No matter what the predator class tells you, lets make something very clear:
Universal health care is not extremist
A living wage is not extremist
Affordable housing is not extremist
Basic human rights is not extremist
Equality for ALL is not extremist
Afropessimism main framework is that Anti Blackness is the foundation of the modern and ALL forms of discrimination the modern world that white supremacy has built derives from it and is interlinked with Anti Blackness .
For the world to change it must be destroyed (1/2)
We should all be extremely uncomfortable and even horrified when we see homeless people stripped of all their dignity, actually. We should be so uncomfortable that we do whatever we can to help, so horrified that we demand change.
Homelessness should make you uncomfortable, not because someone you don’t know is making you uncomfortable on a train for 20 minutes, but because we exist in a society that is so willing to let people suffer without any support system day after day until they die.
Talking about antiblackness online and seeing the way other white people talk to you when they assume they’re talking to a black person is so, so horrifying. You will never experience more harassment, vitriol, and cruelty. That’s what our black peers experience on a daily basis.
It's easier to blame Mexican corruption than to admit every cartel is armed with American guns, funded with American dollars, & fueled by American addiction.
some of y'all losing focus of the issues at hand and resorting to harassment by displaying prevalent examples of why we are addressing said issues isn't shocking and only strengthens our cause
silence is complicity. observing the state of the world and/or your community and thinking these issues do not impact you is cowardly. even if it does not impact you, it does not stop being an issue for others AND it will impact you eventually.
within fan spaces (and as a tenet of capitalism), the artist/celebrity figure is oftentimes placed on a pedestal for their work, message, and beliefs. while i understand it is unfair to expect so much of a figure, it is not cruel or patronizing to connect with celebs on +
conflated with either a liberal or conservative understanding of the world when in reality they are all rooted in oppression. the aggressive backlash towards fans wanting to know where artists stand only fosters more harm and distance between the community, incl. the artist. +