Tag: politics

Leftists who turn their personal beefs into political ones should be ashamed of themselves.

The personal is political but not like that. The revolution is impossible if your ego is more important than building a viable movement.

I Feel Like We Shouldn’t Have To Go After An Artist’s Talent

To go after their politics.

Like the idea that you have to be like “so and so is so overrated” in order to call them a misogynist or whatever is fucked up because it perpetuates the idea that talent or artistic merit means a person or piece of art is somehow absolved of ethical concerns.

Also it perpetuates the just world fallacy where we believe moral people must be granted talent, and that talented people must therefore be moral which is blatantly not the case.

Also I think the fact that we go after women/POC/LGBTQ/disabled people/etc for saying/doing problematic shit so much harder than we go after straight cis white abled men is kinda fucked up.

Privilege Problems

There’s a weird thing with privilege where like a lot of demonstrations of privilege are not things privileged people should stop doing. Like white men feel safer walking alone at night than women and POC do. Should white dudes stop walking alone at night? No. Do straight couples have an easier time living together openly than gay couples? Yes. Does that mean they should stop? No. 

But then like sometimes “a demonstration of privilege” is used to mean some behavior that the does need to stop, like men relying on women for domestic and emotional labor or white people touching black people without their consent and I think the lack of a line between “something oppressed people need to be free to do” and “something privileged people need to knock off doing” leads to weird confusion where dudes are like “Are you telling me not to walk at night?” and I’m like “No, but women have to be vigilant in a way you don’t, so like try to give them space and not make them feel threatened”.

Cause like what would dudes who are trying not to make women feel threatened not going out at night get me?  A night full of actively hostile dudes and dudes who don’t care which is an even more threatening prospect cause there are even fewer potential helpers out there.

I feel like oppressed groups are denied basic rights, which are things everyone should be allowed, like being able to walk alone safely at night and oppressor groups are given privileges to treat oppressed groups in ways no one should be treated, like the freedom to touch people without their consent and not receive any repercussions.

You see what I mean?

Also Just FYI

I don’t think doing sex work is inherently radical, just like being a woman isn’t inherently radical.  All I want is to be thought of as a worker like all other workers, my labor analyzed as labor like all other workers’ labor.

There’s nothing inherently radical about being a prole, no identity makes you inherently radical, and there are plenty of oppressed people with shitty politics.