Anarchism sounds great, but...
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okay, so anarchism sounds really cool.
But...how does anarchism deal with hate?
I'm going to use antisemitism as an example, since a) there's a fair bit of data and b) I'm Jewish. Jews are 0.2% of the world population.
48% of that world blames us for antisemitism (240x as many as Jews in the world). 35% think we're behind most wars globally (175x). Those trends aren't only among older people--they in fact RISE among younger people, being 54% (!) and 40% respectively. Among all ages, 50% (250x as many) think we don't care what happens to anyone but us.
Let's be generous, and suppose only 1% of people who think we're behind most wars actually would kill us if they got the chance and there was no state apparatus to (generally, and fortunately) discourage them. We're still outnumbered over one and a half times.
Are people who think we don't give a damn about anyone else going to help us equally? Are people who blame us for 2,000+ years of hate going to care if someone starts killing us again?
Do I think state responses to these sorts of things are great? No. But in many cases they are better than what they would replace.
Wyoming, for all its awfulness, has rules about murder, even if the murdered is queer. Texas at least pretends to have rules about domestic violence. In a few cases, like North Korea, it seems quite reasonable to say the state is actively harmful--but that's a case against North Korea, not states in general.
Does anarchism have a response to this? Or is this just me misunderstanding anarchism?
On hate
Anarchism is more about breaking the system that perpetuates lies like racism, and in this case antisemitism. As all forms of bigotry and putting of one people or nation above another is inherently propaganda. Our main goal is creating equity globally so that these old ideas meant to separate us are no longer benefitting the rulers of today to spread. Bigotry has always been a tool to push blame past rulers onto the working class to create rifts so that unity cannot be as readily achieved.
States have normalized violence to protect their rich and control their peoples, verily with little in the correct way of things. States shouldn’t kill anyone at all, and because they can’t, they must be abolished. The state and corporate functions would be picked up by collectivization and direct democracy. Essentially we’d replace all state and business with shared ownership and equal say. This allows people to work in any field, learn in any field, and not be limited by leaders or finances when innovating. Our goal is to make equality as it should be, moneyless, stateless, and classless, and not the “equality” states give now with no semblance of truth to the word.
Really?
There is no anti antisemitism, the reason why people think that jews are broadly behind wars and government is because they are. The israeli government is a complete joke, and is the antithesis to anarchist ideology. The issue isn't you as a person being a jew (even if you virtue signal it to be), it's the government that bombs people, pulls strings behind the scenes and is generally horrible.
we should seperate the Jews…
we should seperate the Jews all around the world and the Israeli government. by saying that: " the reason why people think that jews are broadly behind wars and government is because they are" it's a mistake. Israel, yes is behind war but we shouldn't put together Jews person who mostly don't belong to Israel. being a jew and being an Israeli is two different things. the word "jew" itself doesn't mean an habitant of Israel. there are american Jews, Spanish Jews and so on. Again telling Jews are behind war is a very simple way to see what's going on and could be counter productive .
thanks for reading.
The THERE IS NO ANTI…
The THERE IS NO ANTI-SEMETISM HERE followed by you guessed it an anti-semetic remark will never not be funny. What a retard.
I would argue a major source…
I would argue a major source of hate and violence in general IS the state itself (or more accurately the state and capitalism and patriarchy etc all interplaying and overlapping). Antisemitism is a great example of this: Jewish people prior to the Holocaust were THE primary scapegoat used by the bourgeoisie for 'why everything sucks'. You see for all of history where hierarchical societies have dominated (including Capitalism and Feudalism before it, as well as other systems) the opressed and exploited class has had things... bad, suffice to say, and in order to maintain their power and prevent the oppressed class form revolting the ruling class needed to justify their position. They have had various ways of doing this throughout history (claiming 'divine authority' for example) and a major way that they have done this has been through scapegoats! The argument goes smth along the lines of "oh your life sucks [because we exploit you], well that's because the Jews are making your life suck! Not us, your feudal lord who looks out for you, its the Jews whom you should hate." The reason people blame Jews for all wars is because there are wars, and the people starting the wars don't want you to blame them for starting the wars so they use propaganda to convince people to blame the Jews on war. Therefore in an anarchist society where things will be much better, people will have no reason to hate Jews (or any other group) and there will be no one trying to convince you to hate Jews, so nobody will hate Jews. Or at least barely any people will, there likely will remain tiny percentages of the population who fear the unknown and the different, but they won't have the strong charge behind their predjudice that we see with bigots today, so it won't really be a problem, plus we're not trying to build a utopia with Anarchism, we're trying to crete a better world
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