As a leftist, I criticized a politician on bluesky for not taking to the streets with us and helping organize and build alternatives to capitalism if they want to help in this moment like they were posting. Essentially, using the “yes, and” we activists are always hit with that we need to vote amd speak out and organize and protest and go to town halls and make phone calls and and and…
I had no idea I was such a bigoted racist until half the population defending Obama told me.
I don’t want to make generalizations myself, but the accounts were all white women. Some selling lotion? Weird. They called me lazy and to, I quote, “not expect magical negroes to fix your problems.”
When I pointed them to my posts on the same account that I was going to protests and helping establish community pantries and helping our neighbors start backyard gardens that was actually just drawing doodles and playing in gardens they said. I didn’t catch the license plate of those goalposts flying by me.
Liberals/centrists are scary too. They are kinda just helping republicans/conservatives bring in fascism since they’re too busy laying in a chalk outline of themselves. We should be working together but instead I’m a racist when I ask a politician, with power and platform, who says he genuinely wants to help protect democracy, to join us in solidarity.
Division wins again stopping us from a working class awakening.
Thought I’d share the recent experience from the center to the left vs the OP of the right to the left.
As a leftist, I criticized a politician on bluesky for not taking to the streets with us and helping organize and build alternatives to capitalism if they want to help in this moment like they were posting. Essentially, using the “yes, and” we activists are always hit with that we need to vote amd speak out and organize and protest and go to town halls and make phone calls and and and…
I had no idea I was such a bigoted racist until half the population defending Obama told me.
I don’t want to make generalizations myself, but the accounts were all white women. Some selling lotion? Weird. They called me lazy and to, I quote, “not expect magical negroes to fix your problems.”
When I pointed them to my posts on the same account that I was going to protests and helping establish community pantries and helping our neighbors start backyard gardens that was actually just drawing doodles and playing in gardens they said. I didn’t catch the license plate of those goalposts flying by me.
Liberals/centrists are scary too. They are kinda just helping republicans/conservatives bring in fascism since they’re too busy laying in a chalk outline of themselves. We should be working together but instead I’m a racist when I ask a politician, with power and platform, who says he genuinely wants to help protect democracy, to join us in solidarity.
Division wins again stopping us from a working class awakening.
Thought I’d share the recent experience from the center to the left vs the OP of the right to the left.
Free palestine.