#antiracism — Public Fediverse posts

I increasingly distrust the language of “multiple crises.”

AI-driven labour displacement.
Climate catastrophe.
Right-wing populism.
Fascism.
Racism.
Sexism.
The organised backlash against queer existence.

We are encouraged to catalogue these as separate problems, each requiring its own specialist vocabulary, institution, funding stream and respectable panel discussion.

But they are not unrelated phenomena.

They emerge from overlapping structures of domination.

The same political economy that renders a worker disposable can render a forest disposable. The same authoritarian imagination that reduces migrants to a demographic threat reduces queer people to a threat against an imagined social order. The same hierarchical logic that demands obedience from bodies demands obedience from nature, labour and dissent.

And when the system produces insecurity, it offers a remarkably convenient explanation:

Not the structure.
The Other.

The migrant.
The queer person.
The feminist.
The unemployed.
The dissenter.

Someone must be made responsible for conditions they did not create.

This is not an accident. It is politically useful.

So I am less interested in asking which crisis we should address first than in asking what keeps producing them.

Because if we merely treat the symptoms, the machinery remains intact.

And machinery does not become humane because we learn to describe its victims more politely.

Find the structure.
Name the hierarchy.
Follow the power.

Then start taking the machine apart.

#Antifascism #ClimateJustice #QueerLiberation #TransLiberation #Feminism #AntiRacism #WorkersRights #HumanRights #Solidarity

I increasingly distrust the language of “multiple crises.”

AI-driven labour displacement.
Climate catastrophe.
Right-wing populism.
Fascism.
Racism.
Sexism.
The organised backlash against queer existence.

We are encouraged to catalogue these as separate problems, each requiring its own specialist vocabulary, institution, funding stream and respectable panel discussion.

But they are not unrelated phenomena.

They emerge from overlapping structures of domination.

The same political economy that renders a worker disposable can render a forest disposable. The same authoritarian imagination that reduces migrants to a demographic threat reduces queer people to a threat against an imagined social order. The same hierarchical logic that demands obedience from bodies demands obedience from nature, labour and dissent.

And when the system produces insecurity, it offers a remarkably convenient explanation:

Not the structure.
The Other.

The migrant.
The queer person.
The feminist.
The unemployed.
The dissenter.

Someone must be made responsible for conditions they did not create.

This is not an accident. It is politically useful.

So I am less interested in asking which crisis we should address first than in asking what keeps producing them.

Because if we merely treat the symptoms, the machinery remains intact.

And machinery does not become humane because we learn to describe its victims more politely.

Find the structure.
Name the hierarchy.
Follow the power.

Then start taking the machine apart.

#Antifascism #ClimateJustice #QueerLiberation #TransLiberation #Feminism #AntiRacism #WorkersRights #HumanRights #Solidarity

I increasingly distrust the language of “multiple crises.”

AI-driven labour displacement.
Climate catastrophe.
Right-wing populism.
Fascism.
Racism.
Sexism.
The organised backlash against queer existence.

We are encouraged to catalogue these as separate problems, each requiring its own specialist vocabulary, institution, funding stream and respectable panel discussion.

But they are not unrelated phenomena.

They emerge from overlapping structures of domination.

The same political economy that renders a worker disposable can render a forest disposable. The same authoritarian imagination that reduces migrants to a demographic threat reduces queer people to a threat against an imagined social order. The same hierarchical logic that demands obedience from bodies demands obedience from nature, labour and dissent.

And when the system produces insecurity, it offers a remarkably convenient explanation:

Not the structure.
The Other.

The migrant.
The queer person.
The feminist.
The unemployed.
The dissenter.

Someone must be made responsible for conditions they did not create.

This is not an accident. It is politically useful.

So I am less interested in asking which crisis we should address first than in asking what keeps producing them.

Because if we merely treat the symptoms, the machinery remains intact.

And machinery does not become humane because we learn to describe its victims more politely.

Find the structure.
Name the hierarchy.
Follow the power.

Then start taking the machine apart.

#Antifascism #ClimateJustice #QueerLiberation #TransLiberation #Feminism #AntiRacism #WorkersRights #HumanRights #Solidarity

I increasingly distrust the language of “multiple crises.”

AI-driven labour displacement.
Climate catastrophe.
Right-wing populism.
Fascism.
Racism.
Sexism.
The organised backlash against queer existence.

We are encouraged to catalogue these as separate problems, each requiring its own specialist vocabulary, institution, funding stream and respectable panel discussion.

But they are not unrelated phenomena.

They emerge from overlapping structures of domination.

The same political economy that renders a worker disposable can render a forest disposable. The same authoritarian imagination that reduces migrants to a demographic threat reduces queer people to a threat against an imagined social order. The same hierarchical logic that demands obedience from bodies demands obedience from nature, labour and dissent.

And when the system produces insecurity, it offers a remarkably convenient explanation:

Not the structure.
The Other.

The migrant.
The queer person.
The feminist.
The unemployed.
The dissenter.

Someone must be made responsible for conditions they did not create.

This is not an accident. It is politically useful.

So I am less interested in asking which crisis we should address first than in asking what keeps producing them.

Because if we merely treat the symptoms, the machinery remains intact.

And machinery does not become humane because we learn to describe its victims more politely.

Find the structure.
Name the hierarchy.
Follow the power.

Then start taking the machine apart.

#Antifascism #ClimateJustice #QueerLiberation #TransLiberation #Feminism #AntiRacism #WorkersRights #HumanRights #Solidarity

I increasingly distrust the language of “multiple crises.”

AI-driven labour displacement.
Climate catastrophe.
Right-wing populism.
Fascism.
Racism.
Sexism.
The organised backlash against queer existence.

We are encouraged to catalogue these as separate problems, each requiring its own specialist vocabulary, institution, funding stream and respectable panel discussion.

But they are not unrelated phenomena.

They emerge from overlapping structures of domination.

The same political economy that renders a worker disposable can render a forest disposable. The same authoritarian imagination that reduces migrants to a demographic threat reduces queer people to a threat against an imagined social order. The same hierarchical logic that demands obedience from bodies demands obedience from nature, labour and dissent.

And when the system produces insecurity, it offers a remarkably convenient explanation:

Not the structure.
The Other.

The migrant.
The queer person.
The feminist.
The unemployed.
The dissenter.

Someone must be made responsible for conditions they did not create.

This is not an accident. It is politically useful.

So I am less interested in asking which crisis we should address first than in asking what keeps producing them.

Because if we merely treat the symptoms, the machinery remains intact.

And machinery does not become humane because we learn to describe its victims more politely.

Find the structure.
Name the hierarchy.
Follow the power.

Then start taking the machine apart.

#Antifascism #ClimateJustice #QueerLiberation #TransLiberation #Feminism #AntiRacism #WorkersRights #HumanRights #Solidarity