#oh god the tags. tumblr what the FUCK are you doing. why double hashes. wh. bro pls stop.

[badolmen]

I think one of the hardest things for privileged leftists have to learn is that they can’t just automatically agree with the majority. They can’t just automatically agree with the opinion of the POC, the queer, the Jewish person they’re interacting with in the moment because ‘they’re the experts in their own life.’ Which is true! But there is no monolith. POC and queers and religious minorities are not some mystical pure hivemind that always agree on everything and have correct opinions all the time. People are people. What one person finds offensive another might not care about.

I feel like it’s very evident these days where you have some people of a minority saying x is bad and some people saying x is good. Which is correct? Well, you have to educate yourself and make a critical assessment of the arguments before coming to your own conclusion. But now you have leftists who are desperate to be the most agreeable person in the room with the ‘right’ opinions who waffle and fail to organize in any meaningful way because they refuse to let the subject at hand have meaning for them, personally. They’re so busy ‘listening’ to minorities they’re not actually thinking about what they’re hearing, they’re not processing the biases underprivileged people can still carry, they’re not critical of reactionary politics or propaganda so long as it’s what the people immediately around them agree on.

Grow a spine, pick a side, and actually have a framework for your political and social involvement other than ‘let’s be real niceys with everyone :)’

#ra speaks #personal #politics #sorry I am. so frustrated with some people rn. sorry that international politics can’t all be sat down like toddlers and told to play nice. #politics is MESSY and EVERYONE has ulterior motives whether they’re aware of them or now. look at behavoir and contrast it with words. #this feels like an offshoot of oppression Olympics ala ‘the most oppressed person in the room is always right’ no. no they ain’t. #you NEED to understand history and arguments and process them and come to YOUR OWN CONCLUSION #stop asking minorities to tell you how to think and feel. get up off your ass and make commitments. if they end up to be antithetical to #your beliefs - you can change! but you need an actual belief system to hold political movements and organizations against. #otherwise your just pouring water through a net and retaining nothing productive at all. #hm. anyways. #I have the emotional disposition of a chihuahua in an ASPCA commercial #👍 okay take care eepy time #oh god the tags. tumblr what the FUCK are you doing. why double hashes. wh. bro pls stop.