yeah between this & the patronizing transphobia from the mod saying a majority queer & trans userbase was giving them 'cishet white vibes' that continues to go unaddressed, I hope y'all do some self-crit like carcosa did once this blows over. but I won't stick around to see whether you do because this mod team's been scratched and found seriously wanting when it comes to actually making this a safe space for us trans comrades.
Yeah I get that. I don't participate much in my primary org anymore because I suspect certain folks of being disruptive for ulterior motives, but I'm not out there fedjacketing them either. I just focus on our primary mission and have entirely detached from internal politics.
I feel comfortable speaking for most of us radicals who were on the streets in 2020 that the most infuriating part of the whole thing were the fucking liberals.
I'm due for a fresh account so I'll share this. Liberals are fucking terrible at identifying the correct behavior to police. It does go both ways but as other commenters are pointing out, this dude was cartoonish. It's not fedjacketing to point out an obvious fed. But I'm sure as soon as this dude started fedjacketing people the libs lined right up behind him, because they have absolutely no revolutionary education. The only good thing to come out of 2020 is that some people received one.
On a relatively(lol*) calm day in july 2020 I was on bike crew for a march in my city. The march wound up going to a public square for speeches, so we posted up like a block away from the crowd opposite a pig barricade, occupied by normal pigs but with swat pigs staging behind them. The barricade also happens to be the rear entrance for an official city government gathering that prominent people in the protests that hadn't been invited to are trying to get in. They talk to pigs at the barricade, eventually convince them to let them in.
Almost immediately afterward, a white woman in a hijab walks up to the barricade to a different pig a few meters away and talks to them for a few minutes. She walks away and happens to pass me, so I get her attention and ask her loudly, "Hey watcha talkin to the pigs about?" She starts stammering a quiet response (honestly have no idea what she said, it's not why I asked the question), but she doesn't get more than a few words in before some white woman next to me tone polices the shit out of me, "I think we should let the leaders of the march do the talking." And the undercover pig scurries off.
Implication being if you're not obviously black you should just get in line. I nod at her and go back to staring down the pigs. A dude on the line with us with a walkie who was clearly part of the march's organizers walks over and nods to me and says, "Thanks we got her description out."
I didn't know the folks organizing things that day, but it's safe to say I helped them ID someone probably problematic.
*Like 15 mins after the events I'm describing happened a car broke through the barricade another block away from the crowd and sped towards us before deciding against vehicular homicide and veering away at our intersection. I stood between the car and the crowd before they turned off the other way. I told a friend who works for the ACLU about that and he said, entirely earnestly, "you were the victim of a crime, you should report that!"
oh yeah ty for the reminder. yeah one of the problems with that summer is that there were a lot of liberals in the streets with no revolutionary education policing peoples behavior
I mean the only radical org operating in denver during that time was black hammer lol
of course the liberals had no idea. every major protest movement was captured in similar ways, whether it was the black capitalism landlord guy in seattle or whatever else. only places that got spicy were minny & portland, probably because they had the orgs to do so
lol using the fact that most proles have to have multiple full time jobs to survive to shame the miniscule portion of the labor aristocracy for pulling one over on the bosses, never change bourgeoisie media
yeah idk that my computer can run it and didn't have the space to try regardless. it's fun, feels like a bigger Fable set in a more interesting world
also holy shit it's bad. I hadn't realized but jesus. like i remembered from playing it the first time that Bob Salvatore as writing director was pretty clear and painful, and I remember thinking the game was unnecessarily horny in its portrayal of women but maybe no worse than WoW, etc. but i also remember thinking at the time that Curt Schilling's (lol) deranged ideology wasn't be reflected in the game. Which may be more an indictment on the quality of available anglophone high fantasy content just a decade or so ago. But again holy shit.
cw racism
the thieves guild are called Travelers and the first one you meet talks about their people like euros imagine roma people talk like ('don't leave anything not nailed down around me haha') are you fucking kidding me
if you play as a dark elf or whatever bob renamed them to, after you get the codec of whatever and the two guardian characters meet each other & the woman leaves, the dude basically says 'i don't trust black folks, besides the good ones like you of course'
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