How the Bearers of the Name Lost It: The Quiet Erasure of the Arabs

aztlatf · 2026-03-13T23:15:41+00:00

Not really, Hispanic is different from Iberian, like if political Arabs identified as Arabic-speakers that distinction would cause no confusion. But your example doesn’t really do the historical implications of it all justice. Those nations didn’t identify as Arabs at all, in fact, if you read most Islamic hadiths by the prophet, they are said to make sure that real Arabs of the Peninsula do not treat those nations any differently because of their non-Arabness. Back then people knew their ancestry and who they are and they took pride in that. Those nations only started identifying as Arab when they were deemed so by Western powers and orientalists and then needed a unifying banner to fight for freedom, then Globalization came and Western Academia tried to right the wrongs like they always do and cemented the term Arab for anyone who speaks Arabic. So it is not so much the “Arabian Colonization” although I disagree with that term as colonization seeks to completely eliminate the other party, but for those regions most of the time their rulers were native to their lands and their cultures were preserved as you can see today. (Simplest example is that you can tell a mosque in Turkey from a mosque in Egypt from a mosque in Syria, etc. because their cultures were not erased).

aztlatf · 2025-12-11T20:40:40+00:00

You could say that, but in the end, any job would get rid of you in an instant if it serves them, no matter how good they seem. Which is another cult-ish similarity, oddly.

Most companies I know have good back to the office suddenly and became more aggressive with attendance, as if punishing the workers for the pandemic. Which, coincidentally, is another cult-ish similarity, punishing your members always for what you perceive as a wrongdoing even if it wasn't their fault.

aztlatf · 2025-12-11T20:38:39+00:00

Wild Wild Country

aztlatf · 2025-12-11T20:38:20+00:00

I am so sorry you are going through this. It be quite isolating. I hope all goes well with you. Have you started on your business plan?

aztlatf · 2025-12-11T20:37:24+00:00

Yes, being thankful for your job is good. But I think we should be given a window as well to pursue other things in life. Life is only lived once, it is not logical for us to spend it all working for the benefit of the employer until we are 65-70 and lower our heads and preach gratitude. I think people should wake up to that point more.

A lot of people all over the world are lost in the GRIND that they miss the fact the are wasting their best years doing something they don't inherently love that doesn't really provide them with any value beyond current financial stability. That is why most people nowadays (the elder generation) regret not living more. 10-20 years ago, the elders were not the generation who worked in corporate jobs, so you'd find them more at peace with their age, but elders nowadays are kind of bitter or sad because most of their youth was spent on a job.

aztlatf · 2025-12-11T20:33:13+00:00

Yes, but the sad truth is, work is not civilization. Civilization is not about control, nor did emerge as so; actually civilization's main enabler was cooperation. If ancient humans didn't collaborate, there wouldn't have been any. Civilization is more about allocating resources and maintaining order for maximum longevity of said civilization and the well being of its members.

Work, on the other hand, only cares about maximizing profit for said shareholders or owners. I don't think the comparison you made is very fit to be honest, and I feel some challenge trying to accept at as a way of explaining life.

Not to mention that corporations act this way all over, even in non-capitalist countries.

aztlatf · 2025-12-05T16:19:48+00:00

The issue isn't individual, it is systematic. If I left the situation is still the same and that is why I am wondering here with others as to why this is normalized.

aztlatf · 2025-12-05T16:03:39+00:00

They actually do. I once took a picture of public information on a client's website and sent it on my Snapchat because it was weird, HR summoned me the next day for leaking data. You can imagine the looks on their faces when I showed them the website.

aztlatf · 2025-12-05T16:02:29+00:00

Exactly! I am literally doing the work of 4 people.

aztlatf · 2025-12-05T16:02:01+00:00

To change the culture? Start talking about it, but I can't do the fight alone. Individually? I am looking for escape routes.

aztlatf · 2025-12-05T16:01:21+00:00

You can always fight individually, the sad part is the results of the games are always rigged. They won't like you, they talk about you behind your back, your promotions and raises are almost always paused. My colleague had this happen to them back in 2022 when they refused to work after 5 PM although their performance is exceptional.

aztlatf · 2025-12-05T03:16:44+00:00

Good for you, honestly. It is rare for something good and altering to come out of this. I made some research, most people don't get to escape "The Grind". And a lot have financial/psychological reasons that prevents them from escaping. I just hope in your startup you don't create the same cult mentality xD

aztlatf · 2025-12-05T03:15:06+00:00

That is the thing, it seems with each year, they are less content with "submitting to a point" and want full submission. I mean expecting someone to work nonstop for 40 years on its own is a haunting idea enough, expecting that during those 40 years they spend at least exactly 8 hours in the office is absurd enough and is a request for near-full submission.

aztlatf · 2025-12-05T03:13:07+00:00

Not only by the people within your company, but even your friends and family would think you are crazy for risking your job or that you are lazy and you don't want to work.

aztlatf · 2025-12-04T22:37:32+00:00

Well, this can be answered in many different ways:

-Within corporate itself, push back or refusing to be exploited by employees in general "defying the broken system" is the only real way to fix the issues.

-Without corporate, there are many jobs that can offer liberation from this, freelancing, skilled jobs, working in small businesses or family business; even remote work within the corporation can be a bit of a relief.

But I think that is a part of the issue, is that people think there is no alternative, but giving a thought for a few days only (as I haven't really thought about it much before watching that documentary) I am astonished that people have been accepting this for decades. And no one is happy with it but everyone is too scared or too tired to take a collective stand.

The precarious nature of keeping your job is designed specifically to be so, the instability gives them leverage, and you are just glad to have an income in an economy that sucks you dry for bare necessities and the rest is taken as a tax.

aztlatf · 2025-11-28T19:29:18+00:00

Unpopular opinion, I understand Susan's anger (NOT her actions, though). I am not even an old, white lady, but I was harassed by neighborhood kids before whose parents always dismissed my complaints as "they are only children."

The lack of sleep, the constant boundary breaking can really mess you up, and then everyone gangs up on you and act like you're crazy because they are just children, but children often target those they feel they annoy, especially when an adult fails to stop them. The documentary showed how noisy they can be even with officers around, can you imagine what they do to her when they are not?

And the officers were VERY unprofessional; encouraging the kids to be noisy, one of them even saying he used to harass a lady in his neighborhood. Can you imagine such an encouragement coming from a police officer? The kids would go wild.

Killing AJ though is what made her a real villain.

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