Things in my Tabs

[jhameia]

Not a regular recurring feature returning but these are too good to not share:

Owen Jones: William Hague is wrong... we must own up to our brutal colonial past

Overland: THE NAME AND THE FACE by Juliana Qian:

Usually I’m angry for good reason, reasons I’ll only bother to clarify if I love you. Sometimes I’m resentful not because people are disrespecting my culture, but because I’m bitter about what I don’t know. This face and this name give rise to assumptions about access to culture I haven’t always had. At other times, I stubbornly refused to learn: speaking Chinese is only cool or impressive when you’re not Chinese. As a child I was dismissive – why bother when I already have the name and the face?

For years I was embarrassed to speak Chinese in public. It might be urbane for Kevin Rudd, but people might think I couldn’t speak English. Like many non-Indigenous people of colour, I used language to legitimise my presence in this country. I offered my Australian accent like an excuse for my face. The accent is crucial; more important than any other measure of linguistic competence, it offers immediate protection. But this is only for the bearer, the soon-to-be-disillusioned offspring of adult migrants whose voices were stuck in another country. My generation was promised equality after assimilation; mostly, we sold our parents out.

(brb, sobbing from sad)

In The Shadows -- an exposè on the child molestation charges that Dragon*Con founder has eluded for DECADES. If I was reluctant to go to D*Con before this, I'm definitely refusing to go from here on out. I don't care about the fucking exposure.

David Pilgrim, Curator of the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris University: The Garbage Man: Why I Collect Racist Objects

A review of Niall Ferguson's "Civilization: The West and the Rest". (For further context, Niall Ferguson is married to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and for further hilarity, has also sued Mishra for the review and demands an apology).

The Search for Decolonial Love: an interview with Junot Diaz

Comments

[tevere]

Omg, Niall Ferguson. I can't even. I hope he gets absolutely pantsed in court.

[karenhealey]

MONEY QUOTE:

"If he won't apologise for calling me a racist, I will persecute him until he does," Ferguson said.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Nothing says "winner" quite like people who file lawsuits when their work or products get poor reviews.