a Facebook post from 2/3/25 – a day that Elon Musk was doing Musk things and white folks were doin…. white folks things…
Learned helplessness is the core of white people culture and it’s absolutely exhausting.
At this moment in time, more folks are fed, housed, and have THE ENTIRETY OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IN THEIR FUCKING POCKETS than any other time in all of human history and Americans are really standing around going poor me I can’t possibly do anything. Zucky zuck changed the algos so I couldn’t possibly access information anywhere else because I’d have to click things and that’s hard poor me woe is me I’ll just doomscroll and feel good bc I switched from Target to Costco for my mindless consumerism.
I mean this in the most respectful way I possibly can…
Suck it up buttercup!
There are literal step by step guides and apps to make taking political action a 5-10 minute part of your day.
There are hundreds of years of BIPOC resistance materials in the form of arts and books and documentaries and whatever else you enjoy consuming to give you hope and joy right now.
There are entire mutual aid networks built out *in your own community* ready to do community wide caretaking whenever they have enough *bodies* to fill out the work that needs to be done.
YOU GUYS NONE OF THIS IS NEW WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO PROGRESSIVE WHITE PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY JUST NOT DOING IT.
Folks are still looking for something else. What exactly? I don’t fucking know. A big blue dick in the park party, probably. No one has really been able to articulate that to me. Only that 87 options provided to them to select from as potential actions “aren’t going to do anything”
Elon Musk doesn’t scare me. Donald Trump doesn’t scare me. The inevitable collapse of the U S of Fucking A as we know it doesn’t scare me. Tbh I think it’s **ridiculous** we are giving these chud bois a goddamn ounce of our power in claiming that we’re scared of them.
I’m more freaked out (and enraged) by the insistence of white people that they’re either helpless or exempt from taking action right now because we need “systemic” change not individual. That they’re waiting for a hero to do something so they can get behind them.
That’s not how this works. That belief system is more toxic than right-winger bootstraps-ism and I’ll die on that fucking hill.
Individuals. Are part of. Systems.
If you need an action item I will give you one. If you don’t like me, I will send you to someone else who will give you an action item nicer than me, even. I will create space in whatever way I can for folks to take action in ways that work for their minds and bodies.
But I will NEVER make a single centimeter of space for privileged white folks to exempt themselves from doing the bare fucking minimum. We are not helpless peasants shivering to death in hovels and it is LUNACY that people are acting like it.
This nonsense ends when we end it. That’s the way it’s always been.