Concerning VIolence
Decolonizer
As you've all probably sensed more acutely this election cyce, it feels as though black people or non-whites have been enticed to have solidarity and sympathy with working class cacs just because they're working class.
A lot of this "we're in the same boat" mindframe where people genuinely believe class trumps absolutely everything and that solving class is the solution to strife. All their racism and typical cac antics are negated and justified because they're so "poor" and "victimized just like black folks" and don't know any better. A lot of trivial nuancing between "uneducated" and "educated" whites as if those qualifiers make any difference. This past election just emphazied a lot of that but it's not new at all.
A lot of is cac propaganda but I know there are black people that are fall under the spell of that intersectional working class rhetoric. A lot of politically minded people veer to this same general belief. Doesn't matter if they're liberal, progressive, libertarian, conservative, etc. That class is the root of all sociopolitical conflict.
Even examples of folks like Black Panthers believed in this naive notion back in their time. Coalitions/solidarity/intersectionality appear to be a big realm of action activists and political people like to call for.
But I'm curious as to why is it important for different groups of people that have different plans of getting to their goals, have to form together under the same banner for this one goal, outside of this optimistic notion of human altruism and "we are the world" senimentality, and an arrogant, stubborn belief that love is going to trump hate or some silly notion such as that.
Infact I think a lot of this just stems from the concept and magnified studying of classism itself and how people -- very simplistically and one-note -- intensively perceive class to be this totality that just washes away any other body of life.
So what says you?
A lot of this "we're in the same boat" mindframe where people genuinely believe class trumps absolutely everything and that solving class is the solution to strife. All their racism and typical cac antics are negated and justified because they're so "poor" and "victimized just like black folks" and don't know any better. A lot of trivial nuancing between "uneducated" and "educated" whites as if those qualifiers make any difference. This past election just emphazied a lot of that but it's not new at all.
A lot of is cac propaganda but I know there are black people that are fall under the spell of that intersectional working class rhetoric. A lot of politically minded people veer to this same general belief. Doesn't matter if they're liberal, progressive, libertarian, conservative, etc. That class is the root of all sociopolitical conflict.
Even examples of folks like Black Panthers believed in this naive notion back in their time. Coalitions/solidarity/intersectionality appear to be a big realm of action activists and political people like to call for.
But I'm curious as to why is it important for different groups of people that have different plans of getting to their goals, have to form together under the same banner for this one goal, outside of this optimistic notion of human altruism and "we are the world" senimentality, and an arrogant, stubborn belief that love is going to trump hate or some silly notion such as that.
Infact I think a lot of this just stems from the concept and magnified studying of classism itself and how people -- very simplistically and one-note -- intensively perceive class to be this totality that just washes away any other body of life.
So what says you?
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