• doubleimps [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Kyle Rittenhouse literally murdered people. He travelled across the country to get to murder people. He set out, deliberately, with the sole intention of getting to kill people. Why the fuck are you acting aloof about this? This is the right saying that they will murder you, and they will get away with it. They're telling you, to your face, that they will kill you. This is the moment where the conservatives sent the canes to Preston Brooks. It matters.

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Why the fuck are you acting aloof about this? This is the right saying that they will murder you, and they will get away with it.

      If you're black you've already known this since you were old enough to know what murder is.

      • doubleimps [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I cannot stress how much of a total misdirection that statement is. Systematic racism does not make this less of a total miscarriage of justice. More than one thing can be bad.

        • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          No one's saying that it is just. It's just that if every great injustice incites you to rage, you will feel nothing but rage at any given moment. I don't have that kind of energy. It is difficult to get angry at one or two murders when the mass shootings and school shootings are so mundane that the news doesn't even report them anymore.

          • doubleimps [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Every great injustice SHOULD make you rage. And in this case the world is telling you that they will murder you. Murder is justified against you and yours. They are declaring open season on you, and rather than reacting appropriately we're just pretending we're too fucking cool to care about that.

            That's a dumb fucking take, and you should frankly be ashamed of it.

            • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              rather than reacting appropriately we’re just pretending we’re too fucking cool to care about that.

              The appropriate reaction is to organize a popular movement of communists to overthrow the government, and that hasn't changed for the past 100 years. Rage is pointless and exhausting. Being angry isn't going to change a thing.

              :bloomer:

              • doubleimps [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Now on one hand we have every single communist in world history saying that anger is good and matters, caring is good and that we can't afford to give up on a single thing. On the other hand we have the internet poster who thinks it's lame to care.