i wish i could remember who exactly it was, but i remember a few accounts of black panthers leaving the united states - possibly on a trip to mecca, and being like “these white people aren’t really white” because they were “brothers in islam” and weren’t actually behaving like crackkkers in america do, and were instead being respectful and kind. So actually yeah, the black panthers did understand that whtieness is political and a social construct

Ah, looks it was literally Malcom X himself

https://www.islamicity.org/6279/malcolm-x-the-pilgrimage-to-makkah/

“We were truly all the same (brothers)–because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.”

i know you’re making a joke, but i want to point out that this thread is about white people joking about hurting white people is bad, but somehow a joke about black activists not understanding basic critical race theory and jumping to being violent to white people is okay. I don’t really get that. i feel like joking that black activists will hurt white people because they don’t understand their own theory is far more racist than white people saying “kill all mayos”

Hilarious. goading racist white people into being banned and dunked on is good to me, and it’s why i make “kill all whitey” posts or whatever. It is definitely not to win brownie points from POC members. I’m just a shit stirrer and hate racists, and it’s quite easy to troll them by just using the same language they use to be racist against the people in power instead. Suddenly they have a problem with language like that if it’s used to punch up instead of down.

IMO in a white supremacist culture you can’t even be racist to white people. Baised against maybe, but you can’t actually be structurally racist.

I guess i don’t see it much differently than calling for the genocide of colonizers or . Like it’s not that deep. It’s fun to dunk on people who take anti-whiteness seriously. But i’m sorry it makes you feel uncomfortable and like mayos are trying to absolve themselves of their mayoness. I guess i just see it as white people rejecting white supremacy and punching up at white people who believe in white supremacy or race “”“science”“”, which seems harmless to me. But thanks for sharing your point of view.

this might be terrible advice. Maybe since you have PTSD you are dealing with your body going into freeze mode when threatened, but you really need to get more fight mode. Practicing hitting for real and sparring will definitely help condition you to automatically respond when threatened, i have experienced this when i’ve been forced to self defend. It is automatic now.

I think just build up to making it feel safe to spar and feel angry. I feel like when i was stuck in feeling frozen from PTSD, i wouldn’t even let myself feel anger because it was too dangerous for me, so maybe you’re in the same place? Yeesh i’m terrible at this.

If you can’t imagine hurting them over self-defense, maybe try imagining hurting them over some imagined defense of others. When sparring, as long as you’ve got safety equipment on, you’re good to go. it’s great practice for learning. If it’s too real to think of it as real self defense, just think of it as a fun game like fencing to get yourself into it, that lets your body learn how to move and gets your brain time to warm up to the idea of actually hurting another person.

You could try reading some black panther’s theory about self defense and seeing if any sticks with you into why it’s good actually to be ready to hit back. I’m kicking myself because i don’t remember exactly the title i’m thinking of, but Black Against Empire is great, or maybe it was Against Civility. transcript.

Anyway, here’s “In defense of self defense” by comrade Huey Newton

“the oppressor has no rights that the oppressed is bound to respect. Kill the slavemaster, destroy him utterly, move against him with implacable fortitude. Break his oppressive power by any means necessary.”

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I agree, most likely it’s one of those things that arose independently or we won’t ever really find the first usage of the term.

BUT, since i was curious, I tried searching “Genocide Joe” on oldest search, which supposedly tries to find the first time something appeared. That’s saying the first instance of the phrase “Genocide Joe” was this instagram post on Oct 18, 2023, but i’m kind of

Not sure how else to search for it though.

IF that’s true, then this hexbear post on October 16 does actually predate the instagram one though. So there’s no evidence against the hexbear originated the term theory, (that i could find), and that’s certainly the funniest theory. Still, i think it probably just happened organically in a few places at once lol.

Honestly as someone who reads a lot, theory and nonfiction is generally a challenge to get through. I have to cycle through easier books and nonfiction/theory. Some theory is easier than others, but if you’re trying to start a reading habit, i wouldn’t start with dense texts unless you’re prepared that it will be a bit hard.

Maybe try something more engaging to get your brain used to focusing on reading and then you can try to intersperse some theory in between fiction or graphic novel chapters or something? That’s what i do.

I feel like reading is almost a form of mindfulness, where you have to be completely focused on the task to really absorb everything. So it takes some time to get used to focusing like that for extended periods of time. It’s a lot easier when the book is entertaining, lol!

Some people i’ve known have read along with an audiobook to help focus, too.

Sorry for the wall of text, i’m just a book lover so i like to help other people get into it when they seem interested :)

Yesterday i got called a “tankie incel” for pointing out that biden supports is(n’t)real, and that states doing genocidal oppression aren’t doing democracy

I mean, i am a tankie, but it’s not like they should have known that from my comment

they always ask me if i want sharing plates at the restaurant and i always so no, but end up sharing anyway

remember when trump got like two billion dollars in free coverage from the news and everyone was like damn, maybe we shouldn’t do that next time

Well, the news corps are at it again folks. More and more people are saying it. They’re gonna meme the big red boy into the white house again

Two one term fascists fighting over which gets to be the next full term war criminal in chief