Sep 08, 2005 08:04
These days I find it to be harder and harder to find a group of people who accept each other despite their political or ideological differences. You either totally left and always hating on the right, or totally right and always hating on the left. What happened to finding some common ground? Everyone wants to stage a fucking revolution, but I wonder if they fail to realize that THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAPPEN IF YOU CONTINUE TO ISOLATE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU ON SOME BASIC FUNDAMENTALS! This is why I don't foresee a revoulution happening in my lifetime. Though, I'd love for it to occur, because I am indeed anti capitalist and to some extent anti-american and definitely anticolonial and anti-imperial. However, I'm tired of these nuts who run around thinking that they know whats best for the people when all they are doing is preaching at the public. I had a middle aged, white, "revolutionary" man, from a middle class family preach to me about oppression the other day. I wanted to slap him. How could HE be the one to talk to me about oppression. I AM the oppressed.
Label me:
Latina
Puerto Rican
Mainland Born to the Puerto Ricans
Woman
Woman in a latina existence (i.e. machismo)
Bisexual
Short
Fat
Left-handed
Near & Far Sighted
Below Poverty Poor
Don't preach to me about oppression when you've never lived it. And if you are oppressed like I am, dont fucking expect me to agree with every little thing you say. I am not a mindless drone. I am not a yes men. I have an opinion of my own, and it doesn't always have to be radical. If you cant accept that, then don't fucking talk to me. It's that simple.