Elders in the movement have a patience seldom seen among my peers; they have seen already what we are yet to see.
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Being the most pure at the finish line is hardly a measure of justice. The cost we pay cannot be the ones we have thrown out along the way.
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Purity is a filter by which we remove people and deny them justice. We have to do better.
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Justice isn't accomplished by five pure people arriving, having successfully cast off their sins.
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We have awoken to the notion of white/cis/straight/etc guilt but we have not awoken to the understanding that casting our guilt onto another is not the same as addressing it.
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We are burning through our best because they are not good enough for ever evolving standards. We rationalize potential harms as manifest ones.
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Our movement will eat itself if we are not given to truth. The core of social justice is a moral truth and that cannot be realized if truth is irrelevant.
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The path requires brave people to do hard things and assume risk. We are better served supporting those people and mitigatong the risk. Not for their sake, but for ours. Because we have invented many low-risk ways to spin our wheels and create the illusion of progress.
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For all the talk of revolution, I see sparingly few people with the talents to fight a war.
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Sadly, there are plenty of people throughout the diverse, unorganized pool of movements whose agenda and goals are not the same. They're so different, in fact, that some of those people cannot help in the struggle of other people.
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A lot of well-intentioned white Liberal Democrat types aren't interested in dismantling structures of oppression and racism. They in fact need those structures intact. The Democrats maintain their preferred broken institutions and defend destructive forces that benefit them.
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Their interests involve preserving broken institutions and reforming, rather than dismantling, things like the carceral state. Those people aren't good allies. In the race to justice you describe, they're not even looking at the same finish line. It sucks. It's sad.
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I think there's a place for everyone who really believes in what we call social justice. I don't expect everyone to burn a cop car, lock down on a bulldozer or occupy a Senate office. But if you're not able to see why that cop car needs to burn, your "justice" isn't mine.
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If all you want to do is burn things, you're the enemy of all of humanity. When things burn, people die. If your answer is "acceptable losses" then you're no different than the warmongers you pretend to hate.
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I never said all I want to do is burn things. That's a metaphor. If you want to defend a grossly overfunded, dangerous state coercive apparatus (the police force) you're not helping anything. I'd rather repurpose the cop cars or recycle them, than burn them.
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This has become a discussion about something hyperspecific and uninteresting.
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Yeah, caring about human lives is boring.
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