what the fuck?

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    how can i be "shaming the subaltern" if i am a member of the subaltern? But I'm not "shaming the subaltern." I'm shaming reactionaries doing genocidal rhetoric. But you are saying my focus is misplaced, presumably, because they are black victims of racism and colonialism, and on that basis i should view their reactionary outburst as entirely a symptom of this. I never forgot colonialism or racism. You view them as products of brainwashing without any agency of their own. You likened them to kernels of popcorn in a kettle. The kettle in your metaphor being colonialism and racism. Except when most victims of colonialism and racism "pop," from the pressure of colonialism and racism, regardless of whether they pop first or last, they don't "pop" by becoming bigoted against other marginalized groups. Simply chalking their antisemitic bigotry up to colonialism and racism alone lacks explanatory power since plenty of victims of colonialism and racism don't turn out this way.

    I have no idea what race you are, nor is it really relevant

    then apply that to the reactionaries we are discussing.