The Economistとかいったネオリベの雑誌を好んで読み、「アーツとビジネスの融合した創造性豊かな都市をめざす「創造都市戦略」を掲げた」(ウィキペディアから)關淳一第17代大阪市長を名指しで批判している最中で、なぜかスカイプの音声が乱れ、もう時間ですからと急かされて、最後は駆け足気味の話になって終了。
Anonymous asked: similarly to the ask I just sent, the location of where ethnic minorties affects their treatment as well, right? okinawans in okinawa are treated differently than if they were to live in somewhere else right? same with Ainu, since they live mostly in Hokkaido, people who live there are more familiar with them than people from another place, right? thank you for answering!!
Often times where there’s a larger population of an ethnic minority, and certainly a colonized indigenous minority in a particular area, there can be even more tension and discrimination, so it’s a fallacy to think that because the colonizer/ethnic majority is “more familiar” with them, that they are treated better or that there’s less racism. Remember that indigenous Ryukyuan and Ainu people have had their homes and resources stolen, their families killed, and their culture destroyed by their Yamato “neighbors” (occupiers) with little to no apology or reparations, and they still face discrimination and oppression from them. Besides that, I’m not sure if they’re treated differently or “better” in other areas (also remember that indigenous people lived all over Japan, and Ainu in northern Honshu for a long time, earlier in history - before being pushed into those specific regions; and some still do). It might be easier to “pass” as Yamato in other regions, and some with indigenous heritage might not even know that they have it, but having to hide/being ignorant of your heritage isn’t actually receiving fair treatment. There could be certain areas/neighborhoods that are more liberal where they feel more comfortable or something even among Yamato, but I don’t know of any particularly. I only know Ainu people who feel greatly discriminated against in Hokkaido, and I know some people who have some physical characteristics attributed to Ainu elsewhere, but who don’t know for sure if they are or not, so basically identify as (Yamato) Japanese.
maybe once every 3 weeks i think about how Chelsea manning snuck incriminating files past military security by putting them on a blank cd with ‘lady gaga’ written on it
what
“On January 5, 2010, Manning downloaded the 400,000 documents that became known as the Iraq War logs. On January 8, she downloaded 91,000 documents from the Afghanistan database, known later as part of the Afghan War logs. She saved the material on CD-RW and smuggled it through security by labeling the CD-RW media “Lady Gaga”. She then copied it onto her personal computer.“ from her wiki lmaoo she’s an icon
China is the reason why. They still do not have legal same sex marriage over there and are forbidden by law from airing TV shows or screening movies that feature LGBT relationships hence you will never see Moonlight in a state sanctioned theater in mainland China.
No studio wants to be locked out of selling a property to a possible audience of over a billion people for a lot of money.
It’s stupid but as I constantly say, film and television isn’t a democratic institution.
「亀の島を「蛮族」に返還しろ。そして命そのものを奴隷に返せ。このたった二行だけでアメリカの(そして、もしかしたらグローバルな)対立関係の構造が崩壊する。」(Frank B. Wilderson III, Red, White & Black: Cinema and the STructure of U.S. Antagonisms)
“Give Turtle Island back to the "Savage.” Give life itself back to the Slave. Two simple sentences, fourteen simple words, and the structure of U.S. (and perhaps global) antagonisms would be dismantled.
Frank B. Wilderson III (Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms)
“So, when we say that black lives matter, I think what we do sometimes is obscure the fact that it’s in fact, black life that matters. That insurgent black social life still constitutes a profound threat to the already existing order of things. And part of the reason that it constitutes such a profound threat is it’s openness. Its un-fixity. the fact that anybody can claim it. And the fact that it can claim anybody.” Fred Moten