Y'know what radicalized me? Watching cops skate the prosecution damned near every time they lynched a Black man, woman, or child. That's how I learned Jim Crow is still alive and well. That's how I learned this is no democracy, it's a fascist oligarchy that sacrifices its subjects-of-empire to the false gods of the Market.
This is why half the time, my posts end off with 'death to Amerika'-- because there is no way to reform a slavemaster.
This is why half the time, my posts end off with 'death to Amerika'
What I hear is half the time you offer more grace and patience than this guilty nation deserves
You're really not wrong; but I come from a people that prioritize grace and patience-- or at least, our elders claim to. Some of what I was taught erodes slower than other subjects ig
I think people shouldn't be allowed to suffer when preventing that suffering is easy, and that makes me a radical utopian idealist apparently
What we want isn't radical, it's common sense human rights. It's just that the denial of those common sense human rights in the permitted stages of political theater leads to us pursuing radical solutions.
If you didn't want to end up a pretty bit of paintwork on the wall you should've allowed us a democratic workplace alongside a democratic government and chose to join us on the working line instead of insisting on keeping our wealth through illegitimate power.
To be fair, wanting to entirely restructure society is radical in the sense that it's a fringe view, not that it's illogical. It is logical, just uncommon.
That said, it's pretty clear that people in the political mainstream see the system as a being perfectly sensible. They genuinely do believe that ideas such as redistribution of property are radical in the sense of being extreme.
Sometimes, I am not sure if I am a leftist, or if I am a person with empathy, and an unwillingness to see people suffer... who happens to live in a capitalist system.
I imagine that's how most people end up on the left. Once you start seeing the brutality of the system, it quickly becomes repulsive.
Radicalism is relative. The right could probably say something about Jesus in the same vein.
