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it's all vibes, but Palestine will be free in our lifetimes
Joined April 2021
Discover truth through practice, and again through practice verify and develop truth. Start from perceptual knowledge and actively develop it into rational knowledge; then start from rational knowledge and actively guide revolutionary practice to change both the subjective and.
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Marcus Garvey is pardoned 100 years later, long after his convictions shaped false narratives about Black nationalism. They admit the truth when it no longer threatens them. I’m done arguing with people over what’s already clear.
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The more I see of Ethiopian-Israelis, the more flabbergasted I become about what Frank Wilderson said.
The European white colonizers who American students are protesting against.
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Getting mad that a white woman called you a white supremacist shill, when you just bragged about working for a white supremacist entity is exactly what I expect from Black women on the other side of terror 🌚.
"The same people that spend $1 trillion blowing up other people's kids are saying it's a wish list? I'm sorry, that's propaganda." @ButchWare . "It's not propaganda. I've worked on Capitol Hill." @angela_rye. Talking points straight from capitol hill & the DNC. Not propaganda lol
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Kai was hard on his father growing up, and only came to understand him differently as an adult. Meanwhile his sister was close with their father. But sure boy children are so understanding of their deadbeat fathers. Release yourselves from the chokehold of gender essentialism!.
Boy children are so understanding of their deadbeat fathers.
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A lot of y'all fantasize about them getting with the white male characters.
Do you know what these characters all have in common?
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Jimmy Carter was the quintessential nice white guy. Violent and just as complicit in white supremacist imperialism, but he "loved" the earth and played the guitar so apparently that makes him "one of the good ones".
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I don't necessarily care about interracial unions themselves, but I think often about its impact on their estate once they transition. If they weren't already owned by white people while they were alive, so-called Black cultural works become property of their white spouses.
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Idk why people criticize the "fascism is already here" argument from Black Panthers, because enslaved Africans and white revolutionaries like William Lloyd Garrison were saying the same thing in the 1800's. They just didn't use the word "fascism".
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Socialists when they realize the majority of liberals are turning to fascism instead of socialism
liberalism has fallen. you are either a fascist or a socialist now. sorry those are your options.
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Too many (some of them radicals/revolutionaries) think dissatisfaction will push people towards change. In reality, it tends to lead to despair. More than dissatisfaction, people need to believe something else is possible. Not just conceptually, but feel it in their bones.
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Kai Cenat: I'm healing myself by ending a cycle of neglect due to financial constraints. I desire togetherness. I don't allow feelings about my father to deter me from forming a relationship with my (step/half) brothers. Losers: deadbeat dads. unappreciated moms. bell hooks.
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I would go a step further: The West does NOT hate Hitler 🤷🏿.
Before there was Hitler and the holocaust, there was King Leopold of Belgium who killed millions of Congolese. The west hates Hitler because he took colonialism inward—because he was violent to white people.
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I think it's because I mainly met RICH (or wealth aspiring) Africans in undergrad, but I kinda got it when African Americans didn't like us. AfAms might've made fun of my accent and asked silly questions about Africa and said "Africans think they're better than us", but many.
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So. intersectional feminism?.
Intersectional feminism except it’s at the intersection of genocide and the prison industrial complex.
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Is it a coincidence that many of the hardcore Black women Harris supporters are part of Black sororities?.Steve Cokely got us started on understanding Black fraternities, but methinks it's long past time for us to discuss the class character of Black sororities. .
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I'm still so impressed with how quickly Palestinians shut down the "Palestinian men are oppressors even if they are oppressed" dogwhistle. The feminist collectives still did their best to project their womenandchildren discourse, but thankfully it fell flat 🙏🏿.
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People who study real Black/African history know that while the African male has been positioned as the perennial threat to Black people's success (that's not misogyny or androcentrism; just the truth), it's actually the Black "elite" who consistently sell other Black people out.
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Elite Black women have benefited from people projecting radicality on them, and now the same people are upset that these BW aren't doing shit. Why would they do anything? All it took was them breathing, and it was decided they were doing shit they weren't doing.
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This Trotsky stuff is exactly the reminder I need to never cede responsibility for any part of my learning. Several people that I respect have anywhere from positive to neutral feelings about Trotsky and Trotskyism. After reading his work for myself, I'm solidly on the negative.
