Mirjana

The most rigid of reactionary movements are inexorable because they fight the past, but the past as idea vs the past as ideal.

@SiddhiGal I like this but can you elaborate a bit?

@380kmh Just developing a thought myself - actually waiting for it to ripe:). Roughly, anachronistic arguments are blind to present, e.g.

@380kmh feminism thrives on fighting the idea of stereotype from the past; that ghost is ever alive because the ideology depends on it.

@SiddhiGal I was just having this conversation last night--revolutionaries necessarily assume that their ideals are in the minority

@SiddhiGal and need to be spoken about for the sake of that minority. They're fundamentally incapable of recognizing their own normalization

@SiddhiGal My roommate moved to my town from a nearby city and recently got a position on the local human rights commission (1/?)

@SiddhiGal Fed up with the harassment he had received in his old city, he was determined not to let that happen here (2/?)