"Reformed" venture capitalist: Capitalism made me sick, angry, and unhappy.
The same "reformed" venture capitalist: Capitalism is the solution to all that ails us and AOC is just an angry little girl.
FUCKING SHIT.
"Reformed" venture capitalist: Capitalism made me sick, angry, and unhappy.
The same "reformed" venture capitalist: Capitalism is the solution to all that ails us and AOC is just an angry little girl.
FUCKING SHIT.
If it's not an endorsement, what is it? It's certainly not an indictment and it isn't neutrality. Just because you aren't an active co-conspirator doesn't mean you are not complicit. I don't think innocent bystanders knowingly take donations from perpetrators.
Friend: Are you OK? You haven't posted on Instagram in ages
Me: I quit FB, Instagram, and Twitter.
Friend: Why'd you quit the internet?
Me: Actually I've *rejoined* the Internet.
Next time someone asked me why did I leave the internet, I'm gonna say I'm still very much on the Internet. When are *you* coming back?
Here is the Anarchism of Blackness btw https://roarmag.org/magazine/black-liberation-anti-fascism/ Well worth a read....as is everything in Roar magazine.
Racist attack? Pickup that cellphone and hit RECORD. Black people get more justice from exposing racism on Facebook or Twitter than any appeals to the state https://blavity.com/white-woman-called-a-black-man-a-nr-over-a-parking-spot-and-his-wife-wasnt-having-it I think this is the point Samudzi and Anderson were trying to make in the Anarchism of Blackness. We can't try to reform what is so patently antiblack. My point is FB and Twitter are no substitute for true security/justice.
That said, I do think that the impulse here comes from a sense that there is wisdom and solution in the polity and this has been evidenced in many cases. Racists lose their jobs, their apartments, their social status . Call-out culture undoubtedly has its limits, but call out culture/ostracism is a step up from outright impunity which is often the result of appeals to the state. However, embracing and strengthening non-state security and justice could move us further.
There are a lot of tech folks who would rather be solving pressing real world problems instead of helping techbros and VCs get richer. I'd love to be a part of facilitating that exodus. #thinkingoutloud #latestagecapitalism
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