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My book, The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, will be published by @CornellPress in November this year, but you can preorder it now 👇

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Honestly academia is very weird. You train as a researcher, so that you can get a job teaching or being a manager, and maybe do a bit of research, as a treat.

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Absolutely delighted to share this news about my most recent publication.

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When Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word 'genocide,' was 21, he asked one of his professors why states can legally massacre their own citizens. The reply from his teacher (in the next tweet) is the sort of thing that radicalizes a person for life:

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How to save an endangered language & stop it from dying: 1. Realise that the lang isn’t endangered. It is stigmatised, marginalised, oppressed. 2. Realise that the term ‘dying’ is completely unhelpful. 3. Stop trying to save the language. Fight the oppression of its speakers.

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Fellow academics, remember: it’s always possible to publish AND perish.

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"Consider the case of a farmer who owns a flock of chickens," he said. "He kills them and this is his business. If you interfere, you are trespassing."

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Today is @UNESCO International #MotherLanguageDay & 2019 is the International Year of #IndigenousLanguages @iyoil —let’s talk about language denialism. 🚨 thread 🚨

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There’s linguistic appropriation, including Mock Spanish, Mock Asian, and digital blackface—these all relate to using the linguistic features of marginalized groups in mainstream speech for comic effect.

Mock Spanish - Wikipedia

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The Routledge handbook of precarious academics who mistakenly think that contributing free labor will ultimately lead to secure employment because 'exposure'

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Some of the Gaza commentary you're reading and sharing is created by people who are serial genocide deniers and atrocity minimizers. Don't support them. Here are two simple tests you can run to vet your sources, followed by examples. A 🧵

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Language denialism is one type of linguistic injustice. To put it in context, here are a few other types of linguistic injustice (and for all things related to linguistic injustice, check out @VocalFriesPod )…

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There’s accentism—discrimination against a person or group based on their accent. See the Accentism Project @AccentismProj AKA glottophobie.

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I'm currently getting ready to teach a new semester at La Trobe University. Every semester, I start with an acknowledgment of country & when I do that I also talk about the role played by the uni's namesake, Charles La Trobe, in colonization. Here's what I tell students 🧵

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I once visited a Tibetan village in Qinghai where all the toilets had been built with money from the Canadian embassy, and had stickers on them with the Canadian flag and Canada written in Tibetan. When people needed to use the bathroom they would say, “I have to go to Canada.”

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It’s February 21, International Mother Language Day. LET’S POLITICIZE THE LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGE LOSS ✊ /thread/

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So what is language denialism? It means denying that some languages are languages. It is a refusal to acknowledge parity between speech forms. It denies linguistic equipotentiality.

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Another form of linguistic injustice is racial profiling based on linguistic variables—this is studied as part of a broad research paradigm called raciolinguistics. See the work of @DrJonathanRosa @nelsonlflores @mixedlinguist et al

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Downloading the PDF is the same as reading it. Printing the PDF is the same as reading it. Buying the book is the same as reading it. I absolve you. Go in peace.

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My favorite language is European, and I love all its dialects equally: Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Breton, and so on.

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Language denialism pits languages against ‘mixed language’/ dialect/ jargon/ lingo/ patois/. It not only creates hierarchy, but also draws a boundary between legitimate and illegitimate speech forms.

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Then there’s language oppression—“The enforcement of language loss by physical, mental, social & spiritual coercion…” This comes from the work of Alice Taff & colleagues in the Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages

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Language denialism is always a form of linguistic supremacy—“My language is real, yours is fake/ incomplete/ a variety of my language, etc.” A few examples:

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🇮🇳 The linguistic survey of India recognized 364 languages. Today’s govt recognizes 122—22 have official status. Languages with <10k speakers not counted. Meanwhile, the people’s linguistic survey of 🇮🇳 recognizes 780 languages.

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Saying that reclaimed languages are fake is not decolonial. In fact it reproduces a key colonial trope about the inferior nature of the languages of colonized peoples. There are meaningful things to say about Hebrew in Israel but this isn't one of them.

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fun fact: hebrew is a language that was extinct for 2000 years but was revived when the fake state was made, originally the hebrew language only had 7000 words and now it has 33,000 words- 26,000 words were taken from the arabic language

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🇦🇺 The 300+ Indigenous languages were known as jargon, lingo, etc. by invaders. Now, Kriol & Aboriginal English struggle for recognition as Indigenous languages because they’re not ‘traditional’.

