Anarcho-Humanist sharing “Non-Anarchist Memes,” to Fight Bigotry?

I posted this picture and someone shared it with this text:

UNITED STATES BEFORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

Accurate and clever publication. I like Damien AtHope ‘s posts but this one, in addition to what it denounces, shows another important thing: the habit of naming the USA as America is so powerful that it emerges even in the posts of an anarchist critical of the gringo system. Cultural contradictions. The appropriation of the name (and more) of the continent by a particular country shows the implicit persistence of the mental structures of colonial domination. This was attempted to solve by adapting the name AMERICAS, in the plural, to refer to the entire continent. It’s a solution I like. But that nevertheless does not fix the problem but reinforces it. When a party appropriates the whole, the solution is not to write in the plural to include diversity, but to stop making use of the singular by an individual identity. It is as if what are now Spain, Italy or Germany called themselves EUROPE for the contribution they made to the construction of European unity (in reality their elites did at different times and always as a strategy of political domination) and instead of making a radical criticism of that use, we began to talk about the EUROPAS. It is beautiful to speak of everything in the plural to accommodate plurality; but there are plurals that are majstatic, the expression of a hegemonic identity.

This is not a criticism of Damien, whose posts, are about politics, archaeology and prehistoric dissemination with personal illustrations, I find always recommended. In this case, Damien, I use you only as a symptom. sorry!

My response to the offer text:

I, as an anarchist, don’t believe in land ownership, to begin with. I don’t care about the fake lines people draw on maps acting as if this illusion makes labels true in reality. It is all a Scam. This post was an attack on Americanism bigotry a true favorite of American people all over.

I use facts of history to remind the mentally blind that American is not a good place nor is American so good an example for humanity as it believes.

American is in constant discussions that no one but white people have some rights to America.

I love sharing the stuff that changes such bigotry. I don’t always agree with each aspect of a meme, I post. I would end, every country on earth, and never use any past name, as it was a label of oppression and violence.

We need a truly free society not shackled to makeup states or countries.

Stop blaming everything bad on anarchists?

“They’re at the protests because being an anarchist means dreaming of a kinder, more equitable society.” – By Kim Kelly

Posted: June 4, 2020 in the washingtonpost.com

“As protests continue to sweep the nation, a narrative has emerged blaming alleged “anarchists” for stirring the pot. They are, the story goes, materializing out of nowhere to sow chaos, put marginalized people at risk, and generally make more peaceful protesters look bad. On June 1, President Trump retweeted a video implying that a man who later explained that he was helping other protesters buy medical supplies was instead paying them to incite violence. In his tweet, Trump added, “Anarchists, we see you!” After surveying damage to city property, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price declared, “It’s not protest, it’s anarchy.” The next day, Post opinions contributor Helaine Olen wrote that Trump is “the real anarchist.” Her only basis for making this claim appeared to be the common use of “anarchy” as a flawed synonym for “chaos.” ref

“This reflexive tic to associate anarchism with thoughtless discord betrays a profound ignorance of leftist ideology. The problem is that no one seems to understand what anarchism is or what its adherents are seeking to accomplish — and that lack of understanding is going to end up endangering a lot of people. We’re rapidly approaching a point in which dissent is further criminalized, the justified rage and pain fueling these protests is further delegitimized, and anyone who engages in any form of protest outside the preapproved liberal template becomes a target for surveillance, or worse. On June 3, with zero evidence backing its claim, the White House Twitter account trumpeted: “Antifa and professional anarchists are invading our communities, staging bricks and weapons to instigate violence. These are acts of domestic terror.” At least one of the supposed weapons caches appears to have been part of a security barricade in front of a Jewish community center.Antifa isn’t the problem. Trump’s bluster about police violence is.” ref

“Are there anarchists out there in the streets standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and against the brutality of the police? Absolutely. Is every single one of them conducting themselves in a manner that all would consider “peaceful?” Perhaps not. But there is no nefarious anarchist plot to intentionally place black protesters or other vulnerable people in harm’s way. In fact, to do so would be anathema to anarchism itself. The black anarchists and anarchists of color who have been erased by this narrative have also been clear about their own views on the situation. As William C. Anderson, co-author of “As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation,” noted on Twitter, “Focus anger and frustration on the people in power doing the killing and the oppressing. Don’t believe all this nonsense about anarchists, especially if you don’t even know what anarchism actually is.” ref

