#systemic violence
I love this video. It’s clever. It’s well-done. It’s an apt metaphor and the parallels are incredibly clear.
Watch it then share it with everyone you know. (Please.)
I’m going to say this and then run away from Tumblr as fast as I can while my account gets put through the grinder but I’m getting really really really tired of seeing stuff boiled down to “white people bad”.
And before you get started I Get why this happens and why people say these things. I don’t even necessarily disagree. I’m just a little burnt out about hearing how horrible, awful, evil, and irredeemable white people are and how they need to be eradicated. As someone who’s white (or at least white presenting and lives a white experience) I’m not going to pretend like I LOVE hearing my friends talk about how much they hate white people. I get it. I’m not going to tell them to stop, my feelings don’t matter more than theirs, but gosh do I wish they wouldn’t say those things? Of course.
It’s just, I KNOW, why people feel that way. Hell, I feel that way when I speak to my family who still lives on our tribe’s reservation, but even despite all that I refuse to agree that turning hate speech towards white people is the best we can do for moving the conversation forward.
As a woman of color, I’m going to tell you right here that I understand where you’re coming from and I appreciate your honesty.
The truth is, there are good and bad people in every race, every ethnicity. I’ve run into my fair share of white people who are totally amazing (like my white friends whom I love with my heart and soul) and BIPOC who are downright awful (like the radfems of color). My Chinese mother is colorist, antiblack, homophobic, and ableist, and she is as much a product of her environment as anyone else.
The fact is, we all got stuff to unpack and things to deconstruct. None of us are islands. We are all products of our environments and we all grew up exposed to everything that comes with a capitalist society. None of us are free from those influences. Unless you’ve spent your whole life living in a cave off the grid, you’re not free from them.
What needs to be done is we all need to do the work. We all got shit to heal. We all got responsibilities to take, and accountabilities to hold ourselves to. And we need to keep doing these things, and then keep doing these things.
Με αφορμή το post της @pasta-flora με το quote του Θανάση, περί βίας, και ύστερα από το ψάξιμο του @ilios-erebus, μπορείτε να διαβάσετε το παρακάτω:
“Πώς η μη-βία προστατεύει το κράτος” - Peter Gerderloos
(eng. “How nonviolence protects the state”)
Σε ελληνικά:
https://www.scribd.com/document/399461750/%CE%A0%CF%8E%CF%82-%CE%B7-%CE%9C%CE%B7-%CE%92%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CE%A0%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%8D%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CE%A4%CE%BF-%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82
και αγγλικά:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state
