male presenting anglo canadian here, every interaction i have ever had is in some way tinged with white supremacy and male privilege. i’ve been treated better and assumed by default to be more competent than non-whites pretty much every day.

also like have you ever talked to another white person? if a white person or man talks to someone they assume shares their values they say the worst shit. i thought it was funny when libs were condemning trumps “locker room talk” defense like it’s so unbelievable to them that men would discuss sexual assault like that in a male space. “i’ve never heard anything like that in a locker room.” you are lying. most white men are thinking and saying the worst possible things at any given moment.

non-white people can tell by the way they are treated by white people and western society that white supremacy is the thread that binds the western world together. but if you look like them, they will just tell you straight up their terrible ideas assuming you will agree. if you cant figure it out when you actively benefit from it daily, if you cant notice that you’re being held to a different standard by other white people daily, if you cant figure it out when they LOOK FOR EXCUSES TO TELL YOU, than i dunno how much self-crit is gonna help. at that point it seems like an empathy problem

if you identify as an anarchist or a communist and also identify with your whiteness, you missed something, probably a lot of things, along the way. try to be more perceptive geez.

love to my comrades of every skin colour and gender identity, death to the first world and any framework including race used to justify it

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    I overheard some 20-something white guys at Taco Bell last week talking about how in an older car you can unscrew the lock post and then your date can’t get out until she gives you what you want kombucha-disgust

    It isn’t the first time I’ve heard about that “trick” before either.

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          I don’t gaze deeply enough into the abyss to know for sure, but having worked around teenagers for years at my district, it’s genuinely distressing how often I have to hear Tate’s name being said by edgy boys that “joke” out loud about doing sexual violence to theoretical girls. doomer

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            The school I work at is K-8th and I haven’t heard his name yet around here. I imagine high school is where it really starts.

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              Yeah, it is a high school thing for the most part. I was hoping him getting arrested would be the end of it, but then local memes of “Tate did nothing wrong!” started up among the edgelord kids. yea