But yeah, I want to expand community to include the rest of nature or our ecosystems. We socially interact not just with humans but non-humans. We form a larger community with non-humans mattering as community members too and having rights. And we need to remember that we are part of the ecosystem and not separate from it and that to ensure our own survival we must ensure the survival of the ecosystems we're a part of. #communism #socialism #anarchism #universalism #absolutism #relativism #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #anthropology #ethnocentrism #culturalrelativism #culture #multiculturalism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism #indigenous #animism #personhood #environmentalism #ecology

Also I said certain forms of cannibalism because for the sake of international solidarity we should oppose accepting certain forms of cannibalism on the global scale. Human predation is the form of cannibalism I'm thinking of. How can we be united if we're hunting each other for food? We can't. It undermines international solidarity and that's why I oppose it. However, mortuary cannibalism is okay on the global scale if the practice ever spread. That being said I'm inclined to accept human predation on the same scale where certain peoples still hunt what I consider to be other humans for food. Especially if they choose to not join the communal confederation and retain their lifestyle. It's because who is and isn't human is arbitrary. Think about the humans that hunted and ate neanderthals (and vice versa). Are the latter human? Where do you draw the line? Do you see how arbitrary it is now? #communism #socialism #anarchism #universalism #absolutism #relativism #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #anthropology #ethnocentrism #culturalrelativism #culture #multiculturalism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism #indigenous

I'm going to start ramping up the defense of other cultures. Whether it's lack of recursion, lack of time, lack of numbers, different conceptions of time, different logics, different religions, eating dogs, whaling, animal sacrifice, certain forms of cannibalism such as mortuary cannibalism, and possibly female genital modification. I say possibly at the end because I still oppose aspects of cultures that are supremacist, hierarchical, and bigoted. So if female genital modification is about enforcing a gender binary and sexism then I oppose it. However, I also see the ethnocentrism in people against it. Where are the people opposing female genital modification when surgeons are "fixing" intersex people to be one sex or the other? It's the same general idea yet one is opposed while the other is supported. #communism #socialism #anarchism #universalism #absolutism #relativism #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #anthropology #ethnocentrism #culturalrelativism #culture #multiculturalism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism #indigenous

But yeah, if it's not obvious by now I promote normative or prescriptive cultural relativism. That and we need to stop assimilation and cultural imperialism by any means necessary. #universalism #absolutism #relativism #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #anthropology #ethnocentrism #culturalrelativism #culture #multiculturalism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism #indigenous #communism #socialism #anarchism

Universalism is partially the product of wanting your culture to be universal, of your ethnocentrism. #universalism #absolutism #relativism #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #anthropology #ethnocentrism #culturalrelativism #culture #multiculturalism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism

Also forcing all other cultures to be like your culture via assimilation and cultural imperialism won't change the fact that your culture wasn't universal. You just made it universal through force due to your ethnocentrism. #universalism #absolutism #relativism #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #anthropology #ethnocentrism #culturalrelativism #culture #multiculturalism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism

The belief that your culture exists in all places and for all times is false. Many modern Westerners believe this and it's just not true. Even ancient Europe didn't have the same culture. Your culture isn't universal or absolute just because you want it to be due to your ethnocentrism. #universalism #absolutism #relativism #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #anthropology #ethnocentrism #culturalrelativism #culture #multiculturalism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism

What I'm probably going to promote are subjectivism and relativism. Not only do I think they're true but they are necessary for the equality and liberty of cultures. Reductionism, objectivism, universalism, absolutism, and ethnocentrism result in the non-acceptance of different cultures and forcing those different cultures to be like your culture. Holism, subjectivism, relativism, and cultural relativism result in the acceptance of different cultures and those cultures being free to be different and themselves. #communism #socialism #anarchism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism #relativism #culture #anthropology

Universalists will claim there are universal standards for adjudicating between differing worldviews and then go on to claim that their culture is universal (it's not) and go back to ethnocentrism and imperialism. #philosophy #anthropology #relativism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism #decolonize #decolonization

It's assumed by universalists that the universal standards for adjudicating worldviews are real and discoverable I reject that assumption as a subjectivist. That means that there are no universal standards for adjudicating worldviews yet. There can be but they'd be the product of imperialism and/or intercultural discussion. Imperialism is more likely and what we see in the world today. But they still wouldn't be naturally universal and absolute. #philosophy #anthropology #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism

The workshop ‘The Organization of African Unity and the Struggle against Colonialism and Racism in Africa’ begins tomorrow and will take place at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences and via Google Meet. The programme can be found on our website:

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/oau-struggle/

If a universal standard of correctness existed that could adjudicate between worldviews you'd think all cultures would have adopted the one correct worldview by now. You'd also think that it would be voluntary rather than what we've seen. What we've seen being ethnocentrism, cultural imperialism, and forced assimilation. #philosophy #anthropology #culture #relativism #imperialism #antiimperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism

I was thinking that if more than one people has history with a land that those peoples could share the land. Minus if they have a history with that land due to colonialism though. To settle land disputes. #land #landback #indigenous #colonialism #anticolonialism #imperialism #antiimperialism

🗣 We have opened another call for proposals: ‘The Alter-lives of Independence Movements: Frustrated Hopes, Renewed Utopias’ will be an international conference that explores the evolution and transformation of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles.

Is part of the Joint International Workshop “Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond”

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/alterlives-independence-movements/

🗣 The call for papers for the workshop ‘Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990’, co-organised by the IHC and CHAM, is now open.

It will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 15 December.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/intellectual-exchanges-afam/

Many modern Westerners don't know this but 16th century Europeans practiced cannibalism. It was medicinal cannibalism and they consumed mummia. They believed eating and drinking parts of the body would heal them because like cures like. Cannibalism is painted as a thing "primitive" people do but the reality is 16th century Europeans, who were allegedly "civilized", did it. That and cultures that do or did practice cannibalism aren't barbaric and evil. There are reasonings behind it just like with 16th century Europeans. Hear me out. The Wari' used to eat their dead loved ones to keep their souls with them rather than wandering the forest alone. It was an act of love. That's a lot different from what modern Westerners imagine cannibalism to be. Either Jeffrey Dahmer or fictional movies that continue the tradition misrepresenting, demonizing, and dehumanizing indigenous peoples. #indigenous #imperialism #colonialism #antiimperialism #anticolonialism #whitesupremacy #dehumanization #demonization #genocide #ethnocentrism #culture #tolerance

In fact I stand by all religious communities facing oppression and for our liberation. The same goes for atheists and atheist liberation. #religion #indigenous #imperialism #colonialism #antiimperialism #anticolonialism #voodoo #polytheism #atheism #Islam #Hinduism #Judaism #Christianity #Buddhism

That's some nice anti-colonial messaging there, liking it!