It is so darkly funny to me that folks who participated in notorious fascist acts of violence like J6 or this guy showing up at the pizza place who are later set free keep dying at the hands of police bc we still live in a police state.
I mean, largely symbolic acts of the government removing consequences from their actions and deceiving them into believing they're invincible, only for them to turn around and get killed by the armed enforcers of that same government very quickly bc they're still not the ruling class? And are still very much at risk like the rest of us?
If that ain't the perfect example of whiteness in a nutshell idk what is!
I feel like Paul Krugman is a great case study for education, intelligence, and influence being no defense whatsoever against capitalist and white supremacist propaganda. I swear these neoliberal economists continuing to opine about why the American public still feels like the economy is bad are just embarrassing themselves!! They keep repeating that inflation and unemployment are down so "public opinion is at odds with the facts" and BITCH WE CAN'T AFFORD GROCERIES OR HOUSING. BILLIONAIRES ARE STEALING ALL OF OUR MONEY AND PRICES KEEP RISING!! WHY WOULD WE BE SATISFIED?!
@xenophora I mean we always see things differently depending on how we're impacted, I know I do. [insert saying about doing better when you know better, etc]
@xenophora yeah I just have a lot of skepticism when folks start invoking individual strength/fitness as aspirational bc of the intense programming we are subjected to WRT health, fatness, white supremacy, and body politics. Like how many of these folks trying to steer us in that direction have actually meaningfully divested from the trap of those interlocking systems?
How is one to disentangle said programming from a given political practice when they're still compromised by anti fat propaganda, eugenics, et al?
And how do we ensure that the world we are trying to build and the dreams we are trying to bring to life are not simply recreations of these systemic harms, but leftistly?
I feel like we need a different approach. But idk, I for sure don't have all the answers
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