The encampment will be telestreamed (at least until Google pulls it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkABIJZJXmk
Anyone know enough about #Owncast to provide technical aid to #StudentSpring?
#Palestine #BDS #BorderWall #colonialism #liberation #LandBack
Counter-protesters singing star spangled banner to drown out anti-genocide protest.
Tellin' on y'rselves, there.
First estate, that opiate that is the #KayfabePanto, relies on settler colonialism in Palestine to tamp down antisemitism at home. There's a strong association between antisemitism and Islamophobia, both of which tend to be commonly associated with jingoism. Western policy, really since Balfour, has leveraged the latter to check the first of the former, by leaning into the second. "Were there not an Israel the United States would have to invent an Israel." Corporate interests are ancillary.
Can't speak for other than myself, but anyone with courage enough to mask is my ally. Viva les masques respiratoires! #StudentSpring #anarchism
amazing how much the world has changed
feel like this is actually a more accurate assessment
the revolution will not be televised could not predict the internet and lowered cost of self-broadcasting but it was able to predict that the revolution will be demonetized and thus suppressed in the algorithm and made impossible to search for
thank goodness we're not modernists
spending all this time examining my actions under the framework of post-post-structuralism has helped me realize that perhaps my time would have been better spent pursuing direct action
Theory without action is to side with the oppressor.
Action without theory is to invite the oppressor inside.
and trying to seek the happy medium in yourself, rather than in solidarity, is to fail to identify the oppressor entirely
Narcissus contemplating a puddle.
makes me think about the issue of trans men and complicity
being told you're narcissus and to seek your answers in the puddle
i'm sure you are familiar with the phenomenon of weaponizing white guilt and the concept of privilege to convince white folks that taking certain actions is anti-racist
but those actions are in fact, subjugation of another group
yes?
[intermediary]
Trans men are often fed a narrative that because "men" are a privileged group they gain male privilege by transitioning. And so they need to be careful not to abuse that privilege.
For white trans men especially, this very often results in an unhealthy level of constant self-checking.
It's built on a faulty premise, but especially when you've been at risk and subject to male violence, very easy to believe.
But because the guilt and privilege being weaponized here is actually an axis of marginalization, it is harder for trans men to reject it due to a lack of power and support.
So trans men, especially white trans men, are more likely to engage in this type of complicit behavior. Sometimes this is done directly, calling on internalized transphobia and the unhealthy narratives directly. Sometimes it's sought out as self-harm, in a misguided attempt of penance.
saw a lot of it when online trans spaces in the 2010s were TIRF-heavy
grand narratives are powerful because they appeal to our desire to make patterns
wanting to be male is the ultimate narcissm. if you are looking for the answer to the problems of the world, go look in a puddle.
like most things that are powerful, they reinforce the status quo
@[email protected] "Two leftists, three opinions," or sumfin. The goal, at least as far as lumpentheory is concerned, is to avoid rendering everyone to be angry at as one big something. For reasons both existentialist & accountabilitist, must ward against any elision of kyriarchy, of tensegrity, into mere trope—phantasm as empty vessel, waiting for any sundry reactionary fool to fill it. Lest we let the skeleton of language articulate us, rather than the other way round. Thank you for the discussion.
apropos re TIRF, meet TERD:
https://union.place/@inquiline/112469719694082482
Dogmatism. Penance. Yep.
Just typo'ed TERF as TERD and might keep this as they're not feminists anyway What's this linguistic formation, tho. Acronymic spoonerism-ish, tho not that (The reason I made this typo was making a note on this acct before hitting block, as they just replied to me. A spin thru posts is all RW conspiracy stuff https://mastodon.staycuriousANDkeepsmil.in/@DavidKnestrick/112469688114339131)
I have expressed in the past a serious discomfort with rejecting that TERFs are feminists.
They are not intersectional feminists, but we fixate on second-wave feminists and retroactively revoke their membership in a way we rarely do for first-wave feminists. Despite first-wave feminists having all the same issues as second-wave feminists and more.
People will point out these issues, but they do not revoke their feminist card.
This is dangerous because failing to remember that there are many feminisms keeps us from remembering that not everyone who supports a cause is my ally.
Not all feminisms are good. We must remember this, if we want liberation for all.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
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