Researching for a rant, but someone has already put it better https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250909-hollow-tokens-of-conscience-the-hypocrisy-of-the-voice-of-hind-rajab/...
I saw (and quickly lost my patience with) a video that essentially says “pointing out someone’s participation in over-consumption is the same as calling someone racist… It hurts their feelings and makes them defensive when we should be catering to them. Also saying something’s over-consumption is ableist because remember...
I wish we recognized the massive role stuff like Jubilee has played in normalizing increasing bigotry and hate....
If I wrote a story today about a future where Canada’s been burned to ashes, in thirty years people would call me psychic. Absolutely embarrassing....
Merry Go Round of Oppression
We are caught in a merry go round of people thinking “My oppression justifies my participation in another’s.”. And everyone thinks they’re some special case where that logic couldn’t possibly be applied to justify oppressing them further because the door’s supposed to close behind them not in front....
The Term Violence
The term violence in politics is a useless umbrella term that does nothing but benefit oppression.There is no world where you equate brutality and physical defense except when you want to undermine the amount of harm brutality causes....
This might be the best analogy I’ve ever thought of in my life. Saying adults should not be having discussions about sex with teens, writing books that involve teen sex, etc because age difference is like saying that only a person’s partner should be giving them a colonoscopy/ pap...
Labels have no meaning because the shallow have no shame. “Leftist” was co-opted the same way “ally” was. Watering down its political meaning, beliefs, and obligations because “oh that’s what you call a good political boi? That’s me. Take my word for it”....