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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

13 Jan

You defeat the organized far right by disorganizing them.

You have to understand how organizing works in order to do that, though.

Organizing is always the work of disorganizing your enemy, just as much as it's the work of organizing your base.

Relationships are power, you win by building yours and tearing down theirs.

You take down a major node in a relationship network, you reduce the power of that network.

You disorganize them.

That is how you lessen their power, and that is how you defeat them.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

13 Jan

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Saying this as someone who has spent my fair share of time monitoring white supremacists: their animating fear is demographic shift ("replacement").

Omicron will to BURN through their undervaxxed enclaves.

They will read it as accelerated "replacement."

That's bad.

It's bad not because it will hurt their feelings (it will, but who cares) or because I feel sorry for them (they made their bed), but because it will intensity a lot of the thoughts and feelings that carry people towards violent fascism.

We know who they will hurt first.

Electeds on both side of the aisle have been strategizing around a shift to a white minority in the US for a long time, the GOP with voter suppression tactics and the Dems with "it's all sunshine from here" optimism that I remember well from the 2012 convention.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyderPHL

8 Jan

The Blue MAGA crowd coming for folks opposing forced in-person school with "well we didn't do anything about school shootings so the battle not to murder kids was already lost" really is a master class in cope

School shootings are tragic but, like.

Scale, folks. Scale. There's just no comparing school shooting stats with the MASS child death and disability that will be caused by letting Omicron sweep through public schools unchecked.

And even if the two were comparable... how is that relevant?

Why would tragic gun deaths make more unnecessary death tolerable?

Stop making ridiculous excuses for Biden.

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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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