orioler25
@orioler25@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights 2 days ago:
I don’t think this analogy is as effective as you think. Portraying trans people as “sacrificial lambs” both reasserts the notion that they are powerless and that their oppression is somehow a distraction from the imperialist project and not integral to it.
Transphobia is a necessary element of white supremacy and colonialism because the very existence of trans people proves that naturalised gender and sexuality (and the accompanying oppression of women as men’s property and baby makers) is arbitrary and not compatible with our material reality. It’s systemic.
Because it is systemic, we know that this oppression is also something that has to be constantly maintained in increasingly resource consuming and convoluted ways to enable transphobia in a liberal system that seeks legitimacy through moralized human “rights.” That means that resistance is not only possible, but inevitably effective unless appropriated by those moralized values (which was largely how liberals tried to disarm queerness in the twenty-first century leading up to this more overt wave of trans genocide).
Trans people are not helpless, and they aren’t “sacrificial” any more than women, racialized people, indigenous people, disabled people, and any other queer people are. All of this oppression is all inextricably linked, the narrative that they target one group to distract from oppression of the others is only effective with people who don’t intuitively understand that.
- Comment on Vibe management 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how you don’t think that all translates into labour value. These are expenses and the fake narrative that this technology is even capable of labour is itself oriented around making human labour less valuable. It’s always been about reaping even more from the only resource they have difficulty owning completely.
- Comment on Vibe management 1 week ago:
Pretty sure the point was to drive down the price of labour?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Lmao, you typed this still, why are you trying to talk to me?
Oh, I just realized you are referring to my calling liberals fascists and not when I call “socialists” liberals. Oh boy, wait 'till you learn about liberalism.
See, this is how you stop someone from talkin to you dummy: blocked.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Some were people who grew up in former Soviet states where simplified versions of socialist writing in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were taught and they focused more heavily on the political structure of the communist state rather than the relationality and philosophical underpinnings of Marxism and socialism; structuralist and postmodern ideas didn’t even seem to factor in.
It’s true though, there has been a very intentional effort among liberals to appropriate socialist and communist ideas into their rhetoric as they have feminist, queer, and African American theory under neoliberalism. I’ve had classes where I have to explain what “liberal” means because it’s pretty much assumed it’s going to be heard the same as “progressive,” which has also been deprived of meaning but over a much longer period of time. Euros are the same though, and on Lemmy especially since it’s a bit more distributed among American and European users for a bunch of reasons. You see it on other platforms, but on here there’s so many Europeans who straight up think they’re altruistic socialists but presume everyone else agrees that colonialism is over and Europe is reformed (corporations and international law is what isn’t colonialism apparently btw, lol)
Liberalism is exceptional at appropriation because it has emerged over centuries of EuroAmerican imperialism and settler-colonialism, its main purpose is to steal.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
For the joke, yes. But, also because I’m curious if you have a real critique besides “stinky and mean to me,” as I genuinely don’t have experience with that community, but have ran into a lot of uncritical “socialists” on fediverse stuff in general.
Another funny thing here is you’ve done a lot of stuff that I don’t think you realize is telling of liberal thought, the infantalization is another big one, but you’ve hit almost everything. If your next comment is something about trans women, think we got a full row.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s helpful to construct liberals as ignorant in the same way a child is. It is an uncritical and harmful way to think, but children can’t understand what genocide is because they haven’t lived long enough and do not know enough about the world, adults differ in that it is a choice to remain ignorant or to not change in response to knowledge.
There’s a special kind of malice that comes from truly knowing you’re wrong but do not care to learn better; not because they can’t, but because it is inconvenient.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Are you a liberal?
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
“Academic types … who have enough money and power…” Gee, that’d be the day. That prestige and wealth is largely denied to academics specifically because this sort of scholarship was so challenging to a capitalist system and so difficult to commodify.
I’m honestly not sure what the rest of this is meant to mean in this context, as it is mostly incoherent anti-intellectualism that could not come from academic experience in the slightest. Quite literally, scholars are punished for doing what you claim to think they do here. They want you to have four publications and several community outreach initiatives before you’re even done your Ph.D. in many fields now.
Also, it isn’t dehumanising to say you’re uninformed and wrong, humans do that all the time. To reduce that term to the meaning, “you were mean to me on the internet (I wasn’t),” is honestly gross and embarrassing. We use that term to explain cultures that systemically eradicate groups of people, you’re going to sit here and pretend you’ve experienced a fracrion of that victimization in an internet comment thread. I’m not sure where you get off acting that entitled to truth, but I wouldn’t even say something like that anonymously and be happy with myself that night.
I won’t be reading anything else you send.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you thought my comment was suggesting, but ableism is not related to whether or not you subscribe to the idea that disabilities exist, it refers to the systemic oppression of disabled people and construction of disability as devaluing. Races as they are constructed socially are inherently racist as their existence is entirely contingent on a way of life where groups of colonized people are subordinated, but it would not be racism for a racialized person to correctly identify that race exists because of the world they live in. Structuralism and social construction aren’t terms that we use to prove that a thing doesn’t exist, but how human action as the explanation of why that thing has come to be.
What makes something like AuDHD a disability is that people are systemically oppressed for possessing those traits, not that those traits only exist because we made them up. It’s true that you may have pain or discomfort from those traits even outside of this system, but it wouldn’t necessarily exist in terms of ability when society isn’t orgsnized around commodification and profit maximization (wage labour, and the forces that coerce people into productivity). There isn’t a “natural” rate of neurodiversity or ability as that language and all of our understandings of it are inextricably linked as well as realized through a system that is organised around those imperatives.
