Thread by @EthicalRenewal

Be proud of who you are.

1/26
#activist
#socialist
#humanist
#environmentalist

Anyone who calls a socialist an enemy of ordinary people is an enemy of ordinary people – because socialism is precisely about protecting ordinary people.

Lie about that and what else will you lie about?

2/26
#activism
#socialism
#fairness
#kindness

Anyone who calls a socialist an enemy of the economy is an enemy of the economy – because any fool knows the economy's real enemies are those who strip away its assets and hoard away its wealth.

3/26
#activism
#activist
#economy

Socialists want wealth to circulate productively, amongst the many not the few.

Now, THERE’S a healthy economy…

4/26
#activism
#activist
#economy

Anyone who calls a socialist unpatriotic is unpatriotic – because socialists believe NO ONE ANYWHERE deserves suffering or harm.

5/26
#activism
#patriotism

Socialists believe WE ALL deserve happy and fulfilling lives, no matter where we come from, where our parents come from, our ethnicity or the colour of our skin.
So who could love their countryfolk more than that?

6/26
#activism
#patriotism

Only anti-patriots would attack those who seek the happiness and fulfilment of all the people of their nation.

7/26
#activism
#patriotism

Anyone who calls an antifascist an anarchist, meaning this as an insult, is a fool – because they don’t even know what the two words mean.

8/26
#activism
#antifascism
#anarchist

Anyone who attacks people who care about other people, calling them ‘strident’, ‘woke’, ‘extreme’ or ‘naive’, clearly doesn’t give a f*** about other people – so why give a f*** what they say?

9/26
#activism
#activist

Anyone who slurs or smears the pragmatic and sensible policies of democratic socialists, calling them ‘loony’, ‘extremist’, ‘irresponsible’ or ‘dangerous’ is an extremist – because democratic socialism is at the very heart of common sense.

10/26
#activism
#activist

Fairness, kindness and the survival of our species – isn’t that the ultimate in common sense?

11/26
#activism
#activist
#commonsense

Anyone who calls an antiracist an antisemite is a racist – because an antiracist can’t be an antisemite, it’s a contradiction in terms – and what motive can there be for undermining the clarity of antiracism but racism itself?

12/26
#activism
#antiracism
#antisemitism

Anyone who calls an antiracist an antisemite is a racist, because to attack antiracists encourages racists; and who would encourage racism and racists except a racist?

13/26
#activism
#antiracism
#racism
#antisemitism

Anyone who calls an antiracist an antisemite is a racist, because to suggest there’s a hierarchy of racism, where antisemitism is DIFFERENT, implies a racist exceptionalism.

14/26
#activism
#antiracism
#racism
#antisemitism

Antiracists believe ALL racism, ALL xenophobia and ALL religious intolerance is bad. There are no exceptions.

To condemn people because of the groups they’re born into, and not to assess them on the basis of their own actions and choices, is immoral.
15/26
#racism
#antisemitism

Anyone who rubbishes climate activists by one smear or another is a traitor to humanity – to our children and to their children – because if the climate is f***ed then we’re all f***ed, and our children and their children are harmed most of all.

16/26
#Activism
#ClimateCrisis

No voice urging caution can be too loud.

17/26
#Activism
#ClimateActionNow

Anyone who challenges Black Lives Matter with “All lives matter” needs a lesson in logic.

18/26
#activism
#BLM

It’s because
(A) all lives matter
that
(B) black lives matter
so
(C) we need to change a system that treats some lives as if they don’t.

IF A, THEN B, THEREFORE C.

Now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?

19/26
#activism
#BLM

Anyone who rubbishes feminists and trivialises sexism or demands “What about men? What about their point of view?” is either malevolent or a fool or both. We know all about men’s points of view – it’s the predominant narrative of our world.

20/26
#activism
#activist

Anyone who attacks those who expose the abuses of power is missing the point. Smearing or whataboutism isn’t the point. An activist’s personal attributes or weaknesses aren’t the point.

The point is that abuses of power must always be exposed.

21/26
#activism
#activist

Anyone who attacks a moral person is an immoral person. Those who attack moral people have immoral intentions they’re desperate to hide.

22/26
#activism
#morality
#ethics

Those who say you can't campaign on behalf of a community because you're not part of that community need to grow a brain.
Empathy and compassion and putting yourself in someone else's shoes is at the heart of human nature.
Without it we are monsters...

23/26
#activism
#empathy

A moral society puts people first.
Not wealth.
Not power.
Not nation states.
Not archaic forms of government or law.
Not royal families or venerable castes.
People.
Ordinary people.
Us.

24/26
#activism
#morality
#socialism

That’s what morality is.
That’s why we’re socialists, environmentalists, humanists, feminists and anti-racists. That’s why we fight for the vulnerable, the unfairly treated, the prejudiced against and the exploited.
Because we care.

25/26
#activism
#morality
#socialism

Confront the sneering media. Confront the attacks of the establishment. Confront the greedy, the power-hungry, the complacent and the lazy.

Be proud of who you are.

26/26
#activist
#socialist
#humanist
#environmentalist