"Race" & "gender" are not lifestyle choices, nor a "tool of the left". Everyone has a "lived experience" it's called life. Your life will be shaped by social forces, some of those will act against you, some will speed you along, depending on random things like skin colour...
...like your sex at birth, like how much wealth your family has or has not accumulated & stored (also subject to social forces). People do not victimise themselves or remove agency from themselves. Racism is violent, the racist state is violent, starting with those that wield...
...the pen that signs off on those racist laws & policies, that edits the evidence to suggest ppl marginalise themselves. Sexism is violent, & it's an act of aggression to allow the under paying & low paying of women. Poverty is raced, sexed & classed. Not talking about it won't
...change that. This is why Tories don't like us talking about it, because talking about it is a step on the way to changing it & they don't want the status quo to change because they benefit from it. Tories want to pit us all, the majority of ppl who have to work to live or even
just to survive, against each other rather than against them, a tiny minority of landed gentry elite & hangers on. Tories know racism & sexism are real because they perpetrate them, they use them to divide & rule, then they say us talking about them is racist & sexist! #ToriesOut
The Tories want you to believe there's a culture war so that you won't go to war against them. #ToriesOut
I hate military analogies but they started it, & ppl are literally dying because of their policies & they'll call it nature; they think we are all by nature cannon fodder, while by nature they are destined for the other side of the guns. Well it's not nature & it can be changed.
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