researching about the Algerian Independence War (for reasons) because there are many pied-noirs (this is how they called French Colonial Settlers in Algeria), who speak of Algeria with the same nostalgia and hyper-romanticization. And it is easy for them to do so. The French State ensured full citizenry and human rights for the pieds-noirs (from my understanding). They were the ones who got access to education and services. They were the ones for whom France could still be seen as âun pays des droits de lâhomme.âÂ
Meanwhile, estimates say that at the time of independence only 5% of children in Algeria had gotten formal education. There was a complete lack of investment in improving the managerial skills of Algerians. Infrastructure was lacking.
In a sense, these pieds-noirs remind me a lot of current Europeans. There is this idealization of colonialismâ which is only possible because of the constant erasure of the sheer violence imposed on local, indigenous populations. There is ⊠an entitlement that makes one uneasy â particularly, if they, themselves, are the product of colonialism/imperialism (as is my case). This idea that Algeria is Camus and that Camus desperately needed Algeria to remain staticâ an Algeria that naturally, without much thought, would prioritize the needs of Camus.
The words fail me and I canât quite pinpoint how to explain the deep unease at witnessing a colonial settler centering their needs above those of the local population. Alas, perhaps, these words shanât come to me before I post this note. At the same time I feel this great bitterness at the way Camus was taught to me. As I hinted previously, teachers and schools are perfectly capable at handing you The Stranger (LâEtranger), without ever discussing the Western gaze and the subsequent disdain towards the local population.
Looking back, The Stranger seems strangely ridiculous to me (for personal reasons but yes, strangely ridiculous). Starting with the philosophy of ⊠what was itâŠnihilism? existentialism? Yes that philosophy. That life is just a series of repeated actions with no rhyme or reason. Is there anyone who feels this more than the colonized? Your opportunities depend on this state that does not even truly see you as human. Your children, as far as you can tell, will also be affected. And yet, if you do not wake up every morning and put one foot in front of the other, then your existence⊠you are no longer fighting for your existence. Everyone is in the same situation as you. So you fighting to exist is your way to push back against the colonizerâs gaze. Either way, I am getting muddled with this point. The short of it is that it seems ridiculous to have this White French Settler write an entire philosophy that perfectly describes the condition of the colonized while simultaneously showing a lack of total empathy and awareness towards their plight. It is ridiculous and laughable.
Donât ask me to like Camus. I canât. I shall not. I refuse to invest my time in singing his praises.
Itâs even worse than this, illiteracy rates were in the 80% range for Muslim Algerians by the 50s (in a state which emphasized education as a civilizing force no less), and unemployment was in the 70% range. Â The average Muslim Algerian had basically no income growth since the first world war, and the state of Algerian civil rights was such a joke that it took ~20 years for the Assembly to pass an utterly milquetoast law protecting their rights, a law criticized for not going far enough when it was introduced in the 1930s.
Worse still, Camus is not only taught as a master of existentialism in high schools heâs taught as a âneutral viewpointâ in college level histories of France and the Algerian war of independence.
I didnât know about his work being taught as a âneutral viewpointâ in colleges and high school. Like this is alarming!! Camus is not even subtle about his disdain for the Algerian population⊠between calling them the âsavage arabsâ and NOT mentioning them at all⊠and the fact his wife even said that he wanted Algeria to remain French.
Camus is not neutral. at. all. And it is sad that they would lie to thousands and thousands of students. Then again, how often on Camusâ birthday do we hear Francophone shows talking about how âAlgerianâ Camus was; these people really donât want to decolonize their perspectives.
(Btw, thanks for adding the historical context. It is super important).
Iâve said this before but even just from a literary perspective L'Ătranger fails utterly to make its central point. You cannot demonstrate the meaninglessness et lâabsurdisme de la vie or whatever by having your main character murder a colonial subject (who!! remains unnamed throughout the entire book!!) because the lives of colonial subjects are already considered meaningless by the colonial state.
In the 1955 preface to the book Camus wrote:
âJ'ai rĂ©sumĂ© L'Ătranger, il y a longtemps, par une phrase dont je reconnais qu'elle est trĂšs paradoxale : âDans notre sociĂ©te tout homme qui ne pleure pas Ă l'enterrement de sa mĂšre risque d'ĂȘtre condamnĂ© Ă mort.â Je voulais dire seulement que le hĂ©ros du livre est condamnĂ© parce qu'il ne joue pas le jeu. En ce sens, il est Ă©tranger Ă la sociĂ©tĂ© ou il vit, il erre, en marge, dans les faubourgs de la vie privĂ©e, solitaire, sensuelle.â
[I summarized The Stranger a long time ago with a remark which I admit is highly paradoxical: âIn our society any man who does not cry at his motherâs funeral risks being sentenced to death.â I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game. In this sense, he is foreign to the society in which he lives; he wanders, on the fringe, in the suburbs of private, solitary, sensual life.]
The absurdity here according to Camus is that Meursault would (should?) have gotten away with murdering an Algerian man, if only he had âplayed the gameâ and âliedâ about feeling sadness at his motherâs death, or experiencing remorse at his crime. The reason that the people in the book were horrified at Meursault was not because he had shot and killed a man, but because he seemed unperturbed by it; the absurdity is that crying or not crying could make the difference between being sentenced to death for killing âun arabeâ and being let go.
So Camus hyperfocuses on the fact that Meursault could have been let off if he acted a certain way, but completely ignores how that situation related to French colonialism. The utter disregard that colonial states have for the life and death of colonial subjects, and the way that colonial subjects are considered subhuman under colonialism, becomes merely backgroundâunnamed, unremarked upon, unchallenged (and thus upheld and reaffirmed)âto Camusâ boring philosophical navel-gazing.
And yeah this definitely goes back to what you were saying about how lâabsurdisme defines the lives of colonial subjects much more than those of their colonisers. Weâre supposed to have sympathy for Meursault because âhe is foreign to the society in which he lives; he wanders, on the fringe,â etc. etc. But, as a coloniser, Meursault (and Camus!) is living within a state that was built for him, for the benefit of people like him, and off of the oppression of the indigenous population. Colonialism is a process by which the colonised become foreign in their own homeland. I canât even begin to imagine the entitlement and disregard for indigenous life youâd have to have to complain about being âforeignâ in a country you murdered your way into.
âCritics generally donât associate Black people with ideas. They see marginal people; they see just another story about Black folks. They regard the whole thing as sociologically interesting perhaps, but very parochial. Thereâs a notion out in the land that there are human beings one writes about, and then there are Black people or Indians or some other marginal group. If you write about the world from that point of view, somehow it is considered lesser. We are people, not aliens. We live, we love, and we die.â
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