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Here I study a question: "How to subdue people?"
I discuss sociology of dominations and history of reputation.
(I purposely do not propagate news.)

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Here is an overview of how British rich nobility weaponised "race" to deport people in servitude.

Let's start with a landmark book:

estelle,
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“The term 'Caucasian' as a designation for white people originates in concepts of beauty related to the white slave trade from eastern Europe, and whiteness remains embedded in visions of beauty found in art history and popular culture.”
― Nell Irvin Painter, in "The History of White People"; W. W. Norton (2010); ISBN 978-0-393-07949-4; a 'New York Times' bestseller

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"The still current term connects directly to collective degradation, in the form of the gendered, eastern slave trade, via the network of learned societies that so deeply influenced the in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."

… wrote Nell Irvin Painter about Johann Friedrich , in a conference at on "Slavery and the Construction of ", 2003: https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/events/race/Painter.pdf

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“It is still assumed, wrongly, that slavery anywhere in the world must rest on a foundation of racial difference. Time and again, the better classes have concluded that those people deserve their lot; it must be something within them that puts them at the bottom. In modern times, we recognize this kind of reasoning as it relates to black race, but in other times the same logic was applied to people who were white, especially when they were impoverished immigrants seeking work.”
― Nell Irvin Painter, in "The History of White People"; W. W. Norton (2010); ISBN 978-0-393-07949-4; a 'New York Times' bestseller

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“It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary acts by the Crown against individuals. There was no law enabling the crown to exile anyone, including the baser convict, into forced labour. According to legal scholars, the Magna Carta itself protected even them. The Privy Councillors therefore dressed up what was to befall the convicts and presented the decree authorising their transportation as an act of royal mercy. The convicts were to be reprieved from death in exchange for accepting transportation. (71)”
― Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)

@history @histodons 🧶

estelle,
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“It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary acts by the Crown against individuals. There was no law enabling the crown to exile anyone, including the baser convict, into forced labour. According to legal scholars, the Magna Carta itself protected even them. The Privy Councillors therefore dressed up what was to befall the convicts and presented the decree authorising their transportation as an act of royal mercy. The convicts were to be reprieved from death in exchange for accepting transportation.” (p. 71)
― Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)
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@history @histodons
(to be continued) 🧶

estelle,
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"By this time in the seventeenth century, those who came from the British Isles, both men and women, outnumbered the Africans in the tobacco fields; even in the middle of the century, when the settler population in #Virginia numbered about 11,000, the Africans accounted for only about 300. Any one of them - African, English, Scottish or Irish - should count himself lucky if he outlived his contract. Of 300 children who came from Britain between 1619 and 1622, only 12 were still alive in 1624."
… wrote #NellIrvinPainter in her book "The History of White People"
cited by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)

#colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #England #Britain #UK #USA #Atlantic #deportation #Race #NellIrvinPainter #quotes #citation #racialization #history #slavery #racism #raceMaking #enslavement #whiteness #White #supremacy #whiteSupremacy

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"Of course, one day the indentured period would end and the servant would be free. That is one of the fundamental differences drawn between white indentured servitude and black slavery. One was a temporary condition; the other was perpetual. Except that huge numbers of white servants didn’t live to see the day of freedom. In the early days, the majority of servants died still in bondage. Moreover, the bulk of those who did outlive their servitude ended up no better than when they’d arrived. They would emerge from bondage landless and poor (p. 111)."
― Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)

estelle, to random
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Let's unwind a yarn of adult domination in film making 🧶

estelle, to history
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"An estimated 90,000 Kenyans were slaughtered in the Kikuyu uprising while just over a thousand were hanged on a portable gibbet. Some 160,000 were detained in internment camps where torture was routine.

"One of Britain’s victims was US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who was arrested in 1949, and tortured by having pins inserted under his fingernails."

Kitson brought to Belfast his experiences in Kenya, fighting the Kikuyu Land and Freedom Army (exotically dubbed the “Mau Mau” by the British) in the early 1950s where he honed a practice of using “turned” or “converted” rebels into “counter-gangs”.

