William Monroe Trotter, born on this day in 1872, was a newspaper editor and civil rights activist based in Boston, Massachusetts who co-founded the Niagara Movement with WEB Du Bois.

Trotter was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African-American newspaper he used to express that opposition.

Trotter was a key founding member of the “Niagara Movement” with W.E.B. Du Bois and contributed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), although he never participated in the group due to a bitter split with Du Bois.

“My vocation has been to wage a crusade against lynching, disenfranchisement, peonage, public segregation, injustice, denial of service in public places for color, in war time and peace.”

  • William Monroe Trotter

https://trotter.umich.edu/article/timeline-william-monroe-trotters-life

I hope you nerds have a good month of April cuddle

Remember no crackers

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  • this is a comment with 0 likes on youtube, not worth my waste of time, but it’s interesting to look at the mentality of a U.S. soldier, Trans or not, And they always preface it with the “I only held the nails, I wasn’t the nailing them to the crucifix”, it shows that they know what they’ve done they don’t regret it they’re clarifying it to trick themselves and anyone who didn’t connect the two dots. “I did it to escape poverty” and they’re talking about healthcare and college, you want to escape poverty? hold up a gun and break into random people’s homes and steal all their valuable stuff just like you did in Iraq and Afghanistan atleast then you won’t have to go overseas.

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    Reddit is weirdly illiterate for being a completely text-based platform.

    I’ve had too many instances where I’ll be discussing something and someone reads the first sentence and dismisses the entire rest of my comment based on that. It’s like you have to constantly type in hooks and clickbait filled with epic one-liners to move the discussion forward.

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      I see it everywhere online. YouTube, forums, Discord, etc. Doesn’t matter. Chuds often start frothing at the mouth and post whatever buzzwords they think win the “argument” (it’s an argument the same way a child whines their parents won’t buy them a toy at the store is an “argument”).

      Not to mention, some people are so wrong it would take months of educating them to get a baseline where they can actually discuss the topic with you. Their lack of reading comprehension doesn’t help. Example: the Destiny vs. Finkelstein “debate.” Except that’s every discussion everywhere online with liberals and reactionaries.

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      Holy shit, this is reminding me of this moment that lives rent-free in my head where I typed a whole-ass comment on Reddit explaining why “anti-white racism” is not a thing, and, in said comment, I specifically mentioned that acts of anti-white prejudice do happen, but such do not entail systemic harm and cannot be considered racism.

      Despite this, some bozo responded to me by retelling this moment when some Black teenagers moved into their neighborhood and called them things like “whitey” and “cracker” as their sole “evidence” against my entire comment, thinking that we are automatically granting that anti-white prejudice “counts” as racism.

      They basically are so caught-up in that semantic trap of believing that anti-white prejudice must be denoted a form of “racism” that they legitimately believed that my point was to argue that anti-white prejudice does not exist rather than arguing that it does exist but it is not “racism,” despite my comment unequivocally saying otherwise.

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        Years ago, I stopped interacting with these people. They’ve had systemic prejudice explained to them, why trans women are women, how intersectionality works, why liberals aren’t leftists, etc. and they double down on why those are all wrong. I can only conclude it’s deliberate. They say the wrong things on purpose because they want to hurt people they don’t like based on immutable characteristics. They will make any justifications to inflict harm on others while stealing their shit.

        The best thing to do is talk more to the audience and ignore reactionaries who say such nonsense. The only replies those types get from me is insults telling them to fuck off.

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    So a while ago, the leftist tabletop game club near me went under and was bought out by another owner. Shit happens and the founder was a bit of an anarkiddy who was terrible at doing leftwing praxis. And by “terrible,” I mean “Shouting at anyone who says something he doesn’t agree with instead of explaining why their opinion is reactionary.” He didn’t want to educate and organize, he wanted to be the smartest person in the room. Needless to say, the club space made people feel unwelcome and a lot of baby leftists decided not to come back. Anyone not explicitly leftist got banned. Now no one is supporting him enough to keep the lights on and the rent paid.

    New owner and his spouse buy the club and rebuild how things are done from the ground up, such as hosting regular events, setting up a community art space, and so on. They’re both really friendly and welcoming. People who were wary of the previous owners come back and people from nearby cities are driving here to see what all the hullabaloo is about.

    Despite this, I still felt something was off. I couldn’t put my finger on it. Why was this new owner making me feel uneasy? He’s not physically intimidating. He’s always smiles and cultivating a family-friendly atmosphere. He’s still maintained a lot of the same policies of no chud shit allowed. Why was I still bothered by him?

    Then it hit me when I was looking at a wall. The BLM and Anti-fascist Action flags weren’t there anymore. The Pride one was still there. I understand taking down the antifa flag. ICE is operating around and some chud sent a notice to a corporation over some other bullshit, so why wouldn’t they also be willing to SWAT the place, too?

    But the BLM flag? That tells me this guy sees skin color as “political” and “bad for business” (it’s neither). It tells me he has no convictions, he’d rather make racists feel welcome than take a hit to his bottom line. He will rat me out to ICE once they start going after anyone who isn’t white. He cannot be trusted. His leftism is performative.

    I don’t have this problem at another game shop nearby who has never been anything close to leftwing. The most they’ve done is LGBTQ+ friendly nights for kids. What’s the difference? The owner of the shop is reliably in it for money. He doesn’t want racism in the shop because it’s leaving money on the table. He’s always catered to non-white game communities not because he’s anti-racist, but because it’s good for business.

