https://images.app.goo.gl/VtNhGqggPm1PMBN18 factual. My dad has dark skin but me and my mom have the irish paleness this will be me in Mexico in Feb.
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Not when he’s projected himself as being more native than others, he considers himself an expert on indigenous identity, more than others with the same blood ties. He’s silenced others over it. ‘Only’ is relevant and a sign of my ongoing frustration on how he attacks my identity.
The only people who support him when he does this are white people and not natives. Which is telling at how white and radicalized his community has become, he’s now at a point where he fights other PoC on Twitter, let that sink in, that’s not what the BIPOC community is about, it’s about solidarity in the struggle against oppression, it’s not a score card.
On Gen Z “discovering” social justice and pointing the finger at millenials like we were not the generation of Anarchy. Headbanging to A Perfect Circle’s Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rythym of the War Drums (a scathing critique of the Iraq War propoganda) or Rage Against the Macine’s Killing in the Name Of long before they were even born.
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i was unaware of this tell recently
Given how many of ‘us’ have slowly shrunk away from our responsibilities to change the things around us, I do not and cannot blame those behind us for the critique. Best to be humble about it and accept it, warranted or not, and double check our blind spots. In the past 15 years it was a generation of anarchy - unorganized, undisciplined, naive, and uneducated in the ways that mattered. Still, we teed it up and its time for them to knock it in. They’ve been doing one hell of a job at it too.
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We are also the working class now and we are being crushed under the weight of Capitalism. It’s like passing a boulder, we are the generation currently under the boulder.
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As are many of them, just like Gen X ahead of us, the Boomers ahead of them, and the Silent Gen further still. We had to learn from the politically starved Gen Xers and Boomers before us, in an age of a nascent internet. The Silent Generation elders (arguably the last actually radical/effective Gen until recently) were largely dead, retired, or disillusioned. We were taught ineffective strategies from Alinsky and his followers, compromised business union leadership, and suffered from the ‘end of history.’ We had our big hurrah during Occupy, potentially again during 2016 Bernie, and we failed in both. Really only after that did we start to learn, myself included.
Its no one’s personal moral failing, not to mention the many systems against us, but that failure has not only taught us what was and wasn’t effective but also serves as a cautionary tail for those behind us - Z and eventually Alpha (who I am actually worried for and could be another example of millennial failure™️).
But what are we doing? Are we launching unionization campaigns? Not really, Gen Z has. Amazon and Starbucks the loudest new ones at least. If we are represented, are we following Shawn Fain and demanding our next contracts are set to April 30, 2028 for an actual potential general strike on May Day? Are we blocking highways for Palestine? Thats mostly Gen Z. We’re calling for an end of the American 1 party system (but in typical american extravagance, we have 2 of them) but are we joining and pushing for the organization that needs to happen?
I don’t want this to be mistaken as a call out, but simply contemplation. What are we still doing? I know what Im doing. I’m a union delegate, Im a local party chair, we started a tenant union, a community land trust, campaigned for local candidates who won and shared our values (even if they are imperfect allies), campaigned for a pro worker state amendment that passed, started a Strong Towns group, I could go on. But in all of those efforts, Im surrounded by Gen Z folks, Im the minority. We need to get our poop back together.
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I’m Canadian but I empathize with the American struggle. We have a lot of our own unique problems of a similar nature.
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And thats just it, I feel as if what I had just described is appropriate for most of English speaking North America and most of Europe, with a couple exceptions like Spain and Ireland. It was a largely global wave of progressive reactions to the 08 crisis that carried into just about 2020 where you see many of our generations failures and the rise of reaction. Greece’s IMF crisis, the Maidan coup, reactionary Brexit, neo-liberal waves that never actually fix issues, the German SPD being almost as spineless as ever (I’d still argue they’re half a step away from pulling a Rosa 2.0), highly reactionary Poland, the list could easily go on. All failures of our millennial generation in one way or another (of course not without systemic obstacles that were difficult to overcome with such inexperience and disorganization).
The global south and non-western countries however, at least the one’s were not bombing, couping, and imperializing into the stone age, largely have been on it.
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On the other hand, it’s a real lot to ask someone in a setting so communication deprived to know everything. Chronicles should never been billed as the Know It All book. Most real world histories are nothing more than incomplete collections of vignettes and we have advantages that Zekhan would tear his heart out for.
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A ‘know it all’ book, should only ever be released if you know, for sure, 100%, that none of the events in that book will ever be altered. Once you start tinkering with the stuff you’ve written, you’ve defeated the purpose of the book.
While I absolutely love my (the ones I own, obviously) Chronicle books, they are well written volumes after all and most of what is written in there is correct, they should have been framed as ‘Written from the view of a Titan’ from the beginning, rather than that being hastily attached later when the Shadowlands lore book changed things.
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To me the underlying issue is the lack of Horde development. I think people can argue all day about what is and what is not [insert terms here], but to me things like Tauren/Darkspear Troll culture have not evolved much since it’s original inception. Orcs are in a weird spot because sure, they all got a bunch of spikes and machinery, but it came across as more of a bad thing for them rather than something that highlights their intelligence and resourcefulness.
I’m still waiting for deadly sky solar laser totems and interesting takes on shamanism and the loa that give the sources of inspiration some love and creativity that expands on the concept.
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The Horde doesn’t have the champs that it used to have in the creative department. Unless mandated by marketing, people writ what they want to write. It’s surprising really given the numerical global dominace the Horde has in the player market.
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So quick thought, looking at Amazon this book is now only $14 while the Northrend one is $16 and suprisingly the Eastern Kingdoms one is $15.
Yup. A de facto lore book is something you should only ever publish when your setting is complete and you are basically just codifying what happened into a single source text. Doing so for an active live service game was absolutely nuts.
What’s done is done and at the very least Blizzard has learned from this mistake. As proof, even the Overwatch lore book is done in a way so that it is from the prespective of people and not a be all end all one.
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