an incomplete part 2 – following the same thought path as on banning things. Today I read this quote from an article by Nina Power: first, the simple fact of the material power of platforms to remove whatever book, film, image or piece of music is deemed ‘problematic’ at any time; second, the idea that […]
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i’m a dyke
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
pissed enough about this that i’ll rant here instead of twitter People’s replies to this in support are mostly: “When a bi woman gets called a dyke it’s a misdirected slur, the person using the word is trying to oppress you because they think you’re a lesbian” and “why do y’all bisexuals wanna use a slur […]
fuck/abolish/defund the police
Sunday, August 16, 2020
I believe in police abolition. The whole goddamn carceral system. Get it the fuck outta here. “There has never been a point in our history where the law and order branch of the United States has not operated against the freedom, liberties, and choices available to the Black community” I can summarize my position on […]
doing harm
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Throwing a brick through the storefront of a Starbucks is never going to hurt the people in power. Howard Schulz is never going to know, care, or be impacted in any way. However, that action does directly harm the marginalized people who will come into work the next day and need to sweep up the […]
on banning things
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Recent trending news is that Reddit has banned about 2,000 subreddits for breaking rules (mostly around hate speech). Notably, the ban included /r/The_Donald (a far-right subreddit) and /r/ChapoTrapHouse (a leftist subreddit). On the heels of celebrities gleefully peacocking over who can remove their previous “problematic content” best (like Tina Fey removing 30 Rock episodes, or […]
definition of anarchism
Sunday, June 28, 2020
I started out as a communist. Marx didn’t distinguish between communism and socialism – to him, they were one and the same. And so I called myself a communist, because that was 2015 and “socialism” was increasingly being watered down from a radical anti-capitalist ideology into social welfare statism with a few defined platforms (medicare […]