Other cultures look at us and are confused as to why we like boobies since that's where babies drink milk. Probably cause the west's creation of womanhood ends up with wierd madonna complexes too.
source: my ass (not my boobs).
I can see what you're trying to say. But really, there is nothing positive about being a model minority or being a big dick fucking machine in the context of porn when both are anti-black, racist, and sexist in their own unique ways.
Ok, I'm like the 100th comment asking where I can cop this. If you don't, that's not praxis and you lose your volcel card.
As a white male, I have to tell you that it's philosophical. I don't want to hear you SJWs talk about how gender essentialism is tackled through Adam and Eve. I don't want to hear about how capitalism is involved in all this.
Also, I only read Nietzsche and Ayn Rand.
As lib as the demands are, I can't blame the original organizers for doing what they are doing. 501cs will just put you in lib positions. Secondly, you all should watch Patrice Cullors' interview on BNC with Marc Lamont Hill. There are things she won't say out loud but she does say that intimidation was a factor in why things are the way they are in BLM. I know at least 2 of the organizers have said they do not want FBI agents knocking on their door and its already happened with Patrice Cullors.
Female dating strategy is a good example why we should amplify the invisible and those who have special and unique circumstances. A stupid supervillain white woman rhetorical technique is to accentuate your victimhood while ignoring parts where you're complicit. Sometimes white women have their hearts in the right places but lack the intersectional analysis and end up serving whtie supremacy and transphobia. No one is wrong when they say that #bossgirl , terf energy is actually there, they just never mention that they are explicitly terf and racist. You need to have soft skills to know that it's a sub that's filled with asshole energy.
edit: I know the roots of FDS and lipstick alley, I understand why you have to assimilate to survive. Some people just bask in their assimilation a little too much.
This is why I purposefully wear shit clothing to any store I have to go to. I hate this informal bourgeois dress code and do my best to look as shit as possible to get what little freedom I have in my life.
Ironically, this was a reason why Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea have some semblance of a good quality of life and are pretty strong capitalist countries. Land reform in Japan was because they were afraid of communists and they have a great health care system to tranquilize any radical spirit. In the Philippines, the landlords did not do this despite the USA telling them that they probably should do it in order to stop communism. This results in the shitty landlord economy as a push factor that put rural residents into Philippines' cities, tons of peasants because landlords still operate haciendas there, and braindrain into anglo countries.
It means I read a lot of critical theory at one point in my life, became a corporate drone, and now I post this "all politics is sexual pathology" because I used to feel smart. Now my brain is heading towards atrophy at an exponential rate.
Yeah it's a 4chan post but it's not unbelievable. Hispanista Filipinos are the weirdest. There's no point in learning Spanish when they didn't teach it to the masses because then they'd understand that the Spaniards were the real assholes here. Like there is a small weirdo population out there of Hispanista Filipinos who think Korean and American values ruined the Philippines.
I don't think you're overly cynical at at all. Honestly, our everyday discourse is fucked and language is tied to oppression. We just gotta call it like we see it and if we are good comrades we gotta acknowledge we will accidentally step on people's feet we just gotta apologize when we eventually do. Some people are just myopic.
Indonesia had potential for their Islam to go to the left, but American intervention created reactionaries over there. Secondly, lots of Global South adaptations of religions are syncretic and lots of white leftists view the religious parts of the global south as equivalent to the weirdo American ones. Sure, there are reactionary elements in the religious for that part of the world, but religions like Christianity is practiced waaaayyy different from the global north. This is why you see openly queer people in churches in the Philippines, religious metalheads in Indonesia, lots of different religious practices in Chiapas, and you'll see Santa Muerte in Mexico.
Indonesia even had their own heroes who wanted Islamic communism, but western leftists did not even want that to happen because they saw Islam the way they saw the Ottoman empire.
edit: Also, there's a good number of Christian and religious people in the American left. But why would you admit that unless the conversations say so? If you hang out in social justice spaces long enough, you'll see activists who wanted to be or are part of the clerical class.
Yes this is true. A lot of the burden on calling out individual Asian women goes to Asian women as a result. Lots of asian dudes who are progressive at the least do not touch this because there are a ton of MRAsians in the community and its just bad optics for them to do it since it seems like you're talking over women. Secondly, some Asian womens' proximity to whiteness gives them 'white woman feminist vibes' so you often see radical Asian women calling out the lib dronies in our communities.
Where do I start?
Been called a conspiracy nut and have been compared to QAnonners. Asked them where my conclusions when appealing to inductive evidence when it comes to my hypothesis on imperial meddling is wrong and met with silence. I even appealed to journalists here and actual historical evidence.
