Please use discernment. Reactionaries should not be allowed leadership in orgs, unbothered online presence and defense by 'principled' anarchists and communists when they have not divested themselves of their bigotries and continue to act like reactionaries and—

—infuse their politic with reactionary talking points. Some of you yt comm's and anar's think adding a flag in your bio and reading State and Revolution is the end of you divesting learned and internalized bigotries. It is not.

Anarchism and Communism are perfectly able to coexist with antiBlackness, trans- misogyny, ableism, fatphobia and an assortment of other bigotries. Those implicit bigotries show their ugly faces in who you choose to boost, who you associate with, in your assumptions about—

—a Black comrades intelligence, in your willful misgendering, in your chauvinist crusade to act 'colorblind', in your wheelchair inaccessible meeting places, in the lack of colonized people in your urban orgs and circles, in your ignorance of colonized revolutionaries.

It shows when you assume what fat bodies are capable of, or propagate eugenicist lies about pollution & pop growth in the third world. It shows when you consume Black culture like it's dinner theater but refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy & Black ownership of that same culture.

Your bigotry shows up when you can never take a criticism from a colored mouth without qualifying that THEY somehow misunderstood or misinterpreted you. It shows when you haven't read a lick of Assata, Fanon, Du Bois, Hartman, Wynter, Sexton, Hooks, Lorde, Baldwin or Morrison.

It shows when you deny that there are systems of colonization and oppression that will not end when capitalism does. YOU HAVE TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE WITH AND DIVEST THOSE BIGOTRIES. You have to correct yourself when you say the wrong shit, read and retain colonized radical traditons.

You need to capitulate to colonized peoples leadership and knowledge, and ask questions and be guided in OUR SPACES instead of boorishly kicking shit in because you're such a 'learned' activist. Realize some orgs, initiatives, MA and spaces are NOT FOR YTS.

CW: the S word
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CLASS SUICIDE IS NOT EASY! (whiteness is in part a class structure)

But if you are serious about divesting it I love you. I love that journey even if I, a colonized person, cannot and will not hold your hand and cheer you on. I don't cheer on human decency.