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3:00am December 10, 2013
knowledgeequalsblackpower: witchsistah: noonereadstheurl: FBI records show that 85% of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed “subversive”,[8] including communist and socialist organizations; organizations and individuals associated with the Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations; black nationalist groups; the American Indian Movement; a broad range of organizations labeled “New Left”, including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation; the National Lawyers Guild; organizations and individuals associated with the women’s rights movement; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch’s Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement; and additional notable Americans —even Albert Einstein, who was a socialist and a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just before COINTELPRO’s official inauguration.[9] The remaining 15% of COINTELPRO resources were expended to marginalize and subvert white hate groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and the National States’ Rights Party.[10] 85% on leftists, 15% of white hate groups. Especially leftists of color. And they were successful. And one of the things they did was start the stereotype that activists should be full of rage all the time or they weren’t “real” activists. And many of the other things currently embodied by large amounts of standard SJ types. (Which is one thing that makes standard SJ approaches, unlike actual social justice, pretty ineffectual: they were designed to be. And people emulate them thinking that’s what activists are supposed to be like, that’s what activists are supposed to do. With no idea they’re modeling themselves on agents sent to disrupt real social justice work.)(Anti-SJ types are usually just as bad.)

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

witchsistah:

noonereadstheurl:

FBI records show that 85% of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed “subversive”,[8] including communist and socialist organizations; organizations and individuals associated with the Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations; black nationalist groups; the American Indian Movement; a broad range of organizations labeled “New Left”, including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation; the National Lawyers Guild; organizations and individuals associated with the women’s rights movement; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch’s Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement; and additional notable Americans —even Albert Einstein, who was a socialist and a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just before COINTELPRO’s official inauguration.[9] The remaining 15% of COINTELPRO resources were expended to marginalize and subvert white hate groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and the National States’ Rights Party.[10]

85% on leftists, 15% of white hate groups.

Especially leftists of color.

And they were successful.

And one of the things they did was start the stereotype that activists should be full of rage all the time or they weren’t “real” activists.

And many of the other things currently embodied by large amounts of standard SJ types. (Which is one thing that makes standard SJ approaches, unlike actual social justice, pretty ineffectual: they were designed to be. And people emulate them thinking that’s what activists are supposed to be like, that’s what activists are supposed to do. With no idea they’re modeling themselves on agents sent to disrupt real social justice work.)

(Anti-SJ types are usually just as bad.)

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