Fuck Blue MAGA
Why performative "progressives" are just as dangerous as the right, and why we’re done playing nice.
Blue Maga Definition: A person (usually a Democrat or self-professed progressive) who maintains the status quo by substituting symbolic gestures for material action, suppresses dissent from marginalized communities to preserve party cohesion, expects Black people and allies to coexist with their abusers and white supremacists to protect political interests, and functions as an enabler of the white supremacy they claim to oppose.
🧢 Blue MAGA is just as serious a threat as regular MAGA.
Because they’re just not serious.
Blue MAGA’s 🧢 pretension toward the Black community is exhausting—and racist.
We’re on our third protest, and nothing has changed. When we tell them why, they won’t listen.
So, why? Why has nothing changed?
Because blue MAGA 🧢 doesn’t understand that their jobs don’t end when the march is over. The time between protests isn’t for relaxation. The real work happens daily.
They expect us to stand down with them and watch while the world burns.
That’s a liability, my friends.
Blue MAGA 🧢 helped create and enable this system. Now they want credit for pretending to fight it.
They have the most selfish caucasity—with ZERO awareness—to tell US—Black women—and the very people who carry their party—to stop being upset about their inaction.
In essence, they’re asking,
“WhAT mORe dO yoU ExPECt uS tO Do?!?” as they weaponize our physical absence to label us as selfish.
We’ve been doing this work. It’s not new to us. It’s new to them—we’ve tried to tell them, but they don’t want to hear it.
They expect us to sit with our abusers, our oppressors, and white supremacists so they can feel better about their passivity.
It’s always about their feelings. 🙄
Until they wake up and choose LABOR over quarterly dance parties 🕺and performative activism—I don’t think we’re going to get anywhere with them.
And so, until they do decide to do the work—
Fuck Blue MAGA 🧢. 🖕🏽
Yes!! Thank you for this!! I am white and can always tell a blue maga when they say stupid shit like "I had a black friend in highschool." Or my all-time favorite, "I'm not a racist."
Something that has boggled my mind since time and memorioum is the loudest and proudest people on the left who have the most passionate speeches and outrage regarding the very real threats of the alt right have done more damage to my mental health than any Nazi or Trump cultist I have ever encountered. It's this passionate reproach towards human rights yet the moment after the protest ends you walk into the conference room for a meeting and ask "these are all great points and really great ideas. How do you plan to implement them? do you want to start a nonprofit or even support small businesses or labor movement to get this going? Maybe we can start a news cast using the school TV station or even something small like a housing organization or tenants union!". Que 5 minutes of silnece only to be called every dehumanizing slur for people with autism or trans people and promptly kicked out the room. True story.. I shit you not...
The no kings protests are valuable but on their own it's not a lot of progress being made because every movement needs a front of house to bring in interest and grab the medias attention and a back of house to work the books, security, finances, and logistics for the organizations, companies, colleges and communities that do the work and fix the problems brought to the forefront by the front of house. Protests are valuable as a marketing tactic but on their own that's all they are a marketing tactic. If you don't have a tangible means of production or service that either fixes or alleviates the problems at hand its really just prefromative. What we need now more than ever are people on the back end like yours truly but also so many more that can do the logistics and tangible side of things to make things better just as much as we need people in be streets demanding better. It's like architects and construction workers you can't build something that lasts if one overpowers the other. The only way to progress is to work together with the skills each of us have at our disposal.