
Regarding the myth of tolerance and assimilationists
So i thought that ACP plant i was talking about last night was done here, but apparently not. I saw a post of theirs in response to me that was so ass that i couldn't ignore it, leading me to writing this post. So the first half is gonna be me debunking it and the second half is just ranting about assimilationists lol
Their claim: tolerance is not only better than acceptance, but also more genuine. Bitch, what drugs have you been taking lmao? Tolerance is essentially "i don't like you, but i'm gonna put up with you", which couldn't be more fake, if you hate me i'd rather you be direct about it rather than trying to be sneaky about it lol. This is the issue with liberalism in general, just the emphasis on tolerance over actual acceptance. While at first this sounds reasonable, logically not everyone is going to like each other, people can only put up a front for so long, ESPECIALLY if the society you live in has deeply rooted racism and classism baked into it. As legal progress is made more tolerance is expected, but that racism didn't go away. When the civil rights act was written, we didn't stop having these racists, they just changed their language over time. Instead of saying black people directly, they say "criminals", "thugs", "welfare queens", "dei", etc. But what happens under a liberal society again? Eventually it leads to authoritarianism. Fascism is the final stage of capitalism inevitably, as a socialist i'd think one would know this. If reactionary thought is baked into your system, no amount of "tolerance" is gonna make that go away. It's just gonna allow intolerant people to get more of a voice and get more power, which historically came at the detriment of people who are more oppressed. Go on, make that subreddit of yours with your five followers and negative downvotes that you claim makes you so famous (i only bring that up because they did lmao). See if you're still gonna have only "mildly" reactionary people by the end of it. See, another flaw with the idea of the tolerance is the fact that you still don't like that group of people, which will inevitably imply a betrayal even if you're willing to temporarily put your differences aside. I can tell this person doesn't belong to any oppressed group because this is getting ridiculous. Sure, it may not be deceptive if you're honest about it, which apparently this person is, but at the same time there's not really any other way to look at it, because as soon as it is "forced" onto you, aka it ends up affecting you in some way, you freak out. The thing is tho, ofc it's going to evolve outside of their own little bubble, that's just how things work. You can't just have a "separate but equal" mentality (we'll get to that later), because how did that go again? Oh yeah, it had lynchings, segregation, klansmen, all the works. Because that's how it inevitably ends up, so the solution is change in both society and yourself. Speaking of which, this person claims that they tried to kill off some of their reactionary beliefs but couldn't. Lmao. Despite what you might claim, i don't think that's an issue for most people if they weren't genuinely bigoted. Now, if you want to have a genuinely accepting society, it begins with understanding, or Gnosis if you wanna get spiritual about it. This ofc begins with yourself. When you are trans, for example, you evaluate your life both past and present, you challenge pre-concieved notions about yourself and gender, and what society has told you about it. Everyone is told at a young age what's what in regards to that stuff, subconsciously or otherwise. When you realize that's fundamentally wrong, you begin to ask yourself: "what else have i been led to believe that isn't true?" Obviously it's different for everyone but logically that's how it goes a lot of the time, that's why a lot of trans people, or any oppressed group for that matter, naturally gravitate towards the left. And nobody said that gaining this new understanding is easy, it takes a LONG ass time to get it fully formed. To give up because it's "not within your nature" or whatever is lazy and shows how weakness in your soul. It just shows a lack of insight or knowledge which led me to be surprised how you became a socialist in the first place (ignoring the praise of Gorbachev, who was the guy who made a 180 on socialism when visiting an american grocery store and turn the ussr from state capitalist to regular capitalist russia, interestingly lmao). It's no wonder you settle for tolerance, there's no desire to make a major change in yourself or in society, there's no putting in that self reflection or that work. This is why socially you're no better than the average white liberal. Now let's see if you ask the white leftist question: why worry about "identity politics" at all?
See, there are two ways to look at identity politics: equality under the system and liberation from the system. The former is that liberal assimilationist kind, where it's about achieving the same legalities and representation and such without actually challenging the system itself. It overlooks class, overarching racism or bigotry by viewing it as an individual issue rather than an institutional one, and just want us to "be nice" to appease the white/cishet/whatever majority. When you just settle for that tho, what you get in the end is just assimilating into a death cult. Wanting the right to serve the military, for example? Congrats, now you get to be in the front lines and bomb middle eastern children like all the other people around you. Does that sound free to you? It's essentially trying to get the same privileges as the dominant demographic. In other words, it's an absolute joke at best and a betrayal at worst. Stop trying to appeal to them and being a pick-me because they're not going to pick you, when things get bad who's gonna stick up for you? Not the dominant demographic, that's for sure. No wonder why nobody can take liberal queers seriously, who would? The SECOND type of identity politics is crucial, however: the actual deconstruction of these systems and institutions, viewing issues of race and gender as inseparable from class issues as they are, allows for actual authenticity and experimentation, and is integral to any leftist struggle. You can't abolish class without getting rid of everything else that goes with it. In mainstream political discourse, there has been too much of an emphasis on the first kind of identity politics, which is shallow and just waters us down to appeal to the majority. We call out hitler and trump for being terrible, rightfully so, ignoring the fact that they weren't the only ones like that, just the biggest figures. They're simply the largest symptom, not the root disease. We can't change things just by getting rid of the one bad guy, you have to gut out why that came into fruition in the first place. This logic applies to everything, really. It's deeper than mere ideology or mundane party politics, it goes deeper. Transness for example shows how malleable things actually are, and that threatens the fabric of what the rightoid system has built up forever. It is inherently political, and white cishets like to pretend otherwise. The performance of gender does not mean that it's meaningless, separate from the material aspects of it, but rather it is a declaration of the two merging. To assert that this is the reality and i will shape it on my own terms to feel more comfortable with myself. Even cis people do this, like with gender reveal parties. To quote Xenogothic, "...‘gender reveal parties’, which are a far more recent performative ritual used to approve the signifying regime one is to be coached in from birth onwards. They are performative because pronouncements like “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!” are just as consequential as the declaration “I now pronounce you man and wife.” This observation unfolds in two directions: on the one hand, this sort of declaration is consequential because it will define your life in a meaningful and material way; on the other, if we were to declare that this declaration of gender is final and immutable, then we might as well regress to a time when divorce is no longer legal also… This, however, is seldom appreciated, heightening certain contradictions in our societal infrastructure." Transness is about asserting your own autonomy and declaring your own independence from the previous dogma, and assimilationists take that logic and spit on it by trying to fit into the dominant system. This is what tolerance also implies, assimilation. Like "ok, you can join us as long as you behave yourself" mentality that assimilationists tend to jump on. The thing is, you can apply the inherent logic of transness i described and apply it to literally anything. Gender is merely a hyperstition, a spook, and a performance as stated earlier, and many things follow the same category. The more you get others to understand that and make an actual effort to deconstruct the previous worldview, thus achieving a revolution of sorts (both cultural and economic), the closer to success you are. The further you go with this, the better. You can't fully blame assimilationists for thinking the way they do, this is the fault of the system they live in above all else, which is exactly why it must be done away with in order for genuine acceptance to take place