I like Rebecca Solnit's emphasis on optimism and the need for solidarity across boundary lines that might otherwise divide us on the liberal-progressive side of the ledger.
As a US Southerner, I find the optimism less easy to muster than people out West, whose historical experience is different from mine, might do. But I'm absolutely on board with Solnit's understanding of the need for soldarity and how to form it.
She writes:
#solidarity #hope #education
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How Big Should Your Tent Be?
It's striking to me that a lot of people want politics to be about their personal feelings, in which case they're not engaged in politics, though they may be engaged in the sabotage of politics.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"If there's one thing you should learn from the arc of a lot of news stories is that people do learn and change their minds. We've seen it very recently with opinions about Israel and Gaza, with attitudes toward immigration, and other important issues."
#solidarity #hope #education
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"I've watched that happen over and over and over again, including on 'our side' over the past dozen years as a lot of men learned a lot about gender politics as in how rape happens and who lies about it and how pervasive it is. Feminist activism in this period did a brilliant job in demolishing a lot of excuses, stereotypes, victim-blaming, and other misconceptions about rape that had been used to dismiss the reality and excuse the perpetrators."
#solidarity #hope #education #feminism
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