I have always been a big fan of Clementine Morrigan. I found her work in a Toronto bookstore and it significantly changed my understanding and approach to trauma. I appreciate her writing around Attachment Theory, discussions around basic human needs, kink and feel that her zines,
This is so well argued. Thank you for speaking against this very harmful idea. Trying to extend olive branches to people with machetes who will cut my hand off when I do is not fucking helpful. I'm so tired of centrism and this idea that minority groups have to somehow become more appealing to hateful bigots in order to "earn" a place in society. I think that capitalism is a shit show, for sure, but only because it is so aggressively coupled with meritocracy. I don't think capitalism is as much a mutual enemy of the christian white working class and marginalized communities as meritocracy is. If we can begin the work of shifting our social core values away from this toxic idea I think capitalism would fix itself. But as you said... we need a powerful, recognized, and respected organizer in order to even BEGIN this process.
This is so well argued. Thank you for speaking against this very harmful idea. Trying to extend olive branches to people with machetes who will cut my hand off when I do is not fucking helpful. I'm so tired of centrism and this idea that minority groups have to somehow become more appealing to hateful bigots in order to "earn" a place in society. I think that capitalism is a shit show, for sure, but only because it is so aggressively coupled with meritocracy. I don't think capitalism is as much a mutual enemy of the christian white working class and marginalized communities as meritocracy is. If we can begin the work of shifting our social core values away from this toxic idea I think capitalism would fix itself. But as you said... we need a powerful, recognized, and respected organizer in order to even BEGIN this process.