“So what is anarchism? As I’ve explained before, it is a radical, revolutionary leftist political ideology that advocates for the abolition of government and all other unequal systems of power in favor of a society organized around direct democracy and voluntary association. Though it encompasses many schools of thought, most anarchists are committed to a basic set of beliefs. Key anarchist principles include mutual aid (a reciprocal approach to community care in which people share resources), direct action (the use of political protest to achieve a goal), and horizontalism (a non-hierarchical organizational system in which decisions are made by consensus). Anarchists advocate for abolishing institutions such as prisons, police, and the military, which they hold to be inherently oppressive. Anarchists are by definition anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and directly opposed to all other forms of bigotry and oppression. They are anti-fascist (though not all anti-fascists are anarchists!), which opens up another potential avenue for repression now that the president has fixated on antifascists, or “antifa,” and law enforcement has continued to surveil and target leftist activists.” ref

“In practice, to be an anarchist is to dream of a kinder, more equitable society, and to do one’s best to get us closer to making that dream a reality. For every minute of protest footage showing anarchists out in the streets, there are untold hours spent attending endless meetings (anarchists love meetings), cooking and delivering food and supplies to those who need it, researching far-right groups, planning demonstrations, providing child care, and other support to comrades, and taking part in other communally minded projects. It may sound hokey, but anarchism is about love as much as it is rage; there is a certain utopian romance to it.” ref

“Anarchism is also well suited to dealing with disasters like the coronavirus pandemic and offers a path forward for those fed up with government malfeasance, liberal inaction, and the cruel machinations of a reality show king. As we’ve seen during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy, in autonomous zones like Chiapas and Rojava, and other, similar contexts, beautiful, necessary, life-sustaining worlds can spring up around the voluntary work of those striving to improve things together. We’ve already seen countless mutual aid projects spring up to help people cope with the coronavirus, and the idea itself — which dates to 20th-century anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin — has gone mainstream. Given how valuable such efforts can be, recklessly misrepresenting the anarchists who pursue it is dangerous for everyone, since their strategies are exactly what we need to get through this crisis.” ref

Our fear of government power has left us fighting covid-19 with volunteerism

“Anarchism as such is not about violence, chaos or arbitrary disruption. Yes, anarchists have sometimes used violent tactics: President William McKinley was assassinated by anarchist Leon Frank Czolgosz on Sept. 6, 1901, and the molotov cocktail has become a familiar sight during uprisings in Europe and South America. However, violence isn’t the point. “Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto — Freedom,” anarchist writer and Industrial Workers of the World co-founder Lucy Parsons, who was born into slavery, once wrote. “Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.” ref

“Despite all that, anarchists are still given short shrift, and misconceptions, rumors, propaganda and outright lies about anarchism and anarchists themselves abound. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has been calling for military forces to target them specifically (and thus protesters in general), most recently in a widely criticized New York Times op-ed. CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter referred to property destruction in Manhattan as “anarchy on the streets” (while real “anarchy on the streets” most often looks like a Food Not Bombs table or jail support group). Trump has repeatedly referred to “professional anarchists,” a concept so absurd that it’s long been a meme within the radical community. And, whatever you may have heard, neither the Democrats nor billionaire George Soros are funding any anarchist groups. (No anarchist would ever identify as a Democrat, any more than one would ever accept cash from a capitalist plutocrat like Soros.) Anarchist groups are autonomous and self-funded, and as a predominantly poor and working-class community, aren’t exactly known for having deep pockets.” ref

“All of this obfuscation and misinformation is a shame, because anarchism has many lessons to offer about caring for our communities and all of those in need. The concepts that make up its core have become increasingly popular, even as anarchism itself has been dismissed as a mere thirst for destruction. As long-running anarchist collective Crimethinc wrote in their anthology “Expect Resistance: A Field Manual,” “No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to.” ref

“As others survey the smoldering ruins of the American Dream and beg politicians to take mercy on the most vulnerable, it’s worth reminding people that life doesn’t have to be this way. The government has shown that it won’t save us. We know that the rich won’t save us. But if we embrace the true spirit of anarchy, maybe, just maybe, we can save ourselves.” ref 

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope (Said as “At” “Hope”): Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist. Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Poet, Philosopher, Advocate, Activist, Psychology, and Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Historian.

