Raccoon the UNGOOD CRIMETHINKER (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} arocoun2) wrote,@ 2009-07-31 14:40:00 |
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Upon Further Thought...
I may have accidentally shown too much negativity toward the APOC disruptors, while seeming to support the racism of the CI folk. So allow me to make a few points to clarify my view on the whole spectacle.
--The APOC disruptors were annoying because they focused so much on color (not even race, but color); they ignored other critical issues like class, or wealth (most of the CI folk were poor), or most important by far: The individual. But honestly, I'm not that angry at the disruptors at this time, because what they said was right. They really don't have a lot of power, politically or otherwise. It's unfair, and it's wrong; and I can't be angry at them for lashing at the weakest group of white people that they could find.
--Half of the CrimethInc. folk are a bunch of liberal fucktards. Seriously, the dumbasses who set up the convergence thought from the beginning that white people gentrify neighborhoods, but they set up the convergence near a poor black neighborhood anyways. If you think you're a gentrifier, and you hold your event near a poor black neighborhood, it's either racist, or incredibly dumb, or both.
--Dumb-ass shit was said by the CI folk. Just because I think individualism is tons more important than skin color, doesn't mean that I find comments that say race doesn't matter at all to be acceptable. And quoting MLK, or stuff like the Inappropriate Jokes workshop, are just begging for trouble, at best.
--I think both the disruptors, and the CI, have their priorities way off. There are much, much bigger forces of gentrification that a one week convergence populated by poor white people. And, there are much, much bigger things for a person to feel guilty for than being the wrong skin color. Like eating tortured animals.
--Most important point of all for me, is that I have a true love of individualism and choice. To me, there's no greater goal for the individual than moving beyond what they're born as to become something better. And there are few things I find more unbearable than people who focus things that can't be chosen (like race, or sex, or species), and who focus more on identity politics (you're black, you're white, you're male, etc.) than on the individual and their choices.
I may have accidentally shown too much negativity toward the APOC disruptors, while seeming to support the racism of the CI folk. So allow me to make a few points to clarify my view on the whole spectacle.
--The APOC disruptors were annoying because they focused so much on color (not even race, but color); they ignored other critical issues like class, or wealth (most of the CI folk were poor), or most important by far: The individual. But honestly, I'm not that angry at the disruptors at this time, because what they said was right. They really don't have a lot of power, politically or otherwise. It's unfair, and it's wrong; and I can't be angry at them for lashing at the weakest group of white people that they could find.
--Half of the CrimethInc. folk are a bunch of liberal fucktards. Seriously, the dumbasses who set up the convergence thought from the beginning that white people gentrify neighborhoods, but they set up the convergence near a poor black neighborhood anyways. If you think you're a gentrifier, and you hold your event near a poor black neighborhood, it's either racist, or incredibly dumb, or both.
--Dumb-ass shit was said by the CI folk. Just because I think individualism is tons more important than skin color, doesn't mean that I find comments that say race doesn't matter at all to be acceptable. And quoting MLK, or stuff like the Inappropriate Jokes workshop, are just begging for trouble, at best.
--I think both the disruptors, and the CI, have their priorities way off. There are much, much bigger forces of gentrification that a one week convergence populated by poor white people. And, there are much, much bigger things for a person to feel guilty for than being the wrong skin color. Like eating tortured animals.
--Most important point of all for me, is that I have a true love of individualism and choice. To me, there's no greater goal for the individual than moving beyond what they're born as to become something better. And there are few things I find more unbearable than people who focus things that can't be chosen (like race, or sex, or species), and who focus more on identity politics (you're black, you're white, you're male, etc.) than on the individual and their choices.
