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Imagine calling people “edgy” for literally repeating what the FCC voting board has expressed.

This isn’t about being disillusioned, it’s accepting that more political figures are 100% alright with telling us in no uncertain terms they don’t give a flying fig about our interests.

The semi-bright side is that senators and representatives have been sending letters of dissent to the FCC across party lines. If this is repealed by the FCC, it will certainly face blowback and be challenged in court if not over-legislated by Congress.

And a particular “bug off” @ you dipsticks saying “it only took me x amount of time! it’s not hard!” because not everyone is in the same position or has the same abilities as you and inclusive activists continually remind y’all to stop assuming you know the effects of disability and class and etc. in these situations but you always wanna be on some high horse.

The system is made to keep us from having any real power as individuals and blaming each other for a lack of ability to jump through bureaucratic hoops just to have our opinions counted is divisive and ignorant.

You’re just playing into the hands of the ruling class by focusing on pinning the tail on the “non-participants” rather than acknowledging the people in power actively look for any excuse to disregard the will of the people.

The problem being most of them are lukewarm liberals who believe in the lie of “things didn’t work out because YOU didn’t do enough as individuals!” as opposed to “the system itself is completely fucked and not listening to us and we’re wasting time blaming each other instead of uprooting the system”. 

Individualist politics (ie. “your singular action could have turned this entire thing around) is fundamental to liberalism and it’s harmful.

People tend to already disregard right-wing folks, as they should imo, but even if they weren’t, right-wingers are less likely to be like “uhm this wouldn’t have gone thru if you had contacted your representatives” and more likely to just be for the repeal because 45 is their overlord, which makes them moot in this convo entirely.

My point wasn’t a critique of liberals from a conservative perspective, it’s a critique of liberalism from a leftist perspective lmao. that’s why i didn’t mention anything about conservatives. this was purely an intracommunal discussion of left-wing politics.

and I can almost guarantee OP was (1) talking about liberals/liberalism and (2) was doing so from a leftist perspective. liberals are not the definition of leftism, and liberalism is a deeply flawed and harmful ideological set that is only a stone’s throw from conservatism. i’m well within my rights to point that out and critique it, especially in relation to issues like this.

I don’t know if Cardi B. saw my tweet enough but she was on Twitter upset “somebody” said she didn’t deserve the Best Female Rap Artist Award.  And I remember getting a lot of her stans after me because they felt some type of way about my tweet about her primarily getting so much attention for her skin color. Look. It’s true. If you feel some type of way, acknowledge it. Be honest. You referred to dark-skinned women as “burnt roaches” after proclaiming to be some champion for them. You were also documented referring to certain black women as “monkeys” and “darkies” in the past. You bring every criticisms unto yourself. I’m not here for your being slut-shamed and receiving classist comments. I will defend you from that but I will never defend how you treated your female friends, trans people, queer men, and your referral to Jewish people. 

 I supported your last mixtape, and I’m going to be honest. I thought it was alright. I liked some of your songs but I do not think they were stellar enough for you to get an award for Best Female Rap Artist this soon. At least not over the likes of Kash Doll and Cupcakke, which you likely only mentioned because you saw fans rightfully say how they deserved it more. If you were all in this together, I wouldn’t have complained. But since it’s just you, obviously it’s because of who you are and how you look. If you weren’t so light-skinned and not African-American (ethnically, I’m not saying you’re non-black), you wouldn’t be as hyped the way you are. You would have been looked at as another Love & Hip-Hop reality star with some songs. Can you remember a time Rasheeda and Joseline were nominated for Best Female Rap Artist? Maybe I’m too young but I don’t remember.

 I think you are a very attractive woman but how you act and treat others is ugly. I understand if you want to clapback at deserving “haters” but you don’t do that. You pick fights with people who don’t @ you, especially if they are women. You go out of your way to shame and embarrass them over an opinion. We all saw how French Montana got lambasted for talking shit about that girl’s hair texture over her opinion on his music. That was you when you talked about that girl’s skin color because she said you were ugly for a light skin girl. That was not a very nice comment of her but there’s a difference between her saying that and your literally using colorism and a gross slur to refer to her. All you had to do was apologize and admit that was wrong. You could’ve even said it was out of character, but you never did. And if you think putting dark-skinned girls in your videos and promoting them is going to make up for what you said about them, you have another thing coming. 

 I can see why you’re on Love & Hip-Hop. I can see you in movies or hosting things hip-hop related. I listened to your new song, and you have gotten better. But for you to have gone this far for something you only started doing last year is clearly a work of privilege. So many darker skinned girls from Chicago and ATL have done the same thing you’re doing for years, and they’re young. But where are their dues? From what I am getting from you, you don’t seem like a very nice person when you speak to others who really are calling you out for your problematic behavior. When you proclaim to stand up for a group of people, we expect you to go all the way through with it. You don’t back track when someone makes you angry. This is not about respectability politics, this is about how you treat others. The same can be said for male rappers, and I can’t for the life of me see why they still have support. But I’m focusing on you because as someone who claimed to be a black feminist, I’m not seeing any of your actions line up with your ideologies. It comes off as only doing it for the trend, and not because you genuinely care.