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LINGUISTS: What causes language endangerment? INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: Colonization. L: Is it modernization? Urbanization? IP: Genocide. Denial of sovereignty. L: Economic development? Migration? IP: Ongoing oppression. Racism. L: So mysterious! We may never know!

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Living life as a speaker of a non-language can be mentally & emotionally exhausting. There’s linguistic insecurity [am I speaking mainstream lang right?] & linguistic anxiety [what’s going to happen to my language?]

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Language oppression is different from accentism, ling appropriation, lang profiling, & ling ageism. These all occur within a horizon of intelligibility. They are ways of differentiating ppl who mostly understand each other’s speech.

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Some personal news. Delighted to announce that 10 years after receiving my PhD—after 3 countries, 4 universities, dozens of publications & 100s of citations of my work—I still don’t have a steady job.

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And there’s the fact of living with constant gaslighting—being told that you don’t speak a real language but always hearing “Excuse me? What?! What are you saying? Speak properly. Stop speaking that gibberish.”

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DID YOU KNOW? The PRC’s ethnic classification system was deliberately designed to destroy ethnolinguistic diversity, and is working as planned, with at least half of the country’s languages currently recognised as ‘endangered’?

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People have language rights, and nobody needs to justify those rights being respected by saying that a language is beautiful or complex or that multilingualism benefits the brain, etc.

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On #MotherLanguageDay we should recognize that language denialism is unjust, causes harm & is a major cause of language loss. And although states enforce language denialism, we all have a role to play in resisting it.

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🇫🇷 1794—French is the language of the republic! Abolish the patois! Today—🇫🇷 refuses to ratify the Council of Europe’s Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. 🇫🇷 has 1 language, and a lot of ‘heritage’.

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Language denialism often results in discursive erasure. The language is not talked about. Its status is not debated. It doesn’t even make sense to talk about it, e.g., languages have rights but lingos, dialects, jargons, etc do not.

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And your multilingualism is cast as languagelessness—even if you speak several languages, you get told you don’t speak any of them well.

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Language denialism is unjust & harmful. We need to see languages, speak up for them, & resist language denialism. The Year of #IndigenousLanguages is a good time to start. So is International #MotherTongueDay . Do you see languages? 👀

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🇨🇳 has 56 ‘minzu’ (~peoples), each with 1 language. Chinese linguists count ~130 languages. Ethnologue lists 299. PRC counts 1 Indigenous language in Taiwan—Taiwan counts 16. Tibetans speak 1 language? Or 30+?

Tibet's Minority Languages: Diversity and endangerment | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core

Tibet's Minority Languages: Diversity and endangerment - Volume 52 Issue 4

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Language oppression occurs across the horizon of intelligibility, and so does language denialism. We’ll see later that this is important. Not all forms of linguistic injustice work in the same way and have the same effects.

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“They suppressed our languages and physically beat it out of our grandparents,” Jones says. “And now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.”

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Sinophobia has been on the rise since the novel coronavirus outbreak began. As reports of Sinophobia have circulated online, some ‘China watchers’ (mostly journalists & academics), have sought to downplay the importance of this racism. This is a problem. 🚨thread🚨

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🇺🇸 Greenblatt’s ‘Learning to Curse’ on linguistic colonialism. In the 1500s, native langs were 1) noise—not just incomprehensible, but beyond comprehension, or 2) entirely transparent & learned effortlessly. Top shelf language denialism.

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@caitoz This is so interesting because when the UN was discussing the rights of Indigenous people, China said they don't have any Indigenous people.

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No services in non-languages: ❌ doctors, ❌lawyers, ❌ judges, ❌ translators, ❌ teachers, ❌ nurses, ❌ flight attendants, ❌ bureaucrats, ❌ movies, ❌ podcasts, ❌ radio, ❌ TV, ❌ product labeling, ❌ assembly instructions, ❌ street signs.

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Assimilation never pays off. Stigma remains after language is lost. There will always be something in your speech to set you apart. Some excuse to exclude and marginalize.

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This maldistribution is seen in the lack of institutions to produce, reproduce, and provide services in non-languages. Produce: 🚫 language academy, 🚫 dictionary, 🚫 spell-checker, 🚫 #woty , 🚫 op-eds, 🚫 style guides, 🚫 grammar police.

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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

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This is personally awkward for me because that's my PhD supervisor.

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"There is no #HumanRights problem in #Xizang as hyped by the Western media. On the contrary, the living and welfare standards of the #Tibetan people are constantly improving." Colin Mackerras challenges Western media narrative.

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Language denialism can eventually lead to language oppression—forced language loss. But it doesn’t end there, because after the language is taken, future generations continue to suffer—think postmemory, epigenetics, intergenerational trauma.

