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celebratedrecluse wrote

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what is cancerous is platforming people, of whatever background or skin color, who are trying to divide the movement into "good apples" "bad apples".

Where have we heard this discourse before? Oh right, it's the same fucking line that was supposed to neutralize the anger against the police in the first damn place. Now, repurposed for...the same goal. Defanging the opposition.

Why is this narrative being blown up everywhere in the media? A multiracial anti-cop movement in your country just burnt down a police station in an open insurrection and looted the weapons. Think. You believe the media is blaming this on "white anarchists" and "outside agitators"....because it is true?

By dividing a movement between black and white, between liberal and radical, you make it weaker. The strength is in the diversity and plurality of the people, and it is why your government is on the defensive for now. Is it not?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

No, whiteness does not stop being a monster, at any point. To be honest, I'm looking in from the outside. But I do see how the divide and conquer discourse on these uprisings to be in the interest of the empire, which I share an interest in destroying. A lot of us do, of course, people outside the USA.

You are right though, black american descendants of slavery will always bear the brunt of the repression in your country-- in fact, in many countries. I don't have an answer for how people are supposed to rise up against the enforcers, without the consequences being disproportionate. it is a strategy the empire has used for centuries, because it works. I guess I am, at a distance, and frustrated, because I see the same pattern happening again, and have no power to do anything about it directly.

I hope you are all able to work out some sort of synthesis and avoid the pattern repeating itself. Good luck to all of you.

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