Yes, but not against white people.
Concernism has its limits.
A system is bigger than a person, it's like this:
You know this gif, I already used it. The system is the circle, it is formed by the people, but also by their organization, their motion, their direction, the size etc. These, in real life are the instutions, the states, the social norms. But yes, the system is ultimately formed by people. But here is the real point:
It's not enough for people inside the circle to say "I want to stop dancing", they are in motion, and the motion will continue without them until there is only one left, the motion is still here and will eventually lead more people to join the circle. This "inertia" is the pressure I'm talking about. It's the education, the learned behaviors, the manners.
THings that are not inherited, but learned. Things that can be stopped but only at the condition that we understand the structure of the system and we attack it as a system.
Racism is a circle in motion from where we can't just extract yourself, it binds us through our education and behaviors. TO stop racism, changing behaviors is not enough. We must attack the domination for what it is, and institutionnal system of exploitation and domination.
It's comes from the people, but it's much more in reality.
Remember this: Racism was CREATED as a system of domination. It's never became one.
Angela Davis
Nobody is saying the left has no flaws. MANY leftists are stupido. Even some revolutionnaries are racist/ableist/sexist.
The point is: there is no equivalency between the left and the right.
The left is generally right and the right is completely wrong.
Claudia Jones
Indeed. It was dumb. At the time, I didn't knew this man:
Frantz Fanon
Judith Ezekiel
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
(I should've done this from the beginning, I'm so stoopid)
Your argument is idealistic. It's stand on the idealist philosophy that ideologies and viewpoints are one of the biggest factor of social change.
I say : this is wrong. Why? Because materialism. Because reality is not working in an idealistic way where the will of some will completely overide the agency of others to become someone else.
A fascist does not become fascist out of spite of leftist, they become fascist because of material interests, usually racial that they understand either consciousely or not. These material interest are what guide most of their leaning.
As for the acceptance of new beliefs. Researchers already understood that ideas are not developping that way. In reality, it's the opposite. The more people will enter in contact with people who believe in X idea, the most likely they will to adopt said X belief. Usually, that circle is the close one (family, friends).
A person outside of the circle will not influence you when you are already disagreeing with them and it will not push toward another attractive pole. The attraction comes from the size and magnitude of the pole. If the circle of influence is small but heavily linked and heavily radical, it has the potential of converting the ENTIRE spectrum.
What happens in politics, is that two poles are fighting for the attraction of people. Some people are attracted to the left, other to the right.
And what pushes people toward one side or the other are:
- Their material interest
- The strenght of the pull.
NOT THE OTHER POLE. if it was the case, all leftist would be antifascist. And that's not the case.
(this is the only buggy emote on the forum, this is a scandal)
