#cornbread tube

[shoujopunk]

"But just as important, we have to give grace to folk who are yet working their way to the right side while at the same time holding them accountable when they don't. And that's admittedly easier said than done, but I don't see a lot of effort being made to do any of it. It's either give them grace to infinite and beyond or kill it with fire and neither of those things are effective if you ask me." lil bill, 24:39 - 25:30 https://youtu.be/LiyYtVWgAGQ?si=sbJJQy4RlafP0-Rb

[chillinglikeashilling]

There's a post that remarks that Josh Johnson is not typically political but that there is a good message in a bit from one of his recent shows. The point of the bit was that Josh was saying there is no way to entertain yourself into the revolution. Entertainment is a form of escapism and that is good and fine but it is not a tool that will help you actually free yourself or others.

I understand why the op said this about Josh, and I certainly don't think that the point they were trying to make was wrong or that it should be diverted by a debate about the politics of Josh (who I don't know and may not even consider his own comedy overtly political) so I didn't remark on that in my reblog of the post but I do slightly disagree.

I'm watching one of his recent clips and thinking of other clips I've seen of him and Josh often talks about current events, the economy and its effects on people and communities, he references his Blackness and his working class upbringing and to me these are all deeply political topics.

There's discussions in the Youtube left leaning sphere sometimes about how there is no pipeline leading to the left in the way there is towards right leaning content and to be honest I think content like Josh's could be at the beginning of the funnel. Even channels like Waving the Red Flag, or Toonrific Tariq- folks who watch Josh or Tariq could be guided to channels like FD Signifier, Lil Bill, For Harriet, FSTN eventually reaching creators like Olurinatti, Unpoetic Justice and Andrewism.

I don't think this pipeline if we could establish it would 'fix' the issue of youth radicalization towards right wing politics in general but I do suggest taking advantage of the content of these Ytbers if you are trying to prevent young boys, especially young Black boys from falling into much worse content pipelines.

[gaykarstaagforever]

It strikes me that the current and suddenly white middle class liberal realization that voting DOES matter, that government institutions and politicians under Trump DO NOT and WILL NOT in fact work for their benefit is, superficially, similar in many ways to the Black American perspective of the last, I don't know, 400 years?

Obviously it's not the same. But you may be shocked to learn that the "bad guys" are totally the same people.

What could this mean? What should we do? What a mystery!

Perhaps take this opportunity to watch videos by F.D. Signifier and Lil Bill and the other "cornbread tubers" (their phrase for it). You may be surprised to learn that the Black leftist community has had a philosophical framework and plan of action against systemic exploitation and fascism since like the 1930s, that all of us besides law enforcement absolutely ignore until the moments we realize that the System is keen to digest all of us, too.

This is one of those moments.

You're not safe, and you need to learn to live with that, but stand up anyway. Like Black Americans always have and always will.

At least take some pointers from them. You will always have it better than they do, and THEY'RE not surrendering to hopelessness.

We don't know how to suffer, and now, thanks to our own families and friends and sex partners, now is the time of suffering. At least take advice from the experts.

[gaykarstaagforever]

It strikes me that the current and suddenly white middle class liberal realization that voting DOES matter, that government institutions and politicians under Trump DO NOT and WILL NOT in fact work for their benefit is, superficially, similar in many ways to the Black American perspective of the last, I don't know, 400 years?

Obviously it's not the same. But you may be shocked to learn that the "bad guys" are totally the same people.

What could this mean? What should we do? What a mystery!

Perhaps take this opportunity to watch videos by F.D. Signifier and Lil Bill and the other "cornbread tubers" (their phrase for it). You may be surprised to learn that the Black leftist community has had a philosophical framework and plan of action against systemic exploitation and fascism since like the 1930s, that all of us besides law enforcement absolutely ignore until the moments we realize that the System is keen to digest all of us, too.

This is one of those moments.

You're not safe, and you need to learn to live with that, but stand up anyway. Like Black Americans always have and always will.

At least take some pointers from them. You will always have it better than they do, and THEY'RE not surrendering to hopelessness.

We don't know how to suffer, and now, thanks to our own families and friends and sex partners, now is the time of suffering. At least take advice from the experts.