Tipu's Tiger

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[Wikipedia] Tipu's Tiger, Tippu's Tiger or Tipoo’s Tiger is an 18th-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger mauling a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the tiger and the man's body make one hand of

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“Echoing right-wing racist rhetoric, liberal organizations routinely smear "illegitimate," nonpacifist resistance as senseless and the work of irrational "thugs." And yet it…

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Anti racism

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“Wealthy queers support initiatives that lock up and murder poor queers, trans* people, and sex workers. Women in positions of power continue…

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Anti racism

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“A vast nonprofit-industrial complex and elite racial leadership class has arisen since the 1960s to define the parameters of acceptable political action…

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“The theory of allyship offered here would seem to be informed by a genuine desire to follow the lead of communities in…

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Ally

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“Time and again politicians have betrayed the very racial and ethnic groups they belong to and claim to represent, while also being…

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Anti racism

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“No individual or single organization can speak for nonwhite people, women, the world's colonized populations, workers, or any demographic category as a…

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Ally

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“To attack a system that has evolved to contain social movements through elite representation, we believe in the absolute necessity of autonomous…

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Ally

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“When activists claim that poor black and brown communities must not defend themselves against racist attacks or state violence, especially not through…

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