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Roderic Day talking about this site

I don’t really think he knows this site’s culture at all. No one is dissuading people from reading theory lol

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  • I have no time for crackers who bloviate about optics politicking. I do not give the first fuck what he does, what he runs, or who he claims; Roderic’s come off that way(a bloviating optics-obsessed settler) in what may well be his first impression on me, ergo, I have no time for him.

    • Go read up what he has to say about indigeneity:

      https://nitter.poast.org/RodericDay/status/1728795884110971376

      https://nitter.poast.org/RodericDay/status/1740064141979926816

      I probably shouldn't have been so nice about calling him a pseud and should just starting calling him an arrogant settler like any other arrogant settler.

      • This is such a strange argument that I can't even wrap my head around it completely. What are the "pitfalls" of indigenous (the term) actually? Just that Heidegger used it in his own writings? That seems completely irrelevant to me.

        • I'm desperately trying to maintain any iota of goodwill I could offer the man and I can't shake the feeling his perceived "pitfalls of the term 'indigenous'" are little more than a sheer tablecloth flung over his desire to see homogenous assimilation from subjects-of-empire; plain and simple. Every Western Angloid settler has this complex at some level of their psyche; if not in the conscious mind, then subconsciously.

          Being forced to see and reckon with the conditions that the other half lives in leads the settler 'leftist' to assume "well if they just gave up their backwards cultures and histories to become unabashedly and entirely 'Amerikan', then they wouldn't be in that situation, and we can get back to the party line of 'class war only, there is no racial problem in Ba Sing Se'". tl;dr the settler 'leftist' doesn't want to liberate, they want to assimilate the same way the settler reactionaries do. The settler 'leftists'-- X's 'smiling foxes'-- just think their iteration of Amerika is the better option to assimilate into.

          This is the crux of why I'm as standoffish, ready to disassociate, and ready to disfellowship the settler 'leftist' in every avenue I meet him in-- because you'll think you know a guy, you'll think a settler's actually on the level for once, and that's when they drop the mask and show the plantation overseer underneath.

      • See, settlers like him are why I start from assumptions of "they're just another cracker" with white people and let them prove me wrong-- because they so fuckin' rarely do. Love to see Kaffe tryna chop it up with him-- I wouldn't have wasted the time and energy.

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