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numb3r_5ev3n) wrote2019-08-11 10:59 pm
numb3r_5ev3n) wrote2019-08-11 10:59 pm
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Let's talk about Tommy Lee's rant from Twitter this week.
This right here.
This was the moment when I realized something that had kind of been surfing around the edges of my social and political awareness, but it took this to bring it to the forefront.
The Right Wing is primarily concerned with preserving cultural markers. The Left is concerned with preserving actual lives. The Left wing wants to protect people. The Right wing wants to protect things.
Look at this, and look at everything he's attacking. At no point does he mention any actual violence. But you know, in a situation where anything in his rant were to actually come to pass, fascists and right wingers would be reacting as if he were.
I want to reference Lindsay Ellis's excellent video essay on the current Star Wars sequels, which I think goes into a little bit how fascists and the right wing place more importance on cultural markers than actual lives, even their own. They're conditioned to believe that their lives, our lives, everyone's lives are meaningless when compared to the precious, sacred cultural markers that they have been taught to revere.
This is really what we are up against. This, right here.
This was the moment when I realized something that had kind of been surfing around the edges of my social and political awareness, but it took this to bring it to the forefront.
The Right Wing is primarily concerned with preserving cultural markers. The Left is concerned with preserving actual lives. The Left wing wants to protect people. The Right wing wants to protect things.
Look at this, and look at everything he's attacking. At no point does he mention any actual violence. But you know, in a situation where anything in his rant were to actually come to pass, fascists and right wingers would be reacting as if he were.
I want to reference Lindsay Ellis's excellent video essay on the current Star Wars sequels, which I think goes into a little bit how fascists and the right wing place more importance on cultural markers than actual lives, even their own. They're conditioned to believe that their lives, our lives, everyone's lives are meaningless when compared to the precious, sacred cultural markers that they have been taught to revere.
This is really what we are up against. This, right here.
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Anyway, yes. I learned this when I was a baby anarchist being told that smashing a Starbucks window was violent, but letting people die on the streets or starve due to economic policy or labour in sweatshops was somehow not violent. It's only gotten worse since then. Kneeling is violent. Putting your hands up is violent. Breathing too loud is violent. Making a movie with female leads is violent. Mass murder, deportation, concentration camps for toddlers are...not violent?
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No matter who wins the White House in 2020, the first shots of the Second American Civil War have been fired or so future history books will say.