User:RD/9k/Q24,51

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2451. Prejudices are not obviously bad / It is not inherently obvious to everybody in an equal way through an equal path that prejudices are bad -> the claim that it is difficult to realize prejudices are bad, even if they are bad. most prejudices that center-Liberals would consider "good" are not obvious as prejudices unless you look closely, but they sure do exist.
      some Existentialist theories like poststructuralism and schizoanalysis appear to believe this. there are different ways to cast this proposition: MX) prejudices are not obviously bad, so it is not possible to simply convince everyone prejudices being bad is obvious and have that be the truth because it will never be obvious. you need to convince people of something that actually includes prejudices being impossible to operate on directly. W) prejudices are not obviously bad, so we all need to force each other to question prejudices and force everyone to believe prejudices are bad no matter how much effort it takes.
      you can see the shovel dreams unraveling. typical Gramscians aren't actually relying on the solid, material regeneration of any substrate of a workers' state, they're just I-believe-that-everybodying people.
2450. Colonialism is common sense / To ordinary people, colonialism is the accepted and intuitive way of doing things in the same sense that Liberal "democracy" is, almost to the point that criticizing it is unreasonably extreme -> nobody wants to say this out loud. you see great amounts of denial of the pattern, even as it goes on and on. A) the bourgeoisie found towns and define and regulate crimes. B) nobody can move to a town without appeasing the bourgeoisie or creating a new business territory in order to be allowed to earn and obtain things and pay for a house. C) nobody can move anywhere or enter any industry without waiting for colonizers to come up with all the capital and the laws and colonize it. D) by the time anyone enters a country or moves anywhere or is even born, and goes around "just trying to live their life" in Liberal Democracy, colonizers have defined the entire society they spawn into including where Black people are allowed to live and how racist you have to be. every act of living and existing has to be done to the parameters of the oppressive society in order to happen. E) nobody can imagine a society which is not founded on the basis of founders that secure capital and job-territories, and as a tradeoff, it's always a matter of time before everybody forgets that the system is racist.