You keep projecting what you think Iām advocating for when all Iāve so far revealed is that Iām advocating for clear language that doesnāt flatten reality but acknowledges the different struggles people face, including racist ones. Why do you think that would stop short of a person born into poverty or to one born to parents who didnt have the privilege of a higher education and therefore canāt pass on what they havenāt learned? You keep talking about this in ways that reveal that for you other peoples struggle is an abstract thought exercise, which is why I advised caution when telling others how to safeguard against or combat racism.
Hamburg is a police state itās very easy to get harassed by police there. Remember when they declared pretty much all of Altona a ādanger zoneā? That wasnāt about immigrants it was about leftists, they kicked off the whole thing by claiming, falsely, that a police station was attacked by āpeople wearing St. Pauli scarfsā.
Believe me I know.
Yes, please do tell me whether Hamburg cops make a distinction between someone looking like they visit the barber thrice a day vs. a punk.
Obviously they do.
By considering your groupsā issues, be that Turks or immigrants in general, to be oh so special, unknown to everyone else, youāre othering yourself.
No, I was othered unprompted. By Turks. They arenāt āmy groupā any less than the āeast germansā. A comrade is a comrade, a racist isnāt.
Is there surname discrimination when looking for a flat? Yes. Is there discrimination against Kevins? Also yes because in reality itās about socio-economic status and both foreign last name or ālow-classā native first name are proxies for low socio-economic standing.
Not entirely. The prejudice Kevin faces is different from the one Jihad faces. That doesnāt make Kevins struggle less real. I donāt understand why you keep thinking I want to diminish someones struggle when Iāve repeatedly called for language that doesnāt hide injustices. Iāve helped both a āKevinā and a āJihadā try to find apartments while needing rent relief. One was presumed to have snuck into this country and probably dangerous and the other was ājustā presumed to be lazy. It both sucks, but one of them had it harder. And we arenāt going to be addressing any of it if we canāt talk about how or why the systems is the way it is.
The solution is not to preach āoh liberal landlord, youāre being so racist, please ignore your concerns about your tenantās incomesā as that ignores their systemic financial interest in discriminating against people with low wages, it will never work, the solution is social housing, which, I already mentioned, weāre lacking at least one million units of: That kind of discrimination can only exist in an environment where thereās too few flats on the market, if landlords actually needed to search for tenants then theyād be willing to interview everyone ā and then discriminate by actual, not assumed, socio-economic status. Itās not just immigrants that donāt fit into the normative lens of the usual rightoid suspects. Remember who were the first the Nazis put into camps?
Complete projection. I donāt know where this is coming from.
Just because you donāt want to deport or do worse to people doesnāt mean that the in-outgroup psychology isnāt the same, and is breeding ground for worse. Yes, that realisation can hurt. Itās also vital. Swimming against the stream is insufficient, you have to get out of the fucking river, take a breather, have a Mojito, learn to walk
More evidence that this is just a thought exercise for you. The grey wolves kill people like me. The fact that you persist after I told you it was hurtful because you are so sure in your (wrong) assumption for why that might be tells me that you donāt know what youāre talking about. Which makes it less hurtful, so at least thereās that, but itās a bad sign about how I think of you because I would like to think of you as a comrade. So why persist in something I told you to be hurtful?
and then throw live vests at the swimmers, first and foremost those that cling to other swimmers.
How about instead to those closest to drowning? What do you propose we do about the people that arenāt close to drowning but steal the vests from under the people that are?
Ah, there we have it. āAfD voters and therefore the east are all Nazisā. Especially Kevin, of course, why else could Kevin be angry as youāre denying that discrimination against him can exist. No, they didnāt suddenly become (more) racist. No, demagogues didnāt suddenly learn radically new tricks that made them magnitudes more effective: The underlying conditions, the seeds of betrayal and anger, that they exploit became more and more wide-spread, the precariat grew and grew while conditions and pressures got worse and worse.
Even more evidence that this is just a thought exercise for you, when Iām talking about āthe racistsā Iām not talking about some abstract demographic, I am thinking of real people. I can visualize their faces. I wasnāt talking about āAfD voters and therefore the eastā and the fact that your first response always seems to be ābut wonāt you think of the people voting AfDā is making me increasingly wary of you. I was working under the assumption that this ābridging the divideā thing is a pet project that youāre overly invested in but Iām increasingly running low on good faith to offer you especially since I donāt seem to get any in return.
To be sure Iām not against ābridging the divideā or dismissive of people in the east, especially since they got capitalism working against them double-time when compared to the west. I donāt think of them as AfD voting nazis. But you have to understand that for me to call someone who did vote AfD a comrade, they have to earn my trust first because they probably need to unlearn some racist shit or at the very least learn materialist thinking.
