The Department of Homeland Security is getting aggressive here in Downtown Los Angeles at the pro-choice protest pic.twitter.com/dX12CVqK8Y— Vishal P. Singh (they/he) 🏳️⚧️ (@VPS_Reports) May 4, 2022
You say that but cops kicked the shit out of a women's vigil after a cop murdered a woman here in the UK and the next week the Guardian was naming and shaming people from the follow-up protests and asking protesters to get in touch with their real names so they could shop them to the cops.
I hope I'm wrong but liberals will tut for a moment and then back up the fash.
it's our job to agitate the libs and advance them towards class consciousness. ive seen a lot of status quo supporting posts recently about the low potential of the response to the overturning of roe v wade, but i see a lot of potential.
the potential just needs to be analyzed correctly and exploited correctly, and libs being libs isn't a good enough reason to not see this as an incredible opportunity
That's true and to be fair I wasn't trying to be wholly cynical about it, although a bit of my bitterness about being involved in recent movements in the UK probably shone through more than I intended.
I absolutely believe in the ability to agitate and help radicalise individuals, whether that's those in our lives or at demos etc. I just think it's important to remember that the liberal blob, whether that's media, politicians, NGOs or prominent figures aren't going to back you up. We should be agitating, but we shouldn't be relying on anyone but proven comrades.
There's a massive difference between liberal media institutions and the average person on the street who politically identifies as a liberal because its the only mainstream alternative to chuddery and they haven't thought that hard about it.
The former is as much an arm of capital as the cops or army, a human mask for hollow inhumanity and a pied piper to lull to sleep, the latter our future comrades who absolutely need to be radicalized if we're ever going to get anything done.
You say that but cops kicked the shit out of a women's vigil after a cop murdered a woman here in the UK and the next week the Guardian was naming and shaming people from the follow-up protests and asking protesters to get in touch with their real names so they could shop them to the cops.
I hope I'm wrong but liberals will tut for a moment and then back up the fash.
it's our job to agitate the libs and advance them towards class consciousness. ive seen a lot of status quo supporting posts recently about the low potential of the response to the overturning of roe v wade, but i see a lot of potential.
the potential just needs to be analyzed correctly and exploited correctly, and libs being libs isn't a good enough reason to not see this as an incredible opportunity
That's true and to be fair I wasn't trying to be wholly cynical about it, although a bit of my bitterness about being involved in recent movements in the UK probably shone through more than I intended.
I absolutely believe in the ability to agitate and help radicalise individuals, whether that's those in our lives or at demos etc. I just think it's important to remember that the liberal blob, whether that's media, politicians, NGOs or prominent figures aren't going to back you up. We should be agitating, but we shouldn't be relying on anyone but proven comrades.
There's a massive difference between liberal media institutions and the average person on the street who politically identifies as a liberal because its the only mainstream alternative to chuddery and they haven't thought that hard about it.
The former is as much an arm of capital as the cops or army, a human mask for hollow inhumanity and a pied piper to lull to sleep, the latter our future comrades who absolutely need to be radicalized if we're ever going to get anything done.
Yup. I clarified that below.