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your cat: i'm having a $500 medical emergency right now
laundry: do me
ao3: i fucking killed myself
group project partners: how do i open Excel
also, let’s assume we are the direct descendants of sumerians and babylonians. we didn’t inherit anything from them, we have nothing in common with them. they were sexually open beer loving polytheists. you can’t even drink beer. you are not their heir
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our dna is mostly a random mix of peninsular arab. we are not “native” to this land. which is… fine. who the hell gives a shit about your ancestry? we live in the era of citizenship. but these are the facts
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these civilizations were great but you have nothing to do with them. you wouldn’t have even known about them without western scholars finding their ruins and translating their texts. most arab muslim iraqis are a melange of all of the various groups that ever traversed this land
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“we were great until the british and americans came along! we invented writing” miss me with that bulllshhhittt
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funnily enough in the case of iraqis, this whole “we wuz sumerians/akkadians/babylonians” stuff is most popular amongst pro-status quo religious people who are coping with how bad things are
i’ve said this before but i’m like 100% in support of people embracing their pre-arabization and pre-islamic roots and rejecting the arab label but the thing is that they never do anything to actually do that besides “saar we are white not brown arab we even speak french”
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bro these kids can’t even be bothered to learn kurdish… an official language spoken by like 10 million people in the country
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in the case of my fellow mesopotamians, it’d be cool if we actually started learning aramaic and reviving all of our unfortunately dead languages
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resource rich nation with lots of land. educated multi-lingual population with an actual elite class. amazing culture and literature. influential diasporic communities. everybody was super into secularism. what went wrong?
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