𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘐𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴, 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪’𝘪, 𝘗𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘰, 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘮, 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢, 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 #𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘔𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳, 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥, 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.
People of the Global Majority is a phrase used as early as 2003 as a way to challenge the normativity of a white majority or Eurocentric perspective. Terms like "ethnic minority" marginalize the skills, the ways of thinking, and the lived experiences of those from African, Asian, indigenous, or dual-heritage backgrounds.
85% of the global population are #PoGM and yet colonialist beliefs and white supremacy RULES the world because people still can't come together and fight the REAL enemy.
#GlobalMajority refers to Black, Indigenous, Brown, and Latinx peoples—particularly Indigenous and Afro-Latinos —Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians, the Inuit communities/Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Arabs, Western Asians/Middle Easterners with dark skin, North Africans, Southeast Asians, South Asians, East Asians, Africans with dark skin, and biracial and multiracial people who are mixed with one or more of the above, and people and groups who can’t access white privilege.
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This isn’t a perfect definition. It’s important to keep in mind that there are both white and non-white folks who hold different ethnicities that are also targeted by white domination.
White supremacy culture is the widespread ideology baked into the beliefs, values, norms, and standards of #GlobalMajority groups (many if not most of them), communities, towns, states, and nations, teaching us both overtly and covertly that whiteness holds more value than any other group.
So just remember that 85% of the global population are People of the Global Majority ... and only 15% are white and that 1% of that 15 ... CONTROL how the United States and much of the rest of the world (except for maybe China and Saudi Arabia as far as power, influence, and HELLA $$$) functions, thinks, lives and believes.
Also remember that most of the rest of the world ALREADY KNOWS THESE facts. It's just in the United States that people THRIVE in ignorance and where history is suppressed and education is drenched in lies and limited by deliberate omissions.
Let me correct something I said earlier. I said that the 15% minority, white supremacy, and colonialist ideals rule the U.S. because the 85% can't come together to fight the real enemy ... it's more accurate to say that people live in their own individual realities where only certain things that they CHOOSE to believe or CHOOSE to know are true and where their perspectives have been so deeply infected and influenced by the 15% that they wouldn't know or believe a global truth if they heard it.
When the minority controls the media, education, and everything else that influences the minds of the majority ... then it doesn't matter what the truth actually is.
There is no truth anymore.
There is only what individual people decide they want to believe and since everyone believes differently ... there will never be any cohesion, understanding, global reality, or change.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦. — Marcus Aurelius
@thewebrecluse
The use of the word "exotic" is similar, implying it's someone other than white people who are atypical.
@thewebrecluse I would argue that Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 & China 🇨🇳 are both more at the mercy of the United States 🇺🇸 than the other way around.
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 & China 🇨🇳 both need American 🇺🇸 tech to develop their nations, while the USA 🇺🇸 does not need oil from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 & has recently decoupled from China 🇨🇳 (latter is in a weird deflationary recession right now—also the recent flooding does not help).
Truth has become an enigma. If it ever was real.
@LnzyHou truth isn't really a real thing. It varies from person to person. So no ... global truth isn't "real" perse.
@LnzyHou what is true for me isn't necessarily true for you and vice versa ... but my reality is different from yours as well ... so what is true? what is real? only what you live is for you and no one else. Which is why I'm always saying ... you can't ever truly understand anyone and there is no global accepted reality.
@thewebrecluse @LnzyHou
I say this a lot. Even if we've had the exact same experience I will never understand how you feel.
@Idissent @LnzyHou I say it often but there is always that one ... unthinking person who says nonsense like "no I can understand people" kind of thing ... no ... you really can't. You can listen. You can ONLY interpret and that's mostly through your own filters and bias ... but you can't live someone else's reality and know what that is like. Its literally impossible.
@thewebrecluse @LnzyHou
Yeah, I really don't understand those people. If we both lost someone in the exact same way our experience is totally different
@Idissent @LnzyHou I find most people to be ... I'll just put it this way ... incredibly unrealistic so it's really difficult if not impossible for me to converse with almost everyone. They prefer feeling irrationally over thinking in healthy ways, they prefer making assumptions over listening, and in general just ... don't "get" things that really only require a minute or two of actual thinking. So ... yeah ... there's little point in trying to explain logical things to them.
@thewebrecluse @Idissent @LnzyHou Listening has become rare in our society. Everyone has this need for THEM to be heard at the expense of anyone else in a conversation. IMO, folks who can really listen have become the exception rather than the rule.
@FabulousLVNV @thewebrecluse @Idissent
My youngest son is a deep listener. He does not react, interrupt or judge.
@FabulousLVNV @thewebrecluse @Idissent @LnzyHou
I love this, I would also add patience.
Listening & patience should be everyone's daily mantra. I'm working on it,
If anything in my advancing years, I’ve learned much of what I believed was true is indeed not.
America is NOT the shining beacon of Freedom and Justice we were always told it is.
Quite the contrary.
@LnzyHou Many people are beginning to understand this but even more are doing EVERYTHING to resist the truth ... choosing delusion and madness instead.
@thewebrecluse @LnzyHou There are certain truths independent of perceptions and biases.
For instance, "if humans don't change their behavior, everything on Earth will die."
@AskTheDevil @LnzyHou and yet there are people who choose not to believe that. In fact, I would say the majority of people don't believe that because if they did, it wouldn't be a statement that needed to exist.
@thewebrecluse
His Meditations was an interesting read. I gave a copy to someone I thought needed to connects his words to his actions. Not sure it landed.
Words matter: Language reflects our history, perspective, and where we still have important antiracism work to do.
Terms like “people of color,” “Black, Indigenous, People of Color,” and “non-white” all still center whiteness. This is most clear in the term “non-white” which emphasizes that the people being referred to are not white, and that white people are the default in our language.
The #truth is white people are the MINORITY and they do everything to make sure you forget that fact.