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it might be very important to make very careful distinctions like glice is suggesting, but to me this is just an adapation of the racism of bad faith.
because we might be sensible rational liberals who want to very carefully demarcate a line separating good muslims from bad, which is what glice actually means by what he says. but doing this will not ITSELF alter what muslims actually are. its not helping the moderates to defeat the fundies.
this is why so much left or lib anti racism is to me becoming increasingly ethically abhorrent, because it is basically about adopting the right perspective. its an inverted form of the bad racism. but the problem with this is that it supports the magical thinking behind anti racism, which is basically the idea that if we just police representations of race with ferocious precision, then we can ignore the other in the right and moral way.
but you know, there are a lot of people in england who happen to have black skin, and a very high majority of them are poor and have a lot less opportunities to do things. and the biggest problem these people face is not their skin colour. its the same problem everyone else with different skin colours face.
theres nothing we can do with the system anymore to make any kind of real progression. we can maybe fend off regression in some respects, but thats about it.
so i dont give a fucking shit about these new hysterical puritan post liberals. the americans are the worst. these people HAVE become an oppressive thought police and are witch hunting. getting people fired, destroying careers. when they went after alec baldwin he wrote an nyt piece apologizing and mentioned how when he contacted glbt groups they assumed he wanted to donate 10k figures to their cause as a way of apologizing. this is a con.
this is not doing any good for the minorities in question. its about WHITE RICH PEOPLE gaining power and making money and just distracting themselves with their own petty rage most of the time. its about an imaginary democratic discourse that will apparently save us all. religion in other words.
its mostly so removed from the actual lives of 'minorities' or whatever you want to call the groups that white rich people have to bless with their holy speech codes.
there are a lot of dipshits on the left like lenins tomb whom if you read on charlie hebdo, is basically saying that the MOST IMPORTANT thing to exist on this planet politically is a magical space in the media where white peoples perception of other races is formed and if we just get that right, just adjust our attitudes to that, then we're moral and we solve all our problems and everything else doesnt matter.
i mean, thats the game we play nowadays isnt it?
and its such fucking bullshit.
everything we criticize ourselves for - patriarchy, racism, intolerance, fundamentalist fanatacism, superstition, medieval backwardsness - well in islam you get all that shit times a fucking thousand.
and so you'd think that we'd actively vow to destroy it, for the sake of muslims themselves.
i mean they are crucifying people. and we have no response because how could we? but everything about us, everything that is decadent and as far away from traditionalism and fundamentalism and theocracy, those are the best and most interesting parts of us.
but we are so utterly entranced by our own stupid politics that the word racism appears and we can no longer think.
and we wont stand up to islam properly.
we had the crusades and then i think we forgot they even existed and they came back and traumatized us. we dont want to confront them properly because most of us cant. we cant summon any values that would lead us to willingly exterminate them. we just want to forget its going on.
i dont care really. i dont take the politics of race or any identitarian stuff seriously. it shouldnt be taken seriously because its mostly nonsense and stupidity and the attempt to find universals that you are just not going to make work the way you want to.
so glice can imply i am a right winger, which is really fine with me. i dont want to be on the right or the left anymore and i dont care what anyone wants to label me.
like the things i just said about islam in this post - you say them and you get the immediate response - but are you implying that ALL muslims are like that - you cant escape the universalism. you cant say things outside the universalist context.
i want to say "im not a maniac like you who thinks of themselves as an omnipotent god or the secular democratic upgrade of the same idea". because thats all it really is. if i say that this meal was undercooked am i implying that all meals in the world are? what the fuck?
how anyone thinks you can accomplish anything from these terms is beyond me. really, the people that think like this are just inverted racists that cant accept the other. their conception of what they are is as supernatural as what muslims believe.
i know someone will tldr this but i dont mind, because its not even for anyone else to read.
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