Thursday, November 2, 2017

The "Necessary Path, Unlearning Patriarchal Western 'Civilization' Ways'"

Remember Rosa Parks, national icon for resisting racism by refusing to move to the back of the bus?


Today racism has persisted, but is inverted. The whites must move to the back:

Singer Asks White Audience Members To Go To The Back Of the Audience. Then This Happens.


According to the National Post, Allie O’Manique, who shares management with Pimienta, said the female photographer would not budge from her position near the stage, prompting anger from some crowd members. O’Manique, whose version of events was confirmed by Festival spokesman Trevor Murphy, said that Pimienta “just kept saying, ‘Move to the back’ … finally after saying it about 10 times — and the woman refused to move — [Pimienta] said, ‘You’re cutting into my set time, and you’re disrespecting these women, and I don’t have time for this.”

Event organizers revealed the volunteer was kicked out of the concert and is no longer affiliated with the festival. The board of directors for Halifax Pop Explosion issued this statement:

We will not accept this behavior and neither should you. … Be responsible for your friends — talk to them and support them as they move towards unpacking their racism. People of Color deserve safe spaces and it is your responsibility to help. It is also ours. To Lido Pimienta: we are sorry that one of our volunteers interrupted your art, your show, and your audience by being aggressive and racist. We have so much respect for the art and music you create and the space you make for women, people of color, transgender, and nonbinary people. The way you interact with the world acts and provides a thoughtful example. You are a role model to us and many people in our community. We see it. We feel it. We hope you will work with us again.

Pimienta told Billboard:

From the audience’s point of view, [men] for the most part will not think twice before they put themselves right in front of you. I am a short woman, so I always have to show up very early to be able to enjoy the music, to see the acts. ... From the stage point of view, I noticed how most men who plant themselves at the front, they tend to overpower ME. Their presence usually at my own show is a threatening one and I have had men grab me, grab my hands, grab my waist, scream "TE AMO MAMACITA." My show is all about high energy and high feminine power, so I can see for some men, my energy reads "sexual" and they feel like my show is FOR THEM, when in fact, my show if anything, is for WOMXN.

When I started asking womxn to the front, I noticed how white women were usually at the front and brown girls would be behind the white girls, a bit more shy, a bit more restrained. Even at HPX, I had to call out a few black girls who were "too shocked" and felt I was "putting them on the spot" by saying, "Girl come to the front! This is for you!" As an immigrant, as an Afro-Indigenous person, as an intersectional feminist, as a mother and all of the other signifiers that qualify me as "other," I understand what it is like to not see yourself in the media, to not see yourself in institutions and to not see yourself represented or reflected at a music show, because the "artist of colour" (and I put that in quotation marks because even that term is extremely problematic), we don’t get to see each other at that level.

She added:

I am deeply touched by HPX’s apology -- they know they have a long way to go to balance things out, but at least they called themselves out and I hope this doesn't end here but moves past the noise. I have a few ideas; I will probably share when I have time with them. We are all in a complicated and painful time, but we’re on a necessary path, unlearning patriarchal western "civilization" ways. If we don't speak up, we will never evolve.
Since when is resisting being forced to "go to the back" a racist act? Since when is forcing this on a race-not-your-own NOT racist? Well, if it is done by the Left, then it's "progressive" by definition, and to be hailed as "fighting the whiteness".

Pimienta has rejected civil behavior, in favor of the "necessary path, unlearning patriarchal western 'civilization' ways", specifically by "disrespecting" white women and whites in general. The inverse of MLK is pure animalism, not "evolution" but devolution. In terms of the Left, this is consistent with their entire history. The pursuit of power requires someone to have power over.

So, in terms of today's civil society, the effect is something like this:
NY Police: Man Threw 'Burning' Liquid In 13-Year-Old Girl's Face: 'This Is For You, White B****'
Anti-whiteness is mostly rhetoric at the moment. But as the rhetoric increases, so will street violence increase as segments of the black community feel enabled to dispense with both western civilizational culture and whites.
DNC Sticks to Tribalist cultural Marxism

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