funkeiro.bsky.social
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I think they’re inventing new ones, Charlie Kirk called him Muhammad mao.
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I don’t think so. I think it’s a collective craze that doesn’t do much to actually change anything, it mystifies the issues and encourages people to make constantly testifying about real and perceived injustices a part of their identity. It’s been like this since around 2020.
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I think this article is driven by the reflex to make everything about the victimization of black people, a reflex that has become pervasive in recent years.
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It was just a name. Probably very common back then. I doubt people all of a sudden decided to cancel the name.
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So is west African a race then. How many races are there
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School integration was unpopular in the south, so i guess politicians should have waited until 2130 when public opinion finally came around.
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Look, the great Adolph reed jr wrote about you
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Virtue of constant exposure, and one hears the language enough to develop a natural understanding of pronunciation and other nuances, this is the way babies learn a language.
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I understand. It can be like a fun game and if that appeals to you, then maybe it’s doing its job. I think a language is really only learned by reading and listening to interesting material in it enough at appropriately challenging levels until one acquires a large vocabulary to communicate just by
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Portuguese * not Spanish. All to the point of fluency. I recommend looking into it! I think 6 years is way too long to learn Spanish without being fluent in it.
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Ok i ask because I’ve always been very skeptical of Duolingo’s ability to teach a language. 10 years ago i came across Stephen krashen’s “comprehensible input” theory of language learning, and found an app called Lingq that implemented this. In 6 months or less, i learned French, Spanish and German
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That’s a very long time. Just curious , how much progress have you made in 6 years? Can you Describe your day? Can you talk freely about your life? Watch and understand a movie?
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Preachhhhh but they won’t do that, because they need markets for their industrial goods and need cheap access to raw materials
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Seems correlated with racial diversity tbh
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Not where the value of a story lies, imo, in being able to read about someone who superficially “looks like me”. Thank you again for engaging and not dismissing.
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I am moved when i read Dracula or a Bollywood movie or a book about a teen in WW2 era Japan or an American girl book (which i read as a Nigerian tween boy), because i can identify with their struggles and emotions. Its good to have books about people who share a similar experience to me, but that’s
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That seems to me to be the right answer, because regardless of the conflicts and divides and cultural differences, we’re still all human beings and more alike than we are different when it comes to being human beings, and our relationship to stories should reflect that.
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you’re absolutely right to examine how the dearth of representation someone like Blume experienced growing up might have affected the way she related to stories. But it seems like the answer is that she was still able to relate and be moved, even if the story had no one who “looked like her”.
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Where there are either black stories or white stories, instead of just stories about people that black people can appreciate even if they are about whites or Asians or Arabs or Thai people and vice versa.
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Ok thanks. I appreciate the good faith engagement. I guess the premise itself rubbed me the wrong way, as i dont think there even ought to be questions because a story is “inspired by a white source”. It makes it seem like someone is out there enforcing the racial segregation of stories
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N absurd proposition that requires a writer to ask why a black creative would tell that story instead of one that was “rooted in the Black experience”, the one experience all of us apparently share whether we’re Haitian or Ethiopian or African American. Were thinking our way back to the 1800s.
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By the logic of this piece, the only stories that should have any value for me should be about Black people and written by black people. Hamlet could not possibly teach me something about human nature, because it’s a “white play” and to imagine a black person going through the same trials is a
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Seems unbelievably regressive to me. I don’t understand how this has become the mainstream conventional wisdom and is the so-called antiracist enlightened position. Apparently we are such different kinds of creatures that a story about a white person could not possibly be about a black person.
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different parts of the world. That’s what stories do, we like them because they help us understand the human experience. The idea that a book with white characters that was adapted to be about black characters is such a baffling and subversive proposition that requires all these words to understand
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Reading this, one might think black and white people are different species. I didn’t read Harry Potter thinking that it was a “white book” and that i couldnt relate to the characters because they were white or English. They were people like me and i saw myself in their adventures despite being from
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When i was growing up, i didn’t know there were “white novels” and “Black books”, i just thought there were books about human beings with infinitely varied experiences, and i thought that despite this, the things that make us human were shared by us all, love, hate, joy, sorrow,fear, pain.
