Read on Twitter
This is an interaction and a great illustration of what I mean by changing how we interact on Twitter. https://twitter.com/sloaneinhell/status/1316633895492747264">https://twitter.com/sloaneinh...
. @PaulineSammich and I are two different individuals, with differing concepts of language. In the original thread, I begin arguing against her point here, that it& #39;s hypocritical of anti-racists to say "Fuck White People" by trying, first... https://twitter.com/PaulineSammich/status/1316616933375004672?s=19">https://twitter.com/PaulineSa...
...to establish a common understanding of what whiteness is in the first place by using the example of previously oppressed groups being given access to the social position of being white, and when I began to feel my point wasn& #39;t getting across, I got mad.
Note that her original tweet does not posit that it& #39;s /racist/, specifically for anti-racists to say "fuck white people" only hypocritical. But my argument at that point becomes "It& #39;s not racist!" https://twitter.com/sloaneinhell/status/1316627911013621761?s=19">https://twitter.com/sloaneinh...
I don& #39;t even disagree with the premise of the original tweet. It is hypocritical. I explicitly cede this later. Personally, I don& #39;t really care that it is, because I don& #39;t feel the need to stop marginalized people from venting, and I think that hypocrisy is an acceptable...
...behavior at least at times, and something we all find ourselves doing at one another. But in letting myself become angry, I find myself constructing a straw position and attacking that, instead, probably as a means of justifying my anger.
I, myself have a reading disability (yes I know no one ever believes me), and anger management issues, but even if I didn& #39;t, what if Pauline had a communication issue? Am I ready to attack her over that?
The issue at hand is the set of social relations that I define as Racism, how we describe that, the framework from which we work, is only a tool to be used in the process of abolishing them. In marrying myself to to my own descriptors, I have missed her point entirely...
...and am consequently working against myself by closing myself off to her critique, and also by sacrificing my relationship with her by trying to dunk, a behavior that I& #39;ve learned in order to justify my anger with the dopamine hit of the consequent likes.
I think that this is the nature of what Deleuze & Guattari describe as the "Despotic Signifier", and how it works to entrench us into a behavior set. Here, "(anti-)Racism" has become my despotic signifier.
Gonna go ahead and tag @NPDhousecat, @haaidyn and @Uw0_Cum here too, because you liked the now deleted dunk I madeâwhich was me misrepresenting the context and primes you for a jaundiced view towards Paulineâbecause I think that& #39;s a necessary step in rectifying the situation.
