therealmidnite
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Reply to comment by ziq in Are all white South Africans colonialists? by ziq
So at what point will my mother cease to be a colonialist (according to your definition of it)? When she's living on the streets?
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Reply to comment by ziq in Are all white South Africans colonialists? by ziq
Here's my reddit post-history.
https://www.reddit.com/user/MisOes
I openly DARE you (or anyone on this site) to find me one example of me "denying" colonialism. It shouldn't be too difficult (if your summation is correct) - I spent most of my time on r/southafrica, and the subject of colonialism came up a lot there (well, it did until they banned me).
Engrained? No! It's almost as if this country was ruled by a violent, fascist, and openly white supremacist regime that spent an enormous amount of time, effort and resources to shove their beliefs down every light-skinned child's throat over a five-decade period! Compare that to the nazis - who barely had one decade. You know, when I tell people that my knowledge of fascism isn't based on theory... I actually mean it. And I don't view having that knowledge "ingrained" in me as a "privilege".
Speaking of white supremacism as a norm... I'd be more concerned about the "norms" of the countries white supremacists are fleeing to, than the one they are fleeing from.
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Reply to comment by ziq in Are all white South Africans colonialists? by ziq
Considering that there's a good chance the gold used in this computer (and the gold inside the piece of IT you're using) was mined within walking distance of where I'm typing this right now, I'd think twice before lecturing any South African (whatever their skin-colour may be) about "South African property". You didn't pay the externalized costs of that mineral - the people over here did. And I don't mean South Africa in general - I mean the very people in this toxic little town I'm in. I didn't "colonize" it - I was born into it.
So, yes, I am an anarchist. And my "anarchism" doesn't take a leave of absence and gets replaced by drive-through convenience leftism just because some place I could only ever be a tourist in doesn't fit an imaginary racial profile that means absolutely nothing to the people that actually has to live there. Those people in cringeanarchy? Fascists? Most of them probably are... for all practical considerations. Farmers? Land owners? "Controllers of capitol"? I grew up with those kinds of people - I know them better than you ever could. Yet you can tell all these things about them, while I can't. Feel free to explain that.
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Reply to comment by ziq in Delicious South African colonialist tears [CW: White South Africans] by ziq
I'm not aligning myself with them. You are the one holding the paintbrush... not me.
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Reply to Are all white South Africans colonialists? by ziq
So... you backpedalled on calling me a colonialist (in that exchange). But now my mother is a colonialist for owning the house she is living in? I own stuff in South Africa, too, you know. The computer I'm typing this on, for one. So do tell... if I didn't own this computer, would I still qualify as a colonialist?
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Reply to comment by ziq in Delicious South African colonialist tears [CW: White South Africans] by ziq
You didn't use the word fascist... you used the word colonialist.
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Reply to comment by RealPatriot in YOUR A RABBLE OF ANTIAMERICAN PINKO TERRORISTS by RealPatriot
Grammar-nazi.
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You know, the only people who have referred to me as a "colonialist" this year are certain local politicians... and you.
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You're. And it's anti-american. It's not one word.
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Reply to comment by RealPatriot in YOUR A RABBLE OF ANTIAMERICAN PINKO TERRORISTS by RealPatriot
you're
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Yeah, not going to happen. Keeping people alive (never mind healthy) in space (never mind an alien environment) is so ridiculously impractical and difficult that the "colonization" of other planets by anything resembling a human being will almost certainly never happen. The Elon Musks of this world is simply indulging the colonialist and expansionist fantasies of their forebears. That which is human is limited to this world, unfortunately.
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Fuck them. This state allows gigantic Japanese and Chinese corporations to "legally" strip our coastlines of all marine life, while criminalizing coastal communities who dare partake in these resources as "poachers". Pretty much how literally everything in this fucking country works. Fuck them. They can burn.
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Oh great... hold hands, sing kumbaya, and hopefully another token will get voted into the white house so that liberals can go back to sleep and pretend that racism is "dimunishing". Yeah, that'll show them.
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Reply to comment by anarchist_critic in Identity politics is a movement of the upwardly mobile upper-middle-class by anarchist_critic
Lol! Haven't spent a lot of time around the rich, have you?
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I'm subscribed.
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I was recently accused of spreading "right-wing anti-intellectualism" on r/anarchism for stating that academics who preach non-aggression against the right should not be considered authorities on the right.
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Reply to comment by An_Old_Big_Tree in What is your opinion of Mandela and the ANC? by retiredshared2
Mandela wasn't co-opted by capitalists. The ANC wanted to get their hands on the state-apparatus - and that's exactly what they did.
He also wasn't a sellout - the ANC was created to serve the interests of black capitalists and royalty, and to this day they have never strayed from serving those classes at the expense of everybody else. Everything else is just pr and realpolitik (which they are pretty good at). Mandela himself was a blue-blood. The people who brand Mandela a "sellout" simply doesn't know that he was never really one of them. Apparently, we don't have class in this country - only race.
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You mean, apart from the fact that he was a politician, and the ANC is a political party (with all that this implies)? The less said the better, in my opinion.
I have to mention this, though - the idea that the same brand of neoliberal turds who branded him a terrorist a mere decade before suddenly falling over themselves to rush over here and kiss his behind in public for a photo-op still gives me the giggles.
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Reply to comment by anarchist_critic in Anarcho-colonialist explains to a native American why they should stfu: "It was never the natives' land to begin with. I have as much a right to inhabit this land as anybody else does, regardless of my ancestor's actions." by ziq
Oh I'm sorry... you believe yourself "sophisticated". Allow me to modify my statement.
You're full of excrement.
There. That better?
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Good. It means the Rojavans are willing to play both sides to ensure their survival. If only Makhno and the Black Army did that when they were offered the opportunity...
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I've never understood the point of these "fake" meats - why not just learn how to properly use soy (or whatever they use in this stuff) as a foodstuff instead of dressing it up as something it isn't? It just smacks of the intellect-insulting casual dishonesty that permeates Big Food. Well, that and the fact that it's "backed" by Bill Gates - the world's most glorified useless git.
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Lol! Well of course the pig launched a "manhunt" - they hate freelancers stealing their death-squad-for-hire moonlighting jobs.
I remember long ago being involved in a project to field-trial a public transport information scheme in a small town in the Cape province - however, we couldn't actually talk to the two local taxi groups involved, because they refused to be in the same building without their entourages bristling with firepower. That pretty much killed the project.
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Well, that depends... what kind of apocalypse are we talking about? Are we talking real end of civilization scenarios or Hollywood apocalypse (you know, the silly kind preppers fantasize about) - because they are definitely not the same thing.
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Reply to comment by ziq in Are all white South Africans colonialists? by ziq
Afraid of saying it, ziq? I think we get enough reductionist bullshit from our own political establishment - we don't need it from first-world leftists as well. Goodbye.