@SteveClough

No, it's not. It is about disputing many historians, population specialists, genocide forensic scientists.

And, let me be absolutely honest, I have a very personal stance in this. Because you cannot have gone to Tuol Sleng and not have one.

So, I get it, right now very few people have the bandwidth to get upset that some asshole is denying the extent of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia 50 years ago, but it is the same fucking mindset as the people questioning the number of dead in Gaza right now.

It is a despicable practice that simply leads to more killing.

Whether it is white supremacists denying the evils of slavery, Holocaust deniers, Russians whitewashing Stalin or those trying to downplay the murderous waves of Mao's policies, I find the sin of rewriting history to serve ideology is maybe the worst intellectual sin of all time. Mostly because it unforgivably ignores the testimony of lived experience.

That, to me, is beyond contempt.

There seems to never be an end to the barrage of people who need to re-write history to accord with their own ideology.

But here we are again.

And it takes a pretty admirable determination to patiently, over and over, unpack the lies and the rhetorical sleights of hand. So a big thanks to Lachlan Peters for doing it. #denialism #ideology #cambodia

https://open.substack.com/pub/shadowsofutopia/p/debunking-the-debunkers-how-many?r=y5fpm&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

@Richard_Littler I think this might have inadvertently highlighted the central problem: a complete inability to distinguish fact from fiction.

@Richard_Littler

It never ceases to amaze me how utterly stupid Musk can be.

I can't wait until his historically accurate version of Lord of the Rings!

@Mab_813 this, 1000 times. If there was any piece of tech in the last 200 years that genuinely improved women’s lives, it was the washing machine

@realn2s as does the multiple kilometre trek with water. @hko

@http_error_418 Yes!!! You put your finger on something I was having trouble expressing. Also, I wonder how much she spends on the hand cream to stave off chapping? @Bumblefish

@juliette I absolutely get the CottageCore thing myself.

But wouldn't it be more creative to reinvent that aesthetic in a way that didn't glamourise grinding poverty?

@hko I agree. While it isn't the same thing, there is a kind of logical progression.

@hko Little house on the prairie stuff.

@Bumblefish I don't think she was attempting to glorify suffering. I don't think she's suffering at all. But she's romanticising a particular chore that has been the bane of women's existence from time immemorial.

And I'm sure she's found some meditative escape in it. But the decadent privilege implicit in it is... well, obscene to me.

I am sure this lovely lady didn't mean it this way but, for those of us who have lived in poor places, the fetishising of handwashing comes off as obscene privilege.

There are women - yes, they're always women - all over the world who either don't have electricity or can't afford a washing machine. And they routinely spend a day a week handwashing a family's laundry.

I must say, I find poverty cosplay deeply disturbing

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dax_h52KmRj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

@richrollgardener No, I am sorry. This IS the best, because it's offered with such humanity.

@ekuber @StillIRise1963

Oh jesus. Look at that woman's eyes.

Dora decided, long ago, that if humans groom in the shower, she should too. #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #gatos

@Rasta Or rather, yes... there has been a gender war, and it has been going on for thousands of years, and it is always against everyone but men.

Not that this led to any great outpouring of grief on the part of the colonised.

But, just saying. Infections flare into something serious really fast.