#Sloganeering

[jhsharman]

humble fumble, ballot boxed

Not sure what "try being popular" even means. I don't think Reggie ever wins these things.

The execution on "Ballot Boxed", where after seeing how everyone is swayed by Jughead's slogan posters for Archie's candidacy Reggie buys him off and you see the rest here, leaves something to be desired. It needs just a mite better slogans than "Archie By Cracky" for me to suspend disbelief and accept. On the soundness of the premise, I am reminded that in voting for asb positions, having nothing else to go by and no clear idea of what the heck I was voting for besides a good line for the candidates' college applications, I voted for whoever have me the most number of campaign stickers.

[themassespress]

"Against Sloganeering, Revisionism, and Gonzaloism" With a Note From the Editorial Board of The Masses

By the Revolutionary Marxist Students Featured Image Artist Statement: The piece [titled “Students Against Revisionism”] focuses on 3 students who are combatting revisionism, wielding the pen as a weapon, uplifting a red book titled ‘Against Revisionism,’ and reading from a small red book titled ‘MLM’. The three students are lit by a red sun, a red horizon, as the namesake of the publication,…

[owlmylove]

the flesh is unwilling and honestly, the spirit isn't too keen on the idea either

[irradiate-space]

Ehhhhh.

"deradicalize" doesn't mean "remove the radicals"

"denormalize" doesn't mean "remove that which is normie"

"depersonify" doesn't mean "remove the person"

These words are about removing certain ideas and states of relation to a concept, not about removing the people who hold the ideas. So I think "remove the colonial relationship" is a broadly standards-compliant use of the de- prefix with regards to colonization, even though there are other uses of de- out there and people could use other words.

But furthermore: the view of decolonization in the Levant is going to be quite different from the view of decolonization in USAmerican discourse, for material and ethno-religious reasons as much as for the lack of something like a BIPOC coalition. Extrapolating from one to the other is fraught.

Let us first define what I mean by a Levantine BIPOC coalition for the purposes of this post, as I think this analogy matches your usage of "BIPOC" in the last couple of years. In terms of the Levant, a BIPOC coalition would be a combination of Palestinian ethnic groups (all religions) and post-WWII Jewish ethnic groups (still all religions), defining the coalition-of-the-oppressed as excluding Europeans and Asians and Africans and Americans. The "Indigenous" portion of this Levantine BIPOC analogue is the pre-1940s occupants of the territory and their modern-day descendants, and the "Black" portion of the analogue is the ethnic Jewish population who came to Israel because of oppression elsewhere, as a less-willing participant of the Zionist project.

Who, then, are the Zionists? Not just those who seek to create Israel for the benefit of Israeli Jews, but also those who seek to create a Jewish Israel for eschatological reasons, and those who need a Jewish country to exist as a destination for exporting Jews via forced migration.

I do not mean by this analogy between Black slaves and ethnic Jews that there are Jews who were enslaved by Zionists — nor do I deny that Jews were ever held as slaves — but rather the parallel is that there are a large number of people whose migration to Israel was to serve the purpose of the Zionist project. It's not an exact analogy, due to that lack of slavery, but it lets us define a coalition of people who came to the lands now known as Israel after the beginning of the Zionist project, who can create some claim to that soil through their ancestors' oppression by the Zionists. Such a coalition would say that the Zionists, and the people they allowed to settle in modern-day Israel, must leave Israel, without requiring to leave those who were oppressively imported by the Zionists.

Without such a coalition to define "colonizers" with relation to an external and historic colonizer in the past beyond living memory, Levantine discussion of colonization will focus on present-day actions. In search of actions to pattern-match to colonization, discoursants will choose the settlements and Zionist ethnostate.

Without a BIPOC coalition, the discourse will focus on a clearer boundary between colonizer and colonized: the Zionists vs the Palestinians. But this pattern-matching cannot then go, as USAmerican "send the colonists home" discourse does, to demand that the colonizers return to the metropole, because the Zionist colony was created without a metropole — a point mentioned in the article. Unlike how American anticolonists can tell Eurasian settlers in the Americas to return to their home continents, the discourse's racial boundaries do not create a metropole to which the colonists can return. This is because of the lack of clear racial or religious boundaries between the Zionist colonizers and the pre-colonization indigenous state. There were already Jews in the territory, before the Zionists set up shop! And because the Zionist project is built on the assumption that Israel is the "home" to which the Zionist Jews are returning, anticolonists cannot tell the Zionist Jews to "go home"!

So what is left, without a clean destination for expulsion, and without a way to divide the good immigrants from the bad?

What is left is what we see in the quoted post: a conception of "decolonization" that is less akin to "abolish the police" and more akin to "defund the police" and "kill the cop that lives in your mind."

The proposal is to end the racial and religious segregation, end the policies of apartheid, restore legal rights to non-Jews, build a one-state solution.

The closest it gets to USAmerican expulsionist discourse is that Palestinian anticolonists want displaced families to be able to return the territories they were displaced from, or their actual properties if those still exist. Unlike the USAmerican discourse about "stolen lands", the individual Palestinians who were displaced are frequently still alive. No one alive today participated in the Trail of Tears, but there are those still living today who participated in the Nakba in 1948. "Land restitution" has a different meaning when you can tie a specific house to a specific living person who was kicked out. Palestinian anti-colonialist demands are less akin to the USAmerican discussion of "land back" and more akin to discussion of burglary and squatters' rights.

Quite different from USAmerican colonialism discourse, no?

Palestinian scholars have emphasized that decolonization need not be predicated on settler evacuation, as occurred in former European colonies like Algeria or Mozambique. They insist that the issue has never been the Jewish claim to belonging and staying, but rather, the Zionist claim to sovereignty and domination.

"understanding apartheid" by noura erakat and john reynolds for jewish currents

[recursive360]

Don't Change Horses

[f-ai-n]

Been feeling frustrated recently

Feel free to read more about it: https://x.com/trendasia_org/status/1826241657169436841?s=46

[yeast-infection-enthusiast]

I literally feel like a teacher writing a huge ❓ on a student's paper everytime I go to protests lately. Why are we gathered at a prolife contra protest and you have a sign with "LGBT education in schools" written on it. Why are you shouting an environmentalist slogan. This is a pro choice protest. Why are you fragmenting the group with unrelated topics? Are you a fed? Why does every protest lately have to be a buy one get one free type of event? Why is it that when our reproductive rights are threatened we feel the need to also bring up barely related topics and take away the focus from the problem at hand?

[tanadrin]

the muslim missionaries on the corner are back, and i noticed today their sign saying "christmas is idol worship" and "down with kemalism." nice to know that weird, off-putting slogans that appeal to no one are sort of a cross-cultural feature of proselytization.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

we need more men who are mommy

[lazycranberrydoodles]

everybody go home. this is my magnum opus

[starstruckodysseys]

“i’m gorg-geous” merch in the same style as the “i am kenough” hoodie WHEN

[chesboard]

JAIDEN ANIMATIONS !!!!!!!

(in an alternate island, she won.)

[tododeku-or-bust]

Because has "white power" or any other actual racist, antisemitic, white supremacist slogan ever gone through what "river to the sea" just went though? Curious. Because we all know that the US government does NOT actually care about its Jewish populace. Crazy how I keep talking about the white right of comfort because it keeps applying.

[luetta]

[homeboyyyy]

I'm not a Boy or a Girl I'm an existential Nightmare

[kami-ships-it]

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