If you demand we be respectable, you aren't on our side

@Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 2026-07-18 08:56

I think this is mostly satire though…

@bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-18 09:16

Cause violence solves violence all in the name of peace.

@akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-18 09:35

To those getting “yes but” thoughts - which would’ve been me included, some ten years ago - it is unreasonable - perhaps even unethical - to demand restraint, dictate procedure or moralize marginalized people’s fight for liberation.

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@drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-18 10:21

Never forget, there is no acceptable form of resistance to oppression. If you use physical violence in response to violence you will be told you’re just as bad as your oppressor. If you destroy property as a form of direct action you will be lumped in with looters and hooligans and told that invalidates your cause. If you block traffic, or engage in other forms of nonviolent nondestructive civil disobedience, you’ll be told that you’re getting in the way of struggling people that just want to do their job and collect a paycheck. If you physically impede nothing and no one, but use only signs and shouts, you will be told that if your position held any weight you’d be able to debate people and convince them to your side. If you argue calmly with people in public, using reason to explain yourself, you will be told that you’re just as annoying as the people you’re arguing against. Or that you need to be nicer. Or that its your fault that your abuser is acting the way they do because you’re not convincing them in the right way. If you do nothing but simply exist as you are, you’ll be told that your existence is an inconvenience or a problem for society at large. If you go out of your way to hide yourself then you’ll be told that any problems you have are your own fault because you didn’t do more to solve them.

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@decolo@piefed.social 2026-07-18 11:44

Fuck That break the tools of the oppressors

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@BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-18 13:35

I’m not sure the cops can guess the gender by the way a brick hits them?

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@deacon@lemmy.world 2026-07-18 14:31

A nearly impossible tension to resolve, and a tension that I couldn’t even conceive of until I read this. I used to be such a fair minded centrist. Me, a white cis man, existing in a society built by people like me for people like me, taking for granted the ultimate privilege that conferred on: to not be political. It’s embarrassing but useful to continually be confronted with vestiges of that privilege. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the phrase “I’m not political” is a phrase inseparable from institutional bigotry, and soaked in the blood of minorities. If you think that’s a dramatic statement, you’re the one who needed to hear it.

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@MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 2026-07-18 09:17

Conned into sexism

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@Malyca@lemmy.zip 2026-07-18 23:25

Welcome to how women are spoken to

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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-07-19 06:25

As a disabled person, I would like to do the intersectionality dance with y’all and say this is an issue we have too. And it offing fucks me piss so much.

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