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Yeah you are white. Performing being a “ally” by reciting race reductionist drivel like a parrot isn’t doing anything for anyone, it’s only condescending and makes you feel good.
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I will leave to do more productive things, but please read Adolph reed or Barbara fields and use your platform for more than cultural nationalist moralizing.
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I didn’t spend my morning arguing up and down your thread because I want to derail or play games. I’m arguing a point with you and making comparisons with another religion with the same exact history of violence. You’re being disingenuous to accuse me of deflecting.
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It’s way worse if you’re a white virtual signaler saying stupid shit like a sheep because you think you can impress black people like @karenattiah.bsky.social. You should go about the rest of the day in shame if that’s the case.
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Are you even black?
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I’m sorry but your argument is inducing a fight. When race is the only thing you think about, the real things that will improve black people’s lives should be dismissed because they will also benefit white prople? That’s fucking stupid and it’s because of the kinds of nonsense written by ms. Attiah
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Your brain has absolutely been rotted by race-reductionist thinking. To the point where the first thing you think about when i talk about a concrete thing yo actually improve the lives of black people, and your first thought is that it will benefit white people more. Insanity.
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So i guess Europeans should be writing think pieces about how Roman oppression foisted Christianity on them and should go back to worshiping the Norse Gods because that will make some kind of improvement in their lives?
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So the things that will actually improve black people’s lives are white things. So you would like to reject them too. Quite stupid of you, no?
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Read about Mary slessor and the end of ritual twin killing in calabar. Please just read anything.
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Have you thought about using your platform to advocate for minimum wage increases and healthcare and paid leave, do you know that would actually do the most for black people in the US? Instead of exhorting them to renounce Christianity because it feels
good to performatively reject “white” things?
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I’m not even a Christian bro. I just think elite black people writing in national platforms should be using those platforms for more than race first culturalist grievance that’s not concerned with actual history and condescends to millions of African and Afro-descended Christians around the world!
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So every last human born into any religion is “spiritually conquered” then.
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I brought up islam because @karenattiah.bsky.social is arguing that the spread of a religion by conquest taints the religion for people who practice it. And i don’t believe she would say that about islam. It’s in fact a useful comparison.
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I’m not even a Christian. I just think people who have platforms on major outlets should read history and actually know how *various* African and African-descended people came to adopt Christianity and islam before writing their columns. It’s really the least you could do.
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The king of Angola wasn’t forced by the Portuguese to convert to Christianity. He did so because he wanted to forge diplomatic and military alliances with them. That distinction is important. That complexity is important.
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It’s a pop understanding of history. “Christianity was imposed by force and violence.” If you read the history of missionary work in Nigeria before you wrote your article, it would have been more nuanced and would have been better for it. Ethiopians were some of the first Christians in the world.
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Western educated Nigerians. They improved literacy,built hospitals. They sometimes opposed the actions of colonial authorities like forced labor. And yes, they had the protection of colonial authorities. The nuance here is what you’re missing when you say xtianity was imposed by “force and violence
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Nope. Said none of that. They did all those bad things. But there was a complicated dynamic between colonialism and missionary work. It wasn’t missionaries who destroyed the Benin kingdom, or who even coined Nigeria. The missionaries in fact built the schools that educated the first set of
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Read about Samuel Ajayi crowther and the CMS. about the English missionaries that came and dropped dead of fever like flies believing that they were “saving souls”. Paternalistic and prejudiced they probably were, but to call their activities to “force and violence” is just not knowing history.
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Islam also spread across the world through conquest, trade, relations between elites and for some people, mandates literal murder of infidels. Would you write about how islam is tainted for the billions of African, Asian and European Muslims as a result? I’m guessing not. It’s an apt comparison.
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there’s a diary of a missionary named Anna hinderer called “seventeen years in Yorubaland” that was published in 1873 or thereabouts that will be useful to you.
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I think you should read about 19th century missionary work in Nigeria. You may find it was more complicated than “force and violence”.
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Respectfully, I suspect that your knowledge of history is lacking and having read your WP columns intermittently for years, is informed only by the race-reductionist view of injustice and the purist “decolonization” thought that’s prevalent these days.