Nah, g, I feel you. The more I learn about your persona on this forum, the more it makes sense how you have gotten to and are getting to where you're at. Frankly, I didn't think it possible of white folk to shut the fuck up and listen to someone less advantaged than them. Understand, that ain't a jawn on you as a singular person, but that I have had a very long history of living through cracker bullshit, attempting to educate said crackers, and finding out my words were just going in one ear and out the other after a few months-- 's why my stance is "I don't educate crackers anymore; I just drag 'em".
From where I stand, if one of them suddenly gets it through dragging, cool. Percussive maintenance has been known to work on machines before; but I'm not really hoping for or expecting it anymore. Your S/O is doing the work of the saints; and bless you for actually having the wherewithal to listen to her. Shit, she prolly more on her deen than I am.
I hear you. I even made a comment in the general thread a while ago about how I really need to shut the fuck up and listen more. I'm not trying to pull a "I'm one of the good ones, praise me " bullshit common on the left and in libs alike. I have no right to tell you what to think or feel, even if I personally must believe that we can de-cracker white people by tearing from under us the materialist base that leads to the cracker superstructure, that doesn't mean I can just say "you're wrong" for what you believe based on your lived experience on the opposite end of that spectrum.
I normally try to back you up when I can because you cede no ground, it's largely why I am (still in the early parts, life is personally wild right now) reading Settlers. I have a very personal need to hope that I can at least partially redeem other white people, because if I can't, then I can't redeem myself even partially. It's a selfish, internal reason. If my fiancé and I ever have kids, they will be half-white, half-POC. They will face their own struggles accordingly. Even if we don't have kids, I dearly love my fiancé, and need to do my damndest to make this world a safer and more just place for her.
I appreciate your words, and understand your viewpoint, I just want to stress that the largest factor in my viewpoint is becoming personally involved. I don't know how to truly translate that for people who aren't. I was kind of hoping each of the communities for marginalized people, like em_poc, could do the same as womenby with posting basic theory to emphasize de-colonialism and anti-white supremacy, like they did with adding The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto.
Thanks for listening to my ramble! And yes, my fiancé is amazing.
I was kind of hoping each of the communities for marginalized people, like em_poc, could do the same as womenby with posting basic theory to emphasize de-colonialism and anti-white supremacy, like they did with adding The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto.
This is actually a really good idea; it's just a matter of collating a good, comprehensive list together over here. I'd love to get a reading group started here, but real life's got too many coils wrapped around me rn for me to be really on the ball and active bout it
I think so too (obviously), but I shouldn't be the one to push for it, nor do I think I am a good person to come up with a good list. I think the results of the recent misogyny "struggle sesh" and subsequent purges and introduction of theory as a strong push from the moderators and admins can be carried over to other communities. There are a lot of new leftists that can be guided that otherwise may just stick to Marx/Engels/Lenin or Kropotkin/Goldman etc in ways that personally benefit themselves, when intersectionality in my opinion will be the foundation of any truly successful leftist movement, especially in the Imperial Core.
Nah, g, I feel you. The more I learn about your persona on this forum, the more it makes sense how you have gotten to and are getting to where you're at. Frankly, I didn't think it possible of white folk to shut the fuck up and listen to someone less advantaged than them. Understand, that ain't a jawn on you as a singular person, but that I have had a very long history of living through cracker bullshit, attempting to educate said crackers, and finding out my words were just going in one ear and out the other after a few months-- 's why my stance is "I don't educate crackers anymore; I just drag 'em".
From where I stand, if one of them suddenly gets it through dragging, cool. Percussive maintenance has been known to work on machines before; but I'm not really hoping for or expecting it anymore. Your S/O is doing the work of the saints; and bless you for actually having the wherewithal to listen to her. Shit, she prolly more on her deen than I am.
I hear you. I even made a comment in the general thread a while ago about how I really need to shut the fuck up and listen more. I'm not trying to pull a "I'm one of the good ones, praise me
" bullshit common on the left and in libs alike. I have no right to tell you what to think or feel, even if I personally must believe that we can de-cracker white people by tearing from under us the materialist base that leads to the cracker superstructure, that doesn't mean I can just say "you're wrong" for what you believe based on your lived experience on the opposite end of that spectrum.
I normally try to back you up when I can because you cede no ground, it's largely why I am (still in the early parts, life is personally wild right now) reading Settlers. I have a very personal need to hope that I can at least partially redeem other white people, because if I can't, then I can't redeem myself even partially. It's a selfish, internal reason. If my fiancé and I ever have kids, they will be half-white, half-POC. They will face their own struggles accordingly. Even if we don't have kids, I dearly love my fiancé, and need to do my damndest to make this world a safer and more just place for her.
I appreciate your words, and understand your viewpoint, I just want to stress that the largest factor in my viewpoint is becoming personally involved. I don't know how to truly translate that for people who aren't. I was kind of hoping each of the communities for marginalized people, like em_poc, could do the same as womenby with posting basic theory to emphasize de-colonialism and anti-white supremacy, like they did with adding The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto.
Thanks for listening to my ramble! And yes, my fiancé is amazing.
This is actually a really good idea; it's just a matter of collating a good, comprehensive list together over here. I'd love to get a reading group started here, but real life's got too many coils wrapped around me rn for me to be really on the ball and active bout it
I think so too (obviously), but I shouldn't be the one to push for it, nor do I think I am a good person to come up with a good list. I think the results of the recent misogyny "struggle sesh" and subsequent purges and introduction of theory as a strong push from the moderators and admins can be carried over to other communities. There are a lot of new leftists that can be guided that otherwise may just stick to Marx/Engels/Lenin or Kropotkin/Goldman etc in ways that personally benefit themselves, when intersectionality in my opinion will be the foundation of any truly successful leftist movement, especially in the Imperial Core.