Uncle Van

Monké Don't Do Taxes
@Monster Zoro's Tesla Supplier found it.

No. It's called "having good enough material conditions of existence"

If you were to be controlled every week of your life by the police because you are black in a poor neighborhood, you would also have only massive resentment in your mind.

Trust me on that.
Not only did I end up with no resentment, I became a popo myself. Gotta ease up on the assumptions there buddy
For a psychiatrized like me, it would be similar as getting out of a psychiatric institution where I was systematically violented just to apply for a post in the same institution a few years later.
Can see where a little mix up happened, but the context and point is exactly the same.
 
The thing that you fail to understand is the context of these situations.
I mostly care about the context mate. That's why I talk about material conditions and ethics so much. I don't think you understand just how much I care about the context.

Sure, you and I could do things like killing another person, but the context would definitely be far different from people who simply murder another person because they rubbed them the wrong way or because they enjoy killing others.
And there is context in both situation. Me killing someone for a specific context doesn't mean that there is no context in a situation where a rando kills someone because they "rub them the wrong way". In reality, there are many contextual factor related to domination systems that can explain this action.

But to understand that, what you know as "context" must be extended, because the context in this situation is much bigger than the situation itself.


If I kill someone, it's because they tried to kill me or another person first. That's the only occasion where I'd be fine with killing someone.
Oh, really? What If I told you that to save the entire humanity, you need to kill a racist supremacist ? Wouldn't you at least hesitate ?


The context for why they murder people is different from self defense, they actively get a thrill out of it and want to do it instead of feeling forced to. And that isn't acceptable.
You oppose an ethical action against an unethical one here. Why?

Of course killing in self defense is more justifiable than killing out of the blue. It's not even a question. The point that we are talking about here are unethical actions. And in the case of unethical actions, we are ALL on the scale. And there are many scales

When someone says "you are retarded", well they are creating an ableist climate, it's a form of violence against people like me. When they say "Trany", it's a form of cissexism, same for others forms of violences.

Nobody here is perfect, not even me, we are ALL on the scale, sometimes high, sometimes low, but we all participate in violence, simply because our system created this violence. People will be out of the scale the day there will be an education where these domination systems won't exist. But this day is nowhere near.

Saying "rapist or murderers or wife beaters are monsters" is the same as saying "they are on the scale, but not me".


Marxism*
Trotskyism, today, is too fuzy and confusionnistic to be a relevant label

Can see where a little mix up happened, but the context and point is exactly the same.
So you did twisted my words, but to a reasonnable ammount this time
Ok. I take that back

:handsup:


:sus:


Ok, so you are a racialized man that:

- Lived in a poor neighborhood
- Was constantly harassed by the police weekly
- Faced the consequences of systemic racism on a daily basis

And..

You became a cop. A weapon of this system


Well... yeah..

Indeed, I failed to take that possibility of this kind of behavior into account. Which is crazy since Fanon made a text specifically about it, something I mentionned clearly arond that time. Lucky mistake.
 

Uncle Van

Monké Don't Do Taxes
So you did twisted my words, but to a reasonnable ammount this time
Ok. I take that back

:handsup:


:sus:


Ok, so you are a racialized man that:

- Lived in a poor neighborhood
- Was constantly harassed by the police weekly
- Faced the consequences of systemic racism on a daily basis

And..

You became a cop. A weapon of this system

Well... yeah..

Indeed, I failed to take that possibility of this kind of behavior into account. Which is crazy since Fanon made a text specifically about it, something I mentionned clearly arond that time. Lucky mistake.
Generalization much? You're again showing your lack of understanding of nuance, society, and the individual.
 

Jew D. Boy

I Can Go Lower
The trouble is, the difference between a Zionist and a Jew tbh becomes negligible when you’re speaking about Israelis.

Jews in diaspora have varying connections to Israel. Many strongly identify as Zionist, but many don’t give a shit about middle eastern politics, some are even outspoken critics of Israel.

But it’s different in Israel. They have a highly nationalistic culture, with every citizen serving in the military. What’s more, a lot of Israeli families fled antisemitism in Europe(back in the 1900s when it was bad) or the Muslim world. They see Israel as their only home. And they certainly don’t want to live in a country where the majority is the same folks they’ve been at war with for decades.
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Honestly feel like it makes more sense to criticize Kahanism when talking about the specific ideology of folks like Ben Gvir, over Zionism.

As “Zionist” can basically refer to almost every Israeli Jew
That’s kinda the point, isn’t it?? Israelis are Zionists purely based on their geographical location and allegiance, being Jewish is almost besides the point for them except when they can use that as a shield from criticism…those of us outside of that place can look at it differently and see the chinks in Bibi’s armor, but even then, the two concepts have been conflated so much that most Jews wanna defend an illegally occupied state that they don’t have any real connection with.
 
I mostly care about the context mate. That's why I talk about material conditions and ethics so much. I don't think you understand just how much I care about the context.


And there is context in both situation. Me killing someone for a specific context doesn't mean that there is no context in a situation where a rando kills someone because they "rub them the wrong way". In reality, there are many contextual factor related to domination systems that can explain this action.

