#eurocentrism — Public Fediverse posts

Why so much empathy for Indigenous people of the Americas, while not acknowledging that pattern of propaganda, colonial violence, and racial capitalism across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, et cetera?

All non-white European are reduced to caricatures in these phantasmagorical European stories of lost civilizations and ancient aliens and persist in the popular imagination and multi-million dollar franchises to this day.

Indigenous African cultures of Sub-Saharan region of the continent don't even get that dubious benefit of the alternating demonization and romantic fetishization afforded native peoples of the Americas; instead, right now there are thousands of affluent pseudo-scientists who are still trying to prove Africans in specific are literally sub-human.

The Racist Origins of Ancient‑Civilization Myths
#Science #RaceScience #PseudoScience #PseudoHistory #Eurocentrism #WhiteSupremacy #Colonialism #ColonialViolence #RacialCapitalism #AncientAliens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ns5SkcbQ8&t=337s

The European Mind: Colonialism, Capitalism, Christianity and How to Recover, Bruce Pascoe

"Pascoe’s argument (drawn from a First Nations perspective) is that western religion’s view of “other” spiritual beliefs as inferior, Europe’s innate sense of moral and racial superiority, and capitalism’s insatiable appetite for natural resources drove global First Nations dispossession as equally as a yearning for exploration and mercantile expansion....We need to talk – to find common ground.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/26/author-bruce-pascoe-interview-new-book-the-european-mind-ntwnfb
#SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #eurocentrism #mindsets #christianity #colonialism #capitalism #IndigenousPeoples #books

"Many influential Enlightenment thinkers did in fact claim that some of their ideas on the subject were directly taken from Native American sources - even though, predictably, intellectual historians today insist this cannot really be the case."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

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#eurocentrism

Eurocentrism, hypocrisy and racism:
Three dimensions of a Western-dominated global (dis)order #Eurocentrism #Imperialism #Racism
https://roape.net/2026/04/03/eurocentrism-hypocrisy-and-racism/

Clarity in Turbulence: Hard Truths the Hard Way
Carney’s recent speech and the whole record of Eastern Europe’s transition to inequality, exploitation, and crisis expose Western capitalism’s “rules” as a lie.
#Imperialism #Eurocentrism
https://www.redthreads.media/p/clarity-in-turbulence-hard-truths

Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency

https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/

#G7 #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #internationallaw / #uno / #icc / #doublestandards / #eurocentrism

„Why the Eurocentric Critique May Have Reached Its Limits.“

https://verfassungsblog.de/international-criminal-law-of-the-west/

#Eurocentrism is the biggest #fraud in #education, eurocentrism is the antithesis of education.

Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

#quote #quotes

Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?

https://wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-with-modern-values/

#WWII #China #history #Eurocentrism #DayOfInfamy #FalseFlag

"September 18, 1931, a date humanity must never forget.

Japanese troops blew up a section of railway under their control near Shenyang in northeast China.

They accused Chinese troops of sabotage as a pretext for attack, and then bombarded the Beidaying barracks near Shenyang the same evening.

By 1932, Japan had seized China's three northeastern provinces, installing the puppet regime of Manchukuo.

(. . .)

Japan's invasion of Northeast China wasn't just a Sino-Japanese affair.

It stemmed from Japan's 'Continental Policy': first seize Manchuria as a base, then attack the Soviet Union, and Southeast Asia.

Its imperialist war of territorial encirclement, however, was not stopped by the League of Nations, the United Nation's precursor.

After the League affirmed China's sovereignty over Manchuria and condemned Japan's violation of its territorial integrity, the Japanese empire withdrew from the League in 1933.

(. . .)

To this day, Eurocentric World War Two narratives, by obscuring Japan's initiation of aggression, enable historical evasion by the country's right-wing factions.

Only by fully restoring World War Two's historical and geographical scope can we safeguard peace and advance a shared future for humanity in our century."