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@LifeStarMedia Apparently 63% of diversity and inclusion leadership roles were occupied by White women as of 2022. .
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Okay but modern day "patriarchy" cracks me up because it's so blatantly incoherent. So, patriarchy is a system where all men dominate women regardless of race and class? Then why are BM not doing as well as WM? Matter of fact looking at this data, why are WW right below WM?.
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Let me get this straight: Curry "supporters" on Twitter make Black Male Studies unappealing, but hooks and Michele Wallace receiving money from Gloria Steinem to lie on Black men and poor Black women +sanctify white women didn't make Black feminism unappealing?.
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"get your bag, girl"-bell hooks.
Zero reason she should've had multiple mansions while the mothers of Police Brutality Victims struggle to make ends meet.
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Hers is not a "rags to riches" story: she came from money. So of course she thinks this way. She's part of a long tradition of second gens complaining that their parents used their braces money to pay school fees for relatives who didn't even "deserve" it.
“Sending money back home to your extended family is such a common African practice that I absolutely hate”. ⁃Elsa Majimbo
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Here it is:.
Came back to Twitter after a hiatus to find that people are still quoting FW to talk about Palestinian anti blackness. Just a reminder that FW based that whole part of his theory on this comment from Sameer Bishara. (Could only fit some of the text in the alt description sorry!)
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And what aspect of Black femininities do we need to unpack fully? Because the mom is right there!.Is she not a willing participant in bringing these children into the world? What's with the implicit assumption that he's driven by a patriarchal impulse, but she isn't?!!!.
This patriarchal impulse, to sire so many children, has always baffled me. And it’s an aspect of Black masculinities that we rarely stop to unpack fully, especially the sexual/erotic implications.
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PSL should turn the "Socialist Reconstruction" book into a website where they provide answers to questions or common myths ("Do socialists have a plan for housing?" or "Socialists will take away our homes"). The book is already arranged in a way that makes it pretty easy to do.
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South Korea: *experiences structural crises that impact men and women, leading to declining birth rates.*.Radlibfeminists not in South Korea: how do I make this about me? OBVIOUSLY it's connected to my idiotic movement!. Western chauvinism remains undefeated in its narcissism 😂.
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Sidestepping the people trying to pass off their ignorant liberalism as informed-but-cynical leftism: if you're a nominal leftist or an admitted liberal who sincerely wants to learn about creating a socialist society, this book from PSL is a great place to start.
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I've heard people claim that bell hooks' Ain't I a Woman makes a compelling case for black feminism, when in chapter 4 she actually called black feminists reactionaries who expressed anti-white racism. So, you'll pardon me if I don't take ANYONE'S word on ANY author.
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Once again, bell hooks and Michele Wallace will pay for their crimes. .
You don’t know your history and that’s ok. It started on the plantation babe.
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Imagine experiencing the terror of COINTELPRO in Black communities, and then after the program becomes normalized (which they term "program dissolution"), the multicultural grammarians of the social order tell everyone that YOU were the terror of the Black community. That's EVIL!.
J. Edgar Hoover said that the Black Panther Party was the "greatest threat to the internal security of the country" and did everything he could to stop it. The FBI sabotaged the party with an illegal and covert counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) of surveillance,.
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This is just one of too many examples when discourse is based on a lie. You're arguing with someone who either lacks comprehension skills, or is just a good old fashioned shitstarter, so they string words together to goad people into an argument. WAKE UP!!.
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Never forget that for at least a decade, Tommy Curry provided a principled, evidence-based critique of intersectionality and Black feminist thought. But he was excoriated by proudly uninformed, bandwagoning posers. Now that non-BM say it, ppl are pretending they always knew.
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Here's E. Franklin Frazier saying the same thing. in 1957. Since people are quoting and replying to Nina's tweet as if she's the one in her feelings. when she's the one pointing out facts.
Mfs go to white ass schools, live in white ass neighborhoods, pride themselves on being the Only™️ in every space they occupy and talk daily about not wanting too many Black people around, detest everything Black people do, but be proud “Blackity Black Black” online for likes.
