Tag: classism

The Intersection Of Anti-Blackness and Classism

Is a thing where the forms of oppression (and I use classism not in the liberal sense, but as in the aggressive expression of class tensions created by capitalism) are so closely intertwined it’s often not even considered an intersection. 

Like a lot of terms (I’m not going to use them because they are cruel words and it’s not my place) are racialized, but also intensely classed and often heavily gendered as well.  They’re used to describe proletarian black women’s forms of femininity and also I have to say those forms of femininity are badass (and of course the white bourgeoisie is appropriating them, but also it’s interesting and worth noting that black members of the bourgeoisie cannot adopt these signifiers because of how respectability works, which just goes to show how shitty everything is)  

Working class black women are so important and we must protect them at all costs.

Also like I think that classism is a useful term

As a leftist, because I think classist aggression, and class injuries are indicative of the shape and way of functioning of the system of capitalist domination, like classist microaggressions serve the purpose of reinforcing the system and making alternative systems harder to propose and enact.

Like by stereotyping the working class as lazy, criminal, ignorant and socially regressive they put us on the back foot, and like when liberal bourgeois folks use say “gay rights” as a way to posit their obvious superior to the working masses, they A: Erase the incredible violence their system does to LGBTQETC people who don’t fit into bourgeois models of respectability or have the financial resources to keep themselves safe and B: Also fail to admit to the general economic violence intertwined with oppression and basically cover shit up and yea

Seriously, when upper class northern white people make fun of poor southern white people

and say shit like “cousin marrying ignorant hillbillies” you’re being really classist and honestly, trying to make yourself look good by trying to act like southerners are the only racist ones just makes the whole thing extra shitty.

Yr smug hatred of country music (which is deeply and intimately linked with blues, gospel and jazz influenced bluegrass) is ignorant.  Being smug and acting like you’re better for coming from above the Mason-Dixon and having gone to college, doesn’t mean you’re not a racist.  You are just as capable of being a murderous, racist piece of shit.

Racism is more overt in the south and more covert in the north, but there’s just about as much horrible shit up here, we’re just better at hiding it under a veneer of color blind bs.

kiarajean:

star-pilot:

supervillainesses:

Yes, country music is awful, but people tend to ignore the factual issues with the genre:

-Promotes rape culture

-Got its start with deeply racist roots

-Glorifies the “all-American girl trope” of blue-eyed, blonde-haired young women

-Historically misogynistic and still is to this day

-No amount of “feminist” Dixie Chick-style musicianship can erase all that

I finally have MORE than one excuse to justify why I hate country music.

this could apply to all genres but living in Kentucky where people think country is the only “wholesome” music and that rap will turn you into a criminal, this should be talked about more. I work at a bank and country is the only music we’re allowed to play because its “family” music. 

Like I think some of this is a little classist, and honestly, like a lot of old labour songs are country… including a bunch of stuff written by POC (not to mention the genre is heavily intertwined with the history of blues and gospel), and so like while most modern corporate country is shit, the genre hasn’t always been that way and this post makes me really uncomfortable

Honestly, I feel like this is another incident of upper class northern white people throwing rural southern working class folks under the bus to conceal their own racist bullshit.