racism
Racism, in the modern form, was basically invented by the European elites at the dawn of the colonial era to justify to their own people while they were entitled to pillage foreign lands and enslave or massacre their people. Colonialism and imperialism have been immensely profitable for capitalism, and racism thus a vital tool to ensure those profits keep flowing. For the working class, though, racism keeps us internally divided and weakened (and, obviously, especially sucks for POC workers, who are more likely to be stuck with worse jobs, worse pay and worse treatment at work). There’s also no doubt that in many colonial societies, race became a form of class in its own right (e.g. POC not even being allowed to join the waged working class, but used as indentured labour or enslaved) and that in the modern day, the legacy of colonial land theft means that settlers in countries like Australia tend to have much more wealth than Indigenous people. I’m not a POC myself, but my partner is, and I feel very strongly that racism is evil, abhorrent, and needs to be ended.
Wiki
- : 🪴 Marcus Garvey: Marcus Garvey was a Black nationalist whose ideas were at the peak of their popularity in the late 1910s/early 1920s. …
- : 🏏 Frank Worrell: Frank Worrell was captain of the West Indies cricket team for three series in the 1960s. He was the first Black captain …
- : 🪴 great replacement theory: Great replacement theory is a racist, right-wing conspiracy theory that the “elites” of Western countries …
- : 🪴 Black Panthers: The Black Panthers were a revolutionary socialist and Black liberationist organisation which was founded in Oakland, …
- : 🪴 Leonard Peltier: Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist who has been in prison for 45 years for supposedly shooting two FBI agents …
- : 🪴 COINTELPRO: COINTELPRO was a secret program of the FBI to disrupt and break up (mostly) radical left-wing organisations, …
- : 🪴 1985 MOVE bombing: On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed a building inhabited by 13 members of the “anarcho-primitive” …
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- : 🇺🇸 Link: “The Failure of Reconstruction Is to Blame for the Weakness of American Democracy”
- : 📰 Link: “There Is No “Migrant Crisis””
- : 👮 Link: “Leaked audio reveals Queensland police staff in racist conversations, joking about violence to black people and protestors”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “The company that bulldozed this sacred Aboriginal site had a year to apologise. It didn't”
- : 🏟 Link: “Hawthorn racism review to allege that former coaches separated First Nations players from families and demanded a pregnancy termination”
- : 📰 Link: “Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: “Oppression Is Not a Prep School””
- : 🤰🏾 Link: “Women’s business”
- : 🇺🇸 Link: “Against Afro-Pessimism”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “Why is Australia's parliament so white?”
- : 🇩🇪 Link: “The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays.” by Brian Lunduke
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “The marvel of the Pilbara cooperative movement”
- : 🇺🇸 Link: “Glenn Youngkin Set Up a Tip Line to Snitch on Teachers. It’s Only Gotten Weirder Since.”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “Pacific nationals working on Queensland farms claim they are barely making enough money to survive”
- : 📰 Link: “At the brink of a new world system: imperialism, race and caste”
- : 📺 Link: “Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?”
- : 💬 Link: “The academic story of African American English has been wrong all along.”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “Australian politics should be as diverse as its people”
- : 👮 Link: “It’s the anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.…” by Hari Kunzru
- : 🏟 Link: “Former Collingwood player Leon Davis: 'We don't want our kids to have to go through the bullshit'” by Amy McQuire
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.