Angel

You know, to link this to what we discussed about gender a bit below in this thread, I find it fascinating how I've seen so many leftists on this site willing to call out Hasan for misogyny but never at all seeming to push back on him enabling Zionism, especially when it's in the liberal form. This proves the point that white leftists tend to always think that every other contradiction matters more than the contradictions pertaining to race, imperialism, and colonial violence. Hasan making objectifying comments towards women is bad, of course, no doubt, but why is that treated as more of a moral emergency than the man devoting much of his time and energy on his hugely popular platform giving rhetorical validation to settlers (and supporters of these settlers) who are murdering a shit-ton of brown people and stealing their homes right now? They don't view Black and Brown people and those in the global south as people.

Jesus fucking Christ

I'm aware of how being here benefits me, and I don't let it become an identity.

Being Black in AmeriKKKa has led me to try to seek more melanated communities within the empire, but in my experience, even the most "radical" Black people I tend to encounter do not want to question their AmeriKKKan exceptionalist, imperialist brainworms.

Here I strive my hardest to be unapologetically Afrikan, and I don't buy into colonial beliefs around hair, skin, speech, the poor, or anything else. I like to question myself a lot, though. Though I've overcome so much internalized racism these past few years, I always wonder if anything else is lingering.

I dream of being able to live in South Africa one day, especially since I already have family there, and those family members are pretty much the only family members I keep some form of contact with. Right now, especially since I only recently started working, I don't have much to prepare for leaving, but it is a goal. Talking to my uncle a little more about the process tells me it might be pretty difficult, but I want to try. Not only do I have to prepare for handling South Africa's racial dynamics, but I have to navigate being there as an androgyne, and that can be rough, too.

I called white people "Mayonnaisians," and some cracker responded by calling me "Barbecuian."

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That honestly just made me laugh. These bozos can't even have good comebacks!

One hour loop of one of the catchiest things I've ever written

Can't stop listening to it

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Not 10 hours, but I actually listened to the entirety of this 1 hour loop at one point. It went by quicker than you might expect.

Finally did homemade aquafaba mayo

Yeah, I'm really not a fan of her. The fact that she only seems "based" in comparison to KKKontraPointSS ain't sayin' much

The cracKKKers of this site tend to always assume good of white women and white queers. They'll see a white women spew shit against "all men" and never stop for a second to wonder if her definition of "men" might include trans women or if she is aware of the racial violence she could enact on men of color*. I feel like I rarely ever see struggle sessions related to gender, but I do recall some. The way this site handles gender dynamics is less likely to be scrutinized, but on racial subjects? That's where people especially get uncomfortable and always want to cause a ruckus. That's how we were able to have so many separate struggle sessions about Ansarallah being "antisemitic." This is also why this time I saw some liberal white man on some Instagram reel say "White people treat Black people the way men treat women" made me uncomfortable. That kind of framing greatly misses the point and is so damn reductive. It's reminding me of that John Lennon song, too (you know the one). The compartmentalization is annoying as well. People might think shit like "In Western countries, a Black man is privileged over a white woman in terms of gender, but the white woman is privileged over him in terms of race," but that's not actually how it works. You cannot separate the way gender factors into racial dynamics here. The way gender is handled on these two bodies is not something that exists in a vacuum, detached from any other aspect about them, so people shouldn't oversimplify that shit.

*Though this didn't happen with a "white" Western country, this is also reminding me of this time we had this post uncritically celebrating South Korea's 4B movement and then everyone who was cheering that shit on felt embarrassed and started deleting/editing comments when someone commented that said movement is actually horrible in many ways. Such includes transphobia and how they are really more so the product of internalized racism (i.e., they are against sex with Korean men, but sure as hell don't mind sex with male Western tourists, akin to the "divestor" shit you see among a small portion of Black women)

Here's what I don't understand, though: how the fuck can someone hear of a "female separatist movement" in SSouth KKKorea of all fucking places and then be baffled when that movement is extremely bioessentialist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there has ever been a time when female separatism HASN'T been bioessentialist. If it wasn't, chances are there would have to be very awkward conversations about how trans and non-binary people factor into this shit, and these movements certainly do not permit such nuances. Their approach is already undialectical as fuck and tries to reduce "dismantling patriarchy" to individual acts of abstinence against men.