Kicking off a Legal Observing Marathon with a Defund the Police Party at Nathan Phillips Square.
Loaded down with stuff to give away: warm clothing (gently-used and freshly washed); tent and accompanying camping gear that I no longer use now that I am a tree-sleeper; then a dash over to Street Knit to pickup warm knitted gear to bring back.
Waking up to screenshots of #CarymaNgo whining about other fashy assholes also being blocked from filming in left spaces is a treat. 😄
If our "hate expert" didn't have such a raging case of Dunning-Kruger, she might have figured out by now that the band of right-wing assholes she followed around like a puppy for two years aren't actually community-focussed.
I feel like a smarter person would have figured that out from the fact that the "right" they were fighting for was: To Give Everybody Covid.
Also, the other teeny tiny detail that she's whining about protests from as FAR AWAY AS AUSTRALIA, ought to to trigger some sort of analysis in someone who was used to figuring these things out for themselves instead of outsourcing it to the nearest person with a common enemy, that MAYBE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT AND NEVER HAVE.
But no.
I'm sure that the brain trust she has surrounded herself with will come up with more hilarious theories about how CAHN and myself have "infiltrated" leftist spaces GLOBALLY.
Imagine if they had enough firing synapses between them to search and see if anything like this has ever happened before. 🤔
Nah, this is definitely all just to thwart her, personally. 🤷🏾♀️
Wait until #CarymaNgo figures out who stood with — and who stood against — PEGIDA long before she even discovered the existence of the "protest circuit" and decided to grift and become one of the #ProtestParasites
She might want to take a closer look at her buddies. 🤷🏾♀️
Also: What happens to two cents in a capitalist system that stopped honouring pennies?
Seamus O'Bradaigh @seamusobradaigh Replying to @CarymaRules and @BillboardChris I am not delusional. You're not fucking Ghandi. There is a clear path to hate that must be challenged. Pandering to the hate and both siding the grooming of 8 year olds is sick. Perverted. Evil hatespeak. I despise violence. But I know a right wing talking point when I see it. 4:09 p.m.: 24 Sept 23 . 20 Views
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The liberal tradition sees racism as essentially a matter of irrational beliefs and attitudes. Its founders, such as the anthropologist Ruth Benedict and gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld, were interested in understanding the rise of nazism in the 1930s. They concluded that, in societies where racial prejudices were widespread, liberal democracy could be undermined by political extremists inflaming race hatred to gain power. To remove this danger, they called on the liberal establishment to persuade the masses, especially the poor and uneducated, that racist opinions have no legitimate basis.
This approach remains at the core of liberal antiracism today, from the enthusiasm for diversity training – a $4.3bn business in the US
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The radical tradition, on the other hand, sees racism as a matter of how economic resources are distributed differently across racial groups. In a 1938 article on “racism in Africa”, for instance, the Trinidadian writer CLR James argued that British colonial racism was not a set of beliefs or attitudes but a structure of generally observed social rules and policies that enabled economic exploitation. Individual racist attitudes no doubt existed but were not the decisive factor.
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Radical antiracists argue that the only way to fight this oppression is to build autonomous organisations with the power to dismantle existing social systems and build new ones.
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❝ Liberal antiracists are powerless against this new structural racism. They demand we use the correct racial vocabulary, shaming Conservative MPs or sports commentators when they use derogatory terms; but abolishing a word does not abolish the social forces it expresses.❞