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decolonize-the-left · 2 years

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I can't believe that person thought your response was incoherent, apparently they cant read.

Because OP is a leftist it's actually a bit deeper than that. And since OP clearly has a complex about comprehension and colonial standards of intellect I'm gonna use your ask to dismantle that a bit for anyone checking out my Tumblr or who shares the same view.

This is long

I went through their recent posts and one says that "anti-intellectualism" is stupid. And I've learned from my experiences in leftists spaces that they LOVE intellectualism. They love name-dropping Marx and telling you to "go read Das Kapital and The Conquest of Bread and get back to me" instead of having actual discussions with people who have opposing views.

As if nobody but their precious books could possibly have an opinion worth their time.

Here's the thing though.

(I typed a lot here but honestly Russel Means says it best)

"The only possible opening for a statement like this is that I detest writing. The process itself epitomizes the European concept of “legitimate thinking”: what is written has an importance that is denied the spoken. My culture, the Lakota culture, has an oral tradition, so I ordinarily reject writing. It is one of the white world’s ways of destroying the cultures of non-European peoples, the imposing of an abstraction over the spoken relationship of a people.

So what you read here is not what I’ve written. It’s what I’ve said and someone else has written down. I will allow this because it seems that the only way to communicate with the white world is through the dead, dry leaves of a book. I don’t really care whether my words reach whites or not. They have already demonstrated through their history that they cannot hear, cannot see; they can only read (of course, there are exceptions, but the exceptions only prove the rule).

And he goes on to say:

I don’t believe these theories can be separated from the rest of the European intellectual tradition. It’s really just the same old song. The process began much earlier. Newton, for example, “revolutionized” physics and the so-called natural sciences by reducing the physical universe to a linear mathematical equation. Descartes did the same thing with culture. John Locke did it with politics, and Adam Smith did it with economics. Each one of these “thinkers” took a piece of the spirituality of human existence and converted it into a code, an abstraction. They picked up where Christianity ended; they “secularized” Christian religion, as the “scholars” like to say—and in doing so they made Europe more able and ready to act as an expansionist culture. Each of these intellectual revolutions served to abstract the European mentality even further, to remove the wonderful complexity and spirituality from the universe and replace it with a logical sequence: one, two, three, Answer!

(Karl Marx literally laid out the steps that led to a revolution. As if that alone is the answer to all our oppression)

This is what has come to be termed “efficiency” in the European mind. Whatever is mechanical is perfect; whatever seems to work at the moment—that is, proves the mechanical model to be the right one—is considered correct, even when it is clearly untrue. This is why “truth” changes so fast in the European mind; the answers which result from such a process are only stop-gaps, only temporary, and must be continuously discarded in favor of new stop-gaps which support the mechanical models and keep them (the models) alive.

Hegel and Marx were heirs to the thinking of Newton, Descartes, Locke, and Smith. Hegel finished the process of secularizing theology—and that is put in his own terms—he secularized the religious thinking through which Europe understood the universe. Then Marx put Hegel’s philosophy in terms of “materialism,” which is to say that Marx despiritualized Hegel’s work altogether. Again, this is in Marx’ own terms. And this is now seen as the future revolutionary potential of Europe. Europeans may see this as revolutionary, but American Indians see it simply as still more of that same old European conflict between being and gaining. The intellectual roots of a new Marxist form of European imperialism lie in Marx’s—and his followers’—links to the tradition of Newton, Hegel, and the others.

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain. Material gain is an indicator of false status among traditional people, while it is “proof that the system works” to Europeans. Clearly, there are two completely opposing views at issue here, and Marxism is very far over to the other side from the American Indian view. But let’s look at a major implication of this; it is not merely an intellectual debate.

