“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, December 10, 2023

You Fucking Idiots

 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. 

3 comments:

Tom Beckett said...

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.

Not everyone operates well under the spotlight.

Tom Beckett said...

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.

Not everyone operates well under the spotlight.

Timothy Morton said...

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."