tiny bit weird to riff off the “my body my choice” slogan used by women asking for rights for your own finance argument. speaking as someone who doesn’t want that phrase to become old hat or meaningless!

sad when the guy used by many to celebrate the role of Black innovation in US history doesn’t even get a full picture painted of him most times he’s brought up!

that’s not what i said, i said it might not be read as political to 100% of people, especially mods with a very specific vision for their community.

thank you for telling them to chill. rather than engaging i’ll just put my stamp of approval to this and move on 😭

bit of a sanctimonious comment, fascism feels like a perfectly fair line for the early and late majorities to draw. it takes a lot of energy to move half a billion people—that doesn’t make the early exiters morally better, just better positioned and informed.

disgusted by the ableism you show here. learn and grow as a person.

“related to a thing that happened in the news and riffing off the least political aspect of that” isn’t going to read as political to 100% of people. im sorry you felt slighted here but i do totally see the mod’s angle.

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and mine

no thanks :) i wish you well

The post was about “leftists”

You opened your sentence with “people who make blanket statements”

??? okay buddy 😆

Right? 😂 Never fails to get a chuckle from me when I go to cite it.

big facts, also if you live in a densely populated area there may be one of these cooperative communities near you! you could in fact be the change you want to see in the world 💃

Lots of good answers here, so here’s a fact that might help you understand why people have these positions:

Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.

That’s a pretty big blanket statement there buddy here have a mirror🪞

i don’t know if you noticed what site you are on, most people here are at the very least friendly with the notion of communism even if you were right about this

I would be genuinely interested to see what Freeman now thinks of that 16 (or more?) year old clip. While I don’t in any way question his experience or opinion, I think in some way that mindset was very much a (perhaps necessary) product of its time where color-blindness was considered to be the whole picture rather than a smaller bandaid solution of limited efficacy in the context of a holistic healing process.

Nope. Sadly.

“We gave them two blankets and a handkerchief out of the smallpox hospital,” Captain William Trent, a militia captain, wrote in his journal. “I hope it will have the desired effect.”

https://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/smallpox-blankets

You will note that I never advocated for giving up. Huge difference between informed healing and giving up.

Maybe it’s too hard to do

Yes, that’s exactly it. In a world where a man can wrongfully accuse Haitian migrants, people of color, of eating pets and not only get away with it but be elected president, it is too hard. I understand that it’s uncomfortable but asking people to try to pretend race doesn’t matter is like asking a runner to keep running on a broken leg. When injuries are really bad you have to acknowledge the damage, sometimes for a long while, before it heals away.