I donāt think I ever said that as I disagree with it: Welfare recipients in general, the whole precariat, is getting squeezed. The whole thing started in the 90s when the federal republic lost its (nominal only, but still) socialist rival to the east. Noone is ever promising more welfare for anyone, itās always āthose lazy buggers simply donāt want to workā. āPoverty is a choiceā etc, etc. Social darwinism.
Right, immigrants was used as a stand-in for really anyone requiring welfare. Itās just that the media focus really is on the immigrants at the moment. But again I am well aware that there are other marginalised groups.
Add āorganic potato but parents live off Hartz IVā to the list of people without equal opportunities and we could have a seed of agreement. āBildungsferne Schichtenā, as the euphemism goes.
They were never off the list. I do not understand why you think they would be.
A Turk with Abitur much less degree is rare not because theyāre Turks but because their parents didnāt study.
Thatās an untrue simplification. Turkish people are racistly discriminated against even in school. If their parents didnāt have a good education obviously getting Abitur will be even harder, same as for any other person, but they might face additional hurdles or just different hurdles than others. Same for disabled people, they will face bigger hurdles than their able-bodied friends with the same background. Same for girls getting into STEM, their gender probably will cause the barrier for them to be even higher than for boys with a similar non-academic household. Naming the reasons for why some people face different obstacles isnāt idpol, itās materialist.
Be a good leftist and spend some of your solidarity budget on Kevin. Itās going to pay off a thousandfold because it will create conditions under which addressing things like racial profiling doesnāt sound like āoh great another way for them to ignore usā.
Kevin always had my solidarity, but I expect to have his. Itās not unconditional. Also it doesnāt need to be budgeted? What a weird way of thinking about it.
Democracies have capacity limits, when you fix shit that concerns a huge number of people suddenly those have time and nerve for solidarity,
True, which is why Iām advocating for precise language to name concerns so that we get to those with the most first. Because time and again once the majority got theirs the minority was left behind. The people whose only motivation is that their concerns get addressed will lose any motivation once they are. Tit for tat is not solidarity and will never achieve justice.
Why do you think that would stop short of a person born into poverty or to one born to parents who didnt have the privilege of a higher education and therefore canāt pass on what they havenāt learned?
Because you kept emphasising one thing while not acknowledging the other, or misread it, like the āthe precariat gets promised more welfareā stuff. I was acknowledging all kinds of racial stuff from the very start, arguing about cause vs. symptom and the order in which things are best addressed so that things get done as fast as possible.
The grey wolves kill people like me.
And Nazis kill people like me. Fascists gotta fascist, no surprises there. If you ever spotted any psychological pattern of mine that matches what Nazis do Iād fucking want you to tell me.
How about instead to those closest to drowning?
You first have to get those clinging to them, dragging them down, off their back, or both will drown. Chances are you donāt even need a second vest non-swimmers tend to choose good swimmers to cling to, but you need special water martial arts training to get yourself out of that kind of situation. I know such things I have DLRG Bronze (seriously yes I have but at this point the metaphor might be at the breaking point).
What do you propose we do about the people that arenāt close to drowning but steal the vests from under the people that are?
Oh, the rich. Easy: We eat them. Youāre the Turk, you come up with a recipe. Anything as long as it involves expropriated chilli.
Same for girls getting into STEM, their gender probably will cause the barrier for them to be even higher than for boys with a similar non-academic household.
Eh Mathematics is pretty much 50/50, engineering is heavily male-dominated, but then you have e.g. biology which is female-dominated. Weāre at a stage where you have to drill down by subject and some of it will probably never vanish (ask Lego, they tried). And speaking of: Thereās grade discrimination against boys and we donāt have nearly enough male teachers.
Generally speaking thereās lots of differences between the states when it comes to primary and secondary education. The eastern states are actually quite good when it comes to having at least remotely sane systems (the more different than Bavaria the better, more or less) but then theyāre (exception Berlin) also the ones with the fewest people with immigrant backgrounds. Back in my days SH hadnāt yet abolished the Realschule and let me tell you Gymnasiasts are awful in comparison. You can try as you want if you tell kids theyāre better or worse at a young age what you get is classism and if you justify one type of discrimination, you implicitly justify, and cause, all: Itās way easier to learn looking down on a new group of people than it is to learn looking down the first time around.
Because time and again once the majority got theirs the minority was left behind.
How in the everloving fuck has the majority ever gotten theirs. I mean short of the labour aristocracy ā which btw has a quite significant Turkish component, IG Metall and everything, you donāt need Abitur to work at VW. If you count by type of employment relation the precariat is about 30% of the workforce. Thirty, not even counting the unemployed. Even more are worried that theyāll land there, about 12.5% never knew anything else and donāt expect better, either. The rest of the majority pays all the taxes while the rich donāt even begin to pay their fair share (or the wealth gap wouldnāt increase steadily).