I've been called Peter Pan and been told 'welcome to the real world' for criticizing capitalism. This person just likes getting dunked on for some reason which is really weird because I have facts, figures, etc. lined up and ready for him to google, and he keeps coming back at me with right wing youtubers that I proceed to dunk on.
Told by English speaking immigrants from the community I belong I'm 'American' and should STFU about what's going on in the mainland from where I was born but not raised.
I've been blocked by friends for calling out Winston Churchill being a dipshit to India.
I've been called a Russian bot by a friend for supporting Bernie (who I only reluctantly supported).
I've probably been accused of being racist or homophobic for not liking Pete or Kamala which is weird if you just look at me in real life. People have looked at me differently since then.
I've always hated Joe. I've gotten silence when it comes to his treatment of migrant children and his mishandling of the current Dante Wright situation. It's always "wait and we'll get our fight later" and they aren't fighting.
I just don't any fucks anymore. If people went mask off, then I'll go mask off too. Good thing I'm naturally a loner. I always come back at them with sources from academic journals and I always get silence or some type of deflecting. IDC , I'll dunk on you.
I'm going to speak this into existence now.
Yes, you are right that it is orientalist. I think everything written about the Philippines was right, but the way it was framed did seem orientalist to me (mostly the title). It's deceptive propaganda which doesn't lie and hides truths. Sure, formal politics is a bit different in the Philippines with its fickle alliances as opposed to Dems vs Repubs with random progressives and mask-off fascists to add spice, but that think tank piece is just a bunch of words to cover up for the fact the real polarization in the Philippines is between the rich and the poor.
After all, the article is a think tank with links to the Chud Illuminatti Artists guild. Also, you might want to put that link an archive.org link next time. I have nothing to worry about because I am a checks notes lesbian Filipina woman in Florida who gets drunk all day and I post on a liberal website. I am not a radical, this website is filled with liberals who will vote for checks notes Pete Buttigieg. I mean, yeah I have knowledge about Antonio Gramsci, but so does our future president! I can't wait to ride trains!
This article is kind of wrong and kind of sus.
I actually know a lot of what's going on here. First, many Filipinos just flat out hate their own country out of colonial mentality and their well deserved distrust of politicians. The Filipino dream is to get out of there. Sure, there are DDS supporters, but there are also tons of people who have just given up on the country and didn't vote. Many people did not vote for Duterte. There are even some anti-DDS people who just don't like him because he isn't religious, (his base isn't really that religious, but religious in the Philippines shouldn't be understood in western terms), he's from "the province", sinophobia because he's viewed as pro-china, they just like the Aquinos and like America better. Lots of Filipino just don't like him because of his former, shaky relationship with leftists and unless my reading comprehension is bad, I did not see a mention of even the modest social democratic resistance towards him mentioned.
Sure, there are tons of people who will tell you Duterte cleaned up their cities. There are tons of people who won't talk about it either for good reasons. I've been looking for the poll on the net that says 8/10 Filipinos love him, but another poll said 8/10 are scared they'll get personally affected by the drug war. There's been [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-rights-protests/philippine-protesters-rally-over-controversial-anti-terror-bill-idUSKBN23J1FG](protest over his anti-protest bill he signed ), plenty of local celebrities have been red baited for attacking Duterte indirectly, and TV station contracts (perceived to be biased against duterte) have not been renewed. You can even go check out all those libs in r/philippines complaining about him. Secondly, there's tons of rising sinophobia right now there because of Duterte and the POGO industry.
This piece sounds like it wants to put more USA bases there to attack China. Lots of Filipinos would rather have USA as an ally than China and that seems like what the future of what polarization is like there. Lots of Filipinos will eat USA's propaganda and despite being the most Chinese friendly place in south east asia outside of Singapore, it might not be like that forever.
People already mentioned Bertrand Russell's books. They are good starts.
As stated earlier in this thread, epistemology is a good start. I've always thought that for the every day person, a lot of politics is an epistemology problem. And if you want to get into Zizek, you'll learn that it's a psychoanalytic problem.
If you want to get into continental philosophy, I wouldn't dive too deep into anything at first. Just read broadly and use wikipedia, iep, and stanford encyclopedia of philosophy in that order. Wikipedia explains it all for the general person, Stanford explains it all for the more experienced and is more in depth. I'm also biased but I feel that continental philosophy is better suited for politics since Marx is part of that tradition.
You can use those encyclopedias to read Plato, Kant, skim Hegel (he is dense and is basically a meme among philosophy students for his denseness), then you can go into Marx. You should be okay from there. No one is an expert in everything and it's basically impossible to retain and absorb everything , don't get anxiety over reading any philosophy. Although I can't say anything for your existential anxiety.
edit: and if you want lib shit, read John Rawls.
Yes, they are chud magnets because America is chudville.