Not just a concept

This fucking broken-ass fascist SCOTUS: “The US military is too WOKE”

Imagine if knowing about US civics ended with people getting conscripted as immigrants.

“NO, PLEASE, NOT AMERICA”

“WE NEED YOUR CIVIC KNOWLEDGE”

My ex (ages ago) wanted to understand and support my culture better, so she went out and watched Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift.

Likkeeeee I appreciate the effort but bruuuhh I’m Filipino. Wtf.

That’s almost impressive. Multi-level fuck-up.

The absurdity of racism is all the more exposed when what an arbitrary social construct it is is highlighted. Throw the Japanese-Americans in internment camps and forbid them from serving the military with white people - but praise Chinese-Americans as allies against Imperialism™ and let them serve as officers in non-segregated units with white folk.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s great that WW2-era white America got over its anti-Chinese racism for ten seconds, but it would have been a nice bonus had it not been just another extension of racism’s arbitrary nature.

Funny(?) enough, efforts by Chinese-Americans to differentiate themselves from Japanese-Americans to the racist majority of the US were largely successful during WW2.

Probably not flags usually, but there was a great deal of effort made by Chinese-Americans to distinguish themselves as “Not-Japanese” to the white majority of the US during WW2 to avoid getting racism-by-proxy.

Anti-Japanese sentiment was rampant in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, and it would only get worse. Racism against Chinese-Americans was considerably less, as China was seen as an ally against Japan.

But my 20s are my most handsome years and now they’re over! In a paltry ten years I’ll have some gray hairs and creases! 😭

“End the genocide in Palestine or we’ll keep attacking civilian targets that have nothing to do with the genocide in Palestine!”

Good point. You should never compromise or work with anyone who doesn’t share 100% of your goals. /s

Yes and I have told you that most of those protesters are the same people who would say that the democrats have not earned their vote. Which means that you are calling them fascists in this post.

The course of action you’re referring to is missing a full half of the very short and very readable comment you replied to.

Okay, so, like I said, you have a little under two months to complete that. Otherwise? Accept that political power comes with political responsibility.

If you aren’t going to bother reading what I say, I don’t really know why I should continue this conversation with you.

It just means that the people protesting on the streets are doing more good than a dem voter

If all they manage to is change the current administration’s policy by protesting on the streets without ensuring that the current fascist threat doesn’t worm its way back into power, they’ve done a great deal less good than those of us involved in electoral politics working to actually block the fascist who jerks off to genocide and will have immense power to hurry it along.

I have nothing but respect for pro-Palestine protesters who understand the power they wield as citizens and voters. I don’t have any respect for pro-Palestine protesters who think that allowing fascism to win is in any way kosher.

Okay. Do you agree that calling people who are actually trying to do this fascist is twisted,

Only if their anti-genocide protest consists of helping fascists into power. All other anti-genocide protesters are based in my book.

Please try reading what I say before responding to it.

So… people asking the person who is supposed to represent them to meet them in the middle are facists?

My favorite part was late last year when so many Very Concerned Leftists were crying “IF THE DEMS CAME OUT IN FAVOR OF A CEASEFIRE, THEN I COULD SUPPORT THEM AGAINST THE LITERAL FASCISTS, OH WOE IS ME, I CANNOT DO SO UNTIL THEY AT LEAST DO THAT BARE MINIMUM OF EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR A CEASEFIRE!”

And then when Biden began publicly supporting a ceasefire, they immediately changed their tack so they could continue supporting fascism in the US. Such is how it always goes with such creatures.

I find it wild that you take that conclusion from what I said.

Electorialism is meaningless compared to protestation.

Would you like to re-read the first line of the meme, or are you just spouting off without regard to what the topic actually is?

Okay, so, like I said, you have a little under two months to complete that. Otherwise? Accept that political power comes with political responsibility.

if democrats really cared about ppl voting, they would be introducing proportional representation (eg ranked choice) electoral reforms rather then blaming voters for knowing exactly what the democrats are…

There’s been considerable momentum towards ranked choice reform in the US in the past few years, most of it through the Dems.

Protestation and striking is the only way to achieve goals that are against the interests of the ruling class. You are trying to shame the only people actually doing anything worthwhile. Electorialism is meaningless compared to protestation.

Oh, cool, so we’re in agreement, then, that the people saying stuff like “The Democrats have to EARN my vote against fascism!” are actually disingenuous accelerationists doing the old conservative routine of “Meet me in the middle” with no intention of ever actually cooperating or improving anyone’s life.

When there is no option to vote against genocide you turn to the streets.

You’ve got a little under two months to overthrow the government. If your master plan isn’t completed by then, the only moral choice is to vote strategically.