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The fallacy of state antifascism
The feds, police and military have traditionally upheld white supremacy, yet liberals expect these institutions to combat it?
It has now been a little over a month since far-right fanatics stormed the Capitol Building in a deadly riot aimed at stopping the final certification of the election results. Every day brings news of more arrests by federal agents, with the running total now topping 200. All across Twitter, thousands of self-deputized virtual G-men are still tagging the FBI in their posts, doing their part to help increase that count. It’s perversely ironic to see many of the same liberals who were weeks ago celebrating Martin Luther King’s birth gleefully aiding the very agency that aggressively tried to bring about his death.
This is the agency that hunted Angela Davis and abetted the murder of Fred Hampton. This is the agency that has sought to “discredit, disrupt and destroy” every movement for Black liberation that has ever existed. This is the agency that spent the past two decades entrapping Muslim men with mental illnesses in trumped-up terror plots. This agency, since its inception, has primarily existed to suppress Black resistance and crush the left.
Yet, we’re expected to see them as the good guys because they’re finally getting around…
