Colonialism
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Between Marx and the mullah
The author argues that ancient DNA shows massive past population turnovers, yet premodern states lacked the capacity for coordinated genocide, so Latin American collapse owed more to disease and famine,…
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The British have no contrition for what they did to India-
Argues that Britain writes about the Raj without contrition and that the whitewashing of empire has fed resentment of the EU, calling Brexit the imperial reckoning Britain avoided.
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Better in Wales than India
Calls it absurd to demand the return of Mughal artefacts when India and Pakistan both disrespect that period, saying the colonial encounter can be discussed once Pakistanis speak decent Dari…
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When Brahmins get treated like Dalits; the world listens
Responding to an Instagram post, the author argues that white people must learn more about race, but asks how many upper-caste Indians would let their children play with Dalits, and…
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The Post-White World
The author suggests ‘The Post-White World’ as a book title, tracing Western consolidation from 1492 to Victorian racial hegemony and its unravelling through two World Wars, decolonisation and the Cold…
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Was the nation-state inevitable?
After a podcast with Varsha Venkatasubramanian that he found unremarkable, the author turns to her view of the part British colonialism played in the emergence of Pakistan and India.
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Azad(?) Kashmir
A brief remark that a travel vlogger checking in at ‘Azad Kashmir’ used politically loaded language, with an aside on PewDiePie and an embedded tweet by Sadanand Dhume mocking a…
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PewDiePie is Coloniser Trash
Zach attacks PewDiePie’s remarks after losing the YouTube subscriber race to T-Series as colonial condescension towards Indians, objecting to calling Bangladesh Indian and to jokes about open defecation. The tone…
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Raj Koothrapali is a shame on all Brown Men
Zach agrees with a commenter that the Big Bang Theory’s Raj Koothrapali harms the image of brown men, adding observations about caste, Hindu insensitivity to Pakistanis, and Pakistan’s brand versus…
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Coloniser mansplaining beautiful Indian girl
Zach calls out a man in a Netflix clip as epitomising the ‘coloniser complex’ for talking over a woman who rejected him, and objects that Netflix saw nothing wrong with…