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U get profiled by 👮‍♀️ because of your accent. U get questioned & there are misunderstandings. U get locked up. No lawyers speak your language. No interpreters. U cannot understand everything the judge says. U go to prison.

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No institutions to reproduce non-languages: 🙅‍♂️schools, 🙅‍♂️ curriculum, 🙅‍♂️ teaching materials, 🙅‍♂️ trained teachers, 🙅‍♂️ textbooks, 🙅‍♂️ pedagogy, 🙅‍♂️ standardized tests.

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aesthetic dimensions of language oppression denialism, money edition [thread]

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Discursive erasure leads to material inequalities. Languages get [money] but non-languages don’t. Non-languages are materially deprived. There is maldistribution of resources.

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These vulnerabilities & reduced life chances due to linguistic injustice intersect with other injustices based on race, gender, sexuality, etc. So to you gender, sexuality, race, etc, add language as a source of privilege or oppression.

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Step one: the denial test. On Twitter, search the person's feed for Xinjiang. Pseuds support authoritarian regimes like China because they only recognize one bad state: USA. So, pseuds deny & minimize atrocities in Xinjiang as US propaganda.

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Publication day! My article ‘The Necropolitics of Language Oppression’ has just been published in Annual Review of Anthropology (thanks @AnnualReviews !). In this thread I’ll walk you through the main argument & the sections of the article. 1/11

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Language denialism→discursive erasure→material maldistribution→non-institutionalization (🙅‍♂️ production, reproduction, services)→affective harms→stigma→ ↘️ chances & ↗️ vulnerability→language oppression→intergenerational trauma

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Every news story about Xinjiang since 2001 could be completely fake & it wouldn’t change the fact that Xinjiang is a colony acquired by the Qing Dynasty in the mid 1700s, passed on to the PRC & retained b/c the UN decolonisation processes didn’t apply to contiguous territories.

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No schooling=lower education outcomes, reduced 💰. U get sick & can’t afford 🏥. U must work. U find a 🏥 but get misdiagnosed. U are given the wrong medication or misread the label. Can’t access public health info. U die young.

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Step two: the indifference test. Because pseuds only oppose the USA, they do not discuss genocides or atrocities that they cannot parse in terms of US interests. To test for this, search their feed for (Tigray OR Rohingya OR Yazidi OR Papua). They will say nothing.

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War breaks out. Enemies & terrorists are foreigners. Are U? What’s that accent? Whose side are U on? U flee—cross the border. Detention. Who will advocate for U? Who can tell u what’s going on?

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the problem is not that the term genocide is over-used - the problem is that there's too much genocide

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somehow, languages seem to get lost 🤔 like you lose your keys in the couch 🤔 so accident, so curious 🤔

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Africa's lost languages: How English can fuel an identity crisis

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Sharing this because I think it's good to be transparent about the academic job market. I just got turned down for two more jobs. 12 years out from my PhD and still no job security.

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And one day, if you’re lucky, your community might have the chance to get your language back. Then you have to deal with all the trauma, guilt, shame & anxiety. You have to find the resources. You have to make time.

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The camps in Xinjiang, atrocities in Tigray, invasion of Ukraine. People need to start taking non-canonical colonialisms seriously, so we can work out better anti-colonial solidarities.

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First, who are the people I'm talking about? They're known as pseudo-antimperialists. I'll call them pseuds for short. They look vaguely leftist but support authoritarian regimes in the name of anti-imperialism. You can spot them in two steps.

Gerald Roche, Rogue Journalists Are Denouncing The Gaza Genocide Because They Want You To Deny The...

As thousands of bodies are blown apart in Gaza and children starve to death in the city’s rubble-strewn streets, numerous groups are exploiting this suffering in order to advance oppressive agendas...

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So if that’s what language denialism looks like, how does it work and how does it harm? How is language denialism unjust?

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These discursive, material, institutional, and affective outcomes of language denialism produce reduced life chances & increased vulnerability of populations that speak non-languages.

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@CGMeifangZhang Tibetans are a multilingual population and many of their languages are being eliminated right now. Can you tell me how many Tibetans speak Duoxu? How many can learn Tibetan Sign Language? Can you tell me why Manegacha is not taught in classrooms? Or do you simply not know?

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Here's a thought for linguists who think it's their job to save things & for media that say that linguists save languages. The community that signs/speaks a language are the ones who save it. Linguists' job is to help them, by fighting the oppression that threatens the language.