Damien is interested in: Freedom, Liberty, Justice, Equality, Ethics, Humanism, Science, Atheism, Antiteism, Antireligionism, Ignosticism, Left-Libertarianism, Anarchism, Socialism, Mutualism, Axiology, Metaphysics, LGBTQI, Philosophy, Advocacy, Activism, Mental Health, Psychology, Archaeology, Social Work, Sexual Rights, Marriage Rights, Woman’s Rights, Gender Rights, Child Rights, Secular Rights, Race Equality, Ageism/Disability Equality, Etc. And a far-leftist, “Anarcho-Humanist.”

I understand things often at a very deep level, and yet I can generally explain them in a low-level way if needed as well. I am open to doing recorded video chats or even presentations for a group I have presented to several times before and am quite comfortable doing them. I have commonly done talks for free for atheist groups, organizations, or even anthem meetups. I enjoy helping others.

I am an activist and teaching in public is part of that endeavor. I wish to be a “Servant Leader,” it really resonated with me and is a similar desire I have as a leader hoping to add other leaders and to be a student as well wanting to be a life learner open to expand and learn as well as put forth efforts to teach. I dig good people who are kind and want to help others, like me; together we will aid in building a flourishing humanity, we rise by helping each other. I like that kind of people as contacts they are helping make the world better as I try to do.

I create art, memes, quotes, writings, blogs, Facebook pages & groups, YouTube videos, and Public speaking events and/or activism events. Also, I create video chats with Intelligent/thoughtful people who are kind and are doing good things in the world as well as video chats with atheists or non-theists of course; to share ideas, debate/dialog, or for empowerment. And I create videos with theists or agnostics to share ideas, debate/dialog, or provide a place for learning/teaching.

I am a writer working on a book studying/researching the prehistory of the evolution of religion through archaeology and anthropology. Which to me starts back to at least 300,000 years ago with pre-animism, then 100,000 years ago for animism, 50,000 years ago for totemism, 30,000 years ago for shamanism, 12,000 years ago for paganism, 5,000 years ago for progressed organized religion (like that in Egypt) and under 4,000 years ago for all current world religions with most around or after 2,000 years ago.

*Humanism “I am an anarcho-humanist,” (We are all one connected human family, proven by DNA showing we should treat each other as fellow dignity beings, supported equally: no gods and no masters = “Anarcho.” And, no one really owns the earth, we may make claims to it, even draw lines on maps thinking this makes the fantasy true borders, but this illusion is only supported by force and the potential for threat. Thus, the ethical truth is we need to share the earth as communally as possible. And use the resources as safely and ethically as possible striving towards sharing and caring: do no Harm and do good = Humanism). Video on such Thinking and Blog on such Thinking

*Political/Anarchism (I am an anarcho-humanist, basically a socialist-collectivist-mutualist-anarchist as well as rather liberal, progressive, and revolutionary, I want all positive humanitarian change). Video on such Thinking and Blog on such Thinking

“Anarchist”

• Anarchy Atheism
• I am a “Real Anarchist” not an “Anarcho-Capitalist”
• Atheist Anarchists Discussion
• Interview with Anarchist and Firebrand Atheist Courtney Connatser
• My Atheistic (socialist-anarchist) Humanism?
• Anarcho-Humanism
• What Inspires My Anarcho-Humanism?
• I am an Axiological Atheist, with a Rationalist Persuasion, who Supports Anarcho-Humanism
• I am an Anarchist and Strive to Fight Injustice
• Feminist atheists as far back as the 1800s?
• Defending my Antireligious Firebrand Atheist Activism
• Self-ownership, Human Rights, and Societal Liberty or Freedoms
• Self-ownership/Body-ownership: Sexual Consent, Abortion, Genital Mutilation, Prostitution, Drugs, and the Right to Die
• The Need for Consent and the value of Body Ownership: Healthy Sex Talk with Kids
• “No gODs, No Masters”
• A Little On MY Revolutionary Politics
• Atheism creates Individualism?
• Atheistic Humanism?
• Don’t be Boxed in by Abstraction
• New Mutualism
• No Magic Zone: including politics and religion
• 7th Annual International Day of Protest Against Hereditary Religion – January 21, 2018
• Religion’s slave no more?

