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See? Welp, marginalized groups know that patriarchy and white supremacy are dynamic threats—pervasive from the 2% down through to the 99% who can't all be absolved as just dupes or footsoldiers. That's why guillotine memes or Billionaire Tears™ mugs don't move us the same way... https://twitter.com/CandiceAiston/status/1281602902411239424
...Ofc WE understand the hand of capitalism but it didn't sprout from the ground as an independent system. It's built from the same dangerous insecurities that fuel BBQ Becky or the travel ban or the Sleeping Giants situation. The white "far left" has some of those same agents...
...Trust fund kids, gentrifiers, and podcast bros who pretend that they, too, are among the oppressed if they are in the 99 percent. They're shocked that we see them as the threat to W/BIPOC that they are. That we know racism and misogyny are built into any economic system or...
...political structure they endorse. So they link every bad thing to the rich, hoping we don't recognize that same evil in all of their microaggressions; and paternalism; and erasure; and misogynoir; and aversion to 'identity politics', and more
But we see them. We know them...
But we see them. We know them...
...and we know that this vocal sect of the white "far left" isn't truly a part of the legitimate critique of capitalism and oppression. They just use the discourse for cover and as another way to challenge the standing of W/BIPOC.
They're mad that we know they can't be trusted.
They're mad that we know they can't be trusted.
