Jeana Arlette (fae boy) (she/they)
'more committed to gentleness than winning'
'hopelessly ponderous'
there's nothing radical in Conquest of the Other; it's the motif of the world
- tbh i feel like the concept of 'weaponizing antisemitism' is harmful - antisemitism *is* a weapon; by design it's meant to hurt people framing it as 'weaponized' makes it seem like ordinary antisemitism is innocuous. it's like MRAs saying that women try to 'weaponize' rape or rape accusations
- yeah, this is more-or-less one reason i've grown less interested in strict class analysis over time: communists have a hard time not conflating 'class' with 'struggle-type' and consequently position 'the working class' as whatever allows them to legitimize their own personal struggle at the
- same time, they want to view class as a kind of oppositional framework between lower and upper classes so you end up with a system that (1) people apply flexibly to account for almost any person being a part of whatever class you choose for them, and
- (2) concludes strict goals, needs, and worldviews based on the class you end up in to a certain extent, this is present in any kind of identity-group analysis, but as opposed to say, gender, where men and women/enbies might be seen as being in contingent opposition, class tends to be viewed as
- housing a kind of inherent conflict that gets transcended only by undoing itself this helps make it....quite antagonistic; adding that to its flexible application of strict categories, i have a hard time finding as much value in it now as i might have before
- Reposted by Jeana Arlette (fae boy) (she/they)To claim that the only way to condemn violent murders is to turn those killed into great national icons after their deaths actually undermines the principle of nonviolence, because it suggests anyone who is not a great person might deserve to be killed.
- mhm, this is more-or-less my perspective. white supremacy (famously) creeps into every part of the political spectrum, because it's a systemic issue i'm sympathetic to the frustration that some leftists have towards the pejorative usage of the term 'tankie', but the racism that
- swims around in leftist spaces isn't addressed nearly enough, and often, when it gets called out, the narrative gets swung around by (white) leftists who claim that Black critics are being needlessly divisive, as opposed to actually accepting that being a leftist doesn't automatically absolve you
- of being racist like, speaking only for myself, i'm not opposed to working with leftists/communists/etc. - there certainly are individuals i work with (at least offline) that fit the mould, but some leftists act as if their political camp is entitled to allegiance simply by being nominally in
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View full threadfundamentally authoritarian, vying for *power* for their own sub-class, rather than freedom for everyone)
- in much the same way, tankies are typically viewed as cowardly authoritarians who would rather seize power for themselves than upend oppressive structures so, you know, also a pejorative
- This user blocks the quoter.Liberal is a pejorative. It means spineless cowards that would rather 'fight' for the boot to squeeze down ever so slighter on the necks of themselves at the expense of it growing tighter around the marginalized. If you don't like being called one; Grow some principles beyond self preservation.
- it is actually pretty funny that this discourse has been going around, since the term 'tankie' is being viewed as limp and as vague as...well, the term 'liberal' is but by a group of people that would like to think the latter term holds some kind of unique precision when they apply it pejoratively
- tbf if you spend enough time on the internet, every term is like that