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If making Mandarin compulsory for Uyghurs only aims to give them economic opportunities, why not make Uyghur mandatory for all the migrants into the region instead, so Uyghurs can access economic opportunities in their own language?

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Bilingual road signs in eastern Tibet. If you read Tibetan, you'll notice problems with spelling, translation, and orthography. What you wouldn't notice is the exclusion of the Gochang language, despite the fact that these are taken in a Gochang speaking area.

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So, that's what I tell my students every semester about the university's namesake. In my opinion (clearly not my employer's), we should not have an institution (or street, or anything) named after this man.

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Of 15 international academic research centers focused on genocide, 0 have said anything about the genocide in Gaza. Every genocide scholar can tell you that silence is the most common form of genocide denial.

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It's @UN Intl' Day of Commemoration & Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide & Prevention of this Crime. Let's check in on the genocide research centres of the world to see how they're reacting to the genocide currently unfolding in Gaza 🧵

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Here's the tweet. Next's let's look at some of the replies 1/n

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Folks, I have just signed a contract for my book on language politics in Tibet 😊 More details to come.

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language oppression is a form of political violence

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Today is International Mother Language Day—the last before we start the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-32). Please RT & tag any other Indigenous people who work with language (including yourself). Let’s make a tweet storm of Indigenous language experts!

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Please follow these excellent Indigenous scholars, activists & practitioners who work with language. @carolannjaneee @candacekgalla @madokahammine @Sharon_Davis_ @shilokino @Mujahidtorwali @ToroxaD @guektiengieline @JakelinTroy @winya2012

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i've won academia

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In 1968, Samuel Huntington proposed the theory of "forced draft urbanization" which, according to Eric Wolf, "held that the Vietnamese could be propelled toward modernization by driving them into the cities through aerial bombardment & defoliation of the countryside."

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Hi, hi. Here’s a quick explainer on why globalisation doesn’t cause languages loss. If we build a road between your house and mine, and then you walk to my house and punch me in the face, I was not injured by ‘increased connectivity.’ Thanks, thanks.

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Tibetan typewriter, from a FB friend. Never seen one before.

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Vijay Prashad, like many people who yearn to seize the power of the state for their own genocidal projects, simply does not grasp the lack of difference between a ‘colonial cultural genocide’ and ‘nationalist modernising project’ from the victims’ standpoint.

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Linguists: you definitely understand language, but maybe you don’t understand structural violence, because you’re not trained to understand it and you haven’t tried to understand it.

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Just got some peer review back that said that Tibetan, Mongolian, and Zhuang cannot be repressed languages because they "are printed on RMB."

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I know we all have too much to do and too much to read, but if you can make time, please read this collection of works by imprisoned Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti.

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hey - if I told you to ‘add oil’ would you know what I mean, and if so, how? (no looking at replies to cheat)

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My new hobby is collecting examples of Sinologists making patently ignorant comments about race. I'm putting them all in a file called 'the racism understanders'.

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The author, directly to camera, pulse steady: “I’m not racist, but the Chinese are a pack of mindless drones only capable of repetitive physical activities and completely unable to engage in human thought.”

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Wrote an article about how the meaning of 'genocide' was deliberately engineered to exclude language oppression, so that states could keep doing it, and a dude on the internet really replied with 'words have meaning.'

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thinking of pitching a research project where the aim is just to read all the PDFs in my ‘to read’ folder

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We can also talk about linguistic ageism AKA “How Millennials are Ruining the English Language”—see the work of @RobDrummond on youth sociolinguistics. And so on.

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The 19th of November was Gunditjmara Invasion Day. It marks the date when settler Edward Hently first arrived in Gunditjmara country (now western Victoria, Australia). Invasion, murder, death & dispossession followed. This violent history continues to be denied. 1/n

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Caitlin Johnstone is a classical pseudo-anti-imperialist...

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2 years

Hi folks - some news. I'm honored & excited to have been elected NTEU branch president at La Trobe University. I look forward to helping build a stronger, more democratic union at our university. @ANewNTEU starts at La Trobe, it starts now & it will grow with your help.

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@GJosephRoche

5 years

Happy Year of Indigenous Languages. Let’s talk about what it means when scholars erase languages by calling them dialects. Thread.

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5 years

According to Prof Thubten Phuntsok, #Tibetan language should be classified into six major dialects: 1) Gyalrong as the root 2) Amdo 3) Kham 4) Southern or Monpa 5) Ladakh and 6) U-Tsang. Read more about the language debate cc @GJosephRoche @paldengyal

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Dear Reviewer 3. We capitalize Indigenous for a reason - it's not a mistake. Thanks.

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