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Agreed and that's why I echoed a previous sentiment in my last comment: We grossly underestimate how distorted our vision actually is. We grossly underestimate the effects of our unquestioned beliefs. If you have some about "WAP" or "Industry Baby" that cause you to mistake illusion for truth...

I think you hit on a good point. Industry Baby is not objectively a non-threat. Simultaneously, it is not objectively a threat. Objectively, no one knows if or how much it is a threat or non-threat. Because of that and how easily the opposition to it backfires and becomes yet another weapon...

I'm just saying some things are threats and some things aren't and our personal beliefs about ourselves can change a non-threat into a threat. "Industry Baby" is not an objective threat and no one can prove otherwise. It just shows black men in a way that is contrary to many black men's beliefs...

We're not talking about guns and bullets. I made an analogy of a bomb detonating just to point out there is no threat with these aforementioned "weapons" until we make it so. But these are not the same as physical weapons. "Could be?" How could they be damaged? Is there evidence to show this...

2009 It's internalize racism because you disregard context. The truth is, any race of people in our position would be doing exactly what we are doing, but that part is never acknowledged when black people use the phrase, "no other race would…" You'd have to believe this behavior is in black...

In order for it to be a weapon, we had to agree that it could hurt us. No one has any proof that these types of weapons (distractions) hurt directly. The hurt comes indirectly, as ART implied: we fight over the efficacy of the weapon, weaponizing it. If all of us agree that it can't hurt us...

Which is actually good news. To defeat white supremacy, all we need do is change our minds about the things that trigger us.

Thank you for your response. White supremacy is ultimately, a collective ego. If we have not mastered our own, we won't be able to "dismantle" white supremacy. Us being distracted by its distractions is proof we have not mastered our own egos. White supremacy would end tomorrow if we mastered...

Agreed Do you believe a visible black homosexual in entertainment is the same as the rape of black men? Isn't the belief that homosexuality is a weapon that can psychologically weaken us, homophobic? In the classic sense. It's a fearful thought about homosexuality. Homosexuality itself, can be...

I do not believe there is any difference between social and natural. We are natural beings living in a natural world. The things we do (societies) come from our nature. We built them in nature using nature. I think it's literally impossible for us to do anything unnatural. It's a word that has...

I think you make a good point. I believe it is our rigidity in some of our ideals about the way things "should be" that makes us so easy to destabilize. Of course these ideals made for strong family units and communities, but if you have an entity that does not want you to have those strong...

I'm not absolving them of responsibility, I'm absolving them of guilt. They are not equal. If you feel guilt, you might try to fix the problem or (like most of them are doing) your perpetually try to obfuscate and offload the guilt so you don't have to feel it and just do nothing. I know it...