3. The Overton window exists and pitting progressives against extremist fascists and racists brings positionality with it. "We don't compromise" but with who? Totally acknowledge the narcissism of small differences but what about the BIG differences. - ThreadSky

naomimc.bsky.social • 6 days ago

3. The Overton window exists and pitting progressives against extremist fascists and racists brings positionality with it. "We don't compromise" but with who? Totally acknowledge the narcissism of small differences but what about the BIG differences.

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naomimc.bsky.social•6 days ago

4. We are now in a context where values and beliefs are antithetical to liberal democracy, where opponents literally say that Rishi Sunak as a brown, Hindu, can't be British. What is the compromise being asked for here? People dispute the Rule of Law, where is the compromise to be had?

naomimc.bsky.social•6 days ago

5. Compare where we were in 1997 when immigration hardly figured in British people's top priorities to where we are now. Have progressives changed or has the whole world changed around us. What are acceptable values and beliefs are what have changed?

naomimc.bsky.social•6 days ago

6. Yes, a lot of people believe others beliefs are based on mis and disinformation... In that time social media and tech have transformed politics in the spread of these beliefs. Is this an unreasonable analysis? We have the President of the US mired in disinfo allying with a Russian dictator.

naomimc.bsky.social•6 days ago

7. So yes, I accept there is a "purity" problem - which is NOT in anyway a new issue in social movements. And there are lessons and reflections from all this.

BUT

What is the different context we're living in now? Politicians are openly and enthusiastically engaging in mis/dis info culture wars.

naomimc.bsky.social•6 days ago

8. Particularly young people have grown up in a digital age of bullying, lies and smears and being told they can't access any levers of power for another 10/20 years while the earth burns. And yet WE are the ones blamed and told to compromise. Maybe others have some responsibility too?

naomimc.bsky.social•6 days ago

9. Maybe, just maybe, those who want to inflict pain and suffering on black and brown people, on women, on LGBTQ people need to learn to compromise too? They are being asked to not invade, not burn fossil fuels, not bully minorities, not instrumentalise women's trauma of sexual violence.

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