More and more I am convinced that the only effective queer activism is going to be loud, unrelenting, and confrontational. Yes it will also be useful to have "friendly" and respectable queers who can do diplomacy and negotiation but those folx will need a stick and we need to be that stick.
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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.
Everyone likes pie. Right?
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3lfeebcl5zs2i
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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https://open.substack.com/pub/billieiswriting/p/when-they-cry-peace-peace?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ghvoy
There is no retreat. Just regroup.
Magneto was right.
Be Magneto.
Again, diversity of tactics.
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.