Oba's Malayaacni Thread

[Alpha Blondy]

hi Oba,

 

waan salamaya ee iga guddon salan ka soo goday kaska iyo laabta ok! inaar, soo xaladu dhag maha?

[oba hiloowlow]

eeboow Al salaan sare im okay adigu maxad heysaa dee aawey arimhii aan isku ogeyn xagga trollinka dee...

[Safferz]

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[SomaliPhilosopher]

War safferz I hear you got in a little scuffle with alpha.

[Safferz]

SomaliPhilosopher;949946 wrote:

War safferz I hear you got in a little scuffle with alpha.

Yeah, in the May 18 thread. He can gtfo, I'm not here for that and his sh*t isn't cute.

[Safferz]

Apartment is spotless, and all packed up for my morning flight to Toronto! Till September, Beantown

 

 

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Safferz how does a Somali be open about his liberal views without being outcasted as a gaal? I find this to be a predicament im often in... restraint I found to be the most efficient remedy though that is the cowards way out eh?

[Safferz]

SomaliPhilosopher;949952 wrote:

Safferz how does a Somali be open about his progressive views without being outcasted as a gaal? I find this to be a predicament im often in... restraint I found to be the most efficient remedy though that is the cowards way out eh?

Nah restraint is fine in most situations I think, it's about knowing your audience and picking your battles. Some fights are not worth having. If certain views won't go over well with some people, just don't share them or avoid those conversations diplomatically. I reserve that for family and elders for the most part though (they have an idea of where I sit on certain issues, but I never say much to avoid conflict)... but with everyday Somalis, especially younger folks, I don't really care what they think and I'll speak my mind.

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Yea family and elders is where the greatest sensitivity resides...

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Safferz;949948 wrote:

Yeah, in the May 18 thread. He can gtfo, I'm not here for that and his sh*t isn't cute.

 

Lool further elaborate. What was the melting point dee

[Safferz]

You're not a sell out, you're just being pragmatic The key is to say just enough to push people to consider a different position, but not so much that you come off as extreme in your views/gaal lol. For instance I'll argue with my dad about his homophobia and say they're people too, but I won't tell him that I support their right to marry.

[Safferz]

SomaliPhilosopher;949961 wrote:

Lool further elaborate. What was the melting point dee

I don't like people who aren't capable of nuance and see every issue as black and white. Who the **** is the "we" he's referring to? So I was like:

 

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Safferz;949930 wrote:

Very true. I have some thoughts about that, but this may not be the right thread for it.

Care to express such views

[Safferz]

SomaliPhilosopher;949964 wrote:

Care to express such views

Oh yes... I think Somalis generally prefer the hard sciences, medicine, engineering, etc as fields, and the vast majority of our PhDs are in those areas, so we have a scarcity of Somalis with (or pursuing) doctorates in the humanities and social sciences. It's in those fields - history, economics, political science, anthropology, etc - that knowledge about Somalia and Somalis are produced and in turn shape the discourse about Somalia (and feed into policy), yet we have so few people who are equipped to contest it. "Somali Studies" is dominated by white folks, which is a trend in African Studies more generally, but at least other Africans have a presence in the academic study of their countries. For every one Somali political scientist, I can think of 50+ white political scientists studying Somalia.

 

And then we have the phenomenon of Somali PhD holders trying to become presidents and high ranking politicians back home :mad:

[Bluelicious]

You got your own thread as well :eek: