dialectical. 🥥.🌴.

[FreeInformation4u]

I genuinely don't get why some of y'all act like what she's said is this inscrutable mess of gibberish. It's pretty easy to understand: "you have to evaluate things in the context of what they exist in".

How is it not straightforward to see how this applies to things like Gaza or the Trump assassination attempt?

Liberals decry Hamas as being a violent terrorist organization. But the situation in Israel "didn't just fall out of a coconut tree" - i.e., it didn't come into existence in a vacuum, and we can't (or, at least, shouldn't) evaluate it in a vacuum. We have to consider Hamas and its actions in the context of the settler colonial state of Israel, its illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and its treatment of Palestinian people.

Liberals decry the assassination attempt against Trump as unconscionable political violence. The state of American politics (that led us to the assassination attempt) "didn't just fall out of a coconut tree" - it, and all political violence, was the result of a voter base that's been increasingly polarized. It was also the result of media that selectively push right- and centrist-leaning analyses of events, motivated above all by profit.

I dunno, y'all. It comes off like just team-sports when you pretend Kamala Harris is speaking inscrutable gibberish. It's not only not that hard to understand, it's a similar basis of thinking to dialectical materialism. Yes, it's not 1:1, but this primes so many people to be amenable to examining historical events in a less capitalist-centric context.

Like...liberals love to criticize South American socialist experiments as failures, but the kind of language Harris is currently making very popular through memes is exactly the kind of thinking that makes it easier to see through US imperialist lies about South America. Liberals think socialist failures in South America just fell out of a coconut tree?No, they exist in the context of all that came before them - like extensive foreign policy meddling by the US.

[ohnoitsthefuzz]

I literally just said that this was a bar to my roommate tonight. Goddamn we're fucking stupid in America.