It’s not a “Chinese” New Year. Get a grip.
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It’s not a “Chinese” New Year. Get a grip.

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Why the fuck do we keep calling it the “Chinese” New Year?Because it caught on? Because CNN said it, and then some Western travel vlogger in Bangkok repeated it? It didn’t “catch on.” It was pushed.Through decades of Chinese economic dominance, through the West’s colonial perspective, and through the typical informational laziness of people who…

“Go back to where you came from” – except she is where she came from.
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“Go back to where you came from” – except she is where she came from.

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He didn’t come here. His grandfather was born here.He didn’t take anyone’s land, didn’t wipe out the native people.You are the guest.It was your ancestors who sailed in, burned, killed, and declared this their home. And who were those ancestors?They fled poverty, hunger, wars.They weren’t any kind of elite –They were nobodies.They arrived in the…