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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

7 Jan

I've made some references to it before, but our Omicron response has been sending my infant daughter & me into complete isolation (apart from grocery delivery/curb pick-up) living with relatives who are able to sustain that kind of lockdown.

We are lucky, but it is hard.

I don't share details about my husband's life on here without permission, but broad strokes are, he's an essential worker at high risk.

We decided together that his work was important, but also that it was simply not safe to take such a high risk of exposing our baby.

Babies are loud.

That means that when you're in someone else's house, you need to be on constant alert to what everyone else is up to and whether you'll disrupt it.

That actually goes double with people trying to accommodate you, because they may be too polite to tell you.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

7 Jan

I think a lot about how early in my career as an organizer, I took a lot of pride in being "realistic" about what change could and couldn't happen.

Looking back, it wasn't me being more grown-up or sophisticated. It was me limiting my own imagination to fit in.

If this past decade has taught me anything, it's that the status quo is far more delicate than most of us let ourselves think.

It's a cliche, but change really is the only constant.

Cynicism about the possibility of change isn't just small-minded. It's simply wrong.

Change is going to happen, sometimes unpredictably, sometimes very suddenly.

We're being forced to confront that reality in so many ways right now.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

7 Jan

My in-under-the-wire 1/6 anniversary hot take is that none of this is over, the far right is using COVID denialism to put all our lives at risk, and that centrist Dems continue to abet fascists by continually downplaying the existential threats they're exploiting.

My hot take for other folks who study the far right is that although far right accelerationism can seem a little like a passé fad that carceral "extremism studies" types are trying to prop up Weekend at Bernie's-style, the reality is that accelerationism has mainstreamed.

I don't mean that in the sense that every Young Republican is reading Siege, I mean that there's now a non-fringe accelerationist tendency that has permeated the entire right, centered around COVID denialism and playing out at a local level in school districts across the country.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

6 Jan

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'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!"

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

5 Jan

https://twitter.com/thecoleslaws/status/1478696781315817474

I was hippie homeschooled for big stretches of my childhood, and many of my best learning moments came from play and independently pursuing my interests.

Kids are naturally curious, inherent learners.

They won't break without in-person school.

Parents may, but kids won't.

https://twitter.com/thecoleslaws/status/1478696781315817474

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Which is why-- as @leahmcelrath has been saying-- the move is to support parents to the point where they have the economic flexibility to support their kids outside a school environment.

That's the very, very obvious move.

Give parents the resources to make 2022 a year to help kids learn home economics and other life skills.

They can catch up on algebra next year, I promise.

Think of it as just extended block scheduling.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

5 Jan

Hey, other parents.

Please hear me when I say that we are living in an extraordinarily difficult moment where policymakers are so desperate to get us back to "normal" that they are asking us to sacrifice kids' lives to the cause.

Listen: it is okay to be not okay with this.

I say this as a Democratic committeeperson: you can recognize that Trump is a legitimate threat, recognize that Biden's election victory over him was a good thing, & still recognize that the Biden approach to the pandemic right now is actively harmful, especially to children.

One thing I learned when I was doing community/labor organizing: those alliances often worked particularly well around health/safety standards because workers and community exposure have a lot of overlap.

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