Thread by @sucolorfavorito

Remember when people thought that yts reading anti-racist scholarship would help them confront their racist socialization?

Reading without corrective socialization, constructive confrontation + community accountability is just them seeing the tip of their racist education iceberg without them ever having to dismantle it.

To me, it’s peak paternalism expressed through their individualistic framing of racist socialization: as long as they can preserve + perform a sense of moral superiority, “learning about racism” is just an intellectual exercise not a transformative experience.

This is why it will always be performative because they refuse to politicize anti-racist education outside of the realm of profit

This is the material manifestation of their incapacity to engage in the fight against racism without capitalizing off of it. No capital gain = no incentive to change the structures that perpetuate racial violence necessary to the durability of global capitalist exploitation

Racism has never been about ignorance, hatred or any other empathetic ideation humanizes the existence of a system that mass produces violence as a socializing mechanism. It is about maintaining power by the means of terrorism whether it is militarily or intellectually

If racist socialization is methodological: it’s purpose, like capitalism, is to socialize non-Black people into domineering individuals who are inclined to exercice arbitrary forms of control over the people who were colonized and forced into submissive roles.

I will put on an emphasis on the word « arbitrary » because it is what perfectly explicits how racism functions outside of the realm of moral soundness but more out of a constant pursuit of power.

The arbitrariness of their racist behavior is how they strategically frame racism as accidental, instinctual and thus a natural social phenomena instead of it being a product of European historical materialism + epistemologies that enshrined it’s institutionalization