The European materialist tradition of despiritualizing the universe is very similar to the mental process which goes into dehumanizing another person. And who seems most expert at de humanizing other people? And why? Soldiers who have seen a lot of combat learn to do this to the enemy before going back into combat. Murderers do it before going out to commit murder. Nazi SS guards did it to concentration camp inmates. Cops do it. Corporation leaders do it to the workers they send into uranium mines and steel mills. Politicians do it to everyone in sight. And what the process has in common for each group doing the dehumanizing is that it makes it all right to kill and other wise destroy other people. One of the Christian commandments says, “Thou shalt not kill,” at least not humans, so the trick is to mentally convert the victims into nonhumans. Then you can proclaim violation of your own commandment as a virtue.

In terms of the despiritualization of the universe, the mental process works so that it becomes virtuous to destroy the planet. Terms like progress and development are used as cover words here, the way victory and freedom are used to justify butchery in the dehumanization process. For example, a real estate speculator may refer to “developing” a parcel of ground by opening a gravel quarry; development here means total, permanent destruction, with the earth itself removed. But European logic has gained a few tons of gravel with which more land can be “developed” through the construction of road beds. Ultimately, the whole universe is open—in the European view—to this sort of insanity.

Most important here, perhaps, is the fact that Europeans feel no sense of loss in all this. After all, their philosophers have despiritualized reality, so there is no satisfaction (for them) to be gained in simply observing the wonder of a mountain or a lake or a people in being. No, satisfaction is measured in terms of gaining material. So the mountain becomes gravel, and the lake becomes coolant for a factory, and the people are rounded up for processing through the indoctrination mills Europeans like to call schools.

Which brings us to my last quote.

Revolutionary Marxism, like industrial society in other forms, seeks to ‘rationalize” all people in relation to industry—maximum industry, maximum production. It is a materialist doctrine that despises the American Indian spiritual tradition, our cultures, our lifeways. Marx himself called us “precapitalists” and “primitive.” Precapitalist simply means that, in his view, we would eventually discover capitalism and become capitalists: we have always been economically retarded in Marxist terms. The only manner in which American Indian people could participate in a Marxist revolution would be to join the industrial system, to become factory workers, or “proletarians” as Marx called them. The man was very clear about the fact that his revolution could occur only through the struggle of the proletariat, that the existence of a massive industrial system is a precondition of a successful Marxist society.

I think there’s a problem with language here. Christians, capitalists, Marxists. All of them have been revolutionary in their own minds, but none of them really mean revolution. What they really mean is a continuation. They do what they do in order that European culture can continue to exist and develop according to its needs.

It reduced all of that down to class because for white people, that objectively is the most significant oppression. And from a white perspective I'm sure that's the Objective conclusion because that's the Only oppression All white people experience. It must be the most important then. Right?

The issue is intellectualism doesn't teach you to think for yourself or to consider anyone else's views as valid. It teaches you to accept the written word. And often, as Russel Means mentioned, the word "objective" is often used a weapon to remove anything that might have heart. To remove any ethic or morality that might stop you from dehumanizing someone. Anything that might stop the process of industrialization.

How else could an "objective" point of view on struggle leave out their peers struggling under different axis of oppression? How could it leave it out colonialism? The patriarchy? Racism? Why else would these struggles be deemed too irrelevant to be included?

And if intellectualism at this point seems racist and like a tool of white supremacy, you'd be correct. It is.

That's why OP didn't get it. How could they have? You can't choose to be an intellectual AND have solidarity with anyone who opposes colonization. You can't be an intellectual AND oppose European constructs. You can't choose the superiority offered by white European intellectualism AND be an ally to BIPOC.

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cooki3face · 2 years

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Full of typos but you understand

#anti blackness #blaclgirlmagic #blacklivesmatter #dr.Umar #racism #systematic racism #history #black history #white supremecy

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kuramirocket · 2 years

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Latinos experience discrimination from other Latinos at about the same rate as they do from non-Latinos, according to the Pew Research Center.

In a report published Monday, the nonpartisan think tank found that 27% of Latinos surveyed said they had “personally experienced discrimination or were treated unfairly” by other Latinos. When asked about non-Latinos, that number increased slightly to 31%.

