Part 2 in my multipart series of :stormfront: melting down after being exposed to a conversation about race that doesn't begin and end with "I don't see race"
Part 2 in my multipart series of :stormfront: melting down after being exposed to a conversation about race that doesn't begin and end with "I don't see race"
I like Hexbear alot, I try not to post too much, but I lurk nearly every day. But yeah, of course they're going to call you names. People on the left love to squabble, and when shit gets too real they call each other wreckers, feds, and complain that they're not really helping build .01% of communism. For what it's worth, I appreciate you posting in good faith, but do keep in mind people just get rowdy in Dunk_Tank.
And 100% that woman is just racially prejudiced against people she identifies as white. School boards attract all kinds of reactionaries, it's kind of unavoidable that some of them are bigots.
Hexbear and online leftists in general seem to think that reactionary is when you are right-wing, which means if you are left-wing you cannot be reactionary.
Indulging in the existence of whiteness, and critiquing it within its framework of itself, is a reactionary position.
There's a reason they killed Fred Hampton. He transcended whiteness and that is what's dangerous.
I mean, whiteness and white supremacy do exist. Just because "whiteness" (and race generally) exists as a social construct rather than a facet of material reality doesn't stop it from having material ramifications on people's lives. Saying that it's a construct, and that we can continually remind ourselves that it's some collectively negotiated fluid idea, until it simply no longer exists because it doesn't seem real to us anymore is not, I think, a practical approach. It's downright idealistic. Then again, I'm not sure I have any better solutions either, apart from reorganizing society so that the quality of life enjoyed by all people is relatively equal (for starters), but it seems like anybody who actually advocates for that convincingly gets put into a box somewhere.
That's why I made sure to say "indulging" rather than "acknowledging".
It's not about ignoring it, but rather transcending the dialogue completely. "Colour-blindness" is also another aspect of white supremacy because it internalises whiteness as the natural order of things i.e. "everyone is the same" (read:white)
You can't ignore it, but you also shouldn't wallow in it.