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Anarchyagogo: the girl who mistook her whiteness for a universal

akagoldfish:

The said part is, I don’t think she even realized much less intended this. I really believe she literally has no idea about the implications her statements and ideas carry.

Brother, I agree. She doesn’t realize. But that’s different than not knowing. I agree, she doesn’t understand the implications of her statement. But this is the bargain we must confront with white power. She isn’t naive; she isn’t ignorant. She’s willfully resisting critical thought about her own passive identification with whiteness. It’s careless and reckless to insist that agglomarated individual racist acts are what make up racism. In other words, many white people want to say “all racism can be is a history of racist acts.”  That is the denial of white supremacy and the acceptance of the white power structure. It’s norming.

If you look at my dagseoul archive on blogger, you’ll find a lot of posts about white power in Korea. White people come to Korea, look around, see themselves as a minority, and then go around yelling at Koreans for being racists. Then they go back to their English-speaking countries and live comfortably within white power with their mouths shut about the whole thing. I say, to these people and to anarchyagogo, that you don’t get to play naive. You must recognize racism as white supremacy and learn to accept the consequences of living within a global economic system that perpetuates white power, no matter who accesses it.

After all whiteness is not about white individuals. It’s not an ethnicity.

So, I hear you. But… I think she’s covetous. She wants to own the pain of the oppressed like she wants to own her own whiteness.

(via ghost-of-algren)

Anarchyagogo: the girl who mistook her whiteness for a universal

What is most annoying is that she is making it a universal. Everything that can be explained and experienced is part of her experience. Not only can white people experience racism (remember, we’re not talking about racist acts by individuals, we’re talking about racism, which is different) but white people can understand, say, the bigotry Koreans suffered before, during and after the Japanese occupation. Why? Well because white people know about that, too, apparently, and for no other reason.

In other words, for anarchyagogo and so many other white people on tumblr (in this case,) whiteness is the universal and always present signifier for race. If Africans experience genocide, there’ll be a white person there to put it into context for us all.

Do realize that anarchyagogo’s point isn’t that other people can be racist. Anarchyagogo’s point is that if white people can’t experience racism, then nobody else can.

Fuck this white power crap. Call it out whenever you see it. Don’t let it rest. Don’t giggle at it. Betray it. Put it down. With extreme prejudice.

This is the sort of thing that requires the heel of your boot. When you hear the white girl say anarchy is order, now you know what she means: white order. universal order. jealous and covetous order.

sameness =/= equality 

Anarchyagogo: “How come white people can’t also experience racism?”

akagoldfish:

anarchyagogo:

And how can a “white” person not ever experience racism, whereas a “coloured” person can?

I’m going to pass on this one …

I simply want to tell Anarchyagogo to “STFU, you’re wrong” all the time. But here she’s participating in white power embracing whiteness. Usually, she’s simply transporting common crass libertarian ideology from liberal capitalism into her anarchist posts, which is common and boring quite frankly. But here she’s using a white supremacist trope. Never pass on calling out white nonsense. Never.

White Supremacy 101 // White Power 101 //

also file under: Things White People Like to Say

Two things:

1. First, there is nothing in the world that white people think that they don’t know. If you’ve experienced something via your social class and/or ethnicity, there’s sure to be a white person who says “Hey that’s my experience, too.”

2. You seem to willfully conflate racism, which is more appropriately called white supremacy, with a racist act. Certainly white people can experience a racist act. Racism, on the other hand, is a tool in the white power toolbelt.

(via ghost-of-algren)

aflameoffreedom asked: 'What good fortune for governments that the people do not think' - Hitler. So an Anarchist can't post this statement on there blog for the obvious reasons of who Hitler is? What about the relevance of this quote to today, it is a message that all the people who don't think for themselves are essentialy on the path if not already to being a slave of the state and authority, to the reign of fascism.

More “anarchists” who think Hitler rulez! Hitler was a thinker, guyz! He said some valid stuff!

Yes, that’s right. These douche bags are filling up my mailbox with quotes showing Hitler made some valid points. Really. All night with this stupidity.

Listen you dumb fucking hard-ons: I told Anarchyagogo not to reblog shit by Hakim Bey because when he writes about natural law, he’s writing about his desire to fuck children. Then she reblogged that even Hitler has valid things to say. Her point is a non sequitor. I made a good point. And you all should shut the fuck up already.

Remember, as Anarchyagogo put it: Anarchy is Order!

Tell Anarchyagogo to stop posting crap from pedophiles like Hakim Bey and she insists even Hitler had good things to say.

Anarchyagogo everybody! Because Anarchy is Order!

anarchyagogo everybody!