I acknowledge that thereās room for different valuations here and we could play oppression Olympics all night long, but telling the precariat āyouāll have to waitā isnāt going to work. You can describe everything very accurately all day long people wonāt listen, the percentage of people who got fucked over since the 90s is too high to be ignored. Also risking them being stirrup holders for Nazis is just not worth it.
Alright I have already spent an undue amount of time and energy on you, Iām giving up. Your reading skills are subpar, you donāt seem to be able to selfcrit, you keep using ML terms even though you clearly arenāt a Marxist, not even a materialist. You are an āall lives matterā liberal wrecker and bully and certainly no comrade of mine.
you keep using ML terms even though you clearly arenāt a Marxist, not even a materialist.
Iām an anarchist. Itās not my fault MLs appropriated and abuse our terms and donāt understand power. I mean have you read Engelās āOn Authorityā? Literally āAnarchists think ball-point pens are oppressing them by dictating that you shall press a button and thatās all theyāre aboutā kind of reasoning, a completely bourgie strawman.
An āanarchistā that tries to keep a lid on anti-racism in case it might offend lol. An āanarchistā that keeps gaslighting about how racist actions arenāt really about racism because white people face injustices as well. An āanarchistā that is openly lying to me āMathematics is 50/50 in male/femaleā? Do you not see that my username is a portemanteau of mathematician and christian? Who do you think youre fooling. āDonāt tell others they have to wait, youāll have to wait yourself and once the majority has theirs your turn will comeā the fuck out of here lmao
An āanarchistā that is openly lying to me āMathematics is 50/50 in male/femaleā?
Oh sorry maths is actually 55% female. But, sure, narratives are stronger than statistics thatās what you learn in maths. And you have the gall to talk about materialism, if you simply made a statement and didnāt know and didnāt bother to look it up thatās one thing, not looking it up when accusing someone else of lying is a whole different game: Itās political violence.
You keep projecting what you think Iām advocating for when all Iāve so far revealed is that Iām advocating for clear language that doesnāt flatten reality but acknowledges the different struggles people face, including racist ones. Why do you think that would stop short of a person born into poverty or to one born to parents who didnt have the privilege of a higher education and therefore canāt pass on what they havenāt learned? You keep talking about this in ways that reveal that for you other peoples struggle is an abstract thought exercise, which is why I advised caution when telling others how to safeguard against or combat racism.
Believe me I know.
Obviously they do.
No, I was othered unprompted. By Turks. They arenāt āmy groupā any less than the āeast germansā. A comrade is a comrade, a racist isnāt.
Not entirely. The prejudice Kevin faces is different from the one Jihad faces. That doesnāt make Kevins struggle less real. I donāt understand why you keep thinking I want to diminish someones struggle when Iāve repeatedly called for language that doesnāt hide injustices. Iāve helped both a āKevinā and a āJihadā try to find apartments while needing rent relief. One was presumed to have snuck into this country and probably dangerous and the other was ājustā presumed to be lazy. It both sucks, but one of them had it harder. And we arenāt going to be addressing any of it if we canāt talk about how or why the systems is the way it is.
Complete projection. I donāt know where this is coming from.
More evidence that this is just a thought exercise for you. The grey wolves kill people like me. The fact that you persist after I told you it was hurtful because you are so sure in your (wrong) assumption for why that might be tells me that you donāt know what youāre talking about. Which makes it less hurtful, so at least thereās that, but itās a bad sign about how I think of you because I would like to think of you as a comrade. So why persist in something I told you to be hurtful?
How about instead to those closest to drowning? What do you propose we do about the people that arenāt close to drowning but steal the vests from under the people that are?
Even more evidence that this is just a thought exercise for you, when Iām talking about āthe racistsā Iām not talking about some abstract demographic, I am thinking of real people. I can visualize their faces. I wasnāt talking about āAfD voters and therefore the eastā and the fact that your first response always seems to be ābut wonāt you think of the people voting AfDā is making me increasingly wary of you. I was working under the assumption that this ābridging the divideā thing is a pet project that youāre overly invested in but Iām increasingly running low on good faith to offer you especially since I donāt seem to get any in return.
To be sure Iām not against ābridging the divideā or dismissive of people in the east, especially since they got capitalism working against them double-time when compared to the west. I donāt think of them as AfD voting nazis. But you have to understand that for me to call someone who did vote AfD a comrade, they have to earn my trust first because they probably need to unlearn some racist shit or at the very least learn materialist thinking.
Right, immigrants was used as a stand-in for really anyone requiring welfare. Itās just that the media focus really is on the immigrants at the moment. But again I am well aware that there are other marginalised groups.
They were never off the list. I do not understand why you think they would be.
