Author of the looting book is a trans person from an elite family background She clearly is unhappy at the world -almost every aspect of it! - and wants to tear down every structure that is cis / hetero / patriariachal...i.e. all of them This is just "I hate you, dad!" politicshttps://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/1301143611552268288 …
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2/ 90% of insurrectionary politics is this: "society doesn't treasure what I bring to the table (e.g. being emotional, having black skin, being kind of ugly, having more emotions than analytical ability), so we need to tear it down and build a nightmare funhouse that does".
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3/ and...I get it! I was unhappy at the world, for much of my life. Still am, more often is good. ...but the World is What It Is. "I hate you Dad / God / Capitalism!!!1!!" doesn't make anything better. You're never going to get the exact perfect change that you want.
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4/ ...but if you try to burn it all down, you're just going to harm a ton of people and STILL not get the world you want. Maturity is accepting that the world exists, that it was here before you, that other people exist, that they have a right to their lives, and >>>
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5/ ...maximizing your happiness and that of those close to you without childishly dreaming of a word that will never, and can never, exist.
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6/ Very good insight.https://twitter.com/argyriou15/status/1301202182432337920 …
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