myrmepropagandistAug 16, 2023

If the idea of violent protests don't make you at least little scared I wonder how well you know history. At the same time, real change almost never happens without people putting their bodies on the line.

The right understands this far better than your average liberal/moderate. To be a moderate is to trust that existing systems will (mostly) work.

If those systems fail? What then? To even consider this is moderate treason.

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Mattie Lubchansky

Mattie Lubchansky is the Associate Editor of the Nib and a cartoonist and illustrator living in Queens, NY. Their work has appeared in New York Magazine, VICE, Eater, Mad Magazine, Gothamist, The Toast, The Hairpin, Brooklyn Magazine, and their long-running webcomic Please Listen to Me. They are the co-author of Dad Magazine (Quirk, 2016) and the author of the Antifa Supersoldier Cookbook (Silver Sprocket, 2021).

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Show threadNick's worldAug 16, 2023
@futurebird Yeah, but how will it be? What, are people going to shoot up government buildings? Are we going to have another uni-bomber? Seriously. If people get armed and start protesting, its going to be a world of pain for normal folks just trying to live their lives peacefully. This will not go over well and the government will arrest those who cause discord in a violent manner. It's not the 1800's. It's 2023. We don't have to turn into savages to prove a point plus, in racial riots specifically, Black people don't attack other communities, they destroy their own first. It's happened so many times where people will loot Black-owned stores and businesses and start setting their own people on fire and for what, to prove a point? It just doesn't make sense. Sure, you get news coverage and then what, it just means people will fight against you, not work with you politically. I believe in the Dr. King way of doing things. Violence never solves problems.
Show threadmyrmepropagandist

@gocu54

" In racial riots specifically, Black people don't attack other communities, they destroy their own first "

Only if you have a remarkably short memory of what a "race riot" in the US even is.

Race riots have for most of our history been primarily about attacking communities.

Not just property damage or petty theft. It's remarkable that the actions of a few dozen black teens breaking windows have totally obscured what the words "race riot" once meant.

Aug 16, 2023 at 11:59amWeb
Show threadAlistair DavidsonAug 16, 2023
@futurebird @gocu54 as a foreigner it took me years of hearing "race riot" in American media before I realised it meant "pogrom"
Show threadRachel RawlingsAug 16, 2023
@futurebird @gocu54 I learned the term as a kid in the 70s hearing about the North Philadelphia, Watts, Detroit, etc. riots in the 1960s. It wasn't until much, MUCH later that I learned about Rosewood, Wilmington, and Tulsa. History was being refocused before we were born.
Show threadCallalily@tootcat💙💛😺Aug 16, 2023
@futurebird @gocu54
I remember the 67 Detroit riot, I was just a kid. Our family lived in the projects. I read it was caused by a raid on a blind pig bar by the police.
Show threadChris RealAug 16, 2023

@futurebird @gocu54 I was a child during the '67 riot in Detroit. I remember a local being interviewed who said they burned down their neighborhood because they DIDN'T own it—the major businesses were owned by white people who lived in the suburbs.

The city was prosperous, but the black community was only making money from illegal businesses like 'after-hours' clubs (called 'blind pigs' because the cops would look the other way if they were paid off).

When the cops raided one anyway, the frustration created a nothing-to-lose despair to many.

"They destroy their own" is a myth created by white racists.

Show threadTigerfortAug 16, 2023

@futurebird @gocu54

It's almost as though there's a huge media machine pushing the false version of the narrative, with the active support of white supremacists and the passive acquiescence of centrists who don't want to admit there's a systematic problem that benefits them.
Still, I'm sure there's no way our entire media ecosystem could have been co-opted by a handful of fascist billionaires, right?

[Checks news ownership]
Oh. Oh no...

Show threadBen RosengartAug 17, 2023
@futurebird @gocu54 most race riots are done by white people
Show threadBen RosengartAug 17, 2023
@futurebird @gocu54 (I know you know this and don’t mean to imply otherwise)