Anne Cadwallader: https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-general-who-terrorised-the-colonies/

estelle,
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"The battle of the Bogside was an important catalyst for change, triggering a determined British government intervention that ended the unionist monopoly on power. But it also marked the beginning of 30 years of violent conflict that would claim the lives of more than 3,600 people and bring untold suffering."

Niall Ó Dochartaigh: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/why-remember-battle-bogside-troubles-importance/ @histodons

"Teenage Kicks" was created in the same city in 1978. Listen to a later gig: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg

estelle, to ukteachers
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"What Countries Need More Teachers and How Much Can You Make?" https://www.educationcorner.com/what-countries-need-more-teachers/

estelle,
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Education in Europe: Which countries pay the highest and lowest wages? https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/12/06/real-teacher-salaries-in-europe-are-down-which-countries-pay-the-highest-and-lowest-wages @educationecon

estelle,
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Education in Europe: Which countries pay the highest and lowest wages? https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/12/06/real-teacher-salaries-in-europe-are-down-which-countries-pay-the-highest-and-lowest-wages @educationecon @edutooters

estelle,
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Education in Europe: Which countries pay the highest and lowest wages? https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/12/06/real-teacher-salaries-in-europe-are-down-which-countries-pay-the-highest-and-lowest-wages @educationecon @edutooters

pvonhellermannn, to random
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I know Mastodon is designed to keep everything nice and to shield us from the horrors of the world, and that it is good for us to only look at cat pictures all day and cheer each other up, but honestly: sometimes i also think that that is just a lot of crap and everyone who turns away and continues with their nice privileged life as if all is ok is complicit #Gaza

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@pvonhellermannn
The text pointed below may help. Sarah Aziza, through a stirring mix of personal reflection and philosophical reckoning, disabuses the Western witness of its self-gratifying power, instead – amid Israel’s openly broadcast yet unimpeded march towards genocide in Gaza – unmasking the impotence, deceit and hollowness that witnessing currently entails. More than a collective indictment or last-gasp scream of defiance into the void, Aziza’s own testimony guides the reader towards a form of witness no longer elevated in angelic, uncompromised distance, but instead manifest in the embodied, intimate, ego-displacing position of “sacrifice, mourning and resisting.”
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of-the-witness

#Aziza #JewishCurrents #socialMedia #media #impotence #legibility #witness #witnessing #PalestiniansLivesMatter #mourning #grievability #news #israelGaza #GazaWar #warOnGaza #bias #information #coverage #violence #stateViolence #war #Gaza #israelPalestine #Jerusalem #press #IDF #occupation

estelle, to SmashBros
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"The Romans conquered the world through seriousness, discipline, organisation, continuity of vision and method; through the conviction that they were a superior race, born to command; through the well-considered, methodically calculated use of the most ruthless cruelty, cold perfidy and the most hypocritical propaganda, employed simultaneously or in turn; by an unshakeable resolution to always sacrifice everything to prestige, without ever being sensitive either to peril, or to pity, or to any human respect; by the art of decomposing under terror the very soul of their adversaries, or of putting them to sleep with hope, before enslaving them with arms; finally by such skilful handling of the crudest lie that they have deceived even posterity and are still deceiving us. "

Simone Weil, in "Some reflections on the origins of Hitlerism". @history

estelle,
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"Life expectancy at birth in Roman Egypt was just 27.3 for women and 26.2 for men."

"As the empire expanded, the Romans took the show—including all their diseases—on the road. In every location, “The empire’s arrival led to the hasty construction of the first town, in Roman style, with baths and aqueducts, drains, heating systems, and latrines. Despite the amenities, a reasonable answer to the question ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ might have been ‘Got us sick.’ Mortality rates went up.”

Nadya Williams: https://currentpub.com/2023/05/18/kyle-harper-on-climate-and-deadly-germs-that-made-and-continue-to-make-history-part-i/ @history

estelle, to random
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The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:

  1. An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”

  2. An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:

"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"

  1. "The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."

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estelle,
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“Levy describes a system that has almost reached perfection. The political echelon wants to maintain the status quo, and the military provides it with legitimacy in exchange for funds and status.”

