We don't actually want to do the work of a revolution because it might fuck up all the cozy luxuries with which we have become accustomed. It's easy to not buy shit from Amazon for a week. 7/15
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(But fascinatingly, no one is saying we should boycott, say, Whole Foods, which is partly owned by Amazon or cancel their subscription to Prime Video because "I can't live without [insert Prime Video show here]"). You know what's not easy: putting your ass on the line for what you believe in. 8/15
So, if it makes you feel good to do a one day boycott of the economy. Knock yourself out. But call me when we are ready to walk off our jobs and actually put our asses and our livelihoods on the line. 9/15
Because the Black and brown folks, the women, the queers and trans folks, the low socioeconomic status folks, and all the intersections in between in our lives, need us to do it. 10/15
My rage is at y'all. Because y'all bought into consumer citizenship. Y'all thought DEI was an ethos and not a branding strategy to hail y'all into being good consumer citizens who showed your pleasure and displeasure not by taking to the streets, but by purchasing. 11/15
Y'all invested so deeply in mediated representation that a Black super hero or a Black mermaid was going to lead y'all's babies to the promised land. And y'all are still thinking we can buy our way to emancipation. 12/15
The machine is doing what machines do. And instead of throwing a wrench in the gears of the machine, we are attempting to show a system adept at marketing and consumer segmentation that our dollars matter. And they don't. 13/15
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