Radical empathy has really become the last stand against fascism.
Are you fighting?
- Giving direct aid to redistribute wealth?
- Masking to protect community?
- Speaking to power for those without?
Radical empathy is how we make a better future. 🖖
Are you fighting?
- Giving direct aid to redistribute wealth?
- Masking to protect community?
- Speaking to power for those without?
Radical empathy is how we make a better future. 🖖
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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀
Something worth noting re: the Bell Riots is that 30 years ago, they imagined 3 days of riots & giving a platform to sanctuary residents could shock the conscience of the US & change the course of history.
So much of what's happened since has damaged our capacity to have our conscience shocked.
So much of what's happened since has damaged our capacity to have our conscience shocked.
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None of us can stand up straight (heh), but we *can* lean on one another. If enough of us do that, nobody has to fall.
Make sure you're tipping a real SW.
Buy from marginalized & vulnerable small businesses.
So MANY of us only survive because of mutual aid.
Give to someone struggling.
If you're in America, we're waking up as night falls there. Boosting while they're trying to stay warm with no shelter is a great way to help folk who have been through unimaginable horrors survive and rebuild.
Many of us need to work on genuinely asking ourselves "What if I'm wrong?", having an idea what harm that could cause, then making real damn sure we're speaking non-harmful truths from here on out.
but
how my heart aches that empathy
has indeed become a radical act.
Folks who had comfort privilege of any kind are often slower to notice due to very normal 'everyone has similar experience' bias
Our society criminalizes empathy, whitewashes events, & insists 'we're free' while destroying access to knowledge & 3rd spaces to gather or unite