    Neither he nor his employees would rat people out because they know doing so would make people feel unsafe and not spend money there. The gaming club on the other hand? I know I can’t rely on them. Once scratched, fascists will bleed. They won’t help if anyone there needs to throw down with the cops or ICE or the military or whoever.

    I should’ve known better because it’s always foxes and wolves with white people. I just couldn’t figure out what was bothering me until I realized they took down a flag.

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    My life and mental health only got better when I decided to permanently throw Reddit in the trash, and I will never forget that.

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      I actually met my first IRL r*dditor a few days ago at a painting thing. This guy shows up with a Vaush-style unkempt beard and starts off with “It’s good to be able to work on stuff without the kids bothering you, right fellas? Haha…”

      Okay so this guy is a dad who needs some alone time. That’s normal. But then he proceeds to spend the entire time talking about his kids. “Oh that’s like when my son did that in school!” or he’d say “My daughter showed me that,” and so on, non-stop for like 4 hours.

      I really wanted to say “Dude, shut the fuck up no one here cares about your son’s grades or whatever the fuck. Maybe you should have brought them with you instead of perpetuating the same ‘Dad can’t show children interest or affection’ shit your parents inflicted on you?”

      But what really made me not like this guy (who was otherwise friendly and I probably shouldn’t have been bothered by him) was that he finally felt comfortable enough to say “I saw on reddit…” He switched from talking about his kids to whatever slop he saw Stormfront. Memes, tutorials, whatever…he was unironically doing “I must consoooooom!” in response to astroturfing instead of recognizing he was getting psyop’d. Like no, guy. I don’t use that shitty site because it’s all fake nonsense or white supremacist propaganda or some sexual predator meeting spot.

      Anywho. I think I mentally overreacted to this person’s vibe. But he was a peak whiteboy millennial stereotype who may otherwise have progressive politics, yet hasn’t ridden himself completely of libshit because his material interests are not with the rest of the proletariat.

      Sorry for the rant, it’s just been rummaging around in my head for two or three days now how much I hate these fucking people.

  • I wish death upon Europeans who mald about immigrants and refugees “invading” Europe. People have to flee there in large numbers because of colonialism and empire, dipshits.

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    General Tso’s made using soya chunks, sriracha “lo mein” (whole wheat spaghetti) on the side

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    Fuck KKKontrapoints for her shitty ass Cuba “joke”. NATO leftists are convinced they’re the most intelligent in the room while saying the same dumb shit you’d see see on a Fox News segment.

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    Ziohran Copdani chumming it up with Barrage Obomber should open up the eyes of anyone who still has them closed, unfortunately they’re sealed shut with superglue

  • a clip from years ago that lives in my head rent free was this couple (white gf black bf) getting approached by a racist guy talking about “intermixing is bad you will have worse babies” or something and the white girl responding with “actually scientific stuidies have shown that mixed children are smarter” and I keep dissecting the layers of wrong that short clip had.

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      Instagram users would think that the interracial couple in that video is the epitome of being super “woke” and progressive, and they’d unabashedly side with them and see zero problems with such a reply, thinking they “owned” that racist.

      It is just racist-to-racist communication.

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      Sounds like my grandad who likes (he is somehow still around despite being very, very, very very old) to go on very creepy rants about how he contributed to ending racism by marrying an Asian woman and also constantly brings up the mixed intelligence thing. Gotta be brainworms from living in the Jim Crow south. Like is it so hard to just reject the race science altogether?

      White ppl in mixed relationships keep doing this shit, I remember a time at the airport where this guy was screaming at the (black) gate agent about how it’s possible for mixed couples to have kids. For context what started it was the gate agent going down a line asking if people were together

      • it makes no sense since the races are already nonsese, like if that shit was real you wouldn’t be saying “Asian” they’d be hyperfetishising a specific neighbourhood in Osaka that has a perfect genetic match with +35% Belgian +45% anglo saxon build. Half assed fetish fiction science.

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          Well whatever nonsense they’re trying to say, I sure as hell missed out on all that mixed ubermensch shit being the most average student ever and being sick 70% of the time as a kid

  • “Israel” is not different from America, When Netenyahu calls Palestinians Amalek that need to be wiped out, Trump says that Iranian civilization needs to be wiped. Then the “progressives” of such entities claim that “we do not Agree with him, he’s just a right wing fascist” yet they do nothing about him, they’re not silent in fear of prosecution, they’re silent in agreement.

    And to those self proclaimed Muslims and leftists who shout and cheer at every missile like they were the ones firing it, yet refuse to talk about the demonization of a whole nation, a whole sect should figure out where they stand.

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    i finally finished wretched of the earth, still digesting and parsing through but man it’s incredible how much you can tell that a lot of thinkers were influenced by this book, shoutout franz fanon (i will say though the book is incredibly male centric :/ )

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    Thinking back to this time I worked as a barista and this taller, bigger Black man would come in every morning and say he wants his coffee “Black and strong” just like he is.

    At the time, I thought it was so corny and goofy and it made me laugh, but looking back, I see him as nothing but an absolute legend.

    Hope he’s doing well today.

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    Saw some clip of Sabrina carpenter talking down an Arab woman while her fans cheer at calling the Zaghrouta weird.

    NEVER PUT WHITES ON A PEDASTAL. This behavior is not shocking once you realize how many of these artists come from rich backgrounds and the only poc they interact with are whitewashed as hell