#white supremacism

[man-squared]

Well I'm off of tumblr for a while (probably short term) after just seeing a blog post in the transandrophobia tag that 'trans men should be gnc by not transitioning' and then when I went to their blog, they had a poll asking if you would rather be roomed with a white supremacist or a trans man. Hate doesn't make you prettier or help you climb the privilege hierarchy.

Hope you all get some rest and practice compassion. Feel free to send me positive asks.

[dailyanarchistposts]

At the forest entrance to Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek, a pickup truck aggressively swings in, engine revving and music blaring. Obscenities are yelled at the people on the ground. When the truck is asked to please go, lewd comments are sneered back. And then, the truck just stays, the two men inside glaring and watching the bystanders. One of them gets out and shifts around a parked vehicle, continuing to watch. After what seems like an eternity, the man gets back into the idling pickup truck and they peel out in a cloud of dust and black exhaust fumes.

What makes this obnoxious event stick out from any other, is that this is the same pickup truck that rammed through a Wet’suwet’en solidarity blockade just outside of Cumberland on February 10, 2020: an identical paint job, matching licence plates and the same plume of toxic black exhaust. In that February 10 incident, the men in the pickup truck filmed themselves giggling as they smashed through signs and wooden pallets with a confederate flag unabashedly displayed on their dashboard, as seen in footage broadcast by Global News. According to witnesses, men sporting masks with the Canadian flag on them then emerged from the forest and accosted land defenders. Chek news reported “close to 30 drunk people.”

Although these two incidents are 17 months apart, this pickup truck demonstrates a disturbing example of the presence and continuity of white supremacists actively engaged in disrupting both Indigenous and environmental organizing. To see the Confederate flag displayed alongside the Canadian Maple Leaf while assaulting Indigenous land defenders harks back to when a racist mob attacked Indigenous families at Whiskey Trench outside of Montreal in 1990. In that attack, hundreds of people assembled to pelt a convoy of Kahnawake residents with rocks while the police looked on, resulting in one death and dozens of injuries.

More ominous still is the consistency of this sort of behaviour with counterinsurgency tactics. British counterinsurgency doctrine, for example, emphasizes the use of vigilantes as an effective way to subdue anti-colonial movements and provide a means of evading responsibility. As vigilantes engage in their dirty work, the police are conveniently looking the other way or suddenly out of their jurisdiction. In a clever sleight of hand, the narrative is manipulated into one where the police become necessary to protect people’s physical well being from vigilante violence – a twist on the well used metaphor, ‘good cop, bad cop.’

It must be noted that the signs on the pickup truck – while harassing the people at the Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek entrance July 4th, 2021 – read, “Forestry feeds my family,” and, “I love Canadian Forestry.” These statements are misleading, considering last years’ workers’ eight-month strike against Western Forest Products, a Vancouver-based lumber company trying to chisel away workers’ safety, pensions and seniority benefits. With these pickup truck vigilantes openly displaying their allegiance to Confederate ideology and Canadian nationalism, their attempts to pass themselves off as forestry workers, or at least their allies, is nothing short of fraudulent. The essence and purpose of their actions are immediately laid bare when they are put against the core values of the labour movement: anti-racist, anti-colonial, and solidarity amongst exploited people. The interests, safety, and well being of forestry workers are directly opposed to the priorities of extractivist corporations to pry a profit. The history of labour struggle demonstrates the vast gulf between worker and company man.

In this chaos, the corporations and the Canadian state remain conspicuously silent. While playing the innocent, they continue to brutally subjugate Indigenous people for their own avarice; they continue to make fast money from ecological devastation; and they continue to squeeze profit from the ravaged bodies of workers and loggers.

While the Canadian state and its corporations engage in this exploitative rampage, they spin these issues as unrelated and non-existent. Nevertheless, they have their men on the ground, speeding around in pickup trucks adorned with Confederate and Canadian flags as well as in tactical gear with ‘Blue Lives Matter’ stripes adorning their police insignia.

The face-off at the Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek entrance is but one skirmish in the bigger picture. Do not let the issues be shifted away from their history and redirected into dead ends. Artificial barriers between struggles and people must be broken down, and solidarity re-energized. Indigenous and anti-colonial struggle, workers’ struggle, and ecological balance must not be played off against one another. With the status quo clinging onto power through violence and calculated skullduggery, their legitimacy is an empty myth. Through creativity, energy, and initiative, a more beautiful tomorrow is within reach. Every action creates a new reality!

[tomorrowusa]

If the mustache fits...

