Thread by @ECMcLaughlin

I hear there's a bunch of women in Westchester who are really mad at me for saying the Women's March is a waste of time.

So let me say this: change never happened in this country from a polite march down a permit-sanctioned path with a pink hat and a sign.

If you want to engage in real civil disobedience right now, you need to show up in a GOP senator's office and refuse to leave until you have a commitment to vote for removal, and be willing to get arrested (and then go back when you're released, for as long as it takes).

But don't fool yourself that while we're on the brink of war with Iran with a lawless, insane, impeached president that a feel-good rally with pithy signs is going to do anything except placate white women to feel like they've "done enough."

That's not real change. I don't care if you hate me for saying it, because it's the GODDAMN TRUTH.

You want to make a difference? You're screaming about "why isn't everyone in the streets?"

Here's what to do:

Abandon your privilege. Be willing to get arrested for unsanctioned civil disobedience in GOP senators' offices in DC and locally. Do that for as long as it takes.

And if you can't do that, because you're solely responsible for raising kids or supporting a family, then call every damn day in every minute of your spare time, and spend your weekends organizing for 2020, relentlessly.

But above all, quit making communities of color do all the heavy lifting on EVERYTHING.

And don't fool yourself or anyone else into thinking that a feel good event stops anything or changes it or sways any undecided minds (white supremacists don't give a shit) or has any impact.

Follow the lead of the best civil rights leaders in our nation and understand that your sacrifice is demanded right now, and always, if you REALLY believe in change and justice.

A pink pussy hat and a sign isn't sacrifice.

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You know what? I'm muting this thread.

Anyone who's thinking that white women need a "gentle" introduction to civil disobedience after the last three years of this bullshit is more interested in catering to white women's feelings than in real change.

March if you want to, but don't fool yourself that it's going to make any damn bit of difference anywhere.

And if that's all you're going to do, or ask others to do, just know that you'll actually have enabled inaction instead of what you think you're doing.

CHANGE REQUIRES DISCOMFORT.

I'm not interested in making anyone feel like it's easy. It's fucking not. The fascists don't care if our entry to activism is "easy." They care about warmongering and killing people of color.

Quit worrying about what's easy for white women to access.

Start worrying about how little access everyone else has to justice, and leverage your fucking privilege toward THAT.