“Levy points out the gradual withdrawal of the old Ashkenazi middle class from the ranks of the combat forces[…]:
• the military’s complete reliance on technology as a decisive factor in warfare;
• the adoption of the concept […] of an army that is “small and lethal”;
• the obsession with the idea of , which is supposed to negate the other side’s will to fight; and
• the complete addiction to the status quo as the only possible and desirable state of affairs.”

https://www.972mag.com/yagil-levy-army-middle-class/ @israel @ethics @military @idf

estelle,
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"Military reporters at Israel’s major news outlets consistently neglect to investigate the army and its conduct. October 7 is their failure too."

"Even high-ranking Israeli military officers seem to be aware of the difference between local and foreign press. A month ago, a few such officers approached an American outlet, rather than an Israeli one, to share their concerns about the incompatibility of the goals of the ground operation in Gaza: dismantling Hamas and freeing all of the Israeli hostages."

https://www.972mag.com/israeli-journalists-pr-army-october-7/ @israel @idf

#patriotism #nationalism #sociology #reputation #truth #agnotology #Haaretz #journalists #Israeli #media
#army #military #investigations #journalism #professionalism #propaganda #manipulation #news #media #israelGaza #GazaWar #israelWars #warOnGaza #israelGazaWar #bias #newspapers #information #coverage #Hasbara #violence #stateViolence #war #WestBank #Gaza #israelPalestine #Jerusalem #972mag #press #IDF #occupation #settlements #israelApartheid

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"Military reporters at Israel’s major news outlets consistently neglect to investigate the army and its conduct. October 7 is their failure too."

"Even high-ranking Israeli military officers seem to be aware of the difference between local and foreign press. A month ago, a few such officers approached an American outlet, rather than an Israeli one, to share their concerns about the incompatibility of the goals of the ground operation in Gaza: dismantling Hamas and freeing all of the Israeli hostages."

https://www.972mag.com/israeli-journalists-pr-army-october-7/ @israel @idf

#patriotism #nationalism #sociology #reputation #truth #agnotology #Haaretz #journalists #Israeli #media #army #military #investigations #journalism #professionalism #propaganda #manipulation #news #media #israelGaza #GazaWar #israelWars #warOnGaza #israelGazaWar #bias #newspapers #information #coverage #Hasbara #violence #stateViolence #war #WestBank #Gaza #israelPalestine #Jerusalem #972mag #press #IDF #occupation #settlements #israelApartheid

estelle, to meta
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The CEO of , Mark , has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives to improve the wellbeing of teenagers on and , sometimes directly bypassing some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company:
https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-files-lawsuit-against-meta-instagram-for-unfair-and-deceptive-practices-that-harm-young-people

estelle,
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"The uneventful nature of structural violence renders it unfit for media coverage compared to kinetic violence. But the two are inextricably linked."
Alexei Sisulu Abrahams: https://www.972mag.com/structural-violence-media-israel-palestine/ @palestine

estelle,
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Sonia Boulos: "You can study Israel and include Palestinians, but from a perspective that perpetuates their subjugation. You can publish an article about polygamy within the Palestinian Bedouin community in the Naqab desert, and not mention anything about historical processes of forced relocation of the Bedouin community, about them losing most of their lands, and about how all of these control mechanisms contributed to soaring numbers of polygamous marriages."

https://jewishcurrents.org/you-cannot-study-israel-without-palestine @israel

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"New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians."

James North: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/extraordinary-charges-of-bias-emerge-against-nytimes-reporter-anat-schwartz/

estelle,
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Ben Norton wrote: 'Instead of investigating how it published a fake story on supposed Hamas "mass rapes", the NY Times is investigating... employees who leaked info about how its editors hired a racist Israeli propagandist to write the fake story to justify Israel's genocide.'

A union leader said the leak probe has singled out employees ‘for their national origin, ethnicity and race’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/01/nytimes-leak-investigation-guild-intercept-hamas/

#racialProfiling #integrity #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #AnatSchwartz #October7 #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #warRape #israel #doubt #press

estelle, to Quotes
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What's the difference between being assertive & being aggressive?
Your gender
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Cartoon by Judy https://horacek.com.au/ via @ulrike https://the.curlybracket.net/2022/03/23/workshops.html

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