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Wild that a Black Republican who works for Prager University becomes a reason to call African Americans as a group "the weakest link." Also, his father's family was/is part of the Haitian bourgeoisie. Does that make Haitians the second weakest link?.
When I say African Americans are the weakest link is an understatement cause if you did a lil bit of of research you could've seen how many of Palestinian are in open air prison, and how many of them are being tortured and raped in Israeli prison but you chose being stupid.
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Black male revolutionaries eventually broke away from Western notions of "man"/"woman" to develop their own formulations of humanism and liberation, but we're supposed to believe that the revolutionary Black feminists who still rely on "man"/"woman" are secretly doing something.
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It's not just the Central Park 5 thing, which is already bad enough. She said Black power was loyal to imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy; WW slaveowners and her Black male slaves performed domination for their white daddy (?!!?). What part screams "I love BM"?!
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Apparently Angela Rye and Kamala Harris are both members of the ultra-exclusive organization called The Links, Incorporated? I had never heard of them before today. Any investigators have intel on The Links? @DabSquad_Slank, perchance?.
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People say this, and I'm not saying Arab anti-blackness isn't real, but do y'all realize that phrase itself *in connection with Palestine* is a result of AP? It wasn't "popular" discourse to say "Arab anti-blackness is real," in connection to PALESTINIAN solidarity and/or.
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Came back to Twitter after a hiatus to find that people are still quoting FW to talk about Palestinian anti blackness. Just a reminder that FW based that whole part of his theory on this comment from Sameer Bishara. (Could only fit some of the text in the alt description sorry!)
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Now everybody and their mama claims they always knew BLMGN was fucked up, but most still haven't dealt with the fundamental issues. From the onset, how did people think it was logical, moral, and/or revolutionary to build a movement off of murdered Black men and then tell the.
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Rich Africans use Western racism to their benefit. They wouldn't have the temerity to stand in the middle of Makola and say "the poor should starve", but they say it on the internet and people are like "interesting, we should listen, because they're speaking from experience🤔".
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the academy actively discourages students from reading primary sources for the same reason churches don't like their parishioners to read the entire bible, or to inquire about their church's history: it will reveal the institution to be smoke and mirrors. in this essay i will. .
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bell hooks and other Black feminist academics said Black radical spaces didn't accept them because they wanted women's liberation and those spaces didn't. That non-BF BW rejected them because they wanted BM approval. And people didn't stop to consider that these specific BW.
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Not y'all reverse colonizing white women's stuff 😂.How is the original feminism (white feminism) no longer feminism? You joined their movement, created offshoots that are still tethered to white feminist logics, and now you're "kicking them out"? How's that work?.
@hausofriya White feminism isn't feminism. It's white supremacy held by a girl boss cosplay.
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"Capitalism resolved the contradictions of feudalism" does not mean "capitalism was an overall improvement on the feudal era". Resolving contradictions just means reducing tension at a particular point. All of this is why I'm so insistent on precise language and sensemaking.
Capitalism is worse. Kings were chosen by accident of birth. CEOs are chosen through a contest where the most inhuman psychopath wins.
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“You’re not a colleague. You’re a colonizer”: The queerphobic antiblack logics of white Gays® unmatching with me on Tinder 🥺.
Kendrick’s line, “You’re not a colleague. You’re a colonizer” will be the title of somebody’s dissertation.
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It's deeply unethical to say you're preparing learners to think critically about liberation, when you won't even read actual revolutionaries who fought for liberation. Yet you malign them in your writing. You insist the cage that you're steering people into is actual liberation.
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I stopped arguing with people about the lies of bell hooks, Michele Wallace, and everyone else who draws from their work once I realized I was allowing myself to experience disappointment from people who viewed the subjugation of Black males as mere intellectual banter.
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When you give a theorist a pass on proving their argument, simply because their argument "resonates" with something that feels axiomatic to you? That's not radical. At all. Because that's literally what hegemony does: it makes the dominant worldview seem "natural".and axiomatic!.
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Traditionally, feminist accounts do not describe women in the dominant group as holding social roles that aim to preserve patriarchal structures through racist acts specifically tied to their femininity. While white males are bioculturally situated as patriarchal and racist,.
