Feli Goldstein @feli@anticapitalist.party

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She actually presents it differently (better) in another lecture that she held a few months earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_sCeu-gdM

She says there's nothing wrong with the concept of intersectionality as introduced by Crenshaw, but in the actual discourse it has come to mean those other things.

So that was just a flaw in her presentation.

I think her characterization of intersectionality might not reflect what intersectionality means in academic discourse, but I guess it can be understood in the context of political discourse on college campuses.

I think her thoughts are very valuable to the discourse, that I think is mostly misdirected, as people try to prove that one side or the other is inherently evil.

Lecture by Chloé Simone Valdary titled "Theory of Enchantment", talking about the discourse on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, restorative justice, and ethics based on the premise that we will criticize not to destroy but to uplift one another, with the intention to help them flourish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgSNL5Q7j7g

who even is richard stallman? why is he trying to take credit for open source software? open source was invented by linux torvalds

There is a German YouTube channel called Filmanalyse. It's a person who creates movie reviews using Marxist ideas. A lot of his videos are quite interesting

Does anyone know a blog or YouTube channel or something where critical reviews of media are published? Especially interested in video game reviews.

What I mean by critical is not only how enjoyable the gameplay mechanics are, how nice it looks etc., but a thorough look at the ideology of the reviewed work, and criticism of oppressive aspects.

I asked for permissions on Mastodon's translation platform weeks ago, and I haven't received any response since. That's how @Gargron and co. treat someone who completely revised and completed the German translation of the Mastodon web interface 🤷🏻

Sources:

Interview with Tyrone Miller (https://www.webcitation.org/6EEt9ZBmA?url=http://www.ladygamers.com/jade/tyrone_miller.htm) : "Although Jade may have an 'ethnic' look, she does not belong to any race. Keep in mind that the story takes place in the future on another plant, where race is not really a factor."

Beyond Good and Evil 2 Trailer 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9VPnI34dPw

They are going for "diversity" in this game series, but they don't understand race and ethnicity *at all*. It's so awful. It'll be a game for white people by white people, with exoticism thrown in

I'm currently playing the first game, which has a couple of stereotypical depictions of people of color. "Rastafari" rhinos who own a workshop, as well as a "Chinese" walrus (Ming Tzu) who owns a shop, and a "Latino" human who is the AI that manages your inventory.

This time, they have to include even more stereotypical depictions of people of color, apparently.

"Chinese" and "Hindi" cultures are apparently dominant in the new game

I watched the trailer of Beyond Good and Evil 2, the video game, and it seems like it's gonna be quite racist.

Apparently it wasn't enough for the developers of the first game to claim that the protagonist, Jade, is not a woman of color, because the game is set in a different universe and race "doesn't exist" in that universe (???).

I'd like some recommendations for video games, books, and other media.

I'm looking for media with a cast of cute boys, girls, and enbies who are in a big polycule and it's really wholesome?

If they aren't in a polycule I'd also like to hear about it. :3

We need as can be seen here: https://witches.live/@anna/101241162049432804