Violence is not limited to the use of weapons. Violence is denying people healthcare. Violence is poverty in a country where there is abundance. Violence is making profit from the most basic human needs. Violence is becoming a millionaire through looting, and expecting no consequences.
the way we're socialized to see violence only as interpersonal—not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same w/ panics about ~shoplifting~ vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us
Reminder that the U.S. is not a peace broker but an active participant in the genocide in Gaza & war against Lebanon. They are an aggressor and they have always been an aggressor, especially against the Palestinian people.
ppl like to ask the question "what radicalized you?", but imo it's never a stationary concept. ppl slip from radical thought & action into liberalism all the time, consciously or unconsciously. to me it's a constant process of analysis. you don't just sharpen a knife once.
Harris campaigned w Liz fucking Cheney, on having most lethal military in the world, on building the wall, on big biz and fossil fuels. And yet centrists are trying to gaslight us into believing that it was woke that destroyed her candidacy god they truly want to drive us insane.
The yt people that think this is cringe do so bc they can’t fathom that this isn’t a performance but an actual communication. They find it hard to understand bc they’ve opted to destroy their own cultures in favour of homogeneous supremacy. Power to oppress but no identity
My unpopular opinion is that folk at the imperial core who are newly learning about anticolonial struggles need to pause their imperial views stated with loud imperial hubris because work of learning is done in silence and must be done in humility
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In a broad stroke: Black (electoral) politics, at least the most visible form of it, has been subsumed and assimilated. Its radical nature has been replaced w respectability. But Native & Indigenous politics have not & are great guides for fighting colonialism & corporatism.
the way people talk about palestinians as if they’re just a point to prove and not real people is really so heartbreaking.. you guys truly do not see them as people