She said i should see someone who had experience with "extremism" and "racism"

I had to fight the urge to call her a PMC radlib

  • WideningGyro [any]
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    1 year ago

    Whiteness is a tool of capturing power and resources and it destroys other modes of thought

    Please explain what that means. You realize a large part of the working class is white, right? Did they just fail to realize that they could utilize this tool and capture the resources with it?

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They don't have to be. Like, look at thr Irish specifically. They weren't white. Then we changed and and now they are. However there is still a memory of having a culture and lots of white people yern for it. That is why Irish kitch is a thing. Their souls yearn to escape whiteness. However, their ancestors gave up their culture to be white to get money to be part of the proper working classes of America.

      The same guy that couldn't find Ireland on a map is just as susceptible to positive and negative anti-white propaganda. That little white voice in your head telling you to defend whiteness even here on thisnwebsite is a liar.

      • WideningGyro [any]
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        1 year ago

        Condescending insinuations aside, just to be clear - what you are advocating is stronger ethnic identities over racial divides? As in, "I'm not white, I'm Irish/Swedish/German/Slavic" etc. I struggle to see how that would help foster class solidarity. Europe was torn apart by wars ostensibly fought over meaningless ethno-linguistic divides for centuries. Disagree with that point all you want, but dismissing it as "defending whiteness" is condescending (not to mention - abysmal optics, should you ever care about converting libs to the cause).

        • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Realistically it wouldn't. It could be an improvement overall to general awareness of material conditions. Like, picture if every random two trucks fucking white person or disney adult could have some other set of thoughts. Instead of product consumption they might have thoughts of community and old ways. They would have people they had kinship with. All those would be Chances to break out of the American™️ mindset. You couldn't mace a homeless person if you had Irish hospitality you know. But it would help them not identify as white so it would keep them father away from from the white vs black narrative that divides us.

          But my friend all the old little wars were fought by people with thr same ethnic identity. For the most part anyway. WW1? That was family drama. Diplomats tried to stop the fighting at family reunions of the nobility. All that was only ever fake and used to rule by the nobility. The bits that weren't were a technology of survival for poor people. Which does bear cinsidering.

          I have zero intention of converting liberals on this website. I am not going to conform to liberal approved posting in this our ML safespace.