Thread by @obaidomer

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"For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"
The whole Rogan/Sanders thing is a manifestation of this.
Rogan and Sanders were using the best tools we have, their ability to discuss things freely. Joe's endorsement, same thing.

2/n
The people who tout this saying, talking about science, reason, logic, free speech, don't understand these things.
These tools are not the master's tools. They are fire given to us by Prometheus so that we can liberate ourselves.
Science et al are designed so that by their

3/n
very methods, you can dismantle any idea that has been put forth and held as provisionally true. Science does not purport to give you an absolute truth only as close an approximation as possible based on evidence.
It amazes me that those who don't want to use science, will

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gladly use the oldest tools of the earliest masters, censorship, banning, shunning.
These are now and have always been the tools of the worst and most oppressive of masters, they lend themselves to it and cannot be used well, as they are not fit for good use.

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The tools that Audre Lorde decried in her paper are the very tools that marginalized people need.
Do not turn your back on the very things that lift humanity out of ignorance.
We just need to start being brave again.
Stop cancelling people/things
We are the descendants

6/fin
of those that left the cave, why do we scatter like frightened children at mere words or at 👌
Don't put your trust in those that want to silence people. They will do the same to you, given a chance.

"It is time to put away childish things."