Post #612944

2026-01-28 16:30 UTC

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #ThoughtExperiment I enjoy being on Mastodon because of conversations here. I didn’t have to explain to any of you why the phrase “This is not who we are” is ridiculous. It’s like when Kissinger died, you all said he should rot in hell. I was like yes! These are my people. But I do want to talk about how allies and liberals hurt our fight for freedom when they use that phrase in speeches trying to make people feel better. 1/8

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@fulanigirl@mstdn.social 2026-01-28 16:31

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #ThoughtExperiment I’m not criticizing the wonderfully brave work that is being done in support of our immigrant community. But we must strive to keep ourselves educated about the invisible ways ingrained societal racism impacts us all. The utterance of that phrase masks a refusal to recognize or credit the lived experience of every single group of black and brown people in this country. 2/8

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@14mission@sfba.social 2026-01-28 16:48

@fulanigirl@mstdn.social It's funny you mention Kissinger. That's one time I though, "I should get outside of my left-wing Mastodon bubble and check neutral sources". So I read the whole Wikipedia article on the bastard. And learned he did so many evil things that I had never even heard about. Hell needs a special subbasement.

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@jmax@mastodon.social 2026-01-28 16:56

@fulanigirl@mstdn.social "This is not who we are" is the essence of the problem. Phrased as an aspiration, or better yet, a goal, the sentiment would be wonderful. Phrased as a fact, it's delusional. And the delusion is a big problem because it blocks the goal.

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@seaborgium1234@mastodon.social 2026-02-02 08:38

What if the comforting words we choose, meant to soothe, sometimes cast a subtle spell of stasis instead? It makes you wonder about the hidden physics of language.

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