Capitalism does not exist apart from racism. Reducing Blk ppl to property is what gives monetary & proprietary value to whiteness. I will continue to argue that the overarching conflict of the modern world is whiteness. Ppl struggle w/ it b/c it describes the world order itself.
Whiteness is not a side issue. It is the umbrella issue under which all the other issues are dissected & understood.
Our entire understanding of the world, including the conception of Eurasia being positioned at the top of every map of the world is shaped by Euro colonization & the ideology of whiteness that accompanied it. It’s so baked into everything that it easily becomes imperceptible.
The crisis of white supremacy & every institution organized around it is precisely that it’s built on oppression of nonwhite ppl, esp. the subjugation of Africa & ppl of African descent. White supremacists hold Black & brown equality to be a threat to the world order itself.
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Once again, the attack on the Capitol was not “anarchy”, it was FASCISM. Anarchy is a philosophical opposition to authority. The people who stormed the Capitol replaced the US flag with the Trump flag b/c they want a Trump dictatorship. The GOP is a fascist party.
Nothing Republicans are doing differs from fascist movements of the past:
-they commit acts of violence while claiming it’s the work of various leftist groups
-they rally around a dictatorial leader
-they engage in demagoguery
-they accuse any opposition of being communists
This is why I keep emphasizing that the Republican Party needs to be excised from the body politic as the fundamentally anti-democratic, fascist party it has become. Doing otherwise only lays the groundwork for a mass casualty event b/c that’s how fascists operate.
The idea that we should equate all forms of interpersonal conflict in human society from petty theft to large-scale, centuries-long, organized projects of war, genocide & slavery in order to ID a 1 size fits all form of “justice” is about to be the leftist version of bothsideism
And the sociopathic personalities that engineer slavery, war & genocide will never be participants in such a discussion because they’re ideologically committed to employing whatever method of violence is at their disposal & eliminating any forces that stand in their way.
I agree with a lot of leftist theory but my primary criticism is that it does not always account for the realities of human society.
Ppl reasonably express concern that fed crackdown on white supremacists will translate to greater policing of Blk & brown ppl, but what is the basis for assuming that we’re in a better position *without* the federal crackdown happening right now? And what is the alternative? 1/
Ensuring the white supremacist threat is defeated & dismantling racist institutions WHILE CHALLENGING policing agencies & govt efforts to create false equivalence b/w white supremacists & anti-fascists, Black & brown activists, etc describes the longstanding conflict itself... 2/
...If we accept that disparate harm to Blk activism is always an inevitability, then every tactic is futile, the outcome is predetermined, it’s impossible to defeat white supremacy w/o Blk activism facing greater negative consequences & we’d be better off not agitating at all 3/
Folks’ obsession with policing the bodies & sexuality of women & girls is so disturbing
People devote immense time to discussing the bodies of women they don’t know & fantasizing about the sex lives of daughters that don’t exist. Seek help
If you’re somewhere imagining scenarios in the sex life of your child who doesn’t exist except in your mind, you recognize that’s a conversation entirely between you & your subconscious, right? It’s about *your* sexual issues not the unborn child.
Once again, Twitter is a privately owned software application. What law says that anyone anywhere is legally entitled to have an account?
This is not about free speech. It is about whiteness. If it were genuinely about free speech folks would’ve shown this concern for the targeting of leftists, sex workers & nonwhite ppl, not this one white man emblem of global white supremacy inciting terrorist attacks.
The fact that you have white people across the political spectrum running to the defense of a fascist who is arguably the greatest single threat to the safety & security of the globe at this hour shows yet again that the issue is WHITENESS.
So again we’re going to make Black people the heroes of saving democracy only for the white establishment to turn around & take immediate steps to destroy it again. Y’all aren’t tired of this?