Thatās an untrue simplification. Turkish people are racistly discriminated against even in school. If their parents didnāt have a good education obviously getting Abitur will be even harder, same as for any other person, but they might face additional hurdles or just different hurdles than others. Same for disabled people, they will face bigger hurdles than their able-bodied friends with the same background. Same for girls getting into STEM, their gender probably will cause the barrier for them to be even higher than for boys with a similar non-academic household. Naming the reasons for why some people face different obstacles isnāt idpol, itās materialist.
Kevin always had my solidarity, but I expect to have his. Itās not unconditional. Also it doesnāt need to be budgeted? What a weird way of thinking about it.
True, which is why Iām advocating for precise language to name concerns so that we get to those with the most first. Because time and again once the majority got theirs the minority was left behind. The people whose only motivation is that their concerns get addressed will lose any motivation once they are. Tit for tat is not solidarity and will never achieve justice.
Because you kept emphasising one thing while not acknowledging the other, or misread it, like the āthe precariat gets promised more welfareā stuff. I was acknowledging all kinds of racial stuff from the very start, arguing about cause vs. symptom and the order in which things are best addressed so that things get done as fast as possible.
And Nazis kill people like me. Fascists gotta fascist, no surprises there. If you ever spotted any psychological pattern of mine that matches what Nazis do Iād fucking want you to tell me.
You first have to get those clinging to them, dragging them down, off their back, or both will drown. Chances are you donāt even need a second vest non-swimmers tend to choose good swimmers to cling to, but you need special water martial arts training to get yourself out of that kind of situation. I know such things I have DLRG Bronze (seriously yes I have but at this point the metaphor might be at the breaking point).
Oh, the rich. Easy: We eat them. Youāre the Turk, you come up with a recipe. Anything as long as it involves expropriated chilli.
Eh Mathematics is pretty much 50/50, engineering is heavily male-dominated, but then you have e.g. biology which is female-dominated. Weāre at a stage where you have to drill down by subject and some of it will probably never vanish (ask Lego, they tried). And speaking of: Thereās grade discrimination against boys and we donāt have nearly enough male teachers.
Generally speaking thereās lots of differences between the states when it comes to primary and secondary education. The eastern states are actually quite good when it comes to having at least remotely sane systems (the more different than Bavaria the better, more or less) but then theyāre (exception Berlin) also the ones with the fewest people with immigrant backgrounds. Back in my days SH hadnāt yet abolished the Realschule and let me tell you Gymnasiasts are awful in comparison. You can try as you want if you tell kids theyāre better or worse at a young age what you get is classism and if you justify one type of discrimination, you implicitly justify, and cause, all: Itās way easier to learn looking down on a new group of people than it is to learn looking down the first time around.
How in the everloving fuck has the majority ever gotten theirs. I mean short of the labour aristocracy ā which btw has a quite significant Turkish component, IG Metall and everything, you donāt need Abitur to work at VW. If you count by type of employment relation the precariat is about 30% of the workforce. Thirty, not even counting the unemployed. Even more are worried that theyāll land there, about 12.5% never knew anything else and donāt expect better, either. The rest of the majority pays all the taxes while the rich donāt even begin to pay their fair share (or the wealth gap wouldnāt increase steadily).
I acknowledge that thereās room for different valuations here and we could play oppression Olympics all night long, but telling the precariat āyouāll have to waitā isnāt going to work. You can describe everything very accurately all day long people wonāt listen, the percentage of people who got fucked over since the 90s is too high to be ignored. Also risking them being stirrup holders for Nazis is just not worth it.
Alright I have already spent an undue amount of time and energy on you, Iām giving up. Your reading skills are subpar, you donāt seem to be able to selfcrit, you keep using ML terms even though you clearly arenāt a Marxist, not even a materialist. You are an āall lives matterā liberal wrecker and bully and certainly no comrade of mine.
Iām an anarchist. Itās not my fault MLs appropriated and abuse our terms and donāt understand power. I mean have you read Engelās āOn Authorityā? Literally āAnarchists think ball-point pens are oppressing them by dictating that you shall press a button and thatās all theyāre aboutā kind of reasoning, a completely bourgie strawman.
An āanarchistā that tries to keep a lid on anti-racism in case it might offend lol. An āanarchistā that keeps gaslighting about how racist actions arenāt really about racism because white people face injustices as well. An āanarchistā that is openly lying to me āMathematics is 50/50 in male/femaleā? Do you not see that my username is a portemanteau of mathematician and christian? Who do you think youre fooling. āDonāt tell others they have to wait, youāll have to wait yourself and once the majority has theirs your turn will comeā the fuck out of here lmao
Oh sorry maths is actually 55% female. But, sure, narratives are stronger than statistics thatās what you learn in maths. And you have the gall to talk about materialism, if you simply made a statement and didnāt know and didnāt bother to look it up thatās one thing, not looking it up when accusing someone else of lying is a whole different game: Itās political violence.
You canāt read for shit lol your vibes based leftism is not materialist and your lying if you say it is.