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-11-15/VHJhbnNjcmlwdDg3MzU5/index.html

New in our electronic collection:

➡️ What is #European? On Overcoming #Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought

🔗 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166462

#Europe #Eurocentrism #history #histodons #PoliticalScience #books #bookstodon #library #OpenAccess

Rage Against the Machine: Toward Humane Systems of Mutual Aid

https://wrzky.com/rage-against-the-machine-toward-humane-systems-of-mutual-aid/

Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui on how colonial legacies shape global governance
#egocentrism #eurocentrism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEwE5fUW8HI

John the Duncan on his personal experience at Pride and a thorough analysis of the relationship Europe-Israel, neoliberalism, Eurovision, and pinkwashing. From February 2023.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcCIuSlph4

#racism #PalestineSolidarity #WhiteSupremacy #eurovision #eurovision2025 #Eurocentrism #modernity #AntiMuslimRacism #neoliberalism #pinkwashing #ShireenAbuAkleh #IsraeliOccupation #apartheid #LandTheft @palestine @israel

John the Duncan on his personal experience at Pride and a thorough analysis of the relationship Europe-Israel, neoliberalism, Eurovision, and pinkwashing. From February 2023.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcCIuSlph4

#racism #PalestineSolidarity #WhiteSupremacy #Eurocentrism #modernity #AntiMuslimRacism #neoliberalism #pinkwashing #ShireenAbuAkleh #IsraeliOccupation #apartheid #LandTheft @palestine @israel

New on our blog!

EU Deforestation-Free Regulations

#ClimateChange #Colonialism #Environment #Eurocentrism #SustainableDevelopment

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/eu-deforestation-free-regulations/

New on our blog!

Eurocentrism in Ukraine’s Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

#Eurocentrism #EuropeanUnion #RomeStatute #Ukraine

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/eurocentrism-in-ukraines-ratification-of-the-rome-statute-of-the-international-criminal-court/

#disfigurement, #disgust, and the dark side of #prettyprivilege
Rowan Ellis
#Ableism #Lookism #Featurism #Eurocentrism #antiBlackness #LGBTQ #Trans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ba_f_AFTSM

Everyone acts like “Model Minority” Syndrome is something shockingly new, when it's been a feature of the United States since its founding; promoted and defended by law, social custom, and wealthy corporate interests for centuries.

Latino Trump Supporters Believe He Won't Deport “Good” Families
#Latinos, #BIPOC, #MAGA, #Trumpism, #Republican, #Centrists, #Eurocentrism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqCyRTsO960

@faab64 The term is clearly completely Eurocentric, just as “the Far East”. One far east of Europe, one in the middle. It’s interesting though, your question has made me realise that the term “Far East” is, rightly, not really used anymore, the Middle East” is completely entrenched. #Eurocentrism

@gpilz @iinac

Yes, though there are many Euriopean equivalents, with deeply, deeply embedded #Eurocentrism and all that comes with it. My whole family for example. It infuriates me more and more, the superiority, the total lack of acknowledgement of extreme privilege.. the total conviction that “we” are nice, that it is others who are the problem

John the Duncan on his personal experience at Pride and a thorough analysis of the relationship Europe-Israel, neoliberalism, Eurovision, and pinkwashing. From February 2023.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcCIuSlph4

#racism #PalestineSolidarity #WhiteSupremacy #Eurocentrism #modernity #AntiMuslimRacism #neoliberalism #pinkwashing #ShireenAbuAkleh #IsraeliOccupation #apartheid #LandTheft @palestine @israel

John the Duncan on his personal experience at Pride and a thorough analysis of the relationship Europe-Israel, Eurovision, and pinkwashing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcCIuSlph4

#racism #PalestineSolidarity #WhiteSupremacy #Eurocentrism #modernity #AntiMuslimRacism #neoliberalism #ShireenAbuAkleh #IsraeliOccupation #apartheid #LandTheft

Did Brazil ever have something like a "one drop rule"?
The answer may surprise you
Black Brazil Today
#BlackMastodon #RacializedClass #AntiBlackness #Eurocentrism #WhiteSupremacy #OneDropRule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzZpOZ-9Ed0

