I'm all for white people trying to deprogram racist whites.
Doesn't mean I have to partner with any of them. The energy and outrage being expended over this whole thing is embarrassing and is another example of how utterly futile and weak the twitter/youtube/podcast left is. Most of these stupidasses on both sides already forgot about the "organizing" and "pushing Biden left" garbage they were spewing just a month ago.
the thing is to me personally, there is a massive amount of population who don’t vote/stopped voting and become either disenfranchised in one way or another or apolitical and those are the people we should be focusing more of our energy on. Not people who make holocaust jokes or people who are or aligned with terfs and reactionaries. Fuck that. You spend WAYYY to much time “debating” with these people and vast vast majority of the time it’s fruitless. Why bother when you can work on more open minded people who aren’t filled with a ton of asinine beliefs?
There was a point in my life where I thought I could 'reform' or otherwise influence people like that but it has never been successful. Even if they concede one point they got dozens others that are just so far gone we're not even on the same realm of reasoning.
I’m all for white people trying to deprogram racist whites.
I'm not saying I disagree, but I find myself more and more agreeing with the thesis of Settlers; and I'm really starting to think the left in America should put zero extra effort into "deprogramming whites" and instead use that energy to radicalize communities of color.
I'm all for white people trying to deprogram racist whites.
Doesn't mean I have to partner with any of them. The energy and outrage being expended over this whole thing is embarrassing and is another example of how utterly futile and weak the twitter/youtube/podcast left is. Most of these stupidasses on both sides already forgot about the "organizing" and "pushing Biden left" garbage they were spewing just a month ago.
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the thing is to me personally, there is a massive amount of population who don’t vote/stopped voting and become either disenfranchised in one way or another or apolitical and those are the people we should be focusing more of our energy on. Not people who make holocaust jokes or people who are or aligned with terfs and reactionaries. Fuck that. You spend WAYYY to much time “debating” with these people and vast vast majority of the time it’s fruitless. Why bother when you can work on more open minded people who aren’t filled with a ton of asinine beliefs?
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There was a point in my life where I thought I could 'reform' or otherwise influence people like that but it has never been successful. Even if they concede one point they got dozens others that are just so far gone we're not even on the same realm of reasoning.
I'm not saying I disagree, but I find myself more and more agreeing with the thesis of Settlers; and I'm really starting to think the left in America should put zero extra effort into "deprogramming whites" and instead use that energy to radicalize communities of color.
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