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no, actually, i can’t be friends with someone who has opposing political views. this is mostly due to the fact my views are “people deserve rights”
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Dude, I thought he was pro-life. Learned something new every day. I guess everyone’s allowed to change.
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one thing about the scum manifesto that uncool people seem to miss is that it is so fucking funny
obviously it is brilliant and scathing and still relevant to our world today, and it is also hilarious. valerie was not only a gifted thinker but her turn of phrase is decisive and wry and utterly distinct. like i love the contents of the manifesto but i also love her Voice as an entity unto itself
but again uncool people will never know this, because if any criticism of XYs isn't padded with a full paragraph of the most bloodless caveats you've ever seen (cishet gender conforming able-bodied mentally sound middle or upper class white men with IQs of 85 or higher) they shit their britches and die
Resisting DSA's Culture of Disposability to Win the World we Deserve.
It’s National Convention season in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the time when every caucus with 20 members and a twitter account pulls out the knives and the slander to win over the majority of delegates at the National Convention to their positions... only to have them promptly ignored. Accusations of bullying, harassment, targeted destruction of caucus literature are par-for-the-course if you want to be given the blessing of joining DSA’s National Political Committee (NPC) and have half the organization immediately hate you.
Obviously, I am being hyperbolic, but a nugget of truth resides here: DSA has an organizational culture problem. Many of our members enter into a democratically-run, working-class political organization for the first time when they join DSA, and when they do, they bring the trappings of our oppressive, exploitative, and hyper-individualistic capitalist society with them. We come to DSA with our axes-of-oppression and axes-of-privilege along with us: those of gender, race, class, disability, neurotype, sexuality, nationality, language, etc. We come to DSA with our past wounds and the harms that we ourselves have carried out, knowingly or unknowingly. Democracy is always hard because building and exercising collective power requires trusting others. The vast majority of people who come to the Left come to our side battered, belittled, and betrayed by our imperialist-white supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy and how it manifests in our day-to-day lives and interactions. Therefore, when we are wounded by someone, or someone’s, inside of our organization, we respond to that harm in the same ways that we are taught to respond to that harm in our dominant culture—in ways that dehumanize, violate, punish, belittle, shame, harm, and cage. This organizational culture of disposability cannot stand if we want our organization to persist, grow, and win.
I have been involved in my fair share of conflicts since I joined DSA in January 2017. Freshly 20 years old and full of revolutionary fervor, I was a queer kid who’d spent the better part of the previous 5 years being abused by adults in my community and my family-of-origin for being honest about who I was. I had no idea how the legacy of those very fresh inflictions of pain and isolation would manifest in my body-mind and in my relationships. Zero. I did not grow up in a home environment that encouraged emotional maturity and productive conflict. So, I did the best I could to cope and hurt a few people along the way, in my personal and organizational life. I have over-reacted and called people out on Twitter. I have gossiped about minor disagreements instead of approaching my comrade directly. I have guarded my heart from the pain of losing a difficult political fight by pointing fingers at the people organizing closest to me. I am sure that many of you have done similar things. These antisocial behaviors have never gotten me any closer to what I have ultimately wanted, which is personal healing, genuine connection, and the joy that comes from solidarity and collective action. They have lost me more than a few close relationships. They have soured promising organizing efforts. They have made me feel helpless and alone.
I have also experienced harm at the hands of people in DSA, sometimes immense harm that has lost me jobs, caused me mental anguish, and encouraged the darkest whispers in the back of my mind to grow louder. I am sure a lot of people in the organization have experienced these things too, and it sucks. I am sorry. There is no excuse. You deserved better and more. I deserved better and more, too. Ultimately, as I have moved between moments of movement activity and moments of personal rest, healing, and growth over my years in DSA, I have come to the conclusion that I am in this fight for the rest of my life. I am not, however, comfortable resigning myself to an organizational reality that our commitment to abolitionist principles of solidarity, anti-carcerality, universal dignity, and reciprocal care simply stops inside our general meetings, slack channels, signal groups, and comrade-to-comrade relationships.
Practically this means that mandatory censure, suspensions, and organizational expulsions (including de facto expulsions), cannot be entered into without democratic oversight and under the most extreme circumstances of harm. It means that when you sign-up to join DSA that you are committing yourself to practicing transformative justice and swear to respect the rights and dignity of every person in the organization, including those you do not personally like or politically disagree with, as long as they are willing to do the same. It means committing to the work of processing your own pain and refusing to project your past onto others. It means swallowing your ego and admitting when you are wrong or you have made a mistake. It means that when you inevitably fall short of these principles, that you agree to doing the hard thing, having the tough conversations, attending the restorative circle, learning about the importance of believing that none of your comrades are disposable, and committing yourself to furthering the work of solidarity and liberation. If all of us do not do this, if we give in to the forces (state-sanctioned, societal, and personal) that seek to pit us against one another and tear our organization down (as has happened many times before on the Left in the USA and abroad) then we lose.
Today, I invite you to lay down old grievances, dust out your mental cupboards of resentment, and recommit yourself to the work of reciprocal care, of loving your comrades more than you love being right, of embracing the blessing that is leaving that message or email in your drafts until you’ve had more time to reflect, of solidarity and liberation. We have a world to win after all. ------------------------------
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to american tumblr liberals jockeying for Harris at the erasure of voices Palestinian, Cuban, Hawaiian and others disenfranchised:
when you libs disparage hopes for a glorious revolution, which you often place in quotes, can you explain how it’s not just a manifestation of racism against cubans? Cubans did have a glorious revolution. So first of all, F you for pretending it’s something impossible that never happened before and “not coming” F YOU. And before you jump to age old US propaganda, Cubans experienced a glorious revolution, and in the wake of US retributory economic isolationism then Cubans did suffer under the yoke of a reactionary cult of personality in direct response to YOUR own U.S. imperial aggressions.
You Americans owe it to Cubans and to the abused and disenfranchised EVERYWHERE to fight tooth and claw against the american empire. Just as that of england, this one will FALL. Flimsy professings to shut out justified voices of dissent against Harris (which would otherwise IMPROVE her campaign & administration) those efforts end up silencing, omitting, and shutting out the most important voices needed to be heard, and those actions are actively materially harmful.
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The government saw how well their services affected the community and decided to implement those ideas federally. Sure, it was only done to undermine the efforts of the Black Panthers, but the fact that happened is revolutionary itself.
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my life even.
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Florida House Bill 999 has sparked mass debate over the future of Florida public universities as it looks to establish new guidelines for em
HB 999 outlines a system for the Board of Governors to “provide direction to each constituent university on removing from its programs any major or minor in Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality.”
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Should HB 999 be passed, the hiring process would change completely. Faculty would not be involved in the search process as the Board of Trustees would be in charge of the vetting process for the candidates.
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The bill provides instruction on general education courses and standards that promote civic literacy without mentioning diversity. Brown said that without diverse education, students would not have the experience and knowledge for the workforce.
The American Council of Learned Societies protests Florida House Bill 999 and calls on citizens to recognize the danger it poses to higher e
What is academic freedom? In the American context, it means: — Faculty and students at public universities are free to investigate, study, and teach without fear of government censorship. — The state, in the person of elected politicians, administrators, and political appointees, does not determine hiring, evaluation, or curriculum content.
— Faculty determine the curriculum, hire faculty, and evaluate the performance of students and faculty.
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