“With statements such as “as a society, we haven’t been able to eradicate our Arab mentality towards women”, Femen positions women of the region as veiled and oppressed by their men as opposed to the enlightened and liberated women of the west who live in a developed and superior society where they have the “freedom” to remove their clothes… …The role of feminists from outside should be to support the work of the women in the communities concerned, not add to the problem. International feminist solidarity is crucial but this is not the way to do it. A true ally does not use racism to attempt to defeat patriarchy.”— Chitra Nagarajan, “Femen’s obsession with nudity feeds a racist colonial feminism,” The Guardian
“Colonialism’s use of feminism to promote the culture of the colonizers and undermine native culture has … imparted to feminism in nonwestern societies the taint of having served as an instrument of colonial domination, rendering it suspect in [non-Western Muslim] eyes and vulnerable to the charge of being an ally of colonial interests.”— Feminism as Imperialism. (via mehreenkasana)
“[M]any nations of the third world are described as ‘underdeveloped’. These less wealthy nations are generally those that suffered under colonialism and neo-colonialism. The ‘developed’ nations are those that exploited their resources and wealth. Therefore, rather than referring to these countries as ‘underdeveloped’, a more appropriate and meaningful designation might be ‘over exploited’. Again, transpose this term next time you read about the ‘underdeveloped nations’ and note the different meaning that results.”—
Robert B. Moore, “Racist Stereotyping in the English Language”
(via wretchedoftheearth)
Dakarai Molokomme, a 15-year-old starving child from a small village in Zimbabwe, has just told Madonna, one of the most famous pop stars in the world, to go and f*** herself, the local media are reporting exclusively.
“Yes, it’s true, I told Madonna to go f*** herself. Do you want to know why?” Dakarai asked. “It’s the same thing every time with these snobby rich Americans. Every once in a while they come to show us their support for the so-called eradication of poverty by adopting a child from a starving family, but they actually do more harm than good. Transracial international adoptions are part of the white savior industrial complex,” Dakarai explained.
In further discussions with journalists from the media, the kid stated that “none of the children here actually want to be taken away from their family and friends so they can be displayed as some kind of trophy in the homes of self-righteous singers or actors who want to score some points with the media and Oprah.”
“If they really want to help us, they should get Big Pharma to ship us some anti-retroviral drugs for the AIDS epidemic, or build schools and hospitals. If they don’t want to do that, then they can all go f** themselves!” the child told reporters.
The 15-year-old also stated that he would say the same thing to any one of those American or European “faux humanitarian posers”, except for Bono, whom he said he would also kick in the groin.
“Bono’s efforts to save the African savage from itself prove that the colonial imperative is alive and well,” Dakarai said as he walked with other village children collecting sticks to build a tree fort.
My new hero.
if you cannot tell the difference between white people coming into a culture and demanding they do “equality” the way white people have determined it okay and people born in the culture finding their own culture problematic
if you don’t believe women in a culture want the choice to be able to do what they want and allow men to do what they want, whether your outsider opinion approves it or not
if you believe that your opinion on what women in another culture want overrides what the women born into that culture are telling you
if you believe that your opinion on how women in another culture should handle it overrides the methods the women born into that culture are using to handle it
if you believe that you have a right to make a stand for women in another culture who have not explicitly asked for your help
you should fuck yourself, you colonizer garbage
“The idea that intelligence is linked to English pronunciation is a legacy from colonial thinking.”—
(Source: steadilyemerging)
