GenZedong

since Electric Antifada was mentioned earlier... ok so I'm not super familiar with them and I'm not pointing fingers at them specifically, just English-language news media overall, but - maybe a bit conspiracy theory-brained of me, but - I'm questioning where this wave is coming from. China and Russia have been nothing but consistent, and really this is nothing unusual, especially to people who have been actually paying attention and ability to remember milestone events.

the tumblrinas I've seen buoy the "China and Russia are traitors" thing have been, yes, the usual suspects (anticommunist leftists/people with "tankie" as a pejorative in their vocab, tho lately they've been nitpicking since I guess they now identify as 'tankie' and been using "chinese/russian nationalists" as their pejorative, and just straight-up leftcoms) but among them are people who I distinctly recall espousing afro-pessimism* and calling other tumblr users from the periphery (particularly latam) "antiblack" for using the word "usamerican" (to distinguish US americans from other people who live in both continents) -- and for a long time I've suspected these people to be plants at worst but more likely convenient stooges to vector anticommunism and disunity - against budding communists in the imperial core to make connections with those either more seasoned or from the periphery. UGH, name-calling is just such an easy way to shut down peoples' brains and stop them from turning on analysis functions and critical thinking or even just looking for sources.

*uh oh I'm feeling ranty again... alright. you've been warned. afropessimism. whenever and wherever I bump into it, it makes me feel like im going insane, like these people will go onto xiaohongshu and tell chinese people they're all racist against black people because they think chinese people are basically white which automatically makes them antiblack, ,, antiblackness is king, it's above all and it's immutable, but also it's incomparable to racism that nonblack people experience and because they could never intimately understand or experience real true racism at the heart of this world which is antiblackness. please, tell me more about how oppressed peoples of the world could never understand each other and should be forever divided, until maybe some world savior perhaps of the black variety instead of white comes to liberate us all. did i ever mention that afropessimists hate marxism for some reason, hm, maybe that's by design!! maybe, just maybe someone doesn't want a Black Panther Party 2.0, reading ML literature and all, to come back in the heartland of imperialism (edit for moderation: black struggles are real and hard! and yes I can't say I fully understand because I don't live it but it doesn't mean I or any other nonblack folk can't try to understand, including understanding enough to make a difference, and nor is it the struggle that has primacy over all others)