your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
HEY! ANTIFA!
HEY! COMMUNISTS!
HEY! SOCIALISTS!
HEY! RADICALS!
let's celebrate these electoral wins that look small to some of y'all, if not completely antithetical to your definition of radicalism.
why?
HARM REDUCTION IS POLITICAL WARFARE.
because it is a BFD for us, the targets of racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic harm.
self-care —from the privacy of health care to the public sphere of voting— is an act of political warfare
so celebrate today's #electionday wins
nev
@blogdiva as I saw someone say a long time ago, voting isn't "choose your player", it's "choose your opponent"
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
and let me say it with the chest,
🗣️ 📣 CARING FOR MYSELF IS NOT SELF-INDULGENCE, IT IS SELF-PRESERVATION AND THAT IS AN ACT OF POLITICAL WARFARE.
—Audré Lorde, "A Ray Of Light" (aka "The Cancer Diaries")
DieMadColonizer
AnthonyJK-Admin
Yes, rolling back GOP fascists is very good.
But, unless Democrats realize that self-care means more than just individual "harm prevention" but also shared communal action to ensure the root conditions that produce the harms are rooted out to begin with, we will simply be kicking the can forward until the next cycle of "harm prevention".
Still, good on the electorate for taking out some stank trash.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@NoFlexZone @nev this isn't a game, it's my fucking life as black, puerto rican, a woman, queer and barely working class. it sucks, yes because it's HARM REDUCTION. pick the small battles at the city, county & state level because those do have a bigger impact DAILY. i'd be dying of cancer if i didn't live in nyc. the fascist running against my city council member literally sent mailers implying there were too many of us pesky black/latinos in the East & we needed to go. GTFOH with that nihilism.
AnthonyJK-Admin
I'm not going to crack on harm reduction or the need to kick wingnuts and bigots out of office.
However, we seriously need to get off this merry-go-round where the only two choices we're given for elections are two kinds of right-wing poop sandwiches, and the only slightly less poopy sandwich is coated in rainbow sugar produced through the broken backs of foreign Black laborers for the profit of "woke" millionaires.
AnthonyJK-Admin
When the side that promises us "harm protection" ends up doing only slightly less harm than the side doing the original harming; maybe it's time we went and built new and better political organizations for *HARM ELIMINATION* and *HARM PREVENTION* rather than mere harm protection.
DieMadColonizer
@blogdiva @nev the only thing I really resent is being called a nihilist. I never said it was a "game" the post you liked and boost did.
DieMadColonizer
@blogdiva @nev by the colonial state, colonizers themselves. The ones who've been organizing till we burn out and still going, gettjng purged from state and local D parties for being vocal in our support for things like - universal healthcare - for example.
So use that energy on someone/somewhere or blocc me. I don't live on the thin broth that is expecting electoral politics *only* to resolve the problems we face as colonized and oppressed peoples.
DieMadColonizer
@blogdiva @nev this whole post was bait but w/e I responded to a metaphor in the language of the metraphor. Im sorry about your cancer. i hope your treatment goes well.
If you think Harm Reduction, consider climate change, wherr half measures, or "harm reduction" still means catastrophic warming.
You don't have to convince any communist, any socialist, or anarchist that this shit is for keeps. We're the ones up on kiw*farms and k*ywiki pages targeted even when there isn't massive uprisings...
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
but life ain't just a metaphor.
harm-reduction is a form of self-care and self-preservation; themes very dear to the heart of a poet whose "Cancer Diaries" should be read as a political manifesto: Audre Lorde.
that's why i followed the original tweet with her quote. when you read a "A Ray of Light" (USA title for her diaries), you'll get why it's absolutely important to be MILITANT about minimizing the mundane, everyday harms in our communities to get to the big ones.
AnthonyJK-Admin
Certainly, we must celebrate and build upon the small victories that give us those cracks of life.
But...just remember that unless we take the global view as well and look outside our own enclaves, we'll be forever putting out our own little brushfires while the forest gets burnt from avoiding the big issues.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
you can't fight back if you are hungry and sick and destitute and alienated.
the oligarchy knows this. that's why they pour money into sustaining fascism. to take our attention away from them.
Aunty Toni Morrison used to say the whole purpose of racists is to make us waste our time on survival and not getting ahead.
why?
it benefits the manufacturers of fascism: the oligarchy.
we need mitigation so we can focus on the real enemy: the oligarchy.
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