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Danie @[email protected] · 2026-06-12 · 11:33 UTC

Danie
- enjoys #soup, #CloseHarmony, #mountainhiking, #repairing, and #vegan food, but not #procrastination, #CognitiveDissonance, #Necropolitics, or #InstitutionalRacism;
- supports fair trade and #FairChain/#FairShare (FairTrade is a colonial concept that reinforces inequality), #organic, and therefore avoids shops and online stores run by exploiters (of the earth, including people);
- believes that most people are decent, and look up to those who stand for love and radical equality and ‘drive the money-changers from the temple’, but are naturally fearful and therefore easily choose leaders who sell hatred, discrimination in service of those who exploit;
- is a militant #pacifist with an understanding of defensive violence (against mosquitoes and exploiters);
- has the privilege of being able to choose paid work that benefits the world and ...
- philosophises briefly on the world and then at length on the text he has written;
- fact-checks what he shares, and the authors he quotes, but sometimes not, or only afterwards;

#introduction

#introduction #pacifist #organic #fairchain #institutionalracism #necropolitics

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2025-01-28 · 20:32 UTC

Nguyễn Quyền (1869–1941) was a #Vietnamese #scholar & #AntiColonial #revolutionary #activist who advocated independence from #French #colonial rule. He was a contemporary of Phan Bội Châu & Phan Chu Trinh & one of Tonkin Free School's founders.

"The more I read the more I become aware that the things we studied, our examination system, were wrong – indeed the real reasons for our having lost our country. From that point on I was determined to seize upon our country's literature and on modern learning to awaken our citizenry."

Quyen advocated the modernisation of Vietnam's #education system. Around 1903 or 1904, Quyen met Tang Bat Ho, who had returned from his travels abroad & talked extensively about the modernisation of Japan. In 1904 he met with Phan Bội Châu, but Quyen had little in common with Chau's ideology of using violence to achieve independence. Quyen went on the work with Lương Văn Can & Le Dai in setting up the Dong Kinh Thuc Nghia, which sought to strengthen the Vietnamese people & thereby the likelihood of independence through the training of a new, more modern generation of scholars.

In 1908, Quyen was arrested in a general crackdown by French authorities and sent to jail on Côn Lôn island. He died in the prison which was infamous for torturing political prisoners.

Ref: Marr, David G. (1970). Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885–1925. Berkeley: University of California. ISBN 0-520-01813-3.

#AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseRevolutionaries #ColonialResistance #Pacifist #VietnameseHistory #AsianHistory #Educator #SouthEastAsia #Viet #Geopolitics #LongLiveVietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #LearnHistory #TootSEA #FrenchColonialism #Indochina