Why does every slightly courageous or antagonistic gesture that comes from the occupy movement have to be immediately accompanied by aggressive stipulations of privilege and racial/sexual normativity? Clearly no one should be attacked by cops. I just can’t stand how this movement’s constant appeals to its own innocence and righteousness seem to simultaneously insist on reinscribing others as appropriate objects of state violence.
“Stop beating students”? Why not, “stop beating (everyone / anyone)” ? Why not, “stop existing,” full stop?
(h/t hungryghoast for the youtube)
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andrewfm reblogged this from ourtropes and added:
”.. before even Oakland I remember saying to a friend “one of...possibly come out
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hungryghoast said:
yeah, before even Oakland I remember saying to a friend “one of the best things to possibly come out of this is for the otherwise privileged to realize this violent Police presence is not new, it has been in place in decades for the less ‘lucky’ “
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