Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Not a resistance--you can't have that word

If you want to hate Trump, at least don't misname what you are doing.

"No, sorry, YOU ARE NOT A RESISTANCE, because USA is not a dictatorship. Nobody is persecuting you; none of your rights are being violated; no illegal purges enacted; no tortures and disappearances. You didn’t like the results of an election – and want to pretend it is illegitimate, because you don’t want to do the hard work of rebuilding a constituency alienated, “Because you thought correcting people’s attitudes was more important than finding them jobs. Because you turned ‘white man’ from a description into an insult (…) Because you cried when someone mocked the Koran but laughed when they mocked the Bible. (…) Because you kept telling people, ‘You can’t think that, you can’t say that, you can’t do that’,” as Brendan O’Neill has said. Alas, the only people losing their legitimacy are you; who wear little pink hats and take off all your clothes and wander through public spaces offending friend and foe alike; who vandalize coffee shops and write little slogans misspelled on cardboard. No, YOU ARE NOT A RESISTANCE, and you don’t get to have that word."

https://joelhirst.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/sorry-youre-not-a-resistance/

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