But to understand that, what you know as "context" must be extended, because the context in this situation is much bigger than the situation itself.



Oh, really? What If I told you that to save the entire humanity, you need to kill a racist supremacist ? Wouldn't you at least hesitate ?



You oppose an ethical action against an unethical one here. Why?

Of course killing in self defense is more justifiable than killing out of the blue. It's not even a question. The point that we are talking about here are unethical actions. And in the case of unethical actions, we are ALL on the scale. And there are many scales

When someone says "you are retarded", well they are creating an ableist climate, it's a form of violence against people like me. When they say "Trany", it's a form of cissexism, same for others forms of violences.

Nobody here is perfect, not even me, we are ALL on the scale, sometimes high, sometimes low, but we all participate in violence, simply because our system created this violence. People will be out of the scale the day there will be an education where these domination systems won't exist. But this day is nowhere near.

Saying "rapist or murderers or wife beaters are monsters" is the same as saying "they are on the scale, but not me".



Marxism*
Trotskyism, today, is too fuzy and confusionnistic to be a relevant label


So you did twisted my words, but to a reasonnable ammount this time
Ok. I take that back

:handsup:


:sus:


Ok, so you are a racialized man that:

- Lived in a poor neighborhood
- Was constantly harassed by the police weekly
- Faced the consequences of systemic racism on a daily basis

And..

You became a cop. A weapon of this system

Well... yeah..

Indeed, I failed to take that possibility of this kind of behavior into account. Which is crazy since Fanon made a text specifically about it, something I mentionned clearly arond that time. Lucky mistake.
I don't care for your dumb little hypotheticals about me having to save the world by killing a dude (which I would do, btw, one life gone for the lives of billions of others to stay is a small price to pay). They're not relevant to the topic at hand.
People who beat their wife, or rape children, or mass murder people, or whatever else, they aren't humans. Maybe they are humans in a literal sense, but from a psychological/emotional standpoint, they aren't. They don't have the same logical tendencies as normal human beings, their brains are warped beyond repair.
Also, you shouldn't say slurs against trans people like that. I'm not calling you transphobic or anything, but I just wouldn't do it, personally. There's a reason why I never say the n word, hard r or not, here despite me being african american.
 
People who beat their wife, or rape children, or mass murder people, or whatever else, they aren't humans. Maybe they are humans in a literal sense, but from a psychological/emotional standpoint, they aren't. They don't have the same logical tendencies as normal human beings, their brains are warped beyond repair.
You have a better view of humanity than me in that case tbh

Because that was "normal" for 99% of human history,
 
You have a better view of humanity than me in that case tbh

Because that was "normal" for 99% of human history,
Slavery was also "normal" for a good while. I don't have a good view of you in general, but I think it'd be low for even you to think slavery was fine just because the majority of people either supported it or turned a blind eye to it back then.
Me and you both know you likely won't say that. So let's not use "it was seen as normal for a large part of history" as an excuse.
 
People who beat their wife, or rape children, or mass murder people, or whatever else, they aren't humans. Maybe they are humans in a literal sense, but from a psychological/emotional standpoint, they aren't. They don't have the same logical tendencies as normal human beings, their brains are warped beyond repair.
You’re just redefining what is human to exclude people you (understandably) dislike
 
Slavery was also "normal" for a good while. I don't have a good view of you in general, but I think it'd be low for even you to think slavery was fine just because the majority of people either supported it or turned a blind eye to it back then.
Most people didn't engage in slavery which is the difference

We are talking about how humanity is pretty "rough around the edges" when the ideal environment isn't provided, we have a biological aversion to killing people or raping kids, but humanity without the cultural guidance of Greek Gnostic Enlightenment and the ideal economic situation didn't have that same aversion to many things we consider bad biologically
 
I don't care for your dumb little hypotheticals about me having to save the world by killing a dude (which I would do, btw, one life gone for the lives of billions of others to stay is a small price to pay). They're not relevant to the topic at hand.
Thus proving that you would kill in another not necessarily ethical context.

People who beat their wife, or rape children, or mass murder people, or whatever else, they aren't humans. Maybe they are humans in a literal sense, but from a psychological/emotional standpoint, they aren't.
So you are still seeing yourself out of the scale then.

I'm very clearly talking from a moral standpoint anyway. I don't view them as "humans" from a morals standpoint.
And morality is not viable to understand the world.

Ethics are much better as they take contextual matter into account.


They don't have the same logical tendencies as normal human beings, their brains are warped beyond repair.
It's crazy the ignorance of liberals sometimes...

Listen, be dumb if you want, I do not consider it my place to make this place evolve anymore. It's gonna crumble anyway.


Also, you shouldn't say slurs against trans people like that. I'm not calling you transphobic or anything,
Yeah, I could say T-Word. But in a toxic place where trans people are already excluded and where the word is invibilized, the chances are, noone will understand what it means. So using it to denounce its usage is a necessity to make it visible then push people to prevent its usage. But this is mainly a different of culture.

The problem of words are the usage as dehumanization method. Not the denunciation of those dehumanizations. That would be the level 0 of activism.

But I agree that you should use the word that you want. I've never been against a black person using the n-word here.
 
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