The survey also found that Latinos with darker skin faced prejudice from other Latinos at a much higher rate (41%) as Latinos with lighter skin (25%).

“Having darker skin and being born outside the United States is associated with an increased chance of experiencing this type of discrimination,” writes a Pew research analyst and author of the report.

I can’t say I’m shocked.

I could very easily point to the rise of white nationalism among people with Spanish surnames. I could also direct you a New York Times story set in the Rio Grande Valley (puro 956 cuh!) about the grievance politics of “my family did it the right way” Hispanics.

But if I’m being real with you, I could also point to relatives who have casually used indigeneity or skin color as an insult. And I know I’m not the only one.

According to the survey, nearly half of respondents (48%) said that they had heard family members and friends make racially insensitive comments or jokes about other Latinos.

That certainly was Matthew Luis Rivera’s experience. Rivera grew up in Humboldt Park in Chicago. The Windy City, he points out, is a very segregated place.

As a child Rivera was “conditioned to believe that Puerto Ricans and Mexicans were rivals.”

“I’ve heard people in my family say, ‘Don’t date any Mexicans.’”

In a report published in November 2021, Pew researchers found that when given the option to self-identify using the Yadon-Ostfeld 10-point skin color scale, 80% of Latinos chose a lighter skin tone.

This unspoken reality has led some to reject the concept of Latinidad altogether.

#🇲🇽#racism #colorism #latino #latina #hispanic #Pew Research Center #immigration #usa #united states #puerto rico #indigenous #native #Yadon-Ostfeld 10-point skin color scale #white nationalism #white supremecy #discrimination against mexicans

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brookeolin · 2 years

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it was never about LIFE

It was always about racism and the White Race...

https://timeline.com/horatio-storer-criminal-abortion-c433606491da

The father of American gynecology fought to criminalize abortion in the 1850sHoratio Storer’s legacy remains even after Roe v. Wade

But Storer urged the American Medical Association to challenge the quickening doctrine, and he framed his objection as purely scientific. He urged his fellow doctors to “set aside all the speculations of the metaphysicians regarding moral accountability of the foetus, the ‘potential man’ and its ‘inanimate vitalities,’ as useless as they are bewildering.” Rather, he argued, “If we have proved the existence of foetal life before quickening has taken place or can take place […] we are compelled to believe unjustifiable abortion always a crime.”

Here is another source referencing the “WHITE GENOCIDE” and fears of inferior immigrant babies rooted in the anti-abortion movement.

https://theconversation.com/the-100-year-old-rallying-cry-of-white-genocide-98378

#racism #abortion #white genocide #white supremecy #horatio storer

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deaddee-anime-brownfanlady · 8 months

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#jacksonville shooting #racism #racial violence #antiblack violence #antiblackness #jacksonville florida #Remember those names.#politics #us politics #White supremecy #current events

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revdrjamesjshowersjr · 11 months

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Terrorist Watclist

Does anyone know the penalty, for accusations such as your on a terrorist watchlist?, oh, I also forgot and being a United States Government employee.?

So Help Me God...Amen, Ameen, Amun, Amin, Aum..

#secret service #doj #us marshals #dhs #ftc #fcc #cfpb #scambaiting #law enforcement #ic3peak #white supremecy #white collar crime #graft #bribery #corruption

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uglylittlegoblin · 1 year

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White supremacists think that being upset at racist behaviors is "virtue signaling" because they believe that all white people are as racist as they are. They think that you're calling them out to save face, to avoid looking like a Klan member in public, but they truly believe that in private, in your heart of hearts, you hate the Other as much as they do.

#and they think they're so brave for putting their racism out there for everyone to see #that's also why they like trump #bc he 'tells it like it is'#fuckin wild #white supremecy #racism #amerikkka

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i-just-like-commenting · 2 years

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We’re just going mask off here, huh?

