[id: tweet by marla @prolepeach: “The most important part of “sex work is work” imo is that it means “sex workers are workers.” Treat us like workers in struggle, worthy of radicalizing and organizing and unionizing. Do not treat us like victims for you to project onto and pathologize.” /end id]
some ppl on here honestly need a refresher on the us govt’s current and historical imperialist bomb apologia. these positions have included, in various combinations and permutations:
-it was a tragedy, but a necessary and gravely chosen one
-it was a few scientists gone rogue, disobeying the noble orders of the us govt
-it was the us govt gone rogue, deviating from the noble aims of the good scientists
-it ended the war
-japan brought it upon their own civilians by being a belligerent and warlike nation
-the scientists felt really bad about it
-the scientists later got unfairly scapegoated for having been leftists (yes this is a real thing people still say about physicists who explicitly deliberately worked for the us govt)
-it was still a scientific achievement, though the knowledge gained was used immorally
-it was a horrible mistake and everyone learned an important lesson
-they underestimated how many japanese would be murdered, disabled, or injured, and wouldn’t have dropped bombs if they’d known
-it saved lives ‘in the long run’
if you are repeating any of these things in regards to a christopher nolan film based on a revisionist history explicitly aimed to 'redeem’ j robert oppenheimer’s legacy, then congrats! you are not immune to propaganda!
It’s really odd to me that people hear “family abolition” and think of babies being tossed into the woods rather than like, idk, communal child-rearing that’s voluntary and not necessarily based on biological kinship? It’s like peoples’ imagination short-circuits at the suggestion of something that doesn’t doom children to whatever hand they’re dealt in terms of who their biological relatives are
