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ForgottenUserName said:
What would the abo version of wikipedia be? Endless articles about the best way to huff petrol?
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The template seems to be "make an article on a few countries, a few animals, and a few common concepts." But apparently Wikipedia doesn't even have an Aboriginal language version meaning whoever is trying to bring technology to remote Aboriginal villages isn't doing a good enough job (sucks to be them, there's lots of government money and moral superiority to be found in that). Or possibly the Aboriginals don't give a shit, which would be amazing since even random Pacific Islanders and Indian reservations have Wikipedias with a few dozen "articles". This is the closest to it, an "Incubator" page in Pitjantjatjara, a language spoken in the middle of nowhere in the Outback where if you look at the Wikipedia page they use a vandalized street sign as an example of the language. I cannot find a Wiki in another Australian Aboriginal language, although one or two might've closed in the past few years.

Wp/pjt - Wikimedia Incubator

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There are two articles on this Wiki.

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/pjt/Main_Page - Just the main page
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/pjt/nyii-nyii - A picture of a zebra finch, a small bird

This is the same "Incubator" with a Middle English Wikipedia, you know, Canterbury Tales and that sort of stuff. Here is a fine example of content.

Wp/enm/Metallica - Wikimedia Incubator

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Metallica biþ a musick compagnye þat playeþ metal.
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Save the Loli said:
The template seems to be "make an article on a few countries, a few animals, and a few common concepts." But apparently Wikipedia doesn't even have an Aboriginal language version meaning whoever is trying to bring technology to remote Aboriginal villages isn't doing a good enough job (sucks to be them, there's lots of government money and moral superiority to be found in that). Or possibly the Aboriginals don't give a shit, which would be amazing since even random Pacific Islanders and Indian reservations have Wikipedias with a few dozen "articles". This is the closest to it, an "Incubator" page in Pitjantjatjara, a language spoken in the middle of nowhere in the Outback where if you look at the Wikipedia page they use a vandalized street sign as an example of the language. I cannot find a Wiki in another Australian Aboriginal language, although one or two might've closed in the past few years.

Wp/pjt - Wikimedia Incubator

incubator.wikimedia.org incubator.wikimedia.org

There are two articles on this Wiki.

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/pjt/Main_Page - Just the main page
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/pjt/nyii-nyii - A picture of a zebra finch, a small bird

This is the same "Incubator" with a Middle English Wikipedia, you know, Canterbury Tales and that sort of stuff. Here is a fine example of content.

Wp/enm/Metallica - Wikimedia Incubator

incubator.wikimedia.org incubator.wikimedia.org
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The other day, I was trying to remember which wrestler invented the Tiger Driver, also known as the double underhook powerbomb (it was Mitsuharu Misawa in case you were wondering). One of the search results that came up was a Wikipedia article listing all of the different variations of powerbombs. I clicked on it and this gif immediately grabbed my attention:

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Stickmen cartoons made by edgy teenagers on Newgrounds were better animated than this.
 
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Fictional Character said:
Refugee of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Born 1989
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It's just some more of that racial memory bullshit, which is kinda weird when you think about it, because she doesn't seem like the type to have a close relationship with her mother. I mean, she doesn't even live in her country of birth.

Fwiw, the same person came up on the Sophie Labelle thread 3 years ago. Nice to know she hasn't changed.
MayDay2000 said:
Holy crap, that person.

"Rivers Solomon is a dyke, a Trekkie, a wannabe cyborg queen, a trash princex, a communist, a butch, a femme, a feminist, a she-beast, a rootworker, a mother, a daughter, a diabetic, and a refugee of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. They write about life in the margins, where they are firmly at home. "

Has a patreon: "Pledge to support a Black gay writer & mom perpetually on the brink of homelessness." Sounds like you need to stop "creating Black, queer fiction, poetry, and essays" and get a real job to take care of your kid.

Has a book published by an independent publisher who is "dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers." Which means they don't make money, and they don't pay the authors much; one step above self publishing, barely.

The book sounds like typical YA "main character in in a space ship and finds out she's special and that there's a mystery/uprising depending on her" junk, with a twist of antebellum south. "A space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot—if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war." Because of COURSE that makes sense.

Basically, exactly the type of individual to enjoy and eat up Sophie's crap.
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Rivers Solomon is apparently 160 years old.
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BootlegPopeye said:
It's absurd on it's face - a little more than 10 years earlier people had actual slaves. Can we really say that open use of the nigger-word was worse than chattel slavery?
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This does actually make sense if you consider the concept of "race relations" to involve only the period where blacks and whites actually had race relations at all. I really don't think literally owning other people as property is "relations" in the normal sense.

This post-Reconstruction era of "race relations" was absolute shit. It was actually exacerbated by the Reconstructionist policy of deliberately installing black officials not on merit, but literally just to humiliate the defeated South even further. This was on top of the utterly corrupt horde of Northerners blatantly pillaging the South, taking bribes, stealing everything that wasn't nailed down, and otherwise acting like a swarm of locusts.

Black people themselves were not exactly responsible for this shit. But they took the brunt of the revenge after the Hayes-Tilden election in 1876, which went to the House of Representatives for a decision. If you think Bush/Gore and Trump/Biden were ugly, you haven't seen shit. If this hadn't been resolved, it could have easily led to Civil War Part Deux. The result was Hayes "won," and was inaugurated, in return for the end of Reconstruction and the removal of federal troops from the South.

And the revenge was swift and brutal, with blacks in the South paying the price for the shit white Northerners had done.

ETA: and in case I'm not being clear, the established view of history where the North was the "good guys" because they "ended slavery," and the South was the "bad guys" because they fought to preserve it, there was definitely a period, from the end of so-called Reconstruction and decades afterwards, where black people were actually WORSE off than under slavery. It wasn't people saying "nigger." It wasn't hurts to the feels. It was lynchings, murders, outright massacres (like the Colfax massacre), just seriously bad shit.
 
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AnOminous said:
It was actually exacerbated by the Reconstructionist policy of deliberately installing black officials not on merit, but literally just to humiliate the defeated South even further. This was on top of the utterly corrupt horde of Northerners blatantly pillaging the South, taking bribes, stealing everything that wasn't nailed down, and otherwise acting like a swarm of locusts.
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This is larger than Wikipedia, but the historiography on Reconstruction right now is shit - the current consensus view is basically Marxist - it was a revolution that didn't go far enough, and the corruption wasn't that bad, etc. I've made a point to challenge some of these people before - in what way was Andrew Johnson's policy any different than Lincoln's? Lincoln had already pocket vetoed the first Reconstruction Act. Jefferson Davis, in his letters, said that they'd rather have dealt with Lincoln as 'the devil they know' instead of Johnson, who had a vicious streak (policy vise visible in not commuting Mary Surratt's death sentence). I never get a good answer.

Anything touching race is going to be idiotic and unprofessional in it's historical treatment. The fact that the meth related death of George Floyd led to Mississippi finally changing it's flag, I guess to honor Floyd's service in the Union Army, convinces me it's going to get worse. I predict the next ax to fall will in the next 10 to 15 years will be you cannot have 'good' slave owners. So yes that means Washington himself, and a move to rename Washington DC.
 
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