This is the unfortunate truth that pushes me away from protesting. I wanna be out there, but my mom has definitely expressed that she doesn’t want me to and that people like us get thrown in jail and have our lives ruined. I did my part by voting at least. I guess living is a form a protest for me now.
Where do Asians fit in on this? 🤔
(Pretty sure I can’t be at a protest right now, it’s immediate “CCP Spy” false accusations)
Honestly, it would be great to see asian folks protest en masse. I have no idea how to put this without sounding ridiculously offensive, but it’s… more of a subversion of the stereotype. Like, racist folks that I’ve seen use asian slurs don’t really expect widespread civil disobedience like they do from (say) African Americans.
The other part is that ‘asian’ is a umbrella term for a wildly diverse collection of people which, again, a lot of folks are ignorant of.
MAGA folks can scream ‘communist’ on Twitter, sure, but I think that would backfire when directed to to a pile of Indian Americans, Korean Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Taiwanese Americans, and so on.
…But yeah. Again, I hate sounding so shallow, but if you look han chinese and are protesting pretty much alone, its seems more scary than being pasty-faced white.
Top: Old Hippies And Stupid Leftists You Can Ignore
Bottom: AAAAAAH!! SHOOT THEM! SHOOT THEM!!
Oooo haven’t seen this one. Nice.
The “white hippies” are doing what allies should do.
Like the white woman who put a Mexican flag sticker on her car.
I wish I could do this, but I’m part of a mixed family, most entered the US this generation. I don’t want an extra target if they are in the car with me.
That’s why people who don’t have those risk factors should do it, so you and people in similar circumstances can keep the people you love safe.
I personally feel like black people took the hit during BLM pretty hard, it’s time for us whities to step up. Hippies or not.
Majority of protesters during BLM were white.
BLM label was used to smear the movement anyways.
I have no idea if that’s true across the board, but that definitely was not true in Seattle. Majority were black from my experience.
“smear?”
I mean
Trump is calling them criminals, Fox News won’t stop talking about “crime.”
I recently watched a document on Woodstock 99. At the end it turned into a full blown riot. They destroyed, burned down or stole everything that they could. When the police showed up they told them to disperse. It was a nu metal festival full of white teenagers. Imagine what would happen if that was a hip hop festival.
You watched the documentary and that is what you thought. Ain’t no war but class war.
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The liberal mind virus strikes again.
PS: I’m criticizing from the left, put down your pitchforks.
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Hippism was first and foremost a movement of hedonism and personal excess
Wait, what? No it wasn’t. It was an environmentalist counter-culture movement directly spitting in the face of the hedonism and personal excess of 50s era marketing and industry. The Madison Avenue “everything is about sex now” mantra was what swallowed up middle America during the prior decade. It was so choking and claustrophobic that news media of the time could only ever describe counterculture as “People who fuck the wrong way”, “People who do art and culture the wrong way”, and “People who use the wrong kind of drugs”.
What you’ve regurgitated is Nixonian Era propaganda against counterculture and the subsequent moral panic of the 70s and early 80s that led to its demise.
That is why all of them (and really, look at the data, it’s virtually ALL OF THEM) voted for Reagan.
That is, again, flatly untrue. The heart of the Reagan Revolution was the California Tax Revolt of the 1970s, not the Greenwhich Village hipster movement of the 1960s. Not only do you have your history backwards, you have your geography backwards. Reagan was a West Coast conservative backlash to the civil rights movement primarily focused in the Northeast and Gulf Coast states.
He was the end-stage of the Southern Strategy, that flipped a whole bunch of middle-age Dixiecrat Klansmen into Republicans. He was a corporate vehicle for the Bush Family and their post-Cold War allies in the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America in order to demolish the Socialism of Postwar Europe. And he was a reactionary response to the Democrats’ own failures in supporting an active labor movement in the Midwest.
But the idea that the Black Panthers of the 1970s were Reaganites ten years later? That folks chaining themselves to industrial chemical plants and weapons manufacturers were clapping for Star Wars and cheering “we start bombing Moscow in five minutes”? That the people who marched in Selma and stood their ground at Columbia were lining up to endorse Bedtime for Bonzo?
Get fucked. No they weren’t. They were deliberately and systematically purged from the Democratic Party in the neoliberal turn. They weren’t voting for anyone, because nobody was voting for them.
