Translation of this thread: "...but I want to use him as a club to beat Republicans with."https://twitter.com/emmaogreen/status/956199582500884481 …
To be clear, union organizers fighting against employers are fired by those employers - ppl and innocuous as Brendan Eich are fired because _____? I want to get at the marrow of your insight but you seem to deny an asymmetry
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Don't get hung up on particular asymmetries. Those change over time, for radicals and normies alike. You do have to recognize that they're there, though.
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The reason I am “hung up” is b/c there is a q about whether to work to minimize the danger or to focus on getting the most out of theoretically “inefficient”, but safe methods
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(or as third option: whether to achieve blacklist parity with the ADL before worrying about institutional parity)
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i have read some histories of civil rights movement, and at a time in my life when I thought them “brave,” but idr any parallel to the employment blacklist even normie centrists face and idk exactly what part of the asymmetry you think ‘50s/‘60s refute
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Not even getting to the violence, of which there was plenty, people who joined the NAACP or were active in the movement were doxed, their names published in newspapers. Massive numbers of people lost their jobs at a time when blacks were hugely dependent on white employers.
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If you ever have the time to do a post/tweetstorm on details of the right’s disemployment campaign against NAACP sympathizers, I think your tweeps would find that very interesting
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moving has me behind on book reviews; if/when I get to that, it'll be a small part of analysis of Freedom Summer 1964 as a nonviolent military operation
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Great, thanks. Good luck recovering from the move, you’re reminding me I have some boxes still myself
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Eg even membership in the actual CPUSA was not as large an obstacle to employment, even at height of Red Scare (they just made a movie about it!) And CPUSA was an extreme example, most leftist orgs even more immune to criticism
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Seriously: go read operational histories on the civil rights movement and its predecessors sometime. Your mind will be blown.
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