Forum Post: Don't Tolerate Smiley Face Apartheid at OWS
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 24, 2011, 9:27 p.m. EST by owstag
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What's the deal with the racially exclusive events/caucuses and in Oakland, 'people of color only' tents? It's incredibly divisive, ugly, and insidious. There seems to be a lot of 'smiley face' apartheid sanctioned by the OWS movement, usually rationalized in terms 'celebrating diversity' or some such, insidiously suggesting that having racially exclusive meetings or caucuses or tents or what have you is somehow good for race relations or (to use a well worn cliche) 'empowering' to 'people of color'. It's divisive, counterproductive stupidity and it needs to stop.
Wow, I hadn't heard about that. You are right, it's divisive. FYI, that's a tactic of the hard left and comes from the Communist Party. It's identity politics and it's meant to divide and conquer. It's 100% racism.