STFU Brogressives

anticapitalist:

Inb4 ron paul fanboys.

Ron paul said:

However, Mr. Speaker, I am concerned that making the AMBER Alert system a Federal program is neither constitutionally sound nor effective law enforcement.

So setting up a system for saving children is bad because of a piece of paper? lol k.

All Americans should be impressed at the demonstrated effectiveness of the AMBER system in locating missing and kidnapped children. However, I would ask my colleagues to consider that one of the factors that makes the current AMBER system so effective is that the AMBER Alert system is not a Federal program. Instead, states and local governments developed AMBER Alerts on their own, thus ensuring that each AMBER system meets the unique needs of individual jurisdictions. Once the AMBER Alert system becomes a one-size-fits all Federal program (with standards determined by DC-based bureaucrats instead of community-based law enforcement officials) local officials will not be able to tailor the AMBER Alert to fit their unique circumstances. Thus, nationalizing the AMBER system will cause this important program to lose some of its effectiveness.

This at first seems like a reasonable argument.

 The federal government is shit at almost everything it does.

However, I thought about it, which is why I posted it. 

If a child goes missing, they don’t go missing at just at the state level. They go missing at the national - No, the universal level. The least we can do is have a coordinated effort to find a child all across the United States. This bill ensures interstate coordination in the search to find lost children.

And Ron Paul voted against it, in the name of the oh so sacred constitution.

Ron Paul is not a libertarian, he’s an anti-federalist.

(Source: shitthatlibertarianssay)

A helpful questionnaire for those involved in political movements (not just anarchism) to gauge their privilege in regards to sexism and misogyny. If you answer yes to any of these questions, you may be a brogressive.

darkjez:

thatprettyoddfeminist:

THIS is why i have trouble getting behind occupy wall street and other white-led movements. because despite how “progressive” people who lead them are, there is STILL rampant oppression within the movements. WOC are STILL silenced. and there is never anything done about it. if you like to think of white progressive as saints, it would seriously behoove you to read this article.

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A FEW CHOICE QUOTES FROM HER ACCOUNT:

• “Women are being molested in the park and there is no real viable system in place to handle it without the need for police intervention. There are white supremacists groups running around there. There are people smoking drugs there even though it puts the entire action at risk…”

“There is a constant marginalization of women and I was even verbally and physically imposed on and threatened by a white man who was up in my face with his fingers pointing in my face because he wanted to dictate to people what he thought they should do. When I spoke up and said that he and two other white men are not supposed to dictate to everyone what should happen but that the decision should be made through consensus he got angry.”

• “A black man I met there came over I was telling him what happened. Another white guy steps in between us and proceeds to explain to him what happened in order to protect the other white man.”

“White people are still acceptably in charge, arrogant and superior. In other words, you can have all of the experience in the world as an organizer, activist or facilitator but if you are not a white man then its a problem. If you are a white man…its acceptable and fine, even if the meeting isn’t fruitful and doesn’t result in anything.”

• “I don’t know what the agenda of these white people are but their paternalistic attitudes, constant invalidation, smart remarks and repressive behavior toward myself and other black people is not productive nor is it liberating.”

“He said he doesn’t understand why black people are attacking him when he presents this to them and he has been attacked five times already that day. I told him that the fact that he doesn’t understand why he is being attacked, is all the more reason why he shouldn’t be in charge of an action like that. This is another example of the paternalistic attitudes that exists amongst these white people who think they are automatically in charge and not only that but are somehow in a position to articulate my oppression as a black woman for me.”

• “I came away from this experience feeling unsupported, disrespected, maligned and even more oppressed.”

“This disgusting display of white superiority and male dominance exists throughout this OWS movement. The only bright spot in all of this was the newly formed Women Occupying Wall Street (WOW) group. These women were informed, supportive and concerned about the issues I and other women raised and also had been subjected to abusive behaviors themselves.”

A look into the very brogressive nature of Occupy Wall Street. More OWS posts coming soon as this is a movement often filled with brogressives.