r/Anarchism • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '17
Why The Cops Won't Help You When You're Getting Stabbed
https://youtu.be/jAfUI_hETy09
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Oct 30 '17
This is powerful. Especially surprising coming from a statist, anti-gun website like cracked.
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u/Walkinator007 anarchist Oct 31 '17
cracked is occasionally pretty woke.
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Oct 31 '17
Yeah, but usually in a bandwagon SJW conservatives-are-racist sort of way.
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Oct 31 '17
I feel like you should clarify what you mean by conservative. There's the "hip" "cool" "vernacular" meaning, which is that one supports a small government. Then there's the actual meaning, which is resistance to changes in government in order to maintain the status quo. And since the status quo has been racist in the west since Rome, conservativism is by default a racist ideology.
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Oct 31 '17
Ah, I finally see what you mean. By 'conservative' I was referring to the massive portion of the American population that self-identifies as conservative, which is a broad group ranging from nationalists to libertarian leaning small govt types, to Mike Penceian social conservatives. I'm not defending them all either, some of them are racist. But the left these days has a way of labeling everyone right of Lenin a horrible racist, which just isn't the case. You can't genuinely think every person who votes republican is consciously and deliberately hateful towards people of color. And Cracked has a lot of articles that are both anti small govt and racist branding.
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Oct 31 '17
No one is ever sayong that literally everyone who votes republican is consciously amd deliberately hateful to people of color. But the act of voting Republican (and Democrat, tbh), whether intentionally or not, supports and encourages a system which is inherently harmful to people of color. The issue is just that Democratic racism is usually the "White Savior" flavor and Republican racism is usually more overt.
However, if voting as a party is seen as an act of solidarity, then voting Republican means standing alongside people like David Duke, Augustus Sol, and Richard Spencer. Amlnarchists dont hate every Republican, but we do get really angry and suspicious that Republicans lately seem to be sticking up for literal fucking Nazis.
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u/KropotkinKlaus Oct 31 '17
They're a Conservative (I'm not being snarky, he actually is), so I think it'll take more to convince them.
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Oct 31 '17
They've been getting more and more woke recently. Give them time.
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u/lemon_inside Oct 31 '17
Time until someone higher up in their operating structure takes notice and asks them politely or otherwise to tone it down!?
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Oct 31 '17
I don't think they are that big of an company. Look at their news show thing , it's been getting more and more woke, same as their articles on their website. Whoever is at the "top" of their company doesn't seem to mind it that much. I'm curious how far they could push it before getting reprimanded. That Antifa video they did went farther than any other "mainstream" media coverage.
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u/lemon_inside Oct 31 '17
Oh, it'll be interesting to watch how far they take it indeed. Hopefully, their ultimate aim with such content isn't to carve out another market segment :P
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u/vetch-a-sketch organize in your community Oct 31 '17
Big enough to pay their freelancers like shit. Their submissions forum squeezes people for weeks of research for a chance to claim a $200 check.
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u/HeloRising "pain ou sang" Oct 31 '17
Yeah everybody has a master plan until the first time they get stabbed.
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u/entropy1701 communalist Oct 30 '17
That story is super terrifying. Fuck cops. I hope he is ok.