I am absolutely with Evan on this one. The "let's give them some wins so then they will seem more unreasonable if they keep pushing and we can say 'look we already made compromises, we are the reasonable ones'" approach has always been morally wrong but is also tactically a mistake.
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Evan Urquhart
I try not to tell activists their business, bc I'm not an activist. But if I were to offer my advice, it would be to fight like hell over trans sports bans and GAC bans, make it incredibly damaging and punishing to push those through, so the bad guys run out of steam before they get to Obergefell.
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This would still be accurate, even for anti-trans bills.
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*the idea that everyone should be alive and cared for should not be radical.
They also suggested the number of CDs is comprised mostly of cis White men.
After attending 2 CD groups (as liaison for Eq Md) the number made sense.
I’ve not sought to verify/update that number.
The latter, of course, is an extremely personal decision that has to be made for many reasons, not the least of which is safety.
My note is to suggest this same group may be appealed to for support.
Also, from a LE perspective it seems to me anyone who spouts off about violence on social media thinks they’re helping themselves, well, I’d really like to play poker with you cause your hand is showing.
He wasn't trying to "fix" it from the inside, he was trying to make them even more radical
He just thought he was "one of the good ones"
It's just silly to assume one person can be both.
It takes a viliage.
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There is no retreat. Just regroup.
Magneto was right.
Be Magneto.
Again, diversity of tactics.
Even in the UK, where there's been the most pushback from people who claim to be feminists, the majority are on board
Also, aren't you literally a teenager?
Confrontation activism only works with scale and I don’t think we’d have the scale needed.
I wish I could believe this would work. I’d really love to be proved wrong.
FWIW I don't think the numbers actually have to be that big. They merely need to be enough to be noticed.
We need the allies. If we do stuff which scares them off, or worse, breaks their ability to trust us… we’re totally stuffed.
It’s boring, frustrating, grinding and rubbish work to engage with people who hate us. But it’s what we have to do. It sucks :(
We need to get loud, angry, confrontational, and defiant.
If we get confrontational and ruin the ability for people to trust us then we loose the we support have.
It’s a mess. :(
If we get confrontational and it backfires it will take a generation to get back to where we are now.
It’s a crap situation. We gotta keep going. I wish it wasn’t as bloody hard.