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[Gameboy Nostalgia]

MOD FIGHT?!

RA VS NEPNEP?!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/f-d-signifier-the-online-left-is-cooked-unc-talks-about-leftist-in-fighting-over-kamala-on-tiktok-and-why-so-many-leftists-talk-like-aaron-sorkin.962025/page-3#post-127631085

Then don't involve yourself in our affairs on our behalf.

I'm just sitting here wondering why folks are suddenly concerned about anti-Blackness within the Palestinian cause specifically when anti-Blackness has been a thing in American and international politics forever and you'd have people outright defending it.

Biden questioning our Blackness over our voting patterns. It's just a joke. Biden saying that we don't have a diverse political history unlike Hispanic people. Don't rain on the shout he's giving to Hispanics. Biden saying we need to fund the police. Applause. Biden jailing tons of us. Well, you Blacks were in on it too. Liberals telling us to vote for Bloomberg if it came down to it. Whatever is necessary to defeat Trump. Ukrainians preventing Black people from fleeing the war. It's too inconvenient to the current narrative. No one giving an absolute fuck about Niger, Sudan, the Congo. Hell, no one even giving a fuck about Cop City. Status quo.

Some pro-Palestinian folks are out of pocket? Real shit.

And to be clear, I'm not saying that anti-Blackness is ever okay. I am questioning the sudden upswell in concern about it when fighting it has largely never been a consistent principle to uphold by liberals and even the left. Like FD said within the video, shit's got psyop and terminally online written all over it.

Which one do you want? People to care, or for them to care and then you call bullshit so they don't dare speak up again?

Isn't the entire point of what we're building here that we take each other in good faith, so someone voicing concerns about anti-Blackness was doing so because they actually gave a fuck and were concerned about us?

If you're going to draw a line in the sand and say mind your business when someone speaks up as an ally, we might as well burn the entire forum to the ground.

My second post wasn't aimed at Dogo Mojo, but a general trend I'd begun seeing online.

But let's assume both posts were: I want people to consistently care, inasmuch as they will call out anti-Blackness wherever it rears its head, not just when it's convenient. I would also like to see this general care be turned into organization and action.

As it stands, I have very little faith in most people, on Era and elsewhere, to maintain that level of consistency because at this point in my life, I fundamentally do not trust most non-Black folks to genuinely care about Black liberation as a whole because our material reality has barely changed, and part of the reason it has barely changed is because most people are married to the systems and conveniences that are the result of our oppression and don't want to give up those luxuries. Ergo, my guard is up significantly when it comes to online liberals and most leftists because those are the demographics who claim to care, but it's usually only around election time or when we've had enough and have burned down a police station and thus folks are terrified. Conservatives are at least clear that they dislike us from the jump.

The project that is this forum is neither here nor there at this point. I'm truly not happy about a lot of things here, but there's very little I can do about it even within my position without risking either staff cohesion or my personal safety. I made a promise to pull back from certain topics and I think I'm doing right well in sticking to that.

But regardless of all of that, I'm also willing to admit my cynicism is unwarranted and that Dogo Mojo truly meant no harm.

Then why be an admin if you have little faith in the userbase? 

I made a promise to pull back from certain topics and I think I'm doing right well in sticking to that.

Must be hard to not wish the worst on the collective nation of Jewish people.