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submitted 1 month ago by jack@hexbear.net to c/politics@hexbear.net

Great article from BAR. It goes in on Afropessimism and connected right-wing Black politics.

Connected to that was in the emergence of this philosophical political framework referred to as Afropessimism.

This framework has been one of the most detrimental frames that I think has ever emerged among Black folks, because using this frame, where, as you said in your intro, everyone is supposed to be anti-Black, including other colonized people. And so therefore the ability to empathize with other colonized people, to stand in solidarity with them, to build the kinds of coalitions we used to build as a normal part of the Black radical tradition has been undermined by the popularity of this frame. Emerging first in academia, where most of this backwardness develops, it then bleeds into our movement spaces.

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