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Parenti channeling his inner Gramsci.
Classic leftist meme.
yup lol, a huge chunk of the people who need to hear this message are just going to scroll past the wall of text.
“Based, Stan Lee, quote!”
Banger
We need an entire leftist category and vocabulary for the concept of memetic inoculation
Especially against zombie ideas and anti-AESism
I think you can common sense and critical think yourself out of your conditioning, at least to a degree.
reasoning won’t do you much good if your fundamental premises are flawed
I guess so. I’m just thinking of like racism/homophobia/etc. It doesn’t take much exposure to a “bad” group to realize that they’re just normal people… and then you don’t even have to be exposed to other groups to assume they’re just normal people too.
Some of the most blatant transphobes ive met are gay men. Understanding one system of oppression doesnt mean you understand oppression.
And white queers have a massive racism problem. Just because you unlearn homo- and transphobia doesnt mean you understand racism. You can understand that black people are “just normal people too”. But that doesnt mean you understand racism. That doesnt mean you suddenly understand all the structural issues oppressing black and indigenous people and how you reinforce them every single day.
I mean, fuck, idk if youre trans and im preaching to the choir but unlearning internalized transphobia is a massive undertaking that is never done.
We exist in structurally racist, homophobic, and transphobic systems. That shit is constantly enforced and we are constantly exposed to it. If you are not constantly combatting it, then it will take hold, and you will internalize it.
Is the second one a quote? Who is it from?
It’s a pciture of Parenti so I’m guessing the quote is from him.
This seems to be correct, from the “The Face of Imperialism” book
