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23 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Check out the hashtag #StopGeneralIron for one of the most important, underreported stories playing out in Chicago right now. The city is basically pretending that a hunger strike on the Southeast Side is not happening.
If my health weren't so shitty right now, I would interrupt Movement Memos' hiatus to cover #StopGeneralIron. I hope more folks will write about it and raise the alarm. Many of you have not heard about this and that's by design, structurally speaking.
#StopGeneralIron

This is day 20 of the #StopGeneralIron hunger strike and not enough people are talking about it. Let's change that. The people waging this fight deserve more support.

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When I was growing up, it was pretty standard for people to talk about gay folks as having been "recruited" or "confused" by people w an agenda. Now you have some assholes claiming the trans community is recruiting away lesbians. This is similarly about a desire to control people
When I was young and involved with another young woman, we knew that if any of our parents got wind, there would be a stated or unstated assumption that one of us was "influencing" the other to adopt an identity. We knew to expect it because it was that socially predictable.
And here people are doing the same thing to young trans folks who are coming into their identity. Displeased that they are failing to conform, a supposedly corrupting influence is blamed -- and in the process, agency and self discovery are erased. Such predictable bullshit.
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24 Feb
Neera Tanden argued that most people in the U.S. "would choose not to engage in the world" if they saw the U.S. wage wars without "having oil-rich countries partially pay us back" for the cost of bombing them. That's who some of y'all are throwing down for. It's so gross. Truly.
Leveraging identity and representation to justify the appointment of someone who thinks we should be able to bomb people, and then make them pay for the murderous war we waged, is sickeningly neoliberal. Fighting to elevate and empower someone like that is deeply fucked up btw.
Does it matter that the progressive reporter she punched (for the crime of asking Hillary Clinton a question about Iraq) was also brown? Does the identity of the people who she thinks should pay for the privilege of being bombed matter? Just trying to figure out how this works.
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14 Feb
We face the threat of autocracy whether Trump runs in 2024 or not. If he opts not to, or is somehow prevented from doing so, he will be a kingmaker in the eyes of his followers and they will follow the next would-be autocrat to the gates of hell. And that person could be smarter.
The trial still could have been quite valuable, in terms of instilling what happened in the public's memory. Having that galvanization to tap into could have meant something down the line, the way the stolen election narrative will have galvanizing power for the GOP.
The GOP will use the myth of a stolen election to fuel rampant voter suppression. The quiet part will become a battle cry. The Dems, by contrast, offer feckless, inconsistent rhetoric. They insisted the republic was at stake but couldn't be bothered with witness testimony.
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13 Feb
I still find what happened on here today re: Gina Carano super disturbing & incredibly harmful. I know anytime I say something is shifting in a bad direction someone jumps up to say we were already headed in a bad direction. But seriously, things are headed in a bad direction.
When liberals with large platforms start insisting that we have to be tolerant of cruel bigotry, and that bigots should be exempt from the consequences literally any of us would face if we embarrassed our employers, they aren't just tolerating that shit. They are privileging it.
And when those people start insisting that we have to let that stuff pass without consequence because so many people are doing it, seriously, I find that scary. That's people who are seen as progressive advocating for a moral and material surrender to that shit. Sorry, but it is.
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12 Feb
The most annoying aspect of today's discourse is that this has to be spelled out.
Be about something ffs.
When you get to the point where you are characterizing a hard line against bigotry as unreasonably intransigent, given how popular bigotry has become, you have lost your fucking way.
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12 Feb
People turning the Carano situation into a cause are discarding facts to fit their arguments & I've been resistant to dig beyond that, bc I don't like filling in the blanks for people whose arguments are full of blank spaces, but... not all speech is equal. Right and wrong exist.
If your employee is all over twitter mocking people for wearing masks during a pandemic, you should get to fire them. If your employee posts anti-Semitic images, trades in transphobia or does any of the other terrible things Carano did, you should get to fire them. This is basic.
In this case, there was a contract that stated as much. But putting all of that aside, let's be plain: the fact that bigots have managed to popularize tf out of their views in recent yrs is not a reason to cede more ground to bigots. That's moral surrender, and I'm not into it.
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