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Most of us are walking around with a lot of unexpressed, often unexamined, assumptions about how political change happens and how activists can affect the process.
When someone mounts an action that confuses or repels me, I try not to assume that I know what they were trying to achieve and how.
“They were trying to do X but it backfired!” isn’t a productive critique if the goal wasn’t X but Y.
Which isn’t to say that we shouldn’t criticize, or even that a bad unintended X outcome can’t outweigh the hoped-for Y “victory.”
Just saying that if it doesn’t seem like the activists you’re observing have a plan, consider the possibility that it’s you, not them, who doesn’t know what their plan is.
