Fifth blog sections of blogpol

From here (Afro Pessimism) Because ‘blackness’ and ‘criminality’ are wedded in the US lexicon The same formative relation of structural violence that maintained slavery remained—upheld explicitly by the police (former slave catchers) and white supremacy generally—hence preserving the equation that Black equals socially dead.  Just as wanton violence was a constituent element of slavery, so it is to Blackness. Given the ongoing accumulation of Black death at the hands of the police—even despite increased visibility in recent years—it becomes apparent that a Black person on the street today faces open vulnerability to violence just as the slave did on the plantation.  That there has recently been such an increase in media coverage and yet little decrease in murder reveals the ease with which anti-Black violence can be ignored by white society; at the same time this reveals that when one is Black one needn’t do anything to be targeted, as Blackness itself is criminalized Thinking about th

The modern American left by and large isn’t waging material struggle. Even the most active of activists are locked in fights for symbolic gestures and recognition. This lack of any real stakes marginalizes the left to begin with and leads to subculturalism. Mass appeal by definition debases the social currency of subcultural affiliation. The left (not me but the modern western left only) stopped representing the average worker ages ago. I mean, they may SAY that they have an investment in unions and whatnot, but most leftists (not me though) loathe everything your average worker stands for.  I don't think this is organic really, I think it's a feature of infiltration. The "powers that be" have a decided interest in making sure that most social movements are impotent and ineffective. Leftism has been infected by group that want to destroy established norms (like abolishing family by force and using  'grooming' via drag queen story time for kids to abolish heter