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icedsodapop · 10 months ago

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The comments are so good:

John Brown’s actions were great but i feel like 90% of the reason why he’s been eulogized so prolifically in the past few years is because American ‘leftists,’ particularly anarchists, demsocs, and christian socialists (which this website is still rife with for some reason), are desperate for history to furnish them with heroes, but are ideologically unwilling to recognize the accomplishments of actual socialists leaders and programs because that would necessarily entail coming to terms with the triumphs of non-American entities, namely the USSR, China, Cuba, etc.

#yeah it really reminds me of how White liberal filmmakers love centering White pple in historical movies set in the civil rights era #its the need for White pple to see themselves in the 'good' White pple #ive been thinking about this alot during the current free palestine movemebt since social media and the Western left #have been doing alot of praising of White non-zionist celeb allies #this post also really explains why the White Western Left valorizes White pple like Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall who died for Palestinian #becos so many of them are just incapable of looking to pple that dont look like them for inspiration #free palestine #white saviorism #white savior complex #racism #like the best pple that inspired my politics are queer Black female marxists #performative allyship #anti white leftist

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