I got 11 upvotes on a Ho Chi Minh quote in the clown shoes thread. Was that all you guys?

“Woke” was originally a word in the US black community to refer to people who were class conscious. Specifically to be aware of cooptation and trickery by the bourgeoisie and police. Ironically, like a lot of black slang, it was coopted by whites and its meaning was changed to suit their interests.

Due to the association with activists, it came to mean progressivism, then liberalism, and by that point had fallen out of favor by its original users. Now it just means “thing me no like” for conservatives.

My conjecture based on disagreements I’ve had with them, their goal is to draw in libs so that the marxists actually have people to educate. Without them it kinda became an echo chamber.

Not all factions of the bourgeoisie really care for LGBT people, and the ones that do are hardly capable of grasping queer theory the same way we do. They do fundraisers to feel like they’re not imperialist monsters even if they fail in every other way to make our lives less horrible under capitalism.

/r/gatekeepingyuri

https://toots.matapacos.dog/ is friendly to overt MLs and is open to sign-ups. However they don’t accept sectarianism against anarchists (which I know is important to a lot of you). But imo the vibe is chill.

And this is why I don’t go in public very often.
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