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News about Friday’s march / rally / general strike in Minneapolis is coming at me from every direction.Fuck ICE
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One of the many, many, many horrible things about what ICE is doing is that now any group of white men in tactical gear with an SUV can attack, beat up, and kidnap any random person — and nobody will stop them, because who knows, they •might• be ICE, a...In trying to teach anything about civil disobedience in the past I’ve found that people often have the same mistaken assumptions as when they think that being empathetic means being nice.
Civil disobedience trainers and practitioners are cunning and courageous and use techniques that are illegal. Mostly, so far, we’ve seen actions that aren’t illegal (though of course that doesn’t prevent arrests or assaults or murders - which is expected). But everything activists have been doing counts as civil. That is, activists aren’t shooting or otherwise physically attacking.
However, again, in the popular consciousness, empathy and civil disobedience are imagined as niceness, meekness, quiet objecting. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, very often, this mass delusion about empathy and civil disobedience is so opposite of true that it feels to me like the result of an intentional decades long propaganda campaign where our pop culture turns once revolutionary figures who were vilified, hated, and murdered in their times into cartoon characters at amusement parks.
Who does that serve?
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One of the many, many, many horrible things about what ICE is doing is that now any group of white men in tactical gear with an SUV can attack, beat up, and kidnap any random person — and nobody will stop them, because who knows, they •might• be ICE, a...This right here has always been the pragmatic reasoning behind civil disobedience.
We have to find ways to fight back on the streets — but it has to look good on TikTok and on the news and to members of Congress and judges and the gaze of the whole world. Cameras and whistles are a start, but it can’t stop there. All this is not just going away on its own.
Every situation and context requires finding new ways to accomplish this. But the regime’s thirst for a shooting conflict is, as you say, the reason to keep looking. And IDK what the answer is. I do know that the real history of civil disobedience has been Disneyfied in our popular consciousness, which is dangerous.
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Health experts: Your synthetic text "AI" overviews are misleading, for example see this about liver function tests.This is the bit that really gets my goat. As someone who focused quite a bit on epistemology and empiricism and science v pseudoscience in college + grad school it’s like watching a horror film where you know the mistake that everyone is making but they refuse to listen.
That’s really why I listen to the podcast - to know that I’m not alone.