There are people committing, supporting, and defending genocide right now as well as people trying to stop it and help the victims and some fucking centrist somewhere is sipping their camomile tea while finger-pecking “why can’t we all just get along?” into a comment box.
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It's a privileged thing to say, but the dissonance is deeply disturbing to me. In the US no one wants to think about how horror is likely or possible to get, and here (who would want to?). Go along get along, is not the way, yet if I mention "X tangibly happened here because fascists" in cafe conversation people act as if I just took my pants off of something. No one wants to foreground it.
Ok no one wants to be angry all the time! That's destructive and does not help! But the opposite, denial, is as bad, just calmer. Boiled frog syndrome.
Without foregrounding it, in daily life, not talking precedes not doing.
@aral
"it's never good to have either extreme"
"we need to compromise, just a little mass execution of civilians"
@aral The finger peckers even have huge soapboxes, a major one being Ezra Klein at the #BrokenTimes
@aral Also, they all work for corporate media or have prominent podcasts, and are *extremely* snippy when you mention they might need to cop on a bit.
Did you see some of the reaction to the protester at the Labour Conference yesterday? I'm used to centrist bullshit, but I was *actually* shocked.
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