Don't give people a stick to beat us with. They've been wanting to beat us real bad for years, and you just handed them the perfect stick.
Now forever they'll be able to say "But your best people claim that violence is contextual. This isn't transphobia, This isn't racism. This isn't misogyny."
Your interlocutor was an idiot, highly trained at made-for-meme moments. And you let her do way, WAY more damage in thirty seconds than I have ever witnessed. In my lifetime.
So just from a strictly tactical, non-moral, non-ethical point of view: you fucked it up.
As if I needed more things to be terrified of. "We're coming for the Marxists and the other vermin"? You just held the fucking door open for them.
I don't disagree with your position. It would though be helpful if you'd offer the position which might have been taken to better advantage.
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I don't disagree with your position. It would though be helpful if you'd offer the position which might have been taken to better advantage.
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Yes indeed. That's the trouble. To combat fascism you have to do TV five times better than them, like the Sex Pistols. "Yeah, x is wrong. But you know what's also wrong? You, jamming me into fake stupid little fascist boxes. You're a coward."
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