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There's lots of common ground between feminism and trans rights, but in the media, division is emphasised.
Let's find the common ground between all our struggles, which are all sides of the same die.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Sexism, transphobia, racism, economic exclusion, environmental injustice, intergenerational theft: a struggle against one is a struggle against all.
Wealth and power seek to atomise and rule.
We resist effectively when we stand together in solidarity.
Love is the value that should govern public life. If that sounds ridiculous, it shows only how far from our interests public life has strayed. By showing love to each other, we start building the society in which we wish to live.
Many of us have come from a place of little love. Because it is unfamiliar to us, we lash out at each other instead of coming together. In doing so, we replicate the dysfunctions we should be resisting.
Love, solidarity, courage, knowledge, effective action: this is how we win.
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When people talk about "the madness of crowds", as many have done recently, I suspect most are unaware of the politics they're invoking. Mostly without knowing it, they're drawing on the work of Gustave Le Bon, the French theorist who was a major influence on Hitler and Mussolini
His ideas about people in crowds losing their individuality and becoming impulsive, irrational and senselessly violent, succumbing to "a primitive racial unconscious", have been completely discredited, but they still strongly inform popular views of how people behave.
His theories exonerate external forces (such as the government or the police) for the way in which people behave en masse, decontextualising the situations crowds face, to make their actions look irrational. I wrote about it way back in 1996: monbiot.com/1996/06/20/why…
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The story we keep hearing is that millions of people suddenly and simultaneously lose their minds: crowding the beaches, packing the streets of Soho etc. But if lots of people do the same thing at the same time, it’s not a coincidence. It’s because of signals the government sends
Because many people have been induced to stop believing in the efficacy of government, they succumb instead to essentialist myths about national character: “we behave like this because we’re British”. This feeds into far right generalisations about ethnicities and nationalities.
It fails to explain why we see completely different outcomes in adjoining nations. It’s about the leverage exerted by government and other powerful forces, not any congenital characteristics of the people. We are fundamentally the same, the world over.
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For a few months at university, I was in the same social circle as Ghislaine Maxwell. I knew her fairly well. At first, it was fun. Then, almost overnight, I saw it for what it was: a networking nightmare of bright laughter and false friendship, with a howling void beneath.
No one gave a damn about anyone else. It was all about climbing the social ladder. I felt I had seen an X-ray of power and wealth in this country: the grinning skull and empty sockets beneath the peachy skin. It was terrifying. It set me on the path I've been on ever since.
I spiralled into a pretty dark place after that. I withdrew completely, and started the process of working out what a good life looked like, and how it could be lived. The experience inoculated me against ever again wanting to live the high life, or rub shoulders with that crowd.
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