The video I shared was an extremely based clip of a group of BPP members standing their ground outside against a police officer who was black, calling him a fucking sellout, explaining how he is neo-slave catcher, etc — just all extremely based and true things, you could tell the black cop was hiding some shame and was embarrassed as hell at being called out like that in public

Anyway, this girl who I barely remember from school, who I guess I had some distant mutuals with and so we followed each other cordially, DMs me to say "Wow sharing the Black Panthers. They are the Black version of the KKK. Both are absolutely disgusting groups. It's disgusting you shared this!"

I literally don't give a shit about social media interactions already, I'm too tired from digging a fucking trench all week and just told her "I don't think you know much about the Black Panthers" to which she replied "Oh, I know plenty."

Idk guys, I just unfollowed and muted her. Did I fuck up? I mean there's a lot of things I could have said to try and deprogram her, like the most obvious being "there is literally no possible black equivalent to the KKK because of the completely assymetrical structural hierarchy of racism in America," or could have just leaned in and been like "yeah that's an insanely racist take telling people using their explicitly guaranteed right to bare arms and defend themselves from open white supremacist trying to exterminate them that they're actually just as bad, I guess the the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto uprisings were just as bad as the Nazis." like where does one even begin, talking about the food pantries and shelters and mutual aid networks that they developed because the federal and local governments government were explicitly Klan members or in bed with them?

white fragility, my god. didn't ask, don't care lady. props for finding a way to get offended by something that has literally nothing to do with you and that you don't know the first thing about