Everyday I find another reason to smile at her downfall. Settlers applies to POC as much as it does white people. (Some) Black Americans really think genocide isn’t something to withhold a vote over.
This in addition to the “how do I report my neighbor for being an illegal immigrant/ I want to report a lady I know for getting an abortion” posts on reddit really shows the reality of blue MAGA.
You have convinced me, reddit user LeResist, from now on I will be perfectly selfless by swearing loyalty to the largest ethnic group, the Han Chinese
Like how do they not see that argument can and will be applied to them by every other cracker with a pulse, that’s the whole point of solidarity, to do away with zero-sum mentalities like that
“And the reality is America is a country with 331 million people. There’s over 221 million white people in America. It’s pretty selfish to choose black people over us” It’s so easy to weaponize this shit
Because they’re saying that shit, and because they’re redditors, I feel confident in guessing that they’re not involved in any way with anti-racism, because the most basic slogan, the central tenant of civil rights activism in this country was and is that we’re not free until we’re all free. Black antiracists know it and Palestinians know it.
Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks delves into this.
Colonized people can come to identify with the colonizer as a way to cope with colonization. This hollows them out inside and makes them turn that racism inward onto themselves, but they can be rewarded with an elevated social status by the colonizer.
Didn’t vote for my favorite color? Hope you die in the camps 🥰♥️
They actually believe that, that’s their honest argument.
It tells everyone that you never believed in that shit anyway. Kamala losing is helping us see everyone’s true colors.
Their continued refusal to properly deal with their cognitive dissonance will always prevent the majority of liberals from realising how outrageously hypocritical they are
Getting some seriously bad vibes from this whole thing. It’s like they’ve found some way to inoculate people against even the barest sort of solidarity- I fear the coalition politics that won even the handful of concessions we got like obergefell might be dead. Granted, that’s exactly what i thought last time this happened too.
Someone’s trying to drive wedges, and it’s working. Divide and conquer by playing up (or creating) animus against one another. Clear as day yet people are walking right into it. What changed?
Worsening material conditions + manufactured culture of individuality prime people to turn against each other?
I don’t have a lot of spoons today so no long diatribes from me. I’m just wondering what it was about the proletariat in Russia and China that made them easier to organize vs. Elsewhere.
Russians and Chinese aren’t settlers. Russia and China aren’t settlers colonial projects.
Is this settler mindset something we get at birth? Or is it passed down by most families? Just wondering how I avoided having complete burgerbrain despite living a middle class life in the heart of the empire…
I have an idea and will probably write an effort post on it later.
Yeah, that was the culmination of over a century’s work and various precursor rebellions by various players. We don’t have that kind of momentum, and at this point i’m starting to suspect americans are useless on a psychological level (myself included) so i’m not sure anyone could get it together enough to make anything effective happen.
I mean those countries did have civil wars, and reactionary proletarians fought in defense of capital. I think the difference is not necessarily that the bonds of solidarity were stronger (at least not before the period of pitched struggle), but rather that those workers who did feel class solidarity also felt they had less to lose and more to gain in overthrowing capitalism.
