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Dr Gerald Roche

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11 Nov

have you eaten? > how are you?

like, i don't know how i am but i do know if i've eaten

lol i remember reading an argument that 'the Chinese' greet each other with 'have you eaten yet' because of the frequent famines in China, and asking if you've eaten was supposed to be a sign of concern in the context of persistent scarcity...

...which is more or less like saying that 'how are you?' emerged as a greeting under modernity, where depression and anxiety are widespread and we have thus developed a lingua-culture of concern...

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Dr Gerald Roche

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11 Nov

On the banning of the Cham language during the Cambodian genocide. 1/n

Krauchhmar. 1975. "...many local Chams... rebelled when they learned of the DK plan to ban their religion and language, to make them eat pork, and to break up Cham communities." 2/n

Tbaung Khmum. 1975. "It was also expressly forbidden to speak Cham: 'We were not allowed to use the [Cham] words yas [mother] or chik [father] to address our parents. We had to use the [Khmer] words me and pak.'" 3/n

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Dr Gerald Roche

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11 Nov

"How could it be possible to know a person's identity with certainty enough to kill?" asked Liisa Malkii when she interviewed Hutu refugees who had fled slaughter in Burundi. "There are symbols for recognizing a Hutu," one man replied 1/n

One - the hands. Two - ankle bones. Three - the calves. Four - gums. And "the fifth symbol was the language spoken - since the Tutsi do not speak like the Hutu." 2/n

"Their voice, their language... They have a haughtiness in their language... Example: For 'you!'—do you understand? You! ... So for 'you!' the Hutu says 'sha!' The Tutsi says 'hya!'..." 3/n

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Dr Gerald Roche

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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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Dr Gerald Roche

@GJosephRoche

3 Jul

It’s the same whataboutisms every time.

part two

and part three

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Dr Gerald Roche

@GJosephRoche

23 May

@shaunrein

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…

https://twitter.com/shaunrein/status/1396395273170169857

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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