Leftists must stop building their #identity around being Leftists.

Identity is primary to the human experience and will always be protected. If 'the revolution' or whatever society you advocate for were to occur that identity would be obliterated because Leftists largely understand themselves in relation to #Capitalism ie the dominant mode. As such they will take any and all action required protect that identity.

This particularly applies to whites because their identity is generally speaking far more fragmented than those who have cultural, community based, or ancestral identities and mythologies (ie collective stories) to reinforce other aspects of their identity.

#Politics #Leftism #Myth #Whiteness

@chargrille glad it is finally publicly disintegrating. Something has always disturbed me about this festival and one way to put it would be its #whiteness, a caricature of it, i.e. aggrandising tendencies, entitlement, ambitions of cultural norming when all they do is rehash very tired and narrow tropes. I suppose this is a great shadow example of why #climateaction and #climatejustice are the same fight.

Because I'm focused on hopefully reversing my #diabetes (got my #A1C down to 6), I have severely restricted my #alcohol intake and still haven't tried #BlackGirlMagic #wines I've seen.

Given the blinding #whiteness of the #industry, globally and in the #US, I definitely plan to add their delicious-sounding #SauvignonBlanc and #CabernetMerlot blend to my list of selections when I do buy and drink bottles again (I don't "collect").

https://www.foodandwine.com/mcbride-sisters-wine-7852999

#NBA
The way these #ESPN pundits on #thehoopcollective
#hoopcollective are salivating over #AustinReaves is about as uncomfortable as it is to watch them sneering about how much other players earn and how they'd be able to thrilled to earn as much.

Troubling levels of #Whiteness

My newest post on Pop Culture Library Review has been published! It's titled "Examining White male librarians and their power: leaders and peons in fiction" https://popculturelibraries.wordpress.com/2023/08/29/examining-white-male-librarians-and-their-power-leaders-and-peons-in-fiction/ #librarians #libraries #fiction #popculture #whiteness #white #whitemen #libraryleaders

My newest post on Pop Culture Library Review is out, entitled "White womanhood and depictions of librarianship in fiction" https://popculturelibraries.wordpress.com/2023/08/23/white-womanhood-and-depictions-of-librarianship-in-fiction/ #librarians #libraries #fiction #popculture #whiteness #white #whitewomen

The whiteness of Google search results. #111Words #Google #InternetSearch #Anki #LearningSpanish #Flashcards #Whiteness #Bias https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-whiteness-of-google-search-results.html

#Colonialism is so unbelievably absurd: During #WorldWar1 #British and #German forces cooperated during an anti-colonial uprising in #Nyasaland / #Malawi lead by #JohnChilembwe , because "Germans and British are #white men first".

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IkxGkylviZo
#Germany #UnitedKingdom #Britain #whiteness #racism #history

Having shaken off nationalism, Europe risks civilisationalism.

It is possible to be black and Dutch, or for a person of Moroccan descent to be unequivocally French. But is it possible to be non-white and to think of oneself as “European”?

Might eight decades of EU integration accidentally foment a form of ugly, pan-continental bigotry?

A new book decries the continent’s subtler form of chauvinism.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/17/having-shaken-off-nationalism-europe-risks-civilisationalism

#Europe #Identity #Chauvinism #Ethnicity #Whiteness

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/08/18/the-tribes-of-white-america/
When you're a descendant of white settlers on other peoples' land, as a lot of us Americans are, how do you think of yourself? This is not a do-over for Western Europe and we're not Europeans. So just who the hell are we? I think that's the heart of a lot of our problems. Identity. If we could just start from the position that we're all human beings, that would be a good start.
#America, #Humanity, #mushrooms, #NewsOfTheWorld, #TomHanks, #Tribalism, #Tribes, #Whiteness

“He said, ‘I thought I was dying in the cell last night’. He said ‘I couldn’t move’,”

She said the arrest was so violent it could have broken a bone when the young man was thrown to the ground. She claimed an ambulance was not called despite his seizures.

In May a NSW police officer was found guilty of assaulting a 16-year-old Indigenous boy in inner Sydney in 2020, when he threw the boy to the ground using a similar leg sweep manoeuvre.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/18/aboriginal-18-year-old-with-disability-thrown-to-ground-during-nsw-police-arrest-while-having-seizure?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #SovereigntyNeverCeded

Would quote more, but word limit.
“#whiteness gives us access to everything but oppression. That’s the only thing we can’t colonize. So, what do we do? We turn #oppression into social currency.” They comment on the obsession w/ “uniqueness” the internet has; white people get “extra points” for belonging to identities that are #marginalized like queer, trans, #neurodivergent. A lot of white folks are blind to their white #privilege"
@audhd @socialwork @autisticadvocacy
https://www.autostraddle.com/autism-is-not-a-trend-but-there-are-problems-with-how-its-discussed-online/

Tbh a lot of the criticism about Rachel Zegler's interview comments being smug and inappropriate just feel grounded in misogynistic racism and "why is that non-white person having An Opinion?!"

