Since the Queen died I've been enjoying all the jokes and memes but I've been sternly reminded this is wrong - we are supposed to be respectful and sad, apparently. So I figured we can all do some serious reflecting and learning. Here are some great threads:
TikTok about authoritarianism
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TikTok on the many stolen jewels owned by the British royal family, many of which we will be lucky to see on TV in the coming weeks
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Thread that gives additional context on geographic and political understanding of Indian subcontinent. Because the nation state is a fairly recent idea, it can be challenging for us today to look back and understand the world before colonialism
https://twitter.com/Prof_FSultana/status/1568697306001571840?t=1EEkvREVDb1bW_Oh4-UxYQ&s=19
In 1947, the British divided subcontinent in two countries (literally overnight!) based on religion into what is today India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, displacing 10-20 million people and killing 200,000–2 million. To learn more, read about recent #partitionhorrorsremembranceday
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