I find this article interesting bc it's the emphasis of everything wrong with anarchism. Anarchism requires legibility and reinforces authority. Proto anarchist societies rarely have texts about them and stories bc anarchy exists in the shadows hidden due to being illegible and incomprehensible by society.

We know about zomia now that authority has taken it's grasps. And even then for people to understand it they need words like zomia and nation to comprehend it. But if u call it zomia u are missing the point. It's not a nation or a cohesive group of people.

It was anarchy before states and language could comprehend it. As soon as it was comprehended roads were able to build, small businesses were added and people had cars they could drive through and China was able to start enforcing some borders.

Like its something beond explanation about anarchy than u have to experience and live and realize how limiting words and explainatikns are. Onece u can be explained u have lost. The interesting parts of "zomia" is that it can't be explained or know. It was invisible.

But to the anthropologist once hierarchy rears its head that's when it becomes anarchism bc it becomes legible to the academic. With no nations, technology, or devastating the environment where is nothing to report. Bc anarchy is invisibility by not having the markers of civilization.

Anarchy isn't the indigenous person in a truck giving tours to journalists to make money. It's the indigenous person who isn't seen and is never written and never spoken. And I think anarchism needing to prove itself with facts, logic academia and becoming legible to civkizatjk can never be anarchy. Bc once u brag about anarchy it stops being anarchy.

Anarchy is change movement nameless and invisible. Once u catch it, give it an identity meaning and show it off it's not anarchy. Hence why this writer sees hints at anarchy and can only explain it by giving it a name for this anarchy country.

Due to anthropologists dry snitching many decades ago they made a big target to show states heo they are weak. And states don't like symbols and monuments to their weakness. And once the anthropologists uttered the work anarchist nation zoomia. Death soon told for anarchy as the nameless indescribable energy and invisible way of life has been named and shown.

And anarchism can't understand why that's bad bc to them they can only see anarchy if it's visible. While doing anarchy is about seeing the invisible and understanding the impossible to understand.

Pakistan's resource conditions are not good, and the endless internal struggle has left the country without hope

In June, a few dozen activists started meeting regularly at a seaside tented camp in Colombo for hours-long sessions to think up ways to revive Sri Lanka's flagging protest movement.

The group, which included a Catholic priest, a digital strategist and a popular playwright, succeeded beyond their wildest hopes.

A plan emerged to combine online agitation, meetings with political parties, labour unions and student groups and door-to-door campaigning to get enough people back on the streets for a final push, according to the three attendees.

Don't you just hate it when you're oiling down your cruise missile and hit the launch button by accident? If I had a nickel for everytime I accidentally bombed a country...

The fall of a puppet regime.

Incredibly based.

Very wild to see people of any gender in the streets with RPGs and belt-fed machine guns.

I hope they don't have to use them.

Colonialism is just armed robbery but bigger.

Colonialism is truly the greatest fuking scam of all time.

"It was a scam – theft on a grand scale. Yet most Indians were unaware of what was going on because the agent who collected the taxes was not the same as the one who showed up to buy their goods. Had it been the same person, they surely would have smelled a rat." Just literally sanctioned and violently enforced grifting.

Not being in/from the UK, to hear that the narrative of their fuckery in India is "well, actually, we LOST money," and that somehow justifies it is beyond absurd. Even if it were true, subjecting ppl to colonial rule isn't overridden by being shitty at managing your economy. Like, to think that the most face-saving narrative they can spin is that they were not only violently repressive, but also bad at money they invented? Goddamm...

All the Brics countries are full of fascist driven ideology in their politics.

And even If I support a vegan diet (as myself transitioning to a full vegan Life) I cant stand this approach of issuin a ban on meat consumption

The quoted Dr. Hinchy seems to use both terms at times, and she mentions that the law "was used to police a diverse range of gender non-confirming people," so perhaps she was making a distinction between "eunuchs" as defined by law vs. hijra as a specific group. But even if Dr. Hinchy is making such a distinction, it's not clarified anywhere in the article and the author of the article doesn't seem to care.

wow, you weren't joking. i didn't think i would be particularly affected by the term, but that was relentless, i couldn't even get very far into the article.

i don't know much about traditional third genders, but checking wikipedia shows that while a very technical, insensitive read of the definition applies more than i expected, it also says:

In a series of meetings convened between October 2013 and Jan 2014 by the transgender experts committee of India's Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, hijra and other trans activists asked that the term "eunuch" be discontinued from usage in government documents, as it is not a term with which the communities identify.

anyway, in my opinion this is standard practice for the bbc. they're providing information that reflects negatively on the british empire, so they have to make sure they reproduce any harm that may otherwise be slightly reduced through the acknowledgement of the past.
i don't know if finishing the article would change my assessment, but i doubt it.

Is it just me, or is it weird that the article repeatedly uses the broad term "eunuch" despite referring to a specific cultural category/context where a more specific term (hijra) exists?

Sunday 26 at dinnertime.[1][2] According to AIHRC, since March 2019, at least 54 civilians have been killed in the northern regions,

When did this happen? Can you tell me the day and ~time?

End the war, and use the money spent on missiles and bombs to ensure the financial security of the refugees. This is the only justifiable choice for the USA to make, and yet not one of the candidates for president of USA will even speak this, let alone do it.

The farthest left candidate, Bernard Sanders, voted for the war.

The stuff I've been hearing about this is disturbing.

I practiced Islam for years, and can attest I was targetted in some of the ways identified in this piece at the masjid by south asian muslims. I didn't even know it was a thing until that period of my life.

Another boy was abducted a day after the protest, and top Punjab police officers were removed.

Add in there that in the Israelization of India, the Muslim minority is the target. In 2002 in the state of Gujarat, where Modi was then Chief Minister, he orchestrated a pogrom against Muslims that killed more than 1000 innocent people and destroyed entire neighborhoods. In the state of Assam today, hundreds of thousands of Muslims are having their citizenship taken away simply because the borders moved following Partition in 1947. These leaves all the Muslims in Assam as suspicious, leading extremely precarious lives. And now there is Kashmir and the wholesale slaughter and mass imprisonment of Muslims.

India is a living nightmare for its 170 million Muslims - the second largest Muslim population in the world...

Via Azad Essa. The main points:

1. A right wing group called the RSS is formed in 1920s. It looks to Hitler and Nazism as its inspiration in 1930s.

2. A member of the RSS assassinates Gandhi in 1948 and RSS is banned (again)

3. India votes at the UN for Zionism as racism in 1975.

4. Modi, a member of the RSS, visits Israel in 2006.

5. Modi becomes PM of India in 2014 and calls Israel and India kindred spirits.

6. Modi looks at Israel as example on how to treat minorities, build a supremacist state and annex territory.

7. Today, India wants to be Israel.

survivorman ftw

POC-dominanted countries are already feeling much greater problems from climate change, than white-dominanted countries. Guess who's making most of the pollutants?

It's debilitating how humans treat minority groups, seemingly everywhere in the world.

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