Less Imperialism Worship in Prehistory/History, PLEASE

I Support the World Following the Social Ways of the Animists in Africa as they have Beautiful Humanity.

The Love of Capitalism???

This reminds me, that we on the bottom will never reach the master gilded world of the ones truly benefiting from the claimed glory of capitalism. While most of us, don’t always know if we can pay rent, have enough to pursue healthy food as our main food, or if we have to buy the unhealthy crap left to us. But, YES live it up as if you have not one care in the world, leaving all that weight to oppress the rest of us. So, please, oh, great rich ones, by all means, live it up as we all suffer and die so you don’t have to raise the minimum wage to even a livable standard. Well, sorry enjoy the uber capitalist wealthy. When will we have economic justice?

Anarchy atheism: advocate of freethought and anti-religious activism. If you don’t believe any god should control you, you shouldn’t believe any other human being should believe in a sky king or supernatural master and more than human kings or masters. An anarchist would most likely be atheist, anti-theist, agnostic, or apatheist believing there should be no rulers thus reject god whether they think one does or doesn’t exist. Certainly excludes rulers like gods, kings, or the state. Anarchy atheism likewise could be anti-religion as well seeing parallels between organized religion external control instead of the individual (even if god was removed) and the state (the primary target of most anarchists) are striking thus rejected. Politicians and preachers are one and the same: both work for a higher power than you, money and power. Ultimately, anarchy to atheism, goes past a simple atheism tendency to only attack god, while ignoring the state, capital, and other possible forms of domination, when anarchy atheists believe they have to attack all of it. “No gods, no masters” is an anarchist, feminist, and labor slogan. No gods, no masters comes from a pamphlet handed out by the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike. The phrase is derived from the French slogan “Ni dieu ni maître!” (literally ‘Neither God nor master’) coined by the socialist Auguste Blanqui in 1880. First feminist usage was in 1914, Margaret Sanger launched The Woman Rebel, an eight-page monthly newsletter that promoted contraception using the slogan “No Gods, No Masters”. Margaret Sanger insisted that every woman was the mistress of her own body.”Women without superstition: No gods – No Masters!” by Annie Laurie Gaylor is a collection of writings by women freethinkers during the 19th and 20th century. Today the slogan continues to find use in anarchist politics. An anthology of anarchist writing was collected under the title “No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism” Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions. These are often described as stateless societies, although several authors have defined them more specifically as institutions based on non-hierarchical free associations. Anarchism holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful. While anti-statism is central, anarchism entails opposing authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of all human relations, including, but not limited to, the state system. Anarchism does not offer a fixed body of doctrine from a single particular worldview, instead of luxing and flowing as a philosophy. Many types and traditions of anarchism exist, not all of which are mutually exclusive. Anarchist schools of thought can differ fundamentally, supporting anything from extreme individualism to complete collectivism. Strains of anarchism have often been divided into the categories of social and individualist anarchism or similar dual classifications. Anarchism is usually considered a radical left-wing ideology, and much of anarchist economics and anarchist legal philosophy reflects anti-authoritarian interpretations of communism, collectivism, syndicalism, mutualism, or participatory economics.

