Yep, the pussy thing is exclusionary and essentialist. Yep, lots of intersections are missing here. Yep, incrementalism sucks.
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But if you give me a choice between incrementalists mass-resisting fascists and nobody mass-resisting fascists... I know what I'm taking.
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And those *are* the two choices here. This is our reality.
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I can teach a novice activist about trans issues. I can't teach a fascist about empathy.
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We can teach the marchers to learn about Black issues and native issues and disability issues. And that should be our goal.
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If you read the Italo-fascist work of Gaetano Mosca you'll see that fascism depends on this fragmentation as a source of power.
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The whole political theory was based on minority rule over fragmentation. The word itself refers to a bundle of rods tied together.
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whenever I get annoyed with novice activists I remember we all started somewhere that is likely embarrassing now.
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My introduction to feminism in high school was the Vagina Monologues. I was so inspired!


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I was a libertarian techbro dude for more years than I care to admit. Learning empathy was the best thing I ever did.
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