... Here's the too-naked and uncomfortable thing. Social pressure devoid of violence has a limit to its effectiveness. In the case of simply imploring racists to not be racists, we can see the power of guilt and peer pressure maxing out against an incapacity for self-generated empathy. What to do? Show up in zones that can facilitate a showcase of the juxtaposition of sides. And let us not be naive nor cloak our intent in false naivety. It is only sane to expect the empathetically challenged side to do violence. Eventually that baser side will do something grim and we know that. We also know that such base actions create the historically necessary juxtaposition to win the battle for moral high ground - which still wields a pen of legislation and wins the hearts of (most) American people. We are lucky for that. After all, morality is an abstraction, and one teetering on its own trumpian precipice. For now, Heather Heyer didn't die in vain. Yet make no mistake - people like Trump and many of the witless bigots who support him are striking like rebellious children at the very delicate web of abstract ideas (morality and empathy included) that prop any hope for civilization up. And know that to strike at that web SEEMS rebellious - and therefore appealing to youth. And know that this means we WILL NOT be waiting for an older generation of bigots to die off, but rather we will be facing a new generation of bigots FOR WHOM FASCISM IS EMPATHY. Stay woke. Disallow bigotry to be perceived as rebellion - for rebellion is the language of Cool. Bigotry must always be seen as what it is - the language of fear. So long as we succeed in this, bigotry will not succeed in capturing our youth, nor in being cool, nor in being American, nor wise, nor brave. It shall only succeed in being base and dumb and void of every single quality desirable in a human life.
... Here's the too-naked and uncomfortable thing. Social pressure devoid of violence has a limit to its effectiveness. In the case of simply imploring racists to not be racists, we can see the power of guilt and peer pressure maxing out against an incapacity for self-generated empathy. What to do? Show up in zones that can facilitate a showcase of the juxtaposition of sides. And let us not be naive nor cloak our intent in false naivety. It is only sane to expect the empathetically challenged side to do violence. Eventually that baser side will do something grim and we know that. We also know that such base actions create the historically necessary juxtaposition to win the battle for moral high ground - which still wields a pen of legislation and wins the hearts of (most) American people. We are lucky for that. After all, morality is an abstraction, and one teetering on its own trumpian precipice. For now, Heather Heyer didn't die in vain. Yet make no mistake - people like Trump and many of the witless bigots who support him are striking like rebellious children at the very delicate web of abstract ideas (morality and empathy included) that prop any hope for civilization up. And know that to strike at that web SEEMS rebellious - and therefore appealing to youth. And know that this means we WILL NOT be waiting for an older generation of bigots to die off, but rather we will be facing a new generation of bigots FOR WHOM FASCISM IS EMPATHY. Stay woke. Disallow bigotry to be perceived as rebellion - for rebellion is the language of Cool. Bigotry must always be seen as what it is - the language of fear. So long as we succeed in this, bigotry will not succeed in capturing our youth, nor in being cool, nor in being American, nor wise, nor brave. It shall only succeed in being base and dumb and void of every single quality desirable in a human life.
Vid Did w @ruffmercy for Broken Record ouuuuut link in bio @papermagazine
This Sunday in Nola at our @rubberlibrary_flowerbodega shit I might even read somn.
Who? #otherness
seriously who gonna step
Here's to your new beginning, Shep.
❤🏆💔🖤❤️ one of the great characters of any format she was in this #jeannemoreau
Mal showed up @boldie17mally5

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