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marxist with a pen, hammer and sickle • dialectical materialist • renegade scribe • son of thoth and yemoja • pan-african and decolonial socialist activist 🔥🇳🇬 🍉 decolonise your mind, body, and soul 🌍☭ ✍🏾 views are mine, lenin's, and fanon's 📍 kumbi saleh

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · Mar 21

Hi, so you’ve just followed me. Welcome. Before you decide to stick around, I think it’s important you know what I’m about, on here. This space is political. Revolutionary. Pan African. Fiercely Socialist. And if you're not ready for that, you’ll probably hate it here.

Let me lay it out:

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

What is the fucking point of higher learning if you aren't teaching children to be critical thinkers? What is the fucking point if your students doing GENOCIDE STUDIES can't even point out, or speak up, about a fucking livestreamed genocide? Seriously, wtf is the problem with westerners, bruh? Gosh!

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

It's why western universities will offer courses in "genocide studies", but when their students WHO ARE DOING GENOCIDE STUDIES tell them that genocidal israel is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, they suspend their students. So what exactly is the point of the damn course?

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

It's why western universities are literally being forced, by their own students, to distance themselves from a white settler colonial apartheid ethnostate, currently committing genocide, and together with genocidal and fascist politicians, they're all unleashing cops in riot gear on those students.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

And at the end of my study, I'd go into the world, like a good little western capitalist/anti socialist propaganda puppet, and just vomit all the fascist bullshit that have been fed to me. That's what goes for "education" in western liberal democracies. Capitalist and white supremacist propaganda!

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

It infuriated me so much! I used to think to myself, what if I didn't know better? What if I wasn't already introduced to Marxism, and Marxist theory? I'd be sitting there eating up all the conservative, liberal, capitalist, zionist, and fascist bullshit propaganda that my professors were spewing.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

I was introduced to Marxism at a very young age, by my grandparents. So by the time I went to university to study Political Science, I was already a well-read Marxist. And every single time, sitting in class and being taught anti socialist, and liberal capitalist garbage was such a torture.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

And if there's one thing the white capitalist ruling class will never do, it's that they're never designing education systems that raise BIPOC children to be critical thinkers who ask important questions and go in search of answers on how to liberate themselves from capitalism and white supremacy.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

Western capitalist and white supremacist education systems are designed to brainwash people into being obedient and malleable workers — replaceable cogs in the brutal capitalist system. And this is especially for BIPOC children, because we suffer the most under capitalism and white supremacy.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

My grandma used to say that capitalist and white supremacist western liberal democracies, ain't gonna educate Black children, and arm them with the tools to dismantle the systems they've put in place to exploit them. "Your oppressors won't give you the keys to your liberation," she said.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

That I have a deep understanding of capitalism and white supremacy, and I'm able to navigate these genocidal systems, is because of the Marxist education I got at home from my African-American grandparents. Years of teaching and showing me what capitalism is and how it's gonna affect my daily life.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

I'm a Black man with all kinds of fancy pansy degrees from fancy pansy white western universities. None of all that so-called "higher learning" equipped me the tools to properly understand and navigate the horrible capitalist and white supremacist systems that continue to traumatise me so greatly.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2h

That's art, right there! 🫵🏾👌🏾

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dictatorship of the proletariat now @imperialismsucks.bsky.social · 3h

75 years of GENOCIDE.

Palestine News @palestinenews.smitsky.nl · 9h

Ceasefire Agreement Brings Fragile Hope to Gaza After Two Years of Genocide
#palestine #safa

Ceasefire Agreement Brings Fragile Hope to Gaza After Two Years of Genocide

After more than two years of relentless destruction, the Palestinian resistance has announced that an agreement has been reached to end the genocidal war in Gaza, based on a proposal relayed by U.S. P

en.safa.news

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

Oh, and why shouldn't I pursue it? Lool

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

Hahaha, this shit is so funny, weird, and cute, all at the same time! 🤣

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

Someone sent me a labubu last week. Maybe I should stop ranting for a minute and think about which role the labubu will play in the Revolution. 🤔

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

*to own

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

Bruh! (White) westerners wanna tell BIPOC how to be "LGBTQ western" queer, what "real womanhood" is, how to be a woman, which animals are morally right and wrong to eat, what the "beauty" standards are, who's a terrorist and who's a freedom fighter, who's a dictator and who's not, etc etc., lol. 😭🫩

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

And when it turned out plastic is bad for the environment, we now have white people "leading" the charge to "ban plastic" and "save" the environment, or something like that. It's also like how white women like j k rowling wanna tell us what "real womanhood" should look like, lol.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

So whatever they tell BIPOC to eat is what they must eat. It's like how they said capitalism was the bestest thing ever, and they replaced our indigenous environmentally friendly wares like calabashes, clay pots and pans, with plastic bags, containers, etc. And now it's fucked up the world.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

They don't have to be "western" queer. And you don't have to understand or approve of it.

It's the same with BIPOC and what they eat. White westerners wanna decide what's morally right or wrong to eat. White westerners say that chicken, cows, goats, etc., are alright to eat, but not cats and dogs.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

I fucking hate white supremacy, bruh! It makes westerners, especially the white ones, ALWAYS WANNA CENTRE THEMSELVES AND THEIR WHITE WESTERN CULTURE IN EVERY DAMN THING! Yes, queer BIPOC are TOTALLY free to combine their queerness and their indigenousness. And the results should be theirs so own!

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

I mean, as a white queer westerner, you ain't Indigenous like them. So leave them alone and let them freely combine their queerness and their indigenousness and come up with popular cultures and mannerisms that suit them. It's not your party, you ain't invited, so mind your fucking business!

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

And I have to remind them that westerners didn't invent queerness, and that while these BIPOC may be queer, they're also African and don't have to be queer like westerners. And as a queer westerner, you don't have to understand everything they say or do. And that's totally fine.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 3h

It's like when my queer western acquaintances wanna voice some "criticisms" of some language or manner of speaking that they heard from queer Africans, and they say shit like, "Yeah, they shouldn't be saying that because it's harmful to the queer community (here in the west)."

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