The Queen is Dead

What I really think of her and her legacy...

Sep 28, 2022

**Originally published on zarnajoshi.com on September 11, 2022**

Trigger Warning Death, imperialism, rape culture, colonial trauma, war, genocide, houselessness

A picture of Queen Elizabeth during the day time looking outwards. Queen Elizabeth is in a suit coat with a pastel flower print top underneath. She’s wearing a pearl necklace and a giant broach on her left shoulder, and a matching hat with pastel flowers on it. She is not smiling. There is a grey background behind her. — Screenshot

I’ll probably write an article about Elizabeth II in the coming months to go through all the many nuances of this topic but for now, look at the articles I’ve already written where I mentioned her and/or her family and British imperialism. You’ll get a sense from these articles of what I might be thinking about all the media blitz right now about Elizabeth II’s passing.

Below I’ve included the article links and a brief excerpt from each one…

“The Kohinoor diamond in the Queen of England’s crown that is housed in the Tower of London — stolen from a deity of Hindu Goddess Bhadra Kali.”

— The Continued Desecration of Hindu Temples

“It turns out, Harry, that a lot of immigrant children never get meet their elders back home in their native countries because they can never go back to war zones, disaster zones, zones of communal conflict. You know who made it impossible for them to meet their elders? The western empire of which the backbone is the British Empire. That’s you, Harry. Your dad. Your grandmother. Your great-grandfather. Your great-great-grandfather. Your entire racist family. So if your kids can’t see their imperialist great-grandmother and their imperialist white supremacist European family back home in the UK, boo-hoo. Also, no one cares who your daughter was named after.”

— Harry is Complaining. Again.

“Note that stripping Andrew of his titles and patronages was not the Queen’s idea or desire. She was asked to do it by veterans who demanded that the Queen’s favorite son be removed from his honorary positions as their patron because the civil sexual assault lawsuit against him made them look really bad.”

— The Queen’s Favorite Son, Veterans, and Rape Culture

“The Queen gifted a royal “cottage” to Harry and Meg after their wedding, on top of their other residences. They spent untold sums renovating it before they moved in to their new royal home. The British taxpayer paid for all of that while homelessness is at a record high in the nation.”

— Harry and Meghan

“When the Christian missionaries and colonizers came along centuries later, they coopted that tradition by cutting that sacred tree down and calling her a CHRISTMAS TREE (because Jesus who lived his entire life in the Middle East was going to have any connection to a Native evergreen tree from Northern Europe). The idea of a Christmas tree only became popular in England when Queen Victoria and her consort the German Prince Albert, imported the idea from Germany, where it came from. Queen Victoria and her government greatly expanded the British empire, by the way. They cut down trees everywhere for profit.”

— Sacred Trees and Colonizers

“To all my Hindu ancestors and elders forced to fight and die and pay for Britain’s World Wars, I remember you.
To everyone else, the British have never paid my people back. The fact that you’re not speaking German or Japanese right now? Yeah, my people did that. We paid for it with our bodies and our lives and our money.
We have been totally erased from the record.”

— My Hindu Ancestors forced to fight Britain’s WWI and WWII

“Officials were told to send proof to London that the documents had been burned. They were told to burn anything that might be “embarassing” for the Crown. Yes, THAT CROWN that Netflix keeps trying to convince you is somehow special. That Crown ordered that any documents that showed “racial or religious” prejudice in particular were told to be burned. You see, the British were perfectly well aware of just how evil and racist and Hinduphobic they were. They knew that it wasn’t about “attitudes of the time” or that “things were different then”. No. They knew that they were full of hate and violence. They knew that they purposely and knowingly murdered 60 million Indians in planned and coordinated famines. They knew that they purposely and knowingly abducted and trafficked Indian women and children, particularly HINDU women and children to sate their lust for our bodies. They knew that they purposely and knowingly tortured millions of Indians in the Wars of Independence. They knew that they purposely and knowingly pillaged and desecrated our sacred Indigenous traditions. They knew that they purposely and knowingly stole billions and billions from the Indian people ($45 trillion in today’s value). They knew that they were purposely and knowingly stealing our children and brainwashing them into hating their own people while converting them to their colonizer religion of mental slavery also known as Christianity. They knew that they purposely and knowingly divided and conquered the Indian people with made up lies about their history (lies that still smear India and Hindus to this day).
The average life span for an Indian during British rule was 27 years old.”

— What the Empire doesn’t want you to know

“It’s unfortunate for the rest of Asia, of course, but the truth had to come out at some point that in the continent of Asia there is a “shithole” called Europe that contains people with abominable traditions, horrific history, and light-skin color that they bizarrely think makes them the master race.”

— Europe is West Asia

“Look around you. Look at all the stories in the media about Global South countries. Cuba. Venezuela. Syria. India. Haiti. All formerly colonized countries that you are being taught to blame or have already been taught to blame for their own pain. The abuser empire’s media is directly telling you that these countries are the problem, projecting all their own flaws onto these countries, to manufacture consent to heap more abuse onto them. Blaming abused countries for their colonial trauma is a hallmark of empire.”

— Domestic Violence on a Macro Level

“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, you see, wanted you to think that the British Raj was there to save little heathen Hindu children and civilize them with Britishness. “Kill the Indian, Save the Child”, amirite? We won’t mention the British Raj induced mass poverty, illiteracy, famine, slavery, rape, and forced conversion to Christianity with all its inevitable rape culture, shhhh.”

— No, Indy, it does not belong in a museum

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