as small as a world and as large as alone

1:15am April 9, 2015

fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton:

People who are effective at activism understand the issues they’re fighting for and have a deep emotional investment in them. It’s just not possible, or morally acceptable, to try to create allies through fear and punishment.

It’s not possible to create informed allies by refusing to allow them to think for themselves- every person can only connect to an issue by going through their own internal processes first, which isn’t possible if other people short cirtcuit their ability to think and feel their way through issues with control tactics.

And the fact that people are desperately trying to do the right thing, but The Right Thing keeps changing, and people start yelling at people for “just doing it out of fear,” as if no one had anything to do with MAKING people afraid, as if that fear were just a weakness and a flaw completely detached from the actions- all of that is abuse, through and through. Impossible expectations. Yelling at victims for their own fear abd predictable responses to being attacked. Double binds.

This isn’t progress. This isn’t justice. This isn’t getting us anywhere.

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