DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics

So much for individualism.

What so many young libertarians in the US can’t seem to understand is that a good result from the regulated “spontaneous social order” (Hayek on liberal capitalism) of the free market can also be a racist result.

Results can be positive and racist at the same time. Just because something works, ideally should work better, doesn’t make it right.

This shouldn’t be mind-blowing. Everyday, it’s staring us all in the face. It’s clear, for example, that, in the US, the gradualism associated with capitalist activity—4% or so growth over the last 150 years, if you believe the historiography—is good for many people. Many people, that is, except black people who have suffered what can only be called structurally imposed underdevelopment under capitalism. Let’s not forget indigenous peoples either: those dispossessed owners we ignore. An entire ownership class capitalism and its composed market-citizens refuses to honor in its own made-up ownership society. It’s a very cruel revisionism. (How insulting is it to call this capitalism natural?)

To embrace pragmatic democracy, its policies, and utilitarian ethics to excuse the underdevelopment of entire classes of people is not ever going to be a satisfying solution to a structural problem. To claim that only as individuals can we experience liberty and freedom is fine for detached white citizens of privilege but can only be an oppressive demand for obedience to a racist order for everyone else. And anyway, we don’t simply ignore the underdevelopment in black communities, do we? We use community policing, schools, and prisons to keep them quiet about their unearned oppression.

Get your shit straight before you start encouraging activist communities to embrace individualism and capitalism. It’s clear the structure is coded with kinds of ideal individuals that most people cannot ever hope to live up to. 

arielnietzsche:

bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

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christiankeyes:

OR

WE IGNORE ALL THIS AND DISMISS THE CLAIM THAT “PEOPLE CAN IDENTIFY AS NON-HUMANS”

You assume far too much when you use The Royal We in this kind of discourse. Whiteness is all about the WE. You can’t be speaking for everybody, Christian. Discourse isn’t about positive statements and universal truths.

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Social Justice as a White Supremacist ideology.

rotfront-und-reaktion:

Recent events have inspired me to write this.

The keystone of social justice is that all people should be equal, in terms of every identity. The word “every” is taken literally. If you can think of it, you can identify as it and nobody can ever question that.

The new brand of Social Justice (SJ) co-opted terminology of legitimate equality crusading and perverted the terms beyond all meaning.

First off, let’s take a look at the term “identity” (ID), because it is the most important corrupted term. An identity is who you are. New Social Justice (NSJ) set this idea that you could identify however you like. That’s okay. However, it set it so that all identities are not just equal, they exist on equal planes. In other words: let’s take a white Dragonkin, Alikah. Her identity as a Dragonkin is placed on the same plane as a Person of Color.

People of Color, despite the lie of the Post-Racial America, are still at a disadvantage. The Dragonkin is at no disadvantage, not in any way. Comparisons between oppressions, as though an Otherkin felt any oppression that was their own, while entirely inappropriate are legitimized. Any complaint from those whose struggles are being appropriated is deflected by the majority-white NSJ-created ID group as being “ableist”.

The next term, “appropriation”. This term took the most loss. Why? In the NSJ-world, where anyone can ID as anything they want and are above criticism, it is possible to not only appropriate, but be defended by these racist “crusaders” who deflect criticism, AGAIN, by using other terms from SJ, such as “ableist”, “ID-shaming”, etc.

These groups, these micro-minorities, frequently appropriate the language of legitimate struggle. Otherkin, specifically the now-deleted Kavitya and her ilk, appropriated the Holocaust and slavery to justify themselves. Otherkin, mostly white, non-Jewish Otherkin, defended these acts and said to challenge them was to “erase oppression”.

These same characters, claiming to be non-racist (while throwing People of Color up as tokens), legitimized this idea of “trans ethnic” identity. At its core, transethnicity is a racist, colonialist idea. Again, NSJ-ers deflected by framing it as an ID conflict and framing anyone (People of Color and true anti-racist allies) who challenged it as being against personal ID.

It should be stated that neither race nor ethnicity are “identities” you can change at will. They are what you are and that is something immutable. (inb4 people start trying to conflate that with anti-transsexuality) Hell, transsexuals and their very real oppression were used as means to deflect criticism of colonialist identities. That is disgusting, to say the least.

My belief is that this new social justice, which from what I can see is just existent in Tumblr (thank heaven), is at its core a front for white supremacy. By framing everything within an ID standpoint, and by framing everything to fit white micro-minorities whims and desires, they are knowingly being racist and white supremacist.

right on.

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"Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds it’s finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity."

Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism Theory and Practice. (via aflameoffreedom)

Anarchism Without Ajectives.  Take that libertarian capitalists. Freedom from the Market, shitballs! Last Resort!