Flicka Looya 45 minutes ago
I laughed at the incongruity of the Comrade driving his Mercedes into the ditch.
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Counter-revolutionary trends of academic leftism
Identity politics reminds me of those dark fairy tales where a witch/dark entity grants the protagonist the power of bringing a dead loved one back to life but at the cost of the life force of somebody else.
Ironically it is still the educated West who gets to call the shots and triage the various identities to allocate who will get life and who will pay off the debt with theirs.
Colonialism of the West has just inverted on the concept of itself in the social sciences as a coping mechanism of guilt and yet it is just as ruthless as colonialism ever was by ascribing value to identities based on politically motivated tier system of importance.
Even though your history was of great importance ethnographically due to the overthrowing of one extremely foreign to the West regime for another extremely foreign to West regime, your story was triaged to the back of the waiting room because you were not considered to carry the holy incantation of oppression.
Your story is now a hidden history because it has been devalued by gatekeepers of prevailing social politics to the point that not many in the West have any understanding of Zimbabwe at all,
let alone the culture that you came from and the respect to understand your particular place it.
I look forward to hearing more of your story and how you reclaimed the way to make sense of it.
Ironically it is still the educated West who gets to call the shots and triage the various identities to allocate who will get life and who will pay off the debt with theirs.
Colonialism of the West has just inverted on the concept of itself in the social sciences as a coping mechanism of guilt and yet it is just as ruthless as colonialism ever was by ascribing value to identities based on politically motivated tier system of importance.
Even though your history was of great importance ethnographically due to the overthrowing of one extremely foreign to the West regime for another extremely foreign to West regime, your story was triaged to the back of the waiting room because you were not considered to carry the holy incantation of oppression.
Your story is now a hidden history because it has been devalued by gatekeepers of prevailing social politics to the point that not many in the West have any understanding of Zimbabwe at all,
let alone the culture that you came from and the respect to understand your particular place it.
I look forward to hearing more of your story and how you reclaimed the way to make sense of it.
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The particular Comrade, who was the Health Minister, had the habit of taking his friends around the public hospitals late at night when he was drunk, proclaiming "I own this."
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