Nah it was good this was removed. It was super sus seeing a poster that looks like it's equating "black power" with "white power". This is what a lot of comments were pointing out as well. It feels like it was intentionally astroturfed or something to have so many upvotes. Or maybe it just appeals to white redditors' feels to get to say "no to black power" while purporting to support positive change. The poster itself just exudes "uppity black people are wrong too!". Might as well have been from some COINTELPRO thing.
I think it's better to remove stuff that could have an incorrect connotation in people's minds, especially since the post title and body don't mention it. There would be too many people who would simply skim over it and think "yeah not black or white power!" in self-reaffirmation. Especially for a newish subreddit probably astroturfed to hell already.
I don't see how any context changes it. I saw the image and immediately rolled my eyes. It doesn't matter that it was before all that COINTELPRO stuff. The title of the post is just "It's the only way". It doesn't have any of the context you brought up. All they had to do was edit the body of their post to make it clear that black power is not a bad thing.
Class solidarity is the only way. You'll get nothing if your time is spent bickering like terminally online children over the "optics" of decades old agitprop that clearly spells out to normal people the rich are the real enemy.
Nah it was good this was removed. It was super sus seeing a poster that looks like it's equating "black power" with "white power". This is what a lot of comments were pointing out as well. It feels like it was intentionally astroturfed or something to have so many upvotes. Or maybe it just appeals to white redditors' feels to get to say "no to black power" while purporting to support positive change. The poster itself just exudes "uppity black people are wrong too!". Might as well have been from some COINTELPRO thing.
I think it's better to remove stuff that could have an incorrect connotation in people's minds, especially since the post title and body don't mention it. There would be too many people who would simply skim over it and think "yeah not black or white power!" in self-reaffirmation. Especially for a newish subreddit probably astroturfed to hell already.
Bad take scroll down and read other comments.
I don't see how any context changes it. I saw the image and immediately rolled my eyes. It doesn't matter that it was before all that COINTELPRO stuff. The title of the post is just "It's the only way". It doesn't have any of the context you brought up. All they had to do was edit the body of their post to make it clear that black power is not a bad thing.
Class solidarity is the only way. You'll get nothing if your time is spent bickering like terminally online children over the "optics" of decades old agitprop that clearly spells out to normal people the rich are the real enemy.
So why are you bickering about it? Just post some agitprop that's appropriate in a modern setting.
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People reacting to black power with "class solidarity is the only way" is why black power exists and is necessary.
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