>chumming the waters realistically if saying “I belong to X, please join” could lead to disemployment for both recruiter and recruited, what is the alternative?
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
Those conditions and worse applied to most of the history of labor unions and to the Southern chapters of the NAACP in the 40s. And yet they managed. (Of course, it probably helped that they had a platform that a broad base of people might be interested in.)
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Replying to @hradzka
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
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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Replying to @hradzka
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @hradzka
(or as third option: whether to achieve blacklist parity with the ADL before worrying about institutional parity)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @hradzka
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
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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Replying to @hradzka
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
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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