it is only a collective destruction of the system of whiteness that will end the idea that they are separate from the rest of the native population and must go somewhere else than where they live.
it's not a matter of "identifying" it's a matter of systemic dismantling of the policies laws and privileges of white supremacy.
idk, it's shit like red-lining and racist mortgage practices, hiring discrimination, shit like that. Fox News has everyone in red rural areas convinced that major blue cities have like mad max levels of constant violence and crime. So end that propaganda. Institute a propaganda counter-narrative. "Actually we're pretty much all the genetically the same, skin color is an adaptation to how much UV radiation you get," shit like that. They reinforce whiteness constantly, we can set the whiteness machine in reverse if we can take over.
i'm not sure where you'd find enough people you could trust with kids and to not be horribly racist or queerphobic but if we can handwave those problems i think it would eventually help 30 or 40 years after starting such a program, if a year or two of elementary school and a year of highschool was some kind of exchange program between rural, medium density, and urban settings. (and you couldn't game it with religious shit)
get kids having those "communist liberal diverse college environment" experiences way earlier and more than once, plus libs would hopefully have more connection to and solidarity with rural poors.
i can "not identify as white" all i want but i'll still get treated like it in a white supremacist society and benefit from my skin color or fall through the cracks just the same.
i can be agender but without signs and signifiers communicating that and the vast majority of people not having any cultural context i'll still get treated like and assumed to be a cis man (even in queer spaces unless i've got a nametag and people actually bother to read it)
The solution is as simple as no longer identifying as "white". But they won't, so they don't.
personal solutions don't work.
it is only a collective destruction of the system of whiteness that will end the idea that they are separate from the rest of the native population and must go somewhere else than where they live.
it's not a matter of "identifying" it's a matter of systemic dismantling of the policies laws and privileges of white supremacy.
It's a hell of a thread to pull, and I'm not sure where to start pulling.
idk, it's shit like red-lining and racist mortgage practices, hiring discrimination, shit like that. Fox News has everyone in red rural areas convinced that major blue cities have like mad max levels of constant violence and crime. So end that propaganda. Institute a propaganda counter-narrative. "Actually we're pretty much all the genetically the same, skin color is an adaptation to how much UV radiation you get," shit like that. They reinforce whiteness constantly, we can set the whiteness machine in reverse if we can take over.
i'm not sure where you'd find enough people you could trust with kids and to not be horribly racist or queerphobic but if we can handwave those problems i think it would eventually help 30 or 40 years after starting such a program, if a year or two of elementary school and a year of highschool was some kind of exchange program between rural, medium density, and urban settings. (and you couldn't game it with religious shit)
get kids having those "communist liberal diverse college environment" experiences way earlier and more than once, plus libs would hopefully have more connection to and solidarity with rural poors.
Didn’t socialist groups do this in like the late 18 and early 1900s? But with adults.
maybe. would still be a good thing to do if people could afford it and not be abusers
Oh yeah for sure
And there’s the rub, to “take over” we need to solve the issue of white supremacy.
i can "not identify as white" all i want but i'll still get treated like it in a white supremacist society and benefit from my skin color or fall through the cracks just the same.
i can be agender but without signs and signifiers communicating that and the vast majority of people not having any cultural context i'll still get treated like and assumed to be a cis man (even in queer spaces unless i've got a nametag and people actually bother to read it)