@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc I find it absolutely telling that people who claim to be anti fascist in this city of all places are constantly calling anyone who doesn’t conform into what they deem as acceptable fascist, supremacists etc etc. Liberalism is messy and what the protests across *the world* were
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc about included the freedom of expression and assembly. You may take it for granted and look to belittle anything that you deem “problematic”, but it doesn’t make you right. It makes you exactly what you are claiming you stand against. NYC has always been a place full of weirdos
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc eccentrics, people on the fringe, the performative, the unusual, the uncomfortable and REAL diversity. The trend that seems to have overtaken our home may be loud, it may claim to value free expression, but I see only one thing repeated over and over again. You’ve made other
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc people’s beliefs and eccentricities into costumes, you value dogma over discourse and you enjoy stomping anything that even remotely challenges your Pearl clutching sensibilities. Then...you call that anti fascist. You call other bigots. You label others as threats to democracy.
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc I know this dance. Some of us know it very well. When you say “our democracy” you mean just that. YOURS. When you call someone a fascist you mean EVERYONE who isn’t towing the line you’ve set. You are illiberal, regressive and some of you are fooled but some of you know it.
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc So spare me. There are still NYers with some sense of history and a love for human creativity that don’t and won’t buy what you’re selling; including the accusations. Bigotry cloaked in altruism is still bigotry. Your weak and meek mockery gives you away.
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc Convincing people that peer pressure is humanitarian advocacy may work on some people, but eventually humanity sees the trick for what it is.
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc “When violence intrudes into peaceful life,
its face glows with self-confidence, as if it were carrying a banner and shouting: 'I am violence. Run away, make way for me — I will crush you.' But violence quickly grows old. After only a few years it loses confidence in itself...”
its face glows with self-confidence, as if it were carrying a banner and shouting: 'I am violence. Run away, make way for me — I will crush you.' But violence quickly grows old. After only a few years it loses confidence in itself...”
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc and in order to maintain a respectable face it summons falsehood as its ally — since violence can conceal itself with nothing except lies, and the lies can be maintained only by violence...
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc Violence does not lay its paw on every shoulder every day: it demands from us only obedience to lies and daily participation in lies. And this submissiveness is the crux of the matter. The simplest and most accessible key to our self-neglected liberation is this:
@jaywwalker1 @mxtaliajane @peoplesmedianyc personal non-participation in lies. Though lies may conceal everything, though lies may control everything, we should be obstinate about this one small point: let them be in control but without any help from any of us.”
Many of us are DONE indulging you.
Many of us are DONE indulging you.
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