Stop Asian hate can be used to combat yellow peril and China bad without watering down police abolition and systemic racism in our justice system. Libs would love to combine all of these things into one to neutralize it

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    . “BLM wants fewer police? Well police would have stopped this anti-asian violence. Don’t Asian Lives Matter too?”

    Bad faith actors are going to try to act in bad faith regardless, so I don't see that it makes much sense to structure what we do and say around them.

    The basic bad faith reasoning in the example "works" no matter what slogans we adopt.

    • Civility [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Nah, figuring out what bad faith reactionaries will want to say in advance and structuring what we say to make it harder for them to say it is good messaging.

      Same concept as the "inoculation" pretty much everyone teaches in organizer training.

      You can go overboard with it but it's definitely something you should be considering if you're trying to coordinate a social media campaign.