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Western empires would've failed at colonialism if they hadn't empowered in-group women. That was probably the most brilliant thing they did, and it's why they've been able to constantly reinvent. If in-group women were as oppressed as some believe, imperialism would be DOA 🤷🏿.
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In the feminist manifesto for Palestine, they make the genocide into a womenandchildren issue; NEVER mention Palestinian men; but manage to call on "all women", which logically would include Israeli women. So I'm not convinced that they aren't compromised.
Feminism isn’t a monolith. The Palestinian Feminist Collective, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, Combahee River Collective, and many other decolonial feminist movements are anti-imperial, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial, not only anti-patriarchal.
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Given that this nation was BUILT on enslavement, how could fascism be anything other than inherent to that system?! How could it be a future possibility?!.Is it only fascism when Whites® are affected? Because even then, labor repression of the 1900's show fascist characteristics.
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bell hooks bragged about landlordism, didn't do research or provide citations, was friends with a well-known CIA spook, chose academic institutions based on her sexual attraction to people at the university, condemned the Central Park 5, and somehow "she's still right"?.
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"From slavery on many black males have chosen to avoid parenting. They breed children they have no intention of raising. Colluding with black women who have been brainwashed by patriarchal thinking, they believe fatherlove in't essential to a child’s well being." - bell hooKKKs.
@AkuaSankofa Anybody offering we real cool as a tool to understand Black men is a part time Klansman.
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You don't get to lie that Black men oppress Black women, that Black male slaves weren't raped due to "homophobia", that Black counter-violence was just yearning for white supremacist power, and we're supposed to ignore that because later on you said "women aren't so innocent!".
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The shift from "Black women's experiences are one specific location for understanding oppression" to "Black women are best positioned to understand oppression" is insidious. Because now we're having inane arguments about who's better at understanding oppression.
The interesting thing about arguing the notion that Black women possess a better epistemic advantage bc of their race & gender stands in contradiction to the foundational ideas of the scholar who originated Black feminist thought, particularly her views on Standpoint epistemology
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IMO this is a huge effect of the psychological warfare that the state engages in: not only are people dissatisfied with their lives, but they'll rip you to shreds for daring to suggest it doesn't have to be that way. Easiest way to curb the likelihood for resistance.
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It's bad enough when the Israeli settlers do it, and it's obvious they are the biggest threat. But Sameer more likely meant that as an indigenous person, it hurt to see a member of an oppressed group participate in settler violence.
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"Misandrynoir is such a silly BMS term" No BMS scholar came up with this term. THEY came up with it to dismiss racialized misandry. You're already validating their lies by defending the term. Stop letting idiots play you for a fool. Defect from their pathetic ad hominem circus.
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Notice how she talks about the Combahee River Collective. Putting aside the (glaring) inaccuracies, any honest engagement with this text that has somehow become a foundational Black feminist text should make you question the canonical stories about the field.
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@LifeStarMedia Yeahhhh if you include white men it's even worse: it's 76% for chief diversity officers and 70% for the lesser-paid diversity managers
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If "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house", how to make sense of accepting the master (white women) into movements that claim to be about dismantling?.Either you can't discern what is a master/master's tool, or you don't want to dismantle the master's house.
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Seriously though, a huge outcome of the post-structuralist turn is that everything-and I really do mean every thing-is treated as a text that can be interpreted through any lens. People, places, historical events, politics, every single thing can be whatever you want it to be.
kamala harris is not your mother, or aunt. not an embodiment of experiences of ordinary black womanhood, or the time you experienced a micro-aggression in the office. she is campaigning to be the face of empire so unless identify with that, there are no parallels to be drawn!.
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@annie_etc_ She's giving me hardcore "root for everybody Black"/ girlboss/"Black capitalism is Black liberation" vibes lol.
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"Race is the modality in which class is experienced" but when you say "class is the modality in which race is experienced", Black elites get mad lol.
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For race and gender theorists, the suffering and death of the Black male are not condemned as deprivations of his humanity-his very life-but weighed against other identity politics and often interpreted as a distraction from other subjects. This routinely leads to. .
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@NobleQAli Yup, that's exactly it.
Came back to Twitter after a hiatus to find that people are still quoting FW to talk about Palestinian anti blackness. Just a reminder that FW based that whole part of his theory on this comment from Sameer Bishara. (Could only fit some of the text in the alt description sorry!)