I am an anarcho-humanist (basically a socialist-collectivist-mutualist-anarchist as well as rather liberal, progressive, and revolutionary, I want all positive change) You keep attacking activists and while you’re doing that, other activists and I will keep fighting for change. Sadly, you may change a few people where they lose their way in the momentum of activism. However, happily, while you’re doing that, other activists and I will help positively change the world. I hate when someone states anarchism is about not wanting to pay taxes, as if they don’t know the main persuasion of true anarchism is humanity, not the selfishness of self only concern as in “i” language instead of “we” language of true anarchism is socialist anarchism that wishes to add us all in the liberation of humanity from oppressors, as much as possible. With a general rationale of compassion and comradery with our fellow humans, who we know are all our fellow humans, sisters, brothers, and others are all equal beings of dignity in one human family. My anarchism is because of my care for humanity. I will leave selfishness for the capitalists where it belongs. I do not support sucker-punching people, even Nazis. To me, violence should be for self-defense or other-defense. I only hit those that try to hit me or others around me, I am for non-aggression. But I am violence optional if needed as I am not a pacifist not is that what I promote. I am non-aggression or needed limited aggression or violence as is reasoned, ethical, and just, always wanting non-aggression.

What Inspires My Anarcho-Humanism:

• We are all one connected human family.
• No one owns the earth.
• If you can’t trust people with freedom how can you trust them with power?

What inspires my anarcho-humanism has three core truths to my ethical anarchist persuasion:

1. We are all one connected human family, proven by DNA showing we should treat each other as fellow dignity beings, supported equally (no gods and no masters = “Anarcho”).

2. No one owns the earth, we may make claims to it even draw lines on maps thinking this makes the fantasy borders, illusion supported by force, and the potential for threat. Thus the ethical truth is we need to share the earth as communally as possible. And use the resources as safe and ethically as possible striving towards sharing and caring. (do no Harm and do good = Humanism)

3. If you can’t trust people with freedom how can you trust them with power? Government is only as good as what they provide but I don’t trust ones that have rights over my body. How much more of a violation do you need to show their harm? I am not anti-society, I value good governance just don’t need the extra dead weight of government. There is not one thing a government is valued for that a non-government group with the same financial support and resources could not also do. I get we rise by helping each other and supporting universal betterment and human flourishing. Helping is Helpful: Valuing, Motivating, Supporting humanity is limited by nationalism and the, us Vs them, as if you should feel connected to only a few humans just because people invented the mental concept of land ownership, you mean you assert that you will harm others for an amount of the earth’s surface.

Seeing with anarcho-humanism eyes helps you see how to Grow in Our Positive Outcomes: Gratitude, Empathy, and Kindness. We can become a more quality person by actively being aware and developing a gratitude for life, which supports as well as grows our feelings of empathy, which then motivates the behavior of kindness. And kindness flourishes in openness and freedom. (No gods no masters as well as do no harm and do good = Anarcho-humanism) Lastly, I Am an Atheist-Humanist who is a Socialist, Collectivist, Mutualist, Anarchist: (Anarcho-Humanist) But Why do I Hate Religion? Religion and gods are an attack to self-freedom and self-mastery. I was asked why I openly and publicly am so passionate in my hate of religion. further asking what specifically in your life contributed to this outcome. I hate harm, oppression, bigotry, and love equality, self-ownership, self-empowerment, self-actualization, and self-mastery, as well as truth and not only does religion lie, it is a conspiracy theory of reality. Moreover, not only is religion a conspiracy theories of reality, it is a proud supporter of pseudohistory and or pseudoscience they also push pseudomorality.

Religion on the whole to me deserves and earns hate, or at least disfavor when you really analyze it. Not to mention the corruption it has on politics or laws. As well as how destructive this unworthy political influence has and creates because of these false beliefs and the harm to the life of free adults but to the lives of innocent children as well (often robbed of the right to choose and must suffer indoctrination) as the disruption of educated even in public schools. Etc… I as others do have the right to voice our beliefs, just as I or others then have the right to challenge voiced beliefs. Religions and their god myths are a direct threat to Self-ownership and thus Human Rights. Long live mental freedom… 1, 2, 3

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

Damien Marie AtHope (Said as “At” “Hope”)/(Autodidact Polymath but not good at math):

Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist, Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Jeweler, Poet, “autodidact” Philosopher, schooled in Psychology, and “autodidact” Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Pre-Historian (Knowledgeable in the range of: 1 million to 5,000/4,000 years ago). I am an anarchist socialist politically. Reasons for or Types of Atheism

My Website, My Blog, & Short-writing or Quotes, My YouTube, Twitter: @AthopeMarie, and My Email: damien.marie.athope@gmail.com