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arthrobot · 2 months ago

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It has become increasingly difficult as of late to escape the nagging feeling that there is nowhere to turn in which one or more likely several groups are being offered up as living sacrifices to the Great Work of the Cause to which the people in that space have decided to attach themselves. Collective punishment at worst, justified by the inherent badness of "those people whomst are inherently enemies of The Cause" or at best whose suffering is fake, a mirage of "The Enemy" to delegitimize "our side" seems to be the order of the day, and it is genuinely terrifying.

#TBC this is largely about a particular organization whose rhetoric and ideology I find reprehensible #becoming increasingly pervasive in the place where I live.#About people who I used to be friendly with helping them to spread.#And about my increasing lack of patience with radikool rhetoric that reduces complex societal problems to bad people(s).#To be eliminated in cleansing fire #mass violence #and concentration/forced labor camps #or more generally praising destruction and violence against “society” as revolutionary in itself.#As if such rhetoric hasn't led at various points in history to violence against marginalized populations under the guise of progress.#Whether it be the murder of peasants and other revolutionaries during the French Revolution #or the murder of peasants during the anti-landlord campaign in Vietnam #As if in our present day it doesn't lead to so-called revolutionaries ignoring or justifying genocide #police brutality #imperialist invasions and other forms of oppressive violence when it's done by “our side.” By American rivals.#Whether that be apologists for PRC treatment of Uyghurs Tibetans and Hong Konger activists (among others)#Apologists for the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine #or apologists for the murder of Jina/Mahsa Amini by the morality police in Iran #among many other examples #James C. Scott was wrong #we aren't stuck in an endless Saturnalia of power #but rather an endless march to claim the rites of Moloch for The Cause #Bottom line #I am sad and angry and scared and tired #And my anxiety has been really bad lately because of worrying trends that I've noticed.#Things aren't as hopeless as all that #but I need to vent.#Against the logic of the Guillotine #I guess

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