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You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

same but it's black people

That's right

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

very suspicious about any talk of needing to base your politics on empathy. like any emotion empathy is very easily manipulated, and even besides that that is a meaningless statement. im sure plenty of white supremacists feel pretty empathetic about the plight of the white man or whatever

valorizing guilt and remorse is imo incompatible with any materialist and useful morality or politics

whether someone feels guilty about something is at best a weak and indirect indicator of whether someone will actually do that thing again or rectify what they did--and a weak indicator that you can't even observe directly, privileging performance of penitence, whether on some level geuine or wholly manufactured, over actual material restitution and changes in behaviour

guilt as a motivating factor often simply drives people to inaction--to refuse to engage with or accurately reflect upon the things they are guilty about--or to self-centred autoflagellation and self-abnegation which does absolutely nothing to help anybody actually affected by their actions. any moral system which privileges a weepy veteran sad because he shot an iraqi kid but not in any way willing to engage with anti-imperialism or criticism of the US army over someone who doesn't feel bad about what they've done but has made intellectual and practical commitments to rectifying the damage and avoiding future damage is a moral system not fit for purpose

we taught a lib that data centres are essential infrastructure which they have relied on for 3 decades now and that opposition to data centres won't stop all imperial infrastructure being colonial, and the lib shot themselves

not to imply that protesting data centre construction is bad, do that for sure, we just also need to understand that if the protest succeeds then the data and infrastructure companies are just going to move on to the next most vulnerable population until they can find one without the capacity to protest, and this will continue for as long as global imperialism survives