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3 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
It’s the same whataboutisms every time.
part two
and part three
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4 Jul
For NAIDOC, Channel 10 did the weather using Indigenous place names. Let’s have a look at some of the reactions. (CW - racism). 1/n
Some bloke I’ve never heard of and won’t link to decided to write a blog post about the use of Indigenous place names on the weather map. Here’s the post in full. Snide, condescending, ignorant and hateful. 2/n
The rest of the reactions here are from a Twitter thread sharing the original blog post. The point of sharing them is to demonstrate the pushback that exists to the use of Indigenous languages in public in Australia. 3/n
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23 May
So @shaunrein is a full-blown denialist. Let’s use the five features of denialism from Diethelm & McKee to examine what he’s doing and why it is denialism.

doi.org/10.1093/eurpub…
1) Identification of conspiracies.

Sean thinks the western media is a conspiracy to deceive ppl about Tibet. (I think the media is biased and often reports half truths-but it’s not a conspiracy).
2) the use of fake experts.

Sean is himself the fake expert. He knows nothing about language politics and policy, but he thinks his status as eye witness enables him to debunk the ‘myths’ about Tibet. It doesn’t.
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2 Apr
Linguistic justice 🪡

What would a good theory of linguistic justice do? At a minimum, it would help explain global patterns of language oppression - how is injustice driving the elimination of half the worlds languages? 1/n
Sorry, adequate, not good. At present we don’t have a theory of linguistic justice that helps explain global patterns of language oppression, so we don’t have an adequate theory of linguistic justice. 2/n
How would we know this theory works? At least two ways.

1. It would provide new solutions for addressing language oppression, and...

3/n
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31 Mar
A few blog posts from this time last year and earlier, about the COVID-19 pandemic in Tibet (back when it was just an epidemic):

languageonthemove.com/fighting-the-c…
thechinastory.org/epidemic-in-a-…
From the epicenter of the epidemic in Tibet: rTa'u County

blog.westminster.ac.uk/contemporarych…
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17 Mar
Waiting for a bus so here is a true public transport story. As a uni student I lived in the burbs. Went out with friends one night and came home on the train. We stopped half way to walk a friend home...
When we got back to the train station, we had missed the last train. It was about 20 minutes each way to my friends house and we’d miscalculated the time. My house was a long way off.
We couldn’t figure out what to do. It was too far to walk and there were not taxis around. So we set out for a main road
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16 Mar
Did Anthem drop the series on 'Problems in Anti-Colonialism'?
Profile no longer mentions Anthem.
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