[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]kellerdp wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]kellerdp wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:Gay picture of white “anarchists”
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White anarchist kids crack me up. They rail against the system and talk about class war, yet they are benefiting from the system and their class because it allows them to have the leisure time and money to complain and try to make up for their white guilt.
On topic, I feel bad for the man’s family and community.[/quote]
I am glad I crack you up? How am I benefiting from the system and my class? I am so benefiting from the system being a low-class, poor, blue collar, Irish kid from south Phoenix. What exactly are my benefits? Koolaid and hot dogs everyday? Oh, yes my wonderful leisure time and money. You mean working from dawn til dusk to make enough money that eventually I don’t need to worry about working from dawn til dusk to make sure my family has food on the table?
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Whoa whoa whoa. Back the lol-train up a moment, dude.
If you are trolling, good job. If not, a cereal reply is below.
I was talking about the picture that Dixies Finest put up that had a bunch of ‘anarchist’ kids demonstrating. Those douchebag kids crack me up because (being a former douchebag kids like them) they are full of shit.
The majority of them come from nice, suburban communities where they purposely choose to be lower-class (it’s so hardcore and street), usually jobless (again, it gives anarcho-cred when you have to shoplift things since you can’t buy them), and like to get shitty pretty much every night and rail about the system and talk about Revolution and shit like that.
They benefit from their class and ‘the system’ in a couple different ways. By being middle-class or higher, they have the opportunity to dip their toes in the water of the working/under class by working a min. wage job (so they can complain about wages, and how they have to commodify themselves, etc) or having no job (which gives them the opportunity to be a traveler kid and hitch/train hop across the US to different like-minded communities) and pursue shoplifting (private property is theft, duh), dumpster diving (reclaiming and re-purposing the waste of the system) and squatting (which is typically crashing on a friends couch. When they get bored or uncomfortable they can always go home and quietly integrate back into society while having a few good stories to tell about their crazy youth.
By being white, they benefit because their skin color allows them the ability to look like shit (punks, crusties, typical anarchist (black clothing, surplus boots, etc) and still be accepted by society. Too many times did I see people of color (preferred phrase in the anarchist community) get hassled by ‘the man’ (in whatever sense you want to use that phrase) only to have white kids who dressed exactly like them walk by and not get shit. It’s accepted white-kid rebellion.
Most of the anarchist kids I used to roll with got involved by way of punk music, which lead to the Anti-Racist Action (lololololol) group, and typically Crimthinc (lolololololol). These groups typically lead to these children carrying banners (like in Dixies pic) and dressing in black because they think it looks cool (though they’ll tell you it’s for solidarity with their Zapatista sisters and brothers (conscious decision to put men last) or Palestinian comrades or whatever).
The most amount of action I saw in the couple years I thought I was a badass was getting fucked up by the cops in texas, a useless protest against the FTAA in Miami, and a bunch of little things here and there. Too many useless ‘conventions’ (NCOR, Radical Encuentro, NOW meetings, etc) where again, you get a bunch of white people belly-aching about how the system needs to change which typically devolves into daydreams of fighting the cops/man and how the ‘rank & file’ are going to wake up and embrace an anarchist utopia.
tl;dr: White anarchist kids who come from middle-class or higher backgrounds are douchebags. They are at best armchair revolutionaries, and at worst smelly.
lol. that was a lot. time to poop.
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That is not Anarchy, that is mere anarchy where everyone does what they want even if it violates others property. That’s not how the world should go, and Dixie will agree with me, my Catholic Anarchist buddy (surprising to have someone’s ideas match up so closely, as I’m also a Catholic Anarchist).
Yes, rebellion against unjust laws is what we may do sometimes, but informing people is stronger way to rebel.
And, even though I may not like Anarchist or Liberals as they stand, I do have faith in both anarchy and liberalism. [/quote]
Brother from another mother?[/quote]
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