#roe v wade #us news #donald trump #republicans #us politics #white supremecy #eugenics #link

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spindrifters · 1 year

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marginalia - chapter thirty-eight, summer's end

It’s a bit like magic, this. Watching Sirius in his element. He wraps the air around him like its own crackling silver, a command for everyone to else look. He shines like this, the broad laughter as Dorcas twirls him cracking open an irrepressible boy — man, really — a magnitude of spirit that glows like the star for which he was named. Defiance thrumming in every bone of his body, born from the choice to stop making himself small. The brightest star in the sky, he refuses to be ignored. Remus has never been like that. Shrinking himself was never a conscious choice, it was an act of self-preservation well-honed from a young age. If you’re ignored, you can’t be hurt. Here and now, though, the sheer expansiveness that is Sirius Black is like a drug. He could watch him for hours. He could look and look and never get tired of it, like maybe if he just keeps looking, that effervescence of spirit that’s so purely Sirius might infect him, too. “Lily thinks you’re still annoyed with her,” Marlene announces without preamble, vaguely sloshed and plopping herself down on the blanket next to him. Remus raises a brow. “Always the clever one,” he says, gaze flicking over through the flames to where Lily and James are now whispering quietly to one another. “I am still annoyed with her.”

#wolfstar fic #remus lupin #sirius black #wolfstar #marlene mckinnon #my fic #here she is here she is #this was a fucking beast to write and I have no idea why #just like #many ~concepts~#chapter 28 - the one where sirius learns about white supremecy #or something like that

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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Keep calm and carry on. ::: March 20, 2023

Robert B. Hubbell

I acknowledge that the motto used by the British government to sustain public morale before the German blitz in 1940 has been overused. But the sentiment is appropriate for this moment in American history. In the next several months, a former president will likely face three indictments in three jurisdictions for three separate sets of crimes—all of which relate to his effort to gain or retain the presidency. That's a lot! To say the indictments will dominate American politics for years to come would be an understatement.

A "once-in-the-life-of-a-nation" event will be made more trying because Trump has signaled his defense strategy—threatening violence to intimidate the participants in the judicial process, to disrupt the proceedings, and to undermine the legitimacy of the verdicts. Although we do not have confirmation that Trump will be indicted, he and his legal team have begun leaking information to the press and mounting attacks from Trump's vanity social media platform. Based on those statements, Trump expects to be indicted, to surrender, and to enter a plea this week.

In language eerily reminiscent of Trump's incitement on January 6th, Trump posted a statement calling on his supporters to "PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!" That was the only encouragement Trump's followers needed to set social media aflame with calls to violence to protect Trump. Basement-dwelling trolls and miscreants called for MAGA extremists to create a "patriot moat" around Mar-a-Lago and to commence a "civil war." See Rolling Stone, MAGA Forum Suggests 'Patriot Moat' at Mar-a-Lago to Stop Trump Arrest.

Marjorie Taylor Greene echoed those calls with a tweet urging Republicans to adopt a "scorched earth" strategy and claimed that "feds" would turn the MAGA protests into "violence." (FYI: a common conspiracy theory about January 6th asserts that "feds" provoked the protestors to violence.)

The most disgraceful reaction came from Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who should have condemned Trump's oblique call for violence. Instead, McCarthy legitimized Trump's call to "take back our nation" by tweeting that he is

directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.

Huh? Someone needs to do a wellness check on McCarthy to see if he is okay. His statement was so monumentally stupid that he might be feigning illness to distract from the fact he did not immediately rebuke Trump's implied call for violence. His failure to condemn Trump makes McCarthy an accessory to any violence that follows. He has disgraced the Speaker's office in a way seldom seen in our nation's history.

[Update: Late Sunday evening, McCarthy tried to walk back the implications of Trump's post and McCarthy's tweet. McCarthy called for "calmness," saying,

"I think the thing that you may misinterpret when President Trump talks and someone says that they can protest, he's probably referring to my tweet: educate people about what's going on. He's not talking in a harmful way, and nobody should."