Like she's said that the original Snow White movie was problematic about consent (it was)

She's said that the original Snow White movie was scary for a child to watch (it was)

She's said that they've rewritten her character so she's not some love obsessed girl, but is motivated by being a fair and good leader (which is a better story to tell)

She's said that she (and all people who worked on it) deserve to be paid when the film is shown on streaming services (they do)

#SnowWhite #Disney #Streaming #WGAStrike #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness

#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness

"Herman and I called it an “antirape squad.” We set up guidelines for the other prisoners who wanted to stand with us: Work in pairs; never alone. Use violence only as a last resort. Every Thursday on fresh fish day we armed ourselves and went down the walk, introduced ourselves to the new prisoners, and told them they were now under the protection of the Black Panther Party. We escorted them to whatever dormitory they were assigned to and we explained the type of games that a prisoner played to sexually assault or rape another prisoner, or coerce him into becoming a sex slave. “Don’t borrow anything,” we told them. “Don’t take anything that’s offered, don’t ask for favors, don’t accept favors. If you do you are opening yourselves up to being in debt to sexual predators.” We told them if they needed anything to come to us. We’d help them find what they needed—whether soap, toothpaste, deodorant, or “zuzus,” the term we used for snacks like potato chips and candy. If we came upon anyone threatening another prisoner with rape we stopped it. Sometimes all it took was to say something—“Brother, leave that, go ahead on” or “This ain’t gonna happen”—and that would be enough. Other times we had to fight. We put the word out that if you messed with someone under our protection you had to deal with the Black Panther Party. As the presence of the party grew on the walk we knew the prisoner “shot callers”—those who had profitable gambling, drug, and prostitution businesses within the prison—were watching us. I never had a direct confrontation with any of them, but we always traveled in groups of two or three. That wouldn’t protect us from being attacked but it made us feel better.
Wherever we were, in the dorm, at our jobs, on the chow line, on the walk, Herman and I talked about the Black Panther Party. Some guys would make remarks to me like, “Damn, man, that’s all you talk about, the Panthers.” I didn’t deny it. For me it was always the Panthers. Our list of enemies was long. It wasn’t just the prisoner pimps and drug dealers, both white and black, who hated us. Snitches gravitated to us too, trying to get information they could sell. Security officers overheard us. We knew we were a threat to the status quo. I got scared of being killed sometimes. But I believed what I was struggling for was more important than me. It never occurred to me to stop what we were doing."

-- Albert Woodfox
Former Angola 3 political prisoner
from Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope

This solidarity is the reason the Louisiana prison authorities tortured the Angola 3 political prisoners -- Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace, and Robert King -- in solitary confinement for over 40 years.

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #anarchism #activism #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition

“The purpose of the chief repressive institutions within the totalitarian capitalist state is clearly to discourage and prohibit certain activity, and the prohibitions are aimed at very distinctly defined sectors of the class–and race–sensitized society. The ultimate expression of law is not order–it’s prison. There are hundreds upon hundreds of prisons, and thousands upon thousands of laws, yet there is no social order, no social peace. Anglo-Saxon bourgeois law is tied firmly into economics. One can even pick that out of those Vital Statistics. Bourgeois law protects property relations and not social relationships. The cultural traits of capitalist society that also tend to check activity–(individualism, artificial politeness juxtaposed to an aloof rudeness, the rush to learn 'how to' instead of 'what is')–are secondary really, and intended for those mild cases (and groups) that require preventive measures only. The law and everything that interlocks with it was constructed for poor, desperate people like me.”

--George Jackson, Blood In My Eyes

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #anarchism #activism #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #FuckCapitalism

@dynamic

It is curious to me that someone concerned with '#inclusion' and the importance of the interaction "with.. minorities" should be so averse to accounting for their language and the thinking it reflects.

You stated that I have "strong opinions", for having interrogated your language but what I am picking up on is a sense of confused opinions, or political positions, in relation to the spirit and the topic of your original post.

#whiteness

White folks really need to start developing a better understanding of what enacting whiteness looks like and how inseparable it is from them regardless of their actions so long as institutions of #racialization exist ie the pigs, landlords, etc.

Short of that your radicalism is liberalism.

More to the point, saviorism is an enactment of #whiteness not a challenge to whiteness.

"I am the granddaughter of the witches you couldn't burn"

She says in response to a native woman pleading with her to stop appropriating our sacred medicines

"Haters mean I'm doing something right"

She says in response to a black woman telling her that not all magic belongs to her, that she can't understand the suffering that makes this power, that she can't access the wisdom that comes from this pain

She spiritually bypasses her work again and again

She takes and she takes

She shows no remorse

She wants their #blackgirlmagic
She wants their soft brown skin
She wants to drink in the honey suckle from their hands
She wants to know the lines of their grandmother's palms
She claims "womanhood"
She denies the ambient being, the energies inside us that batter back and forth
Not male, not female
She calls it "social justice warrior shit"
Ignores that the Cree were here before her

She is not the granddaughter of the witches they couldn't burn
She is the granddaughter of the man who lit the fucking match

Who pillaged our villages, stole our sisters, destroyed our lands

Stripped us of our land rights
Stripped us of our names
Residential schools and slavery
Shoving us into their modern European binaries-
One built on the backs of the stomped out earth religions of the Celts, and the little people who pebbled the frozen coasts

She is the jailer
The bounty hunter
The one who demanded the Chinese build her railroad

She created these borders
She divided us
She forgot we are still here

And she dares to teach about the magic of creation

When all she knows is how to destroy

Bite your tongue, witch
The earth remembers
And so do I

- Ally Lopez

Tip Ally for all their hardwork!: $allyjayne98

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #anarchism #activism #Karen

Never forget which side the cops are on.

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #anarchism #activism #AbolishPolice #AusPol #FuckNazis