Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@rowyn aww cute

@Lady hmm purrhaps

@Lady i am not expecting to travel but my plan was all

@distel yes it was not something discussed in elementary or high school at all—then Iberia was always white and western! I had some vague understandings of the moorish empire from the internet but learning about it in college really changed my perspective on the country’s history

personally i find that type of revisionism to be a symptom/aftereffect of reconquista’s colonialist narratives

@distel I feel like often in the US when we talk about colonialism we put a big emphasis on the British colonial model which was mixed settler colonialism with a heavy emphasis on extraction via trade (and the Atlantic slave trade to facilitate said extraction). And so we frame the basis of colonialism as being part of the age of exploration/sail which then fits in very neatly with the US conception of manifest destiny which is in part based on the concept of “right of discovery”

It wasn’t until I got to college that I had a professor actually talk about the history of Spanish & Portuguese colonialism, which was largely based on the techniques they perfected during Reconquista—where Christians, many of whom were of Iberian descent, justified the violent conquest of the Muslim states in the Iberian peninsula through the justification that Christians had always lived there and that fact made it a “kingdom of god” which they were entitled to

I am not an expert so I don’t know if theres a definitive argument for if Reconquista was a form of colonialism or merely a predecessor which set the patterns much of European colonialism later followed, but I definitely found thinking of it as being at least quite like colonialism helpful when it came to understanding its cascading effects throughout history

@twotone oh no nut crumbly rice 😭

@rowyn awwwww

@irina some people are just born with an ‘old soul’ i guess

@soph_sol something very odd about reading such a tumblr-esque post in an actual published paper book

@rowyn for your own good huh 😬😬😬

@moonspider …isn’t the fact that peer review is mutually anonymous like a big part of the thing? how the hell is that supposed to work if you’re emailing your friends like “hey do you mind if i suggest you for peer review of my paper on [topic] at [journal]”

@jane wow that seems v unnecessarily confusing

@being just roasting your whole timeline tonight huh 😂

@platypus oh noooo 😂

@rowyn sickroom slumberparty time!