"Fanon analyzed how black individuals are forced to adopt white cultural values (the "white mask") to feel recognized as human, leading to self-alienation. He argued that racism is a "mental sickness" stemming from colonial power dynamics that treat blackness as a subhuman construct."
This was essentially your counter argument to what I said. And now you're trying to "educate" me on whiteness and that I need to reflect.
It's pretty clear what your point is. You do this all the time.
No. I'm giving you information. It's up to you to see if that's sounds familiar or not. Your constant reframing of racism, your material interest, your position and your eternal desire to show that leftist like me are "exagerating" has all the sign of what Fanon explained for colonialism, but also what antiracist and antiimperialist analyze as a fundamental constituant of the centrist and reactionnary votes in the world when it comes to racialized communities.
I'm not giving any conclusion, I'm telling you what I see. And thus, I give you contextual documentations. (
also be careful with Fanon, the guy was a psychiatrist, is understanding of whiteness is important, but it also has its limits. Take the informations with care)
It's pretty clear what your point is. You do this all the time.
I'm very clear with my point. If you take me giving you informations as me trying to educate you, yeah, that's the point. If you are trying to twist that into some sort of white savior bullshit.. (
because I know how you work with me) , what do you want me to say? Think what you want mate.
This information is fundamental to understand why racialized people defend the system in racist setting, if you feel belittled by that. I'm sorry, it's not the point. The point is to show you that there is a reason behind the defense of racism from racialized people. Whiteness is a status within whitesupremacy that is reserved to non-racialized people (the point). Whiteness is the reason why white people vote for Trump EVEN when they are directly impacted by his system. But it's also why people of color vote for him EVEN if he is racist.
Whiteness creates a status where white people will know through education that they will benefit from a better life than people of color. Charle W Mills calls this the "Racial contract". And the is tricky because within white supremacy, racialized people will seek this "whiteness" thus creating the condition of their own oppression and invisibilization but also exploitation.
Have you never heard the sentence: "Asian people are exemples in society"? Whiteness is exactly that, it create a push for racialized people to access to a form of respectability toward white people. An illusion that only last as long as they won't ask for more than what they are allowed.
If they ask for too much or if they raise concern, you will see white supremacy turn on them very quickly. So I'm sorry if you feel bad from me saying this, but this "respectability" in front of racism and the call out of the "bad apples" of other people of colors because "they are going too far" is something I've dealt with time and time again in this thread.
Not agreeing with your inaccurate terms ≠ not understanding what they mean. Everyone knows an what a cat is....they dont give a damn about personal definitions claiming they are canines. You keep trying to justify using them wrong.
Again, sounds like dogma to me. Especially when the knowledge I give you comes from science and other scholars.. Imagine scientists saying to their peers "I don't care about your understanding, don't give your own definitions" lmao
Well you are not scientists, I know, but I believe you are still rationnal people. Capable of looking up for documentations and info.
>Assisted suicide is a complex subject that needs dozens of checks and balances to make sure the government isn't just encouraging people to kill themselves to save money
>If someone's life is fucked beyond recognition then there's some sense in it even if it's gonna hurt people in their lives
Most leftist on the subject of assisted suicide are lost. Handicaped people know better.
And the solution is not suicide. At least not in most of the cases. The solution is a better life. We now know that assisted suicide is used by people who are not in dire physical condition, but people who are abandonned by society.
Assisted suicide under capitalism is eugenism. Pure and simple.
We - people with handicaped - are DIRECTLY targeted by these laws allowing assisted suicide. Simply because when you are in the situation I am, not only do you feel lost and abandonned by society most of the time, but you feel as a burden for your entire social circle. This is how I still feel today, I managed to lessen this feeling, it was a lot stronger before and it almost led me to dark thinkings.
In capitalism, handicaped people are directely targeted by the system and by people. It's invisible, but the entire society would prefer for us to be dead than to deal with whatever the fuck we need. The institutions are made to belittle us. The medical personal are not here to help us, but to help our recovery to go back to the production. And the production system is made in a way that will systematically exploit our disabilities.
The entire system is constructing the oppression, domination and exploitation of all psychiatrized and handicapped people and all citizen and instiution arestressing us to attain a status of
legitimacy and
dignity that THEY
created for themselves.
Under capitalism and if we listen to people and systems: when you are an handicaped person, when you are psychiatrized, with a visible but mostly with invisible disabilities you are not a "productive member of society" and therefore you are worthless.
This, as we already know, pushes people to ask for suicide to stop suffering from their pain but mostly from the social cost that is inflicted on them by the entire ableist and eugenist system. So in such a world, assisted suicide is not a "solution of dignity", it's
assisted murder that puts
EVERYONE OF US in danger. And if you don't believe me. You have examples in this very thread of people depicting this exact ableist behavior against me.
There must be something done for people who are suffering, but the solution is not to put every one else in danger.
Reparations are all virtue signals. Should’ve been done back durng restoration but Lincoln died before anything could’ve been done
Natives in the US are still waiting for reparation and they land back btw
Point to one user here with direct quotes who said something even remotely close to this.
Dude, there are 3000 pages...
And again, racism and systemic racism are the same thing : A white supremacist system.