Most Western left has never faced full violence of the state. I wish we taught the 1930s. It wasn't lack of street fighting. The opposite.
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Advocating strategic, long-term thinking isn't from naiveté or not being radical enough. Romanticizing short-sighted tactics is the naïveté.
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I've protested my whole life. Protests have real power. But realism and long-term thinking about linking them to deeper organizing is key.
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Plainly: historically, anything that looks like street brawls helps fascists consolidate power. "Many sides" is their core tactic. Works. +
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Not an argument for not protecting the vulnerable. The opposite. Such protection needs to be strong, strategic and disciplined. Hard game.
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Taking the threat seriously means talking about that long, hard and strategic path. Summer children romanticizing a moment isn't it.
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Wish the threat we face was just a few thousand race-supremacists marching. That would be easy to counter. State power is a different game.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Peter J. Hasson
The spectacle at the margins isn't the key threat. If anything, it's a minor symptom of centralized consolidation.https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/899078765539717122 …
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We only outnumber tiny narrow stripe. There are big numbers behind authoritarianism & ethno-supremacy via the state. https://twitter.com/tombellin/status/899271049375776769 …
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I wrote a book on how movements in the digital age exercise power for change. It's available for free. That's my 2¢. http://www.twitterandteargas.org
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To repeat: Nothing I say is an argument against protecting the vulnerable. Rather: we face a grave threat; not merely R Spencer's spectacle.
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Agreed. It's not just the spectacle of white nationalism; it's the policies of politicians that have courted them.
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I just started your book. have you read any
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