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I'm SOOOOO proud of myself for understanding gendered violence and valuing gender liberation WITHOUT relying on white woman theories 🤗It really is a flex 💅🏿.
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Very misogynistic of you to ignore the fact that these white women are being forced to vote against their interests🥺. Black men may not be in this photo, but the white men definitely left this event to high five Black men and say "men won!".
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Intersectionality has been a liberal project from the start. But supporters redefined it to make it "radical" and now they're mad at the progenitor of a liberal theory, that they've decided is radical, for not acting like a radical, even though she's always been liberal.
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IDK Spivak, but what do y'all expect from Crenshaw? Her work involves arguing for basic legal reforms, and critiquing people who point out that civil rights wasn't radical. She's worked on Warren's campaign, hangs out with Clinton. Y'all are just playing yourselves 😂.
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You're literally telling people what to think, and positioning divergence from your made up ideas to be "overthinking".
truly don’t overthink this. it’s because:. - she’s a woman.- she’s a black woman.
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From Wynter, Sylvia. “‘No Humans Involved’: A Letter to My Colleagues.”
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If we accept that "Thing A is especially threatening to a system," and we're agreeing that the system should be demolished, what would be the most logical thing that I could do to start demolishing the system: Thing A that threatens the system, or literally anything else?.
It depends on their argument. You claimed she sees interracial marriage as a pathway to freedom, but she never said that. You’re treating her argument as if it supports that idea, even though you’ve stretched one piece of evidence to fit your interpretation and haven’t produced.
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This is definitionally impossible, since you're an incel!.
Gonna officially be a married man in about 6 hours 😬.
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In conclusion: Wilderson's own recollection of the event doesn't support the assertion of Palestinian anti blackness. Soooooooooo for y'all who are invoking unfounded shit to back your equivocation about Palestinian counter violence: find some other evidence.
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The nonviolent turn laundered Black Rage into a cheek-turning supplication for entry into white spaces. Whites then assassinated leaders and found new ways to re-entrench white supremacy. "In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The US has none.".
Since this topic is creating a lot of discussion now: one example of this extreme discipline is what Black orgs in the 60s called "tolerance trainings." They'd train protesters through simulations of racist harassment until they developed the self-control not to react violently.
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At this point, I've read 8.5 bell hooks texts (currently working on reel to real). As a not-fan, I respect her more than her many stans. The most respectful thing you can do for a scholar is to read their work. Idolatry, pedestaling, and uninformed defensiveness is not respect 🤷🏿.
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Nahhhhhh this is wickeeeeed 😭.Even the pigs look embarrassed 💀🤣.
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Writing a feminist manifesto in support of Palestinian people where you talk about womenandchildren as the main ones harmed (especially when it would be just as accurate to say "men and children are the main ones harmed) reveals the limits of your politics.
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BFs saw people discussing a few of the deaths of poor BM and deemed it intersectional invisibility of BW BLM used a queer BF lens to scam niggas. And that didn't turn you off BF? But a BM calling someone an idiot on here is why BMS isn't worth reading?.
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He looks 32?!! 😭
why did i think Hunter Biden was 32 he is 54??? wow he looks great. that was crack?.
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If white women are the primary beneficiaries of even policies aimed at “marginalized” people (thinking about affirmative action here), at a dire cost to colonized people of any gender, perhaps the discursive suturing of white women’s interests to that of colonized peoples,.
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Someone is currently penning an article titled "Deadbeat Black fathers and unappreciated Black mothers: what bell hooks can teach Kai Cenat about the captive maternal, intersectional in/visibility, and Black patriarchy"
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It's due to race? Okay. Still though, if it's all men shouldn't the data show WM ➡️ BM ➡️WW ➡️ BW? Since it's not that, wouldn't that mean that WW can oppress BM by race and gender*? What do you mean that we should reject positivism? I'm just trying to reconcile what you said.
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And it doesn't even have to be "overthrow the system" type shit. "Negotiate as much as possible-housing, salaries, work, relationships"."How dare you suggest that? Do you realize the other party could withdraw their offer if I did that?!".People want high rewards with zero risk.
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