One way of thinking I guess… The other is that these people live in the imperial core and had these decisions largely thrust upon them. They’re indoctrinated. It’s a similar inclination to hating the descendants of Jews that the Nazis shipped to the burgeoning colony in Palestine in the lead up to the Holocaust. If we’re completely abandoned the idea that these people are reachable and can organize and avert the worst outcomes, then sure. I’m not so certain they’re unreachable though. A lot of them, even most of them, definitely are in my experience.
All true, but fuck them anyway. The 2022 pakistan floods destroyed 800.000 houses and killed 1700 people. That’s where my sympathy goes, to the people who didn’t profit from the ravenous extraction of natural resources and the destruction of our whole planets ecosystem for the last two centures, but who as always bear the brunt of the destructive forces behind capitalism. Why should my sympathy go to the american middle-class of all people, just because they’ve colonized the whole world and have made their gentrifying destroying way of life the default? The middle-class in america is in no way closer to me or more important than any other poor person in any other part of the world.
One way of thinking I guess… The other is that these people live in the imperial core and had these decisions largely thrust upon them. They’re indoctrinated. It’s a similar inclination to hating the descendants of Jews that the Nazis shipped to the burgeoning colony in Palestine in the lead up to the Holocaust. If we’re completely abandoned the idea that these people are reachable and can organize and avert the worst outcomes, then sure. I’m not so certain they’re unreachable though. A lot of them, even most of them, definitely are in my experience.
All true, but fuck them anyway. The 2022 pakistan floods destroyed 800.000 houses and killed 1700 people. That’s where my sympathy goes, to the people who didn’t profit from the ravenous extraction of natural resources and the destruction of our whole planets ecosystem for the last two centures, but who as always bear the brunt of the destructive forces behind capitalism. Why should my sympathy go to the american middle-class of all people, just because they’ve colonized the whole world and have made their gentrifying destroying way of life the default? The middle-class in america is in no way closer to me or more important than any other poor person in any other part of the world.