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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)

@jenniferplusplus not really sure why the capitalists bother, honestly. our experience trying to get tech people organized in any meaningful capacity always ended with us putting in an inordinate amount of energy that nobody else saw fit to pick up on or share, out of fear of "breaking the rules", as if the corporations would play by the rules.

(we're truly bitter about this experience — the labor pool is just too propagandized in service of capitalism already, and we can't qwhite put our finger on what keeps the majority so comfortable in their station)

11 January at 17:21 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange
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Jenniferplusplus

@atax1a They bother because for them it's about power, and power exists in its application. So at some level they have to. Having power they won't use is the same as not having it.

11 January at 17:35 | Open on hachyderm.io
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)

@jenniferplusplus i mean, that's kind of what we were trying to say when we were leaning on our twitter coworkers to organize meaningfully. but apparently the entire time we were doing that, some white people were going around "organizing" a dinner-party-type union that had "politeness" bylaws that were designed specifically to keep me out.

11 January at 17:37 | Open on infosec.exchange
Jenniferplusplus

@atax1a one might hope they learned a lesson from that experience, but I'm sure if they did it was exactly the opposite from what it should have been.

11 January at 17:51 | Open on hachyderm.io
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)

@jenniferplusplus the white-privileged segment of the labor pool disorganizes itself on its own, and the capitalists pushing on it certainly aren't helping, but from our perspective it seems redundant.

11 January at 17:56 | Open on infosec.exchange
Jenniferplusplus

@atax1a I think the capitalist pressure there is calibrated to keep the white privilege beneficiaries from ever being secure enough to grow beyond the comfort of that privilege.

11 January at 18:05 | Open on hachyderm.io
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)

@jenniferplusplus yep, but we can't talk about that around white workers, because it sets off their fragility response and makes them think we're "racist against whites".

11 January at 18:07 | Open on infosec.exchange
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