I'm also against using "rest in power" or other Black terminology for white people.
For several reasons, such as;
- It's easy to provoke disenfranchised Black people into starting divisive arguments because they want their oppression to be heard, and psyops take advantage of that,
- Terms Black people coined are always taken out of context and this harms their ability to fight against oppression when they are using them,
- The use of more revolutionary and provocative terms will give the agents of imperialism a hard time to shame the people into silence or denounce them as racists,
- Our terminology should include horizons, visions and goals that will encourage our people and make the enemies shake.
Therefore I suggest using terms such as;
- May your sacrifice be a milestone in a society we will build on the ashes of imperialism,
- Rest knowing that the empire will crumble with your spark,
- We will remember your heroic act as a catalyst for the destruction of our oppressors,
- You will never be forgotten unlike the colonial order we will dismantle.
See if the psyops could argue with these. And whenever people use divisive arguments, don't argue. Ask them questions on the issues such as what they think of cops, military industrial complex, prison and slavery system, indigenous rights and who are their favourite Black thinkers. If they can't provide satisfactory answers, don't engage them. They deserve cancelling over speaking about things they don't understand.
Black people in the imperial core can be the victims of the imperialism as well as the perpetrators of it. It depends on how disenfranchised they are and how much they are willing to suck up to the white supremacist order in order to be able to oppress other people. Everyone can serve as an agent of imperialism regardless of race, class, gender, disability or any other axis of oppression. That is not even limited to imperial core. That's why it's up to the oppressed to think about who are benefiting their actions.
It's important that the electronics we use to do our "activism" come at the price of the suffering of Congolese people. Possibly Bolivian people too. Also the sufferings of the workers that are exploited in the Far Eastern countries. We all could suffer from imperialism while using the materials extracted through the imperial order of suffering. That doesn't make any of us less oppressed. It gives us a duty to try to end all kinds of oppression and dismantle the imperialist system altogether.
As a side note, discriminating against people while advocating against other types of discrimination makes a person a disgusting hypocrite.
If your communism ends when you think you can't consume products from underdeveloped countries cheaply, you're a scum.
If your anarchism ends when you think it's not okay for people to gather and build structures out of their own volition for only themselves after the revolution, you're a scum.
If your feminism finds it convenient to stereotype men of other races and caricaturise them as monsters, you are the monster.
If your veganism doesn't recognise the situations of indigenous people and disabled people, sufferings of agriculture workers and environmental degradation that vegan products cause, it means you're not against cruelty to all living beings. You're just a self righteous idiot.
If your anti violence is only for those who resist against the legal order that oppresses themselves, you are amongst the perpetrators of said oppression, deserving of violent resistance against yourself.
If your queer rights activism ends at the people who are acceptable queers in your worldview, you're a bootlicker of the patriarchy. Those boots are coming for you next.
If your disability advocacy is not inclusive of recreational use of substances -legal or illegal-, you're just another selfish person being loud.
These are just examples. They can be multiplied into several cases.
Being against one type of bigotry doesn't excuse other types of bigotry. People can make these mistakes for a lot of reasons, but once it's explained to them if they continue their bigotry, they should be cancelled altogether. We should not engage them at all, and a blocklist is in order. No need to waste our time in good faith because of bad faith actors.
Say, "Okay, bigot/bootlicker/racist so on..." to call them out. Then blocked. If they learn, they have to learn it the hard way.