All this Hitler/dictator talk from Trump and his toadies is not new. Remember this from November of 2016?

^^^ That incident took place nine months before the neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally whose participants were called "fine people" by Trump.

Donald Trump is determined to empower such people and he's making no secret of it.

[o-the-mts]

Just like Hitler before him, Trump is benefiting from the fact that journalism is an incremental, daily business. Every day, reporters have to find something new to write or broadcast. Trump keeps saying dangerous and crazy things, but that’s not new. He’s said it all before. His impeachments and the January 6 insurrection happened years ago. True, he has been indicted four times and now faces up to four criminal trials, but that’s already been reported. What’s new today? For political reporters covering the campaign, that means usually treating Trump’s authoritarian promises as “B-matter.” That’s an old newspaper phrase that refers to the background information that reporters gather about a story’s subject. B-matter is usually exiled to the bottom of an article — if not cut entirely to save space or time. But the horrifying truth is that when Trump’s dictatorial ambitions are left on the cutting room floor as B-matter, America is in trouble.

The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump

[daybreaksys]

the ideology that jews are the ultimate victims and therefore israel can't be accused of committing genocide is just yet another ramification of "oh no you can't accuse me of doing child abuse, don't you know I was abused as a child? I'm just taking revenge on my abusers by doing the same thing to their grandchildren so really who is the victim here?"

it is also racist, it's like "it's only genocide if it's being done to europeans, for you see, genocide is when you try to eradicate a group of people"

[simplegenius042]

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[hellyeahheroes]

How “Moderates” Serve the Right by Second Thought

[professionalkinkshaming]

Yall seen that post about how asking people to not make unnecessary noise in shared public spaces is white supremacist rhetoric (w/out going into ANY detail at all) ?? Lmfao. You demons will say anything to slither out of obligations to be considerate.

[tomorrowusa]

So Trump's fascist rantings may be a form of plagiarism.

A 1990 article from Vanity Fair describes one of the few books Trump actually did read.

So "Heil Hitler" is a Trump family joke? I'd love to hear Dr. Mary Trump weigh in on that.

No wonder Trump buried his Czech-born first wife Ivana on his New Jersey golf course. Maybe he's afraid she'll rise up as a zombie and reveal more of his Nazi secrets. 🧟‍♀️

Ivana Trump’s Bedminster Grave Gets Even Weirder

[marylemanski]

New episode of Mary Kinda Contrary Podcast, part 3 of 3. Episode 10 - I Was Targeted By Proud Boys & the Far Right After Speaking at a School Board Meeting and You're Next - Part 3 of 3

Listen at https://open.spreaker.com/ULqyz25dfhfFrP556

Or at marykindacontrary.com

[feminism-of-course]

”Mainstream patriarchy reinforced the idea that the concerns of women from privileged-class groups were the only ones worthy of receiving attention. Feminist reform aimed to gain social equality for women within the existing structure. Privileged women wanted equality with men of their class. Despite sexism among their class they would not have wanted to have the lot of working class men. Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitalist patriarchal fears that white power would diminish if nonwhite people gained equal access to economic power and privilege. Supporting what in effect became white power reformist feminism enabled the mainstream white supremacist patriarchy to bolster its power while simultaneously undermining the radical politics of feminism.”

bell hooks, Feminism is for everybody, 2015 ed., p.40–41

[weetweetie]

Almost like MAGA attracts criminals. Like do their sister parties elsewhere. Homicide, rape, fraud, graft, you name it. The True Finns in Finland, AfD in Germany, the 'conservatives' in the UK, la Le Pen in France... Not even to mention Putin's russia, a mafia with an army and a navy. When a 'political' party is a crime spree.

Note 28/4: so there was a shooting incident in the streets of Helsinki. The shooter, who has been taken into custody, is a member of the Finnish parliament. Guess of which party?

Best people. #ACAB

Each sentence gets worse. Each sentence gets more MAGA.

[somerandomg33k]

Race Equity

Ah yes, Race. One the subjects that the USA is "great on." /sarcasm And the Democrats has a section on Racial Equity in their Party Platform. And yes, the other will be way worse. But let me react to this section none the less.

Here is my latest YouTube Video.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djeIVcCEwCc

[mywrittenavenue]

Yall, this aint good... They're trying to rewrite history

[drjacquescoulardeau]

Enjoy the US and its doggy CIA trying to run the world amock.

[o-the-mts]

While our governments crack down on peaceful pro-Palestinian protests at university campuses, the white supremacist insurrection movement is plotting to destroy Black-majority cities.  Good that this one was caught, but what other plots are we not hearing about?