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It’s traumatizing to sit in Core classes. We are looking at history through the lens of these powerful, white men. I have no power or agency as a black woman, so where do I fit in?
… in her most recent Art Humanities class, the word “primitive” was used five times to describe Congolese art — a label she did not speak up against because she was tired of already having worked that day to address so many other instances of racism and discrimination
http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2015/11/18/oma-forum-race
… in her most recent Art Humanities class, the word “primitive” was used five times to describe Congolese art — a label she did not speak up against because she was tired of already having worked that day to address so many other instances of racism and discrimination
http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2015/11/18/oma-forum-race
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Date: 2015-11-24 04:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-24 05:34 pm (UTC)"We went out, and, after pillaging it [Old Summer Palace, misha_b], burned the whole place, destroying in a vandal-like manner most valuable property which [could] not be replaced for four millions. We got upward of £48 apiece prize money...I have done well. ... It made one's heart sore to burn them; in fact, these places were so large, and we were so pressed for time, that we could not plunder them carefully."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace
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Date: 2015-11-24 05:35 pm (UTC)Женщин изнасиловали и и сожгли? Мужиков массово закопали?
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Date: 2015-11-24 05:57 pm (UTC)В другом месте, но примерно в то же время:
A letter published after the fall of Delhi in the "Bombay Telegraph" and reproduced in the British press testified to the scale of the Indian casualties:
"All the city's people found within the walls of the city of Delhi when our troops entered were bayoneted on the spot, and the number was considerable, as you may suppose, when I tell you that in some houses forty and fifty people were hiding. These were not mutineers but residents of the city, who trusted to our well-known mild rule for pardon. I am glad to say they were disappointed."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857
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Date: 2015-11-24 06:15 pm (UTC)И да, я в курсе, как англичане подавляли восстания в 19 веке. Точно так же, как и все остальные вокруг. Принято так было. А если еще вспомнить Тюдоров в 15-16 веке.....
Я вам больше скажу: индийские раджи подавляли восстания своих поданных еще более зверски, а китайцы - так вообще.
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Date: 2015-11-24 06:43 pm (UTC)> Я вам больше скажу: индийские раджи подавляли восстания своих поданных еще более зверски, а китайцы - так вообще.
Ну вот именно, поведение "цивилозованных людей" мало отличается от поведения "дикарей", которых они цивилизовывают.