Black love can't heal us until we deconstruct our adoration of whiteness!
Black Brazil Today
#BlackMastodon #AfroBrazilian #Whiteness #Eurocentrism #WhiteSupremacy #BlackSelfesteem #BlackBrazilian #MixedRace #BlackIdentity #Amorpreto #BlackLove #AfricanDiaspora #BlackinBrazil #InterRacial #Whitewashing #Embranquecimento
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDIh6JWxBBI

"In all, 139 out of 193 UN member states recognise Palestine as a state."

I didn't realise so many countries had already recognised #Palestine and that Ireland was so far behind the curve. #eurocentrism

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https://press.coop/@AJEnglish/112260254868707879
[email protected] - Ireland, Spain, Norway moving closer to recognising a Palestinian state

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says declarations on Palestine will be made "when the conditions are appropriate". #press

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/12/ireland-spain-norway-moving-closer-to-recognising-a-palestinian-state?traffic_source=rss&utm_source=press.coop

@pettter yes. Of course it is racism and white supremacy. I should have just said it, like you did. Now wondering why i often stop short of saying that. Like - i’ve been doing a little thread on #Eurocentrism here and actually what i want to say is: eurocentrism is racism and white supremacy and nothing else! But i never use those words. I have to just start doing it.

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- #Eurocentrism is not benign or innocent. I mean, you might think it’s just people who don’t know any better, whose horizons are a bit limited. But let’s at least recognise that this ignorance is deliberately fostered by our education systems and collective moral narratives; and that many of us are complicit in constructing and maintaining these narratives and wilful collective ignorance, ignoring of the suffering of others.

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- #Eurocentrism is living in a “Gilded bubble”, as Naomi Klein puts it here in this briliiant recording, and simultaneously not fully realising that it is a gilded bubble but also doing everything to protect it. Not letting a genocide elsewhere that is actively sponsored by your own government, in which every day more people, more children die, prick your conscience, your sense of moral superiority.

https://x.com/rulajebreal/status/1768768563773415902?s=20

@albertcardona 4/n

- #Eurocentrism is: truly believing that the EU is a genuinely benign project that is about peace, harmony and cooperation, a beacon of goodness in the world; and not knowing or wilfully ignoring that it is also, or even primarily, a project by and for capital interests, and that in general it protects European interests over others (and that its borders, eg #Ceuta, are violent, killing people). And yes, still talking about certain family members

@pvonhellermannn

-#Eurocentrism - understood as the mainstream views of the so-called Western world – means unwittingly committing to never tasting the best food Earth can offer, nor listening to the best music, nor witnessing the most breathtaking landscapes. And to consider it all as expendable in the name of not having be moderately inconvenienced.

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- #Eurocentrism is being completely comfortable with only reading European/US authors, only listening to European/US music, not realising that there is so much you are missing out on (“world” music doesn’t count - what an awful Eurocentric concept in itself).
-#Eurocentrism is not having any real interest in or knowledge about the rest of the world and thinking that is ok.

(And yes i am writing certain family members. That’s what this is about).

What is #Eurocentrism? A few ways to think about it - not based on specific reading, just my thoughts. Feel free to add!

- #Eurocentrism is talking about “European values” as self-evidently good, without stopping to think where that idea comes from & what it says about you and your knowledge of attitude to the rest of the world

- #Eurocentrism is being a white European living in Europe, never thinking about colonialism and how your comfort & wealth, your morning coffee, derives from it
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@rachelstrohm I appreciate your toots. I really struggle with Mastodon’s #Eurocentrism and lack of news from elsewhere. I used to really enjoy and learn so much from Nigerian twitter; i really miss all that. Just now briefly went in and saw a Twitter space on #Hunger in Nigeria going on right now, and then found countless posts on how bad things are under #Tinubu, real hunger in so many places. Knew far too little about that, too! Trying to find ways to get and share more global news here.