@woof now wondering if the way the british handled suttee and the disastrous way in which it became a thing of national pride was an intended or desired outcome...

@woof damn i hadn't even started reading the article and it turns out it says exactly the "yes and" i already had brewing

(saying this as a PoC immigrant whose ethnic community is very much subject to that kind of talk... but i never thought of the prospect of framing it as intentional weaponization by the white establishment against asian queers until now...)

key quote
https://www.alqaws.org/articles/Beyond-Propaganda-Pinkwashing-as-Colonial-Violence

reminder about a good and important article worth reading i already posted a while ago, a palestinian perspective on pinkwashing as a form of colonial violence.

i think reading this short article gave me solid & honest rhetorical tools to flip the stratagem around

https://www.alqaws.org/articles/Beyond-Propaganda-Pinkwashing-as-Colonial-Violence

biologic medications are so funny. your doctor will prescribe something and then your insurance company/the government will be like "actually here's this flaming pile of dogshit we found under a condemned bridge instead" and they'll call it a "biosimilar"