typoaspraxis.bsky.social
artist | educator | she/her | typo as praxis | displaced New Mexican | living in Chicago | unionizing my workplace #aicwu
769 posts
606 followers
569 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Okay, now do the labor movement, which was famously violent. We all have weekends and 8 our workdays because of organized violence. So, turns out there is no ‘one way’, and every movement needs to sort itself out in its own time.
comment in response to
post
Even beyond the gross oversimplification of what went on in the 1960s, I feel compelled to add: we don't live in that era. Images of protesters being brutalized do not have the same impact in the 2020s, as you may have noticed. It's astounding to me that this has to be said.
comment in response to
post
God fucking damn it, YES. Thank you.
comment in response to
post
When you tell people not to wave their home country flag, you are telling them that these stories don't matter, that what matters most is xenophobic feelings about those stories
When you say immigrants don't have the right to cross these borders, you ignore the debt the U.S. owes the Global South
comment in response to
post
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
They are shooting everyone anyway? So this seems very silly.
comment in response to
post
You are facing the wrong direction, sir. Spin that ire around and push back against the false BS narrative, not the organic uprising of people that are actively being abused and oppressed by the state.
comment in response to
post
You are literally repeating that talking point by complaining about the aesthetics of a protest you aren’t participating in.
Denying it looks a lot more like ‘there is literally no invading army’ and ‘it is fine for Mexican immigrants + Mexican-Americans to wave the Mexican flag during protests.’
comment in response to
post
The ‘optics matter’ to whom, exactly?
comment in response to
post
Again, if you think the protests in Los Angeles ‘play into their narrative’, that is 100% a you problem, because for most of us, it does not. And it isn’t helpful when supposed allies repeat conservative talking points over and over.
comment in response to
post
100% this
bsky.app/profile/mske...
comment in response to
post
Anyone with a brain will know that Southern California has has Spanish speaking brown people, many of who identify with Mexico, living there for generations, quite literally 300 years, and won’t be offended.
comment in response to
post
Exactly. Not a single Trump voter is going to change their minds about immigrants if they see a brown protester with an American flag. They keep saying ‘optics matter’, but for WHOM? It’s insane.
comment in response to
post
Not a single MAGA is going to change their minds if they see a brown person waving an American flag, so the real question here is why do the optics of a Mexican flag, an identity millions of people living here have, feels bad to you? Because it doesn’t feel bad to me.
comment in response to
post
I see the Mexican flag and I am fully on board. If you aren’t, maybe that is a signal about who you are that you should inspect.
comment in response to
post
Look, I like you, but this is just bad advice, and deeply misunderstands the context of LA, and the history of the region at large. There are families who have been living there for 10+ generations who consider themselves ‘Mexican’, because the border moved on them.
comment in response to
post
And New Mexico, which has the only bilingual state constitution 💛❤️
comment in response to
post
Girl, read it again.
comment in response to
post
Learn how to read for context challenge
comment in response to
post
Comments proving that, despite many efforts, folks still don’t know how to read.
comment in response to
post
And comments like yours just shine a glaring light on who and what you feel deserves protection, deserves protest. Protect your 401k, but let your brown neighbors be disappeared. Plain as day, we see you for exactly what you are.
comment in response to
post
This isn’t a ‘manufactured violence’, it’s just violence. It’s targeted violence. You can sit back and watch if you’d like, but people who give shit won’t let their loved ones be kidnapped silently.
comment in response to
post
Some of us have family and friends that have been ripped from their schools, jobs and homes. It might not matter to you, but destroying communities and kidnapping people isn’t a ‘distraction’ or ‘ruse’, and it certainly isn’t 4D chess coming from Trump.
comment in response to
post
It’s not a ‘distraction’ when our neighbors are ripped from the jobs, schools and homes. Two things can be simultaneously happening, and we need to respond accordingly.
comment in response to
post
Chicago will shut that shit down. I’ve never seen a city collectively hate a person more.
comment in response to
post
You sound like a cop
comment in response to
post
Boo!
comment in response to
post
Really glad to see this post ❤️
comment in response to
post
Omg thank you!!!
comment in response to
post
I believe she entered hospice last year ❤️🩹
Noah Berlatsky shared a few ways to help her last summer, but I haven’t sent any updates in a while.
www.everythingishorrible.net/p/please-hel...
comment in response to
post
Remember life before the internet, 20 years ago? Yeah, it’s still out there. Just like you couldn’t look up community in the yellow pages, you can’t look up community on Facebook.
Ya gotta go outside.
comment in response to
post
It’s also a myth that non-violent protest was the *only* effective protest movement in the US, which it most certainly is not. The labor movement was famously violent, and now we have weekends and an 8 hour work day.
comment in response to
post
Exactly this. Non-violence was a deliberate strategy very much in response to Jim Crow and segregation.
comment in response to
post
This is 100% just a Facebook comment lol
comment in response to
post
New Mexico doesn’t claim them.