We have turned social justice into a race, not a march. Rather than getting there together we are trying to get there first.
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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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