the brendan eich situation among others seems evidence of "horrible parody"
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Replying to @literalbanana
certainly does go horribly wrong sometimes; but so does everything
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
Seems like the Eich case (if there’s nothing new) was a failure of understanding of the principle & function of politics,
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
rather than a failure of activism per se. (Not totally sure I have a workable distinction here…)
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
I’m trying to work out a diagnosis of current politics in terms of “atomization,” i.e. abandonment of coherent structures
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Replying to @Meaningness
religious bakers getting sued might be the funnier example
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Replying to @literalbanana
Yes, I think that is a clearer one, in terms of a diagnosis of failure of understanding of principles
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
response to this is something like "any sufficiently large activist movement must discard principles"
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @literalbanana
Any sufficiently large troupe of monkeys will act unprincipledly around the edges; but overall?
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the 50s/60s civil rights movement is the prototype for all activism. It worked; and by principles.
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btw Thurgood Marshall was an awesome dude. The Übergeek of activism. Worth a quick read about!
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