We know that human beings have not always valued people by the productivity of their bodies because we have archaeological evidence of early humans caring for others who would not have been able to survive on their own (as though any person would). Even more, there is genuinely no way to tell if these kinds of sensory issues have in fact taken on the form they have because of these conditions. Schizophrenia produces wildly different experiences from the same symptoms depending on cultural contexts, for example. Even if you had the same symptoms, how would you experience them differently if you were not forced to hear loud noises or sun exposure, or with no negative connotation attributed to that intolerance, or with many other members of your community experiencing similar symptoms with your value as human beings left completely intact?
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
My eyes rolled so hard that I could hear them.
I do not live under a communist or anarchist authority (as funny as it is to suggest there’d be an authoritarian anarchist system), and so I can only analyze the system I do live under. If you want to accept dehumanization for convenience and comfort, you can keep that to yourself. I do not, and therefore I criticize this system the way it deserves to be and do so to better understand how to build something better, whatever that may be.
Either way, it was truly boring to read this comment. If structuralist and postmodern theory from fifty years ago is shocking to you, I’m afraid you aren’t the right person to be discussing this with me.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
I mean, yes, visibility and legitimacy is a major element in why neurodiversity is more widely recognized. However, STEM folks tend to reassert the authority of science as an institution of capitalism and settler-colonialism by not recognizing that these are not “illnesses” or pathological conditions naturally. Yes, they are behaviours that we have no reason to believe are divergent or new from typical human life, and their status as pathological is conditional on the specific social and material conditions that are facilitated by this system.
We are recognizing it more because it is covered more in scholarship, yes, but also because this system has created the conditions where we are even in the position to construct these behaviors as worthy of identifying to prove that they are real. If neurodiverse people didn’t have to justify their worthiness of human compassion and dignity just because they can’t conform to the expectations and demands of a system that only values human life for its productivity.
- Comment on Not a good sign 5 weeks ago:
It really isn’t hard to give up, people are forced to all the time and do fine. As I said, STEM industries and their respective academic institutions attract and reward people who wouldn’t give it up. They’re already liberals by merit of tolerating the obvious immorality of that system, and so material luxury is particularly effective at disarming whatever middling resistance they may have.
- Comment on Not a good sign 5 weeks ago:
Many STEM grads are class traitors, we can’t act like academic institutions didn’t play a direct role in funnelling skilful students into military and private medsci employment while working diligently to instill as much punishment for empathy as possible into their programs.
- Comment on Man on a mission 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Man on a mission 5 weeks ago:
Lmfao, you’re shadowboxing yourself. I never even mentioned porn, so I know you’re just assuming these things because you’re pissed at other women, and I can only deduce you’re making up shit they say too.
Weirdest exchange I’ve had on here tbh, I don’t think I’ve had anyone genuinely try to fight me over shit they made up about what other people have said.
Women love me, and I don’t give a shit about men hating me. You’re wondering why you’re an incel? It’s because you clearly don’t see them as people. Only way to stop seeing people like me is to stay inside off the internet forever or kill yourself, you can pick whichever.
- Comment on Man on a mission 5 weeks ago:
Is this comment meant for another thread…? I don’t know what the sweet shit you’re referring to. Nowhere here or anywhere have I said anything in support of porn bans.
Is this written with like, the assumption that being anti-misogyny is somehow synonymous with being pro-state? Either you’ve got the brainrot from all the bots that feed you your own viewpoints all the time, or this is seriously meant for someone else.
Feminists are often anti-porn on the basis of challenging the male gaze and recognition of the inherent coercion within a capitalist system eroding the ability of women to consent… is that what you think you’re referring to? I agree with these feminist views, but they in no way directly correlate with something like the anti-porn ban in the UK, exactly because it is obviously puritanical in nature and therefore patriarchal.
- Comment on Man on a mission 5 weeks ago:
Honestly fucking doubt it, have you seen this site? Even then, internalized misogyny and transmisogyny is a thing. I also don’t give a shit if they are.
- Comment on Man on a mission 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Man on a mission 5 weeks ago:
I already knew you weren’t. Could you explain how you think you’re in a position to determine if something is misogynistic? Like, you believe that you can tell women they aren’t harmed by a thing? Why? What are the consequences of this assertion that diminishes the voice of women?
- Comment on Man on a mission 5 weeks ago:
Good, then stop trying to talk to me, dummy.
- Comment on Man on a mission 1 month ago:
lol, go do them then loser.
- Comment on Man on a mission 1 month ago:
Make me.
- Comment on Man on a mission 1 month ago:
Cool, are you a woman?
- Comment on Man on a mission 1 month ago:
I’m sure this was very funny in a lonely misogynist sort of way.
- Comment on Man on a mission 1 month ago:
Wasn’t rage bait tbh, serious disgust I have for men like this and also you.
- Comment on Man on a mission 1 month ago:
Why men* don’t like me.
- Comment on Man on a mission 1 month ago:
Wow, that’s so funny how that guy made the joke about raping those dead sex workers’ bodies. What a mad lad and one of the boys.
This is why people don’t like men.
- Comment on Some folks might call me a dreamer 1 month ago:
More liberal doomerism, nice.
- Comment on Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death 1 month ago:
Oh, you thought that was a question. I know what the fear of aging and death is my guy, I was making a joke about it.
