nhold.bsky.social
Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority.
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I loled with a snort in the middle. as soon as I remember where I set my hat when I took it off I shall tip it to you, sir.
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So many of their lyrics echo in my head regularly, they get to what is to me the heart of things very effectively a lot of the time.
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what's the old line? the US is a one party state but due to American extravagance it has two?
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I mean to be fair the white moderate is usually their boss, so
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(also got a catholic worker newspaper from a dude in a NO WAR shirt, that was cool too)
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any effective movement for justice will get called violent or similar because the government's goal is to either delegitimate them or get them to act in ways it can ignore. And imo efforts to sift good from bad protestors serve that goal.
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I agree about moving people but less in the sense of winning hearts and minds and more in the sense of getting people actively involved. Obviously those are related, but liberal political impulses tend toward the former over the latter (or getting the latter to take ineffectual forms). I also think
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that tend to shift what 'letting the id out' consists of. Like for one thing, it's not at all clear to me that a protest that damages property is substantively 'violent' but over and over again they get labeled as such as part of authorizing and trying to legitimize use of real violence by the state
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Right, I mean, I'm not like 'anything any protestor does is good because they intend it protestingly' but it seems to me that 'protestors letting the id out' is, according to how I'd define that substantively, vanishingly rare and yet becomes a major emphasis rhetorically. Further it does so in ways
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(Also worth bearing in mind the line not to cross is actually mobile and situationally-constituted - it's politically constructed - rather than just fixed and given. Anyone repressed gets called over the line, going 'yeah but they weren't ACTUALLY over the line' is of a lot less use than it seems)
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put simply my impression is what's happening rn is that some people are making it harder for the government to deport people, so the government is calling in more forces to make those efforts less effective. The main emphasis then should be on how continue to make it harder for the govt to deport.
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I don't think public opinion is the whole ballgame, no. There's massive public support for better policy on healthcare, guns, minimum wage, etc, but ineffective support doesn't make much happen.