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August 5, 2023 1:05am

“Ignorance is bliss”,

as an apolitical and egotistical response when being pushed to be aware, has spawned several other variations of itself that are just as useless for our people. In conversations about #politics, #economics, or even #socialization, it is common to hear phrases like “agree to disagree” which is severely misused. “Agree to disagree” is supposed to represent an amicable but temporary #truce in which both sides of the argument agree to disagree at the current moment, but promise to resume the conversation later. Instead, “agree to disagree” is flung around passive aggressively, representing a liberalism in which incorrect ideas are permitted to slide by for the sake of friendship or other social benefits. Then there are “it’s not that deep” and “let people enjoy things” which get tossed around when a conversation demands a level of critical thinking which may be inconvenient to the reality a person believes they need to uphold.

In a world full of challenges which desperately requires sharp minds to resolve them, we should view phrases like these as methods of #counterinsurgency that prevent us from pursuing #awareness of not only past and present conditions, but of the way things could be in the future as well. This is a part of the #responsibility we have to choose life!

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Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire said

“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral”.

“Ignorance is Bliss” and Other Fallacies of Counterinsurgency

Erica Caines When attempting to educate someone politically, or confront them with the contradictions present in our material reality, oftentimes the phrase “ignorance is bliss” is said, suggesting…

Diggers

September 10, 2022 3:03pm

#FBI attacks #Uhuru #Movement on July 29, 2022 - Hands Off #Uhuru!

Click on picture or you'll find the #Video here: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=v2reuou9GXA

They use their law, merely the opinion of the ruling #class, to villainize us and justify their violence.

The period that our #Party has worked to usher in is one where the colonial world hegemon, the United States, is weakened politically, economically and ideologically. People around the world, who have been forced to live under the brutal domination of U.S. #imperialism, are rising up and fighting back, refusing to be bullied and beaten to continue the theft of our land and resources.
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=v2reuou9GXA

There’s nothing that the white world has obtained for itself that has not been stolen from #African, Indigenous and all other #colonized nations throughout the #world.

The anti-colonial #struggle that’s heating up across the planet is driving the global system of #colonial #capitalism into great peril. Not only this, the U.S. is facing challengers to its economic and #military #power, primarily in the form of #Russia and increasingly, #China.

Source: https://apspuhuru.org/2022/08/01/hands-off-the-uhuru-movement/

#Africa #fascism #Westernworld #dissident #dissent #rights #USA #politics

steelnomad

July 7, 2022 11:28pm

Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the godfather of the #right-wing ideology that has dominated #Israel since 1977, an #ideology openly embraced by Prime Ministers Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Benjamin #Netanyahu, wrote bluntly in 1923:

“Every native population in the world resists #colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the #danger of being #colonized. That is what the #Arabs in #Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of ‘Palestine’ into the ‘Land of Israel.’ ”