Fighting for liberation means living in a place of everyone else saying "well, she was prescient five years ago, but at this point she's just nuts" for pretty much your entire life
It happened when we did economic justice and union work pre-Occupy (and very pre-Bernie).
It happened when we did sexual misconduct accountability work pre-#MeToo
It happened when we organized against fascist creep and the Proud Boys and warned about coup danger pre-1/6
It happened when we did sexual misconduct accountability work pre-#MeToo
It happened when we organized against fascist creep and the Proud Boys and warned about coup danger pre-1/6
It's making the 1/6 anniversary hard for a lot of folks who do antifascist work.
You always want to say, "you said I was crazy and now everything I said is considered common knowledge, why won't you learn from that and listen to what I'm trying to warn you about now!"
You always want to say, "you said I was crazy and now everything I said is considered common knowledge, why won't you learn from that and listen to what I'm trying to warn you about now!"
It helps remembering that convincing people was a campaign you won against the status quo, and the new things you're saying are effectively new campaigns of conviction you've launched and are still waging.
Folks don't like to change their minds.
It helps to remember you've done it before and you can do it again.
It helps to remember you've done it before and you can do it again.
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