this is your brain on fascist "radical centrist" brainworms
like, more power to the guy if he enjoys what he does and makes a difference, but to expect this level of emotional and mental labor from all people targeted by hatred is fucking deranged and white supremacist.
I'm not going to be a prop so that they can use me as a character witness when they commit a hate crime.
I'm not going to sit down and talk with people who are an existential threat to me and mine. Why speak civilly with these people?
I'm not going to do this level of work when these people have family members that won't ruin brunch by calling out their use of the n-word. That change needs to come from within and only when allies actually act like allies will we see those changes.
Like those people who disowned family who were marching and chanting 'blood and soil.'