Aby & the Axolotls ꒰(˶• ᴗ •˶)꒱
Diesel@aby
We would go a lot farther finding allies where they are and by building broad coalitions even if that means sacrifice and compromise; race and phobias are the poisons they feed the rest of us to keep us at each other's throats.
@dieselleech - I have a thread in my featured posts about why allies are bullshit. Let me know if you can't find it and I'll link.
@aby
I'll look for that...I've certainly had bullshit allies.
I'll look for that...I've certainly had bullshit allies.
karizma🏳️⚧️@aby @dieselleech on mobile and too dumb if featured is available on it. Ill find it when Im around a computer next or if you link it
Interested
aby - is gay, does crimes (@[email protected])
Stop calling yourself an "ally" - we don't need allies. 🧵
TofuTheSquirrel@aby damn. I see the point, but the only white people that see themselves as part of a "white community" are the white supremacists. The rest of us have no idea how to do a thing "as white people". (Not really an objection, just thinking out loud)
@TofuTheSquirrel - I disagree.
White people benefit from white supremacy and systemic racism, whether they "see themselves as part of the community" or not.
Except for the miniscule number who ACTIVELY work to dismantle whiteness, white people are super comfortable leaning into that safety and benefit from it when it suits them - even of its unthinkingly done, it's still being done.
To paraphrase Angela Davis, "it isn't enough to simply not be racist, we have to become ANTI racist."
Being individually oblivious to systemic racism isn't an excuse for benefiting from it.
It's 2023, it's not like this shit is a surprise anymore - I'd argue that no white person can honestly say they didn't know whiteness existed.
petitevieilleI'm afraid we'll have to wait a long time before we get rid of white supremacism. As long as they will consider there is a « white community » instead of or before the human community, assholes will remain assholes. Fuck them.
Since then, I'm glad to shit where they eat with my melted-blood children.
(Pardon my french)
Holger Fiallo@HolgerFiallo - I'm not interested in pitying racists and white supremacists. They can all die in a fire.
@aby OK. Is your view. I learned when you start to hate others you become like them. Hate leads to hate. I do not even give those people space in my head. I have better things to do with my mind such as think of Bella the cat.
@HolgerFiallo - fighting against racism isn't hate, it's love.
Hate is pitying racists and letting them continue without consequences for their violence.
@aby Fighting against it is not. Agree. There are many people who do so and do not hate them. Probably feel sorry for them and for their ilogic and how they were rase by their family. You can fight and protest but not hate. Many ways to do so. Out them in their neighborhood, jobs, and friends. March holding their picts and showing the world those who hate.
@HolgerFiallo - I'd prefer to hate racists. Fuck them, I hope they die.
@aby Your right. Make sure you do not become like them. Long life and prosper. Be safe.
@HolgerFiallo - hating racists and being anti-racist isn't going to make me a racist in the same way that antifreeze doesn't become "freeze".
@aby FYI. When you meet some of those, tell them that is more likely that they might have Neanderthal DNA. The only pure humans are in Sahara South Africa. They do not have any DNA from any other species. East Asia and Easter Europe. Most people have DNA from others.
@HolgerFiallo - no thanks. I'm not interested in pushing rhetoric that falls into the idea that there are genetic differences underlying race. It comes to close to the "scientific darwinism" rubbish that was used to steal land and justify slavery.