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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t give a shit about Black people supposedly being mean lol, I don’t know where you got that idea. White people have always been way meaner to me and most of the people around me than anyone else anyway, so even if I was petty like that why would I focus on any other race?

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

Right, Black people don’t oppress any race at the societal level, that’s why I said “Black racism doesn’t exist” so many times.

I think you’re strongly misreading my intent or what I think the significance of my initial point is.

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

i’m not going to act like i was never more flippant or impatient than i needed to be throughout however many dozen responses occurred here, but i do think you’re projecting onto me just a tad lol

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

ok i’m going to be real here: do you honestly think “quoting myself” was the point of that reply? you saw what i typed next to the link right

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

we took opposite positions on the specific question of whether a person has to be a member of the primary beneficiaries of racism in order to “be racist,” which is at least as much a question of semantics as it is a question of sociology

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

for the third time, in what way were any of those characteristics exhibited more by anything I said than by anything you said? I never even cited the written word

I’m not even saying that to deflect, I just genuinely don’t understand what difference you’re perceiving beyond like, the fact that

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

I wasn’t trying to “whatabout” though, I was trying to contradict what looked to me like a greatly oversimplified, absolutist assertion being made directly. It’d be whataboutist if someone just said white supremacy was the main issue, and I responded to *that* with “Black people can be racist too”

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

Well to be fair it’s an entire website and I’ve been on my phone, I assumed if there was another specific page I should read you’d also link that

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

I know, don’t worry— I wasn’t referring to being prejudiced. bsky.app/profile/damn...

One of the people who disagreed with my framing offered the phrasing “being an agent of white supremacy” to describe what I was referring to as Black people “being racist.” I may start using that instead.

damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

I’m not referring to prejudice, though, at least not directly, though encouraging prejudice is often a function of what I meant. I’m referring to cases where non-white people oppress other non-white people from limited, often tokenist positions of relative power within white supremacy.

damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

dog you gotta take it easy on the vagueposting tho

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, now I get it! What I was calling “being racist,” you were calling “being an agent of white supremacy.”
The disconnect was just a slight difference in terminology, probably! I’ll have to review trends in how people tend to use these terms and possibly update my lexicon accordingly.

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

wait what words don’t match up bsky.app/profile/damn...

damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 1d

but like, black people can be racist against other marginalized racial minorities, or against other black people

it’s “you can’t be racist against white people,” not “only white people can be racist”

damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

to be fair to everybody, there can be fine distinctions between “being a racist,” “doing something racist,” and “racism”

damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

I’m not referring to prejudice, though, at least not directly, though encouraging prejudice is often a function of what I meant. I’m referring to cases where non-white people oppress other non-white people from limited, often tokenist positions of relative power within white supremacy.

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

Friends of mine had explicitly made the argument that in addition to colorist and featurist, Black people can be racist to one another from limited positions within white supremacy, but I don’t think I was sure that dynamic was best described as “racism” until the fallout from “slavery was a choice”

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 6h

That also makes sense to me! I always just thought of the power dynamic as being somewhat separable from the individuals participating in it, such that a non-white person could still hurt another via white supremacy and qualify. I should refresh myself, I wonder if both could be contextually valid

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 8h

wait why is the shot the same as the chaser

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

The reason you have a display name like "The Ass is the father of the legs" is when you make a good point and someone reposts it, they're also helping to spread an important message, which is that the ass is the father of the legs

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

He's president crimes! He's been doing nothing but crimes since he took the oath!

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 1d

all good, I take those often lol

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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damn… not here @damnnothere.bsky.social · 1d

I thought the big point of naming Leo as the new pope was so the catholics wouldn’t back down from a fight with the admin on immigration

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