Modifying my previous comment because it could have been interpreted wrong: the thing that jumps out at me is how obviously small Pavlou’s understanding of Malcolm X is that he would put the phrase “white boy” in his mouth, pantomiming Black people by repeating something he obviously got from TV or memes using one of the most eloquent Civil Rights leaders in American history. It’s tremendously disrespectful and racist.
someone here said that AI art is the aesthetic of 21st century fascism and i can’t stop thinking of that idea every single time i see something like this
even libs have pretty much moved on from ai images, like sometimes it’s funny to make kermit the frog do the rambo pose or to make D&D character portraits or whatever but the further right you go the more people use it and the more they use it for “serious” self-expression
There’s a Malcolm X quote where he says something like the only white person he’d work with would be John Brown
There’s another one where he said Fidel Castro was the first white man he met that he actually liked.
my recollection from reading Autobiography of Malcom X aaaages ago was that X never met a respectable white person prior to going on hajj (1964). He first met Castro in 1960. And for context was assassinated in 1965. Autobiography was of course a work intended to propagandize, in the best sense of that term, and I don’t think it necessarily think it would represent the totality of X’s thoughts on any matter. here is what I found when I searched it up.
Before I get involved in anything nowadays, I have to straighten out my own position, which is clear, I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don’t believe in any form of racism. I don’t believe in any form of. discrimination or segregation. I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christians probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God who created the universe. That’s the one we believe in, the one who created the universe—the only difference being you call him God and we call him Allah. The Jews call him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call him Allah. But since the white man, your friend, took your language away from you during slavery, the only language you know is his language. You know your friend’s language, so when he’s putting the rope around your neck, you call for God and he calls for God. And you wonder why the one you call on never answers…
Elijah Muhammad had taught us that the white man could not enter into Mecca in Arabia and all of us who followed him, we believed it… . When I got over there and went to Mecca and saw these people who were blond and blue-eyed and pale-skinned and all those things, I said, “Well,” but I watched them closely. And I noticed that though they were white, and they would call themselves white, there was a difference between them and the white ones over here. And that basic difference was this: In Asia or the Arab world or in Africa, where the Muslims are, if you find one who says he’s white, all he’s doing is using an adjective to describe something that’s incidental about him, one of his incidental characteristics; there is nothing else to it, he’s just white.
But when you get the white man over here in America and he says he’s white, he means something else. You can listen to the sound of his voice— when he says he’s white, he means he’s boss. That’s right. That’s what white means in this language. You know the expression, “free, white and twenty-one.” He made that up. He’s letting you know that white means free, boss. He’s up there, so that when he says he’s white he has a little different sound in his voice. I know you know what I’m talking about…
Despite the fact that I saw that Islam was a religion of brotherhood, I also had to face reality. And when I got back into this American society, I’m not in a society that practices brotherhood. I’m in a society that might preach it on Sunday, but they don’t practice it on any day. America is a society where there is no brotherhood. This society is controlled primarily by the racists and segregationists who are in Washington, D.C., in positions of power. And from Washington, D.C., they exercise the same forms of brutal oppression against dark-skinned people in South and North Vietnam, or in the Congo, or in Cuba or any other place on this earth where they are trying to exploit and oppress. That is a society whose government doesn’t hesitate to inflict the most brutal form of punishment and oppression upon dark-skinned people all over the world.
I’m sure he mentioned it more than once so might not be exactly what you’re thinking of
For one, when a white man comes to me and tells me how liberal he is, the first thing I want to know, is he a nonviolent liberal, or the other kind. I don’t go for any nonviolent white liberals. If you are for me and my problems— when I say me, I mean us, our people— then you have to be willing to do as old John Brown did. And if you’re not of the John Brown school of liberals, we’ll get you later — later.
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Why do right wingers feel the need to be accepted by the communists they revile?
Helps to defang revolutionaries and appeal to otherwise unaware people. Lenin talks about it in State and Revolution, about how various German parties at the time, even conservatives, were praising Marx without also applying Marxist theory.
Tucker Carlson, during his onstage rant, on the topic of Mamdani, tried to make fun of him by mocking his name and…claiming he’s a fake communist and standard liberal
Always knew never to trust Americans with their fake class consciousness
Wild guess, but probably because most have been tamed enough in public discourse to be seen as vague icons for “good” which they [right wingers] want to be identified with, especially in order to enable policies that go directly against what these figures were for
Because they want to be seen as the true status quo changers when in truth their just boring jack boots that enjoy causing pain? Tbh I have no idea
This is the second time he did something like this where he had to put an edit in about Malcolm X. The last one said like “Edit: I was just informed Malcolm X said some antisemitic things in the past” or some shit. How do you make this kind of mistake twice!? Is this a bit!?
Because it’s ragebait
Having listened to the recent qaa episode where they talked about him, while it is ragebait I also wholeheartedly believe that he’s genuinely that stupid.
If Drew Peepoo isn’t a bit, the alternative is so bleak.
That Edit!
