jellal @jellal@anarchism.space

For all this talk about community, I feel more supported by my friends whom I know from my Christian life. Hell, I swear I could kill a man and they wouldn't give up on me.

I'm arguing with people on the Twitter and all this animosity makes me feel so fundamentally disconnected. Or, put more strongly: I'm afraid that my opinions are going to piss my mutuals off and I will be cancelled.

I'm afraid that any connection I make isn't a real connection at all, because it's always with the caveat of that I need to be a Good Person (as defined by the authoritarian communist hivemind).

not to be sad, but like

:(

I love bands that dare to sing in their own language. Today, that's a #polynesian metal band. #poly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNb1LXXk40&feature=emb_title

By insisting that human nature is bad, they give fuel to the continued existence of the power structures, which they are at the top of. (5/5)

The goal of power structures is to alter human behavior - but if human behavior is by nature good, it shouldn't be altered! And there we see the reason for the different views of human nature. The oppressed see that human nature is good, but that power structures - the same ones that oppressed them - are warping the good human nature.

The oppressors, however, would lose their position of power if they admitted that human nature is good. (4/5)

humans will kill each other, hurt each other, and everyone will be worse off. It is from this idea that 'anarchy' has gained its negative connotation.

However, a positive view of human nature makes power structures redundant. If your view of human nature is that humans tend towards the good, that if you leave them free they will be kind to each other, then power structures become redundant, no, even dangerous! (3/?)

My sister believes my homosexuality may be caused by demonic possession, and I look that fact in the eye and say "human nature is good."

And the elite, who have been treated well, who aren't despised for any part of their identity, whose lives are going well, say "human nature is bad".

That does not make sense. Until you consider power structures.

Power structures are based on the idea that human nature is bad. If you have no power structure, (2/?)

I think I finally figured out a thing that has boggled me for months:

Why is it always the oppressed who have the most positive image of human nature? And why is it always the white cishet guys who insist humans are bad by nature?

It doesn't make sense, because the oppressed are the ones that see the worst parts of humanity. 1/?

crossposting is frowned upon. am i going to do it anyway? yes. so here's a thread I posted on Twitter earlier today.

Boosting your own toots is a power move

I've been working on this for a couple of weeks, and I finally finished it. I present to you, my longest poem yet: 'The mirror (part 2)'. The second part in my poetry series on internalized homophobia. https://jellalism.tumblr.com/post/190064576602/poem-the-mirror-part-2

Oh wait I just read my timeline and it turns out contrapoints is even more Cancelled and Controversial than I thought she was.

oh well.

As you know from my 'hot takes', being cancelled isn't exactly one of my fears. I mean, I wouldn't *like* it, but I can't help just being me and saying what I think which usually happens to be quite opposite the public opinion(s).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8 Honestly, Contrapoints is so articulate again. This is pretty much what I've been trying to say for months, only she says it way better than I ever could and she has more insight than I ever had in it.