anti-racism

A virus-like insurrection

According to Egawa Takao, the moral taught to us by the virus calamity is "dwell within nature." This is a far cry from ecological living. It's the nationwide insurrection happening in the US that's dwelling within nature, and shows us a what a politics during and possibly even after the virus calamity looks like.

Questions in the Face of Counterinsurgency

From IGD

by Peter Gelderloos

As the rebellion that has rocked the US and spread internationally approaches a full month, the counterinsurgency strategy being used to pacify it has become well defined. Police repression and vigilante violence from the outside, and rumors of agent provocateurs to divide the movement from the inside. But another method of internalized, soft counterinsurgency has also been omnipresent: the use of liberal identity politics to spread the idea that fighting back against a racist society is in itself racist. This practice was already well developed by the time of the Michael Brown rebellions in 2014, making use of white allies to put all their power and privilege behind the ostensible leaders of oppressed communities

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