“Nevertheless, we get this hopelessly naïve version of centrism, of the idea that if we’re nicer to the other side there will be no other side, just one big happy family. This inanity is also applied to the questions of belief and fact and principle, with some muddled cocktail of moral relativism and therapists’ ‘everyone’s feelings are valid’ applied to everything. But the truth is not some compromise halfway between the truth and the lie, the fact and the delusion, the scientists and the propagandists. And the ethical is not halfway between white supremacists and human rights activists, rapists and feminists, synagogue massacrists and Jews, xenophobes and immigrants, delusional transphobes and trans people. Who the hell wants unity with Nazis until and unless they stop being Nazis?”
—Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
Serious question for my White friends:
What are you going to do to ensure that we don’t return to our regularly scheduled racism once Biden takes office?
His election does not signal the end of the battle for racial equity in our country by any stretch and I want to make sure that we are all truly committed to fully dismantling the White Supremacist system in this country regardless of who is in office.
It was easy to channel our disgust with Trump and his bootlicking Nazi extremists into support for Black Lives Matter and other solidarity movements, but what are we going to do to continue the work on ourselves and find ways to provide even more support than we ever have to these communities even when we are back to being more comfortable under Liberal leadership?
I don’t need an answer, I just want to make sure we are all thinking about this as we progress forward.
—natalie michelle
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