As I said above: "Huh?"]

After January 6th, it would be irresponsible to dismiss the potential for violence. Indeed, it seems inevitable that there will be isolated incidents during proceedings that will span years. Trump will use his campaign rallies to inflame passions and foment unrest.

But . . . we should keep calm and carry on. Whatever happens, our system of justice is bigger and more durable than Trump. He is using the threat of violence to instill fear and raise anxiety in those who seek justice. We cannot surrender to the second-rate tactics of a third-rate demagogue.

Remaining calm will require discipline and perspective, especially because any violence will be amplified and distorted by the media beyond all recognition. The media expects violence and is prepared to deliver round-the-clock replays of every incident without respite or perspective.

If violence occurs, we need only reflect on the vastness of America, on its size and heft, on its immensity and scale to place the incidents in perspective. If several dozen protestors disrupt traffic in four blocks of Manhattan, that leaves 332 million Americans peacefully going about their lives in nearly four million square miles of a land that remains effectively boundless more than two centuries after its founding.

Perspective will not diminish the significance or depravity of any violence, but it will help us remain focused and committed to ensuring that justice prevails—come what may. In this, we cannot fail. We must not. If we retreat or relent because of threats of violence, the rule of law is no more.

While we should not underestimate the danger posed by Trump, America's strength is rooted in justice and fortified by righteousness. That strength will allow America to hold Trump accountable for his crimes and endure for generations to come. Future generations will know Trump as a faithless servant and traitor—and as a convicted felon.

Keep calm and carry on. We have elections to win in 2024 and cannot be distracted by the slow wheels of justice.

This explains a lot.

The current wave of retrograde extremism and mean-spirited divisiveness is sometimes difficult to comprehend. One partial explanation is that an entire generation of white Christian evangelicals see their ranks and power slipping away, and they are angry and fearful about the future. That is the thesis of Jennifer Rubin's op-ed in the Washington Post, Why white Christian nationalists are in such a panic.

Rubin writes about the newly released PRRI 2022 Census of American Religion— based on over 40,000 interviews conducted last year. In short, the census confirms a decades-long decline in the absolute and relative portion of Americans who identify as white Christians. The percentage decline of white Christians has been dramatic: 2008 (54%), 2014 (47%), and 2022 (42%).

Per the report, the MAGA subset of white Christians has been particularly hard hit by the decline:

The group that has declined the most is at the core of the MAGA movement, the group most devoted to Christian nationalism. "White evangelical Protestants have experienced the steepest decline. As recently as 2006, white evangelical Protestants comprised nearly one-quarter of Americans (23%). By the time of Trump's rise to power, their numbers had dipped to 16.8%," Jones explains. "Today, white evangelical Protestants comprise only 13.6% of Americans."

In a closely divided electorate, a dedicated group representing 13.6% of the population can nonetheless have an outsized impact on elections decided by a few hundred or a few thousand votes. That, in turn, explains the unholy dedication of white Christians to the suppression of votes.

The shrinking number of Americans who identify as Christians should be a cause for reflection and introspection. It is not—at least not for MAGA Christians. Per Rubin:

With those kind of numbers, the responsible thing to do would be to think about "fixing" what's wrong by adapting to a changing market. Instead, many in this cohort have doubled down, becoming the foot soldiers in the red-hatted MAGA movement. The decline isn't going to be reversed by angry, gray-haired folks demanding abortion bans and "don't say gay" bills.

While we can never count on Republicans to defeat themselves, neither should we overestimate the strength of our opponent. The current wave of anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ legislation across the nation is being driven by a shrinking minority of religious extremists who appear to be driving people away from their church with their politics. That fact should help us maintain perspective about our prospects for success in reversing the wave of hate-based legislation sweeping the nation.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#political cartoon.#broken Republican party #Robert B. Hubbel Newsletter #Robert B. Hubbell #MAGA Republicans #Christian Nationalism #white supremecy #evangelical

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