Jews are not Israel. Israel is an expansionist government committing genocide. There are people both Jewish and not in the country who dont support this. I see too many people backsliding into open anti semitism. And I say backsliding because the way it happens is similar to how people can’t just focus on what’s wrong with Trump and republicans, they have to call them fat, probably self hating queer, etc. Its an ‘ends justify the means’ mentality I think. But the ends never justify the means and part of that is how you go from overly focusing on one form of Zionism (the right wing Christian version that supports reactionary movements in Israel and strife everywhere) to saying all Zionism (even though some forms are merely about permanent safe space for Jewish people) to then saying certain kinds of Jews are the problem to then saying shit like they deserve to be attacked by Hamas and we can’t let a Jewish man be Vice President. Some of y’all were always this but some of y’all are too committed to ends justify the means, here’s a villain I’m allowed to do anything to and your old self would be appalled at what you’re saying and doing now. And some of it is based on whataboutism.
“Well, what about all these Jewish people here who refer to Israel as a Jewish state and say supporting Palestine is antisemitism? They say criticism of Israel is anti semitic!” Yeah, some people suck, but the way they suck is immaterial to your own bigotry. Your example is just someone who is wrong, and your response is to denigrate a whole demographic of people? A whole ass group just for the sins of a few people? Sounds kind of like the bullshit line the Israeli government is trotting out to justify what they wanted to do anyway.
The fuck man
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The tags on my whiteness post said to me that white people (at least those that are racially aware) and colonized natives perhaps have more in common than most people think. Or at least more than they talk about it in public.
Not that they're the same. Misogyny and transphobia are not the same, but they are both veins of oppression in a patriarchy. Similar.
In the same way, that empty hollowness white ppl feel where your culture should be is not unlike what I feel as a native, from what I've read of your accounts. Learning your ancestors chose whiteness and safety and comfort over culture and identity. That now you have nothing because of the colonization and assimilation your grandparents experienced when they got to the USA. Because of whiteness. Because of the power it has even just as a concept in the US.
We experience these for much different reasons and at least your loss bought you privilege.
... but they aren't total opposites either. A hollowness where you know rich history used to be? Having culture but feeling a disconnect where you know More used to be? Feeling like you only have scraps of the culture your family used to have? Clinging to what you can get your hands on? Feeling like it's so detached that it's not really yours?
I get that and I bet I'm not the only one.
The USA's habit for white supremacy, racism, and colonization hurt all of us.
And it will benefit all of us to discard the systems those things built. They're still there and still hurting every one of us.
We can build a future that benefits us all instead as soon as we all start working on that together.
But we can't do that if some of us refuse to admit the system is what's hurting us. If we refuse to acknowledge that even with perfect politicians our Systems would still prevent progress because they are built on outdated and white supremacist ideals we'll just continue to suffer together under those systems instead.
We can't keep attacking each other just because some of us refuse to look at the ideologies fueling our current reality.
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there is a specific type of politics that i find a lot among artists of colour of my generation living in the west where we talk a lot about war and empire and racism and it's a lot of like decolonization buzzwords and talking about "embodied approaches to collaboration and knowledge production" and bringing science and ecology and historic cultural practices into our art and there is this heavy emphasis on the mutual aid instagram infographics thing and it constantly feels Iike everyone around me is dancing around an understanding that is just outside of their grasp and i think its because everyone is afraid of marxism in an explicit sense, rather than just the vague defanged "leftist" sense, which isn't a coherent ideology at all nor an actual Foundation of tools through which we can seek to understand the world. the scientific method for understanding economics is dialectical materialism, and to truly understand how capitalism and colonialism and patriarchy function you need to be willing to learn materialist analysis. like to actually understand What imperialism is and how it differs from colonialism, the actual material function(s) of capitalism and Why things are the way they are, to see with clear eyes the roles of racism and homophobia and transphobia and ableism, and to write and make art about it in the way I think many people desire to, where you are not dancing around an understanding of the realities of the world but actually biting through the meat of it, you need to understand materialism, you need to understand that imperialism is not the same thing as colonialism it is the highest stage of capitalism, and really dig into that. otherwise my peers will just keep dancing in circles and saying things that not only do not reflect reality but actively benefit the systems that harm us as well as the billions of our people who do not live in the west, and all the jargon like "we are decolonizing our mindsets with multidisciplinary ecologies" or whatever will never actually like... have the impact that is desired because it's not touching the face of reality idk how else to say it. like what are we doing here lol
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also while im on my little politics hill reminder that left wing propaganda exists just like right wing propaganda does. that doesn’t mean you need to question everything uou believe in, but just a reminder that when you take everything you hear in your mutuals/friends group online or otherwise as true without fact checking, you are immersing yourself into an echo chamber which is really easy to manipulate becuase no one wants to be the one person standing up to something (even if everyone is thinking it). you should be able to discuss ideas freely to come to the best conclusions and you should always fact check! :D
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