me saying “fascism cannot be voted into office”—in countries that are colonialist and/or imperialist from their inception, such as the US and germany—means that the rise towards the inevitable fascist order began when europeans set foot on the shores of west africa...
...not whenever (x) [s]elected upholder of the fascist order was elected into office, lol. can you lot please stop being intellectually lazy and disingenuous? obviously hitler and trump were both “elected”—but clearly fascism did not begin nor end w/ either of them
fascism is a sociopolitical system of governing, so while yes, the ruling class technically “allows” its subjects to vote for & “elect” (w/conditions) whomever will be the upholder of said system. it’s the system itself that needs undoing, not just the figurehead representing it.
the ruling class will relieve trump of his duties of upholding the white supremacist fascist order and replace him w/ someone who will effectively do it with grace and class (s/o obama!)—as liberals like it—it may be biden, or kamala, or clinton!
...but, it’ll still be fascism.
germany enslaved and massacred africans with impunity CENTURIES prior to hitler even being alive and you think fascism started with hitler? hahaha please fuck off
if not hitler, it would’ve been some other german dude named jürgen schwarzkopf or some shit to maintain the order
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joel olson, on whiteness as power as opposed to cultural identity:
"the problem, of course, is that whiteness historically has not been an expression of culture so much as a form of standing reflecting relations of inequality, discrimination, privilege, and terror."
"it is more useful to understand whiteness as a form of power rather than as a culture. after all, it is not white culture that unites a brooklyn cop, a silicon valley entrepreneur, a rural west virginian, a portland hippie, and a phoenix metal head; it is white power..."
"whiteness studies’ failure to understand whiteness as a form of power follows from the politics of recognition’s tendency to understand racial conflict in terms of the misrecognition of cultures rather than the persistence of relations of privilege and subordination."
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this just speaks to the larger phenomenon of viewing racial violence thru the lens of individual prerogatives as opposed to an actual existing structural institution of power. who has the power to enact racial violence w/impunity? how is orientalist racism ideologically enforced?
you can’t understand contemporary instances of racial terror & violence, specifically as it targets asian people, without understanding colonial-imperialism—and even if non-white faces can/do serve as upholders of such structures—who/what are they serving?
even if it’s true that indiv. black persons are the primary proponents of racial terror against asians (it’s not regardless of ig polls stating otherwise); the phenomenon has to be understood as an ideological consequence & continuation of an imperial-colonial state’s mechanisms
i just love how you can always bet on western bourgeois gay/lesbian organizations & media publications to come in right in time—as an established wing of empire—when it is time to beat those drums for imperialist war. just incredibly consistent in their role.
what we’re seeing here is a consequence of the ‘lesbian & gay rights movement’—which was petit-bourgeois in nature—belittling the struggle for gay liberation to “marriage equality.”
and divorcing said struggle from the struggle against other forms of violence: imperialism/war, colonialism, racial capitalism, etc. what a tragedy we find ourselves living in the afterlife of, homonationalism continues to be a useful instrument of imperial warfare.
this criticism is incredibly misplaced & inaccurate. the implication that deray’s inorganic, opportunistic positioning as “movement leader” is comparable to malcolm or mlk… then, implying it’s some innate privilege to be hypervisible when they were both assassinated young?