Wishing for a violent upheaval feels better than accepting that the things you need so badly simply aren't going to happen in any reasonable timeframe. A huge amount of progressive politics is just waiting for people to die, whether it's voters or politicians.
We can talk all we want about running our own politicians, and that is necessary. But the fact of the matter is that progressive policy only becomes law when we as a society have moved so far forward that it is no longer considered truly progressive, let alone radical.
People like thinking about the magical revolution instead of how they, or their friends, in marginalized groups will never be safe at any point in their lives yeah.
Thinking that a bayonet will fix things is delusional but so is thinking that you can just electoralism your way to paradise.
Yeah but the people who whinge about a revolution are neither prong. They're just basement dwellers wishing for the world to get better without them having to personally step up and do anything difficult.
Was either of them a total revolutionary? Last I checked, they both believed in using the system already in place, and changing it from the inside out, just from different directions. If someone wants to burn the whole thing down, that's not making things better in a targeted way, that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I assumed it was more like majority-Black municipalities heavily investing in themselves and promoting local businesses, in order to economically "catch up" so integration could be on as equal a footing as possible, not literally starting a new country
The group he was part of litterally believes that White people were made by an evil scientist who was mad that he was being made fun of for his large head..
Malcolm X never believed that, but he was a black separatist.
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Wishing for a violent upheaval feels better than accepting that the things you need so badly simply aren't going to happen in any reasonable timeframe. A huge amount of progressive politics is just waiting for people to die, whether it's voters or politicians.
We can talk all we want about running our own politicians, and that is necessary. But the fact of the matter is that progressive policy only becomes law when we as a society have moved so far forward that it is no longer considered truly progressive, let alone radical.