It's time to completely and permanently politically destroy the ideology that equates the right to enact a gun massacre with freedom, that equates police riots with freedom, that equates racist police murder with freedom, that equates their assortments of bigotries with freedom.
It's not that our world is broken. It's that there are people committed to breaking our world, and we know who they are.
They're the people who defend every problems, and oppose event the slightest step toward any solutions.
They're the people that insist the problems aren't real, and were the fault of the victims.
They're the people who threaten violence at the hint of a solution, claiming that the end of the problems infringe their whites—sorry, their rights.
They're the people who tell you why it's good the 13 year old boy is dead.
Not not that one. The other one. No, not the one whose memorial 60 years later had to be made bulletproof. The recent one. The one this week.
Fix the courts. New voting protection act. New civil rights act. Abolish the courts. Get rid of the guns. Purge our courts of fascists and white supremacists.
Making a country that works means no compromise with those who want it broken.
They got us here by insisting on a divided world, by never compromising with us, by using every bit of leverage they could. By cheating and lying. And by cynically exploiting our desire for unity and compromise.
They pushed us here. We can push them back. There are more of us.
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The goals of purposeful ignorance are toxic. The intentions are to harm others, in order to achieve a perceived personal benefit.
It's worth listing these goals. There are three main ones.
THE FIRST GOAL OF PURPOSEFUL IGNORANCE
To reinforce a reality, in which people with ignorant, toxic, and harmful ideas and intentions must perpetually be debated, which subtly insinuates that in matters of public policy they are the people whose permission must be sought
To people complaining “you’ll never convince me with that attitude” when they get mocked for saying purposefully ignorant shit: We’re not trying to convince you. We’re trying to mock you, for being ignorant, to convince everyone else that purposeful ignorance deserves mockery.
If you come with racist or sexist or transphobic or anti-science nonsense, you don’t become some reclamation project who must now be convinced of anything. You’ve proven yourself unworthy of the effort. You become an object lesson on how to deal with toxicity and ignorance.
Assholes of the world: convincing you that bad things are bad and good things are good is far less necessary than you think. Now shut up while we talk about you.
The only thing I would change about those lines, which I wrote not expecting any readers at all, is that I wouldn't say "nobody cares about their motives" because obviously motives are of interest to historians.
Awareness of wrong carries a clear moral mandate to admit it or reject it. Admitting it carries a clear moral mandate to help fix it, or refuse to. Agreeing to fix it means paying the cost of repair.
I'd observe a lot of people don't want to know, because they don't want to pay.
This is why conservatives have set their sights against awareness itself.