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cool about taking down episodes, changing names and stuff, but what’s going on with defunding police & holding the cops who killed Taylor and McClain accountable?
cosmetic changes are ultimately meant to appease, not be about justice.
cosmetic changes are ultimately meant to appease, not be about justice.
there’s power in taking down violent icons - like statues - but that’s not radical. Like @andraydomise said, we saw the burning of police precincts and now, after a clear co-option (with likely LE involvement) we’ve seen a radical moment immediately become liberalized.
the taking down of episodes, changing names of certain things & even taking down some statues will - in the long term - make (mainly non-black) liberals happy and give themselves a pat on the back. It won’t do anything for dismantling white supremacy’s structures.
Flint still doesn’t have clean water, because of structural racism, but I’m glad we’re talking about Alison Brie and Bojack Horseman a couple of years after when the conversation was first had (and had pretty well).
Don’t get me wrong, there are un(der)paid people doing this work everyday in their local communities - they’ve been doing it for years but that’s not what this moment is being defined by. It was initially but it’s been entirely coopted.
Imagine - if movements can be so easily coopted and re-engineered here, what are our tax dollars engineering abroad?
