#respectabilitypolitics — Public Fediverse posts

"Insisting that partisans be polite, moderate, reasonable and friendly would actually serve to exclude marginalised political voices. It could do so in two ways:
• First, there was the problem of gatekeeping. […]
• [Second] problem: voices at the margins of politics had special cause to be righteous and zealous. On important issues – such as the equality of the sexes – it would not do to remain polite or seek a moderate compromise."

Geertje Bol: https://aeon.co/essays/polite-debate-has-privilege-the-marginalised-need-zealotry

#liberals #civility #respectabilityPolitics #respectability #politeness #partisanship #parties #history #England #feminism #privilege #politicalTheory

Why are America's largest newspapers stigmatizing queer people?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/nyt-wsj-gay-queer-stigma

On Pathologising Structural Criticism

https://wrzky.com/pathologising-structural-criticism/

A quick reverse image search on the avatar of 'dmc' reveals him to be https://github.com/davidmarkclements - an official Holepunch team member. So the core @holepunch_to team includes abusive people who bully away anybody who raises cultural issues. Cool.

As problematic as the #RespectabilityPolitics are, the only relevant official guidelines for the chat are "Speak freely, but always with respect. Insults or toxic language won't fly here." No admins or mods intervened or responded to David's contributions, so I can only assume that "fuck off with your culture wars" constitutes acceptable official conduct.

#Holepunch @holepunch_to community: absolute vitriol, violent #RespectabilityPolitics, content designed to escalate and exhaust the conversation that reads like AI-generated slop.

This would be silly if it weren't such a terrifying #culture indicator. I hope to hear a reasoned response about #HumanRights and #SocialJustice soon; and I'll be writing commentary when I'm recovered and ready to.

I will make the claim that #Holochain's real contribution to the #DWeb movement and #InternetHistory is weaponised #RespectabilityPolitics and White male victimhood.

#HolochainEmbracingFascism #fascism #AltRight #TransRightsAreHumanRights #HateSpeech #IdentityPolitics

The moment I demand that another accept as fact, what I chose to believe by faith, I deny them the same freedom to believe or not that I claim for myself.

The epistemology of supernatural belief (faith) and the epistemology of Naturalism (evidentiary science) are different tools for application in different domains.

I don't care what religion another subscribes to, What I object to is the implicit coercion of making decisions, laws, policy based on supernatural beliefs in a pluralistic democracy.

If Claudia Allen chooses to believe scripture is history based on her faith, that is her right of religious freedom, but to propagandize her faith as historic fact to others, is intellectually dishonest and promotes a cultural norm of othering that is irrefutably harmful and destructive to millions of people.

Why are Black people still Christian?
Garrison Hayes
@garrisonhayes
#BlackMastodon #BlackChurch #RespectabilityPolitics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKSF1huXOuw

The Problematic Queers of J. Blakeson
READUS 101 with La'Ron Readus
J Blakeson gave us 2 feature-length movies and 1 television show with queer main characters that are messy, problematic and complex. And when it comes to queer liberation and the fight over respect vs. respectability, here's why that's important.
#BlackMastodon #LGBTQ #Queer #QueerLiberation #RespectabilityPolitics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRQLwB6MH3g

I will be monitoring it but also muting it for a while. Handling of these events has been devastating to me personally and has lead directly to a diagnosis of PTSD. The accusations, attacks and #RespectabilityPolitics are relentless; and people will latch on to anything they can to try to turn the person raising the problem into the problem. I need to stop trying to manage this conversation and give space for others to contribute their voices.

It is over to you & the rest of the world now.

@LALegault @angiebaby right?! Every #SystemsChange space I have ever encountered still replicates these patterns today.

(related: some hashtags what should be connected) #ToxicPositivity #RespectabilityPolitics #BeatnikComforts #ModelMinority #ComplacentWhiteness #WhitePrivilege #MalePrivilege #SettlerInnocence #PermacultureMeToo #Permaculture #Web3 #ReFi #SilenceIsViolence #Decolonization

A conversation on egg_irl inspired this. #trans #RespectabilityPolitics #KurtWasAGirl

Engaging in respectability politics is fascist and if you do so it will identify you as a fascist, and I will treat you as such. #RespectabilityPolitics #Fascism

A good read on what happened when the Ottawa residents had enough of the convoy.

https://north-shore.info/2023/02/12/the-battle-of-billings-bridge/

It's a particularly worth reading for understanding what happens when racialized activists have to deal with shitlibs at actions 😬

(I'd actually recommend that ALL white activists take a read to check in with themselves to make sure they aren't doing ANY of the shit described.)

#Activism #OttawaConvoy #BattleOfBillingsBridge #Ottawa #onpoli #OttawaPolice #RespectabilityPolitics #FuckShitlibs

@Occidental I read #TheAutobiographyOfMalcolmX as a teenager and it was definitely helpful on so many levels.

Growing up in North Georgia I'd always seen Brother Malcolm weaponized against Black children to create this narrative that angry or armed Black people undermined their own cause in the civil rights movement.

Malcolm's autobiography provided so much incredible nuance that it challenged me to confront not only the narratives around #RespectabilityPolitics but also the ways that leaders like Brother Malcolm and Dr #MartinLutherKing were weaponized in attempts to critique the Black community into submission

I'd be curious to learn from other folks on #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter how they came to learn about the spectrum of perspectives and identities within the Black community

respectability politics is a cancer

chasing goalposts that'll never stop moving makes you dumber than a dog

at least the dog would be having fun you're just scared

#liberationnotassimilation #transliberation #queerliberation #transfeminism #respectabilitypolitics #marginalization #marginalizedpeople #bigotry #oppression #power #powerstructures #trans #transgender #transsexual #queer

How we appear, our dress, our hair, our style, how we carry ourselves are all things that we as marginalized academics are being judged against. Do we look the part of the #academic? Do we want to?

In our latest episode, we talk to Dr. Nadia Brown and Dr. Danielle Lemi about the politics of #appearance and #RespectabilityPolitics in #politics and in #academia.

Listen to the #podcast at https://academicaunties.captivate.fm/sisterstyle and then check out their book, Sister Style!

#firstgen #AcademicChatter