This is not a road we want to go down, because Black boys lead every measurable statistic for child abuse, and adult women (whether in the home, in school, or in the family) lead every perpetrator statistic on those measures except for police violence
As I’ve already said, the NIH has been tracking the issue since the early 2000s, and found that Black boys outnumber all other CSA victims by double digits. Black girls included.
Perpetrators are most often women family members and close non-relatives
Here’s a question the wheelcels tend to have a rough time with:
Can you understand how the wheel could in fact be detrimental to a civilization? I’m talking loss of life on a scale potentially large enough to upset the forward progress of that civilization
It takes a specific set of circumstances in any pre-industrial society for the wheel to be useful to begin with, which is why differences in technological development between Europeans and other societies prior to the Colombian encounter were often small, sometimes nonexistent
I’m not speaking from a place of moral value, I’m speaking from a place of “Use of the wheel in the manner common to Eurasia in this region could have resulted in mass death, which local civilizations largely avoided unlike Europeans”
I remember a few years back, people cottoned on to Israel's fascination with Deleuze and rhizome theory, and I think this is what it looks like on a rhetorical level. It's not just a constant stream of disinformation, it's asserting the dominant ideology through mimesis
It doesn't matter how many Israelis were killed on October the 7th, 1400 is the number because 1400 is the number. You keep repeating 1400 and the mind grasps 1400, even if on a conscious level we know the correct number is 1200.
You think 1200 consciously, but somewhere in the back of your mind you're hanging on to 1400.
Now scale that up to the insane number of lies and half-truths we've been exposed to for the last month. They showed you IDF munitions shells and told you they were Hamas rockets
Josh is dead accurate here, but I’m gonna put it in plain language for everybody:
White women love criticizing the patriarchy not only because they know individual men have no power to do anything about it, but because they’re also its beneficiaries.
“Men” as a social category is as analytically useless as “preferred shoe brand” or “favorite music.”
The social experiences of men are far, far closer to women once you start grouping along class and ethnic lines, and deep down most white women know that.
The “patriarchy” as we know it is structured around the dominance of rich white men, which is why it’s in the interest of liberal white women to push a false “sisterhood” narrative on out-group women, who they endlessly attempt to draft into their power struggle with their men
This is why everybody is suddenly obsessed with trans women in athletics. Not bc they’re protecting the integrity of sport, but bc Northern Europeans are pissed off at getting mopped year in and year out by Black & South Asian athletes.
I wonder why it is that Bayard Rustin’s name is always the first to come up in discussions about LGBTQ participation during the Civil Rights era, even though James Baldwin was respected across the Black political spectrum at the time, and never switched up his political views
In one of his university lectures Kwame Ture criticized the March on Washington, and made sure to point out the reason Baldwin wasn’t invited was because “They don’t know what he’s gonna say up there,” meaning Baldwin was too radical for the respectable types to trust at the mic
So my guess is even though the Civil Rights movement was built on the foundation of widespread organizing in Black communities across America, and carried by the pamphleteers and secretaries as much as by high profile people like MLK and John Lewis, people are idol-worshipping
Rustin was a stool pigeon for white power from the very beginning. The man tried to undercut the MFDP at the 68 Democratic convention, and if Fannie Lou Hamer hadn’t dug in her heels, Black people’s delegate vote wouldn’t have counted in 1970.
God, do any of you read?
You guys bring up Rustin every damn day bc you heard it from people who were educated by liberal African American Studies professors who didn’t even go to school for Black Studies, and whose research and book publishing is funded by the Ford Foundation.