Alex WildCampuses aren't being rocked by protests.
They're being rocked by politicized administrators ordering students beaten and jailed to satisfy the political elite.
Let's be clear who is causing the violence.
Janis@alexwild As an organizer of a 100K-attendee Women's March: we arranged with the city police before we protested. They knew we would be there, we knew they would be there, we ordered porta-potties and garbage cans and we left the place spotless.
Biggest global march fucking ever. No police incidents to speak of.
Everyone conscious tenses up when there's unexpected shit going down. Everyone.
The kids aren't driving the violence, but they aren't using proven methods to mitigate it, either.
enoch_exe_inc@enoch_exe_inc @alexwild Policing will never, ever go away, no matter where you go, there will be an establishment that is bumbling along at a losing attempt to suppress violence with violence.
If you want to protest violence, you do everything in your power to not instigate more of it, no matter who it's coming from. And you prove it by publishing believable attempts at violence mitigation, repeatedly. The problem is that violence & fear-mongering is what gets attention. Receipts are boring.
@janisf @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild All politics features violence of some kind. Politics, after all, is the distribution of power, and power is enforced with violence. So, protests against violence are not necessarily against violent acts in and of themselves, but rather against the legitimacy of that violence.
@janisf @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild Also, those who favour ‘peaceful’ or ‘nonviolent’ protest must know, at least subconsciously, that pacifism is an absurdly privileged position to take up. You can only protest as peacefully as the law allows you to, and when all peaceful means have been exhausted, violence is inevitable.
@enoch_exe_inc @alexwild Every woman will tell you if he starts getting weird or rough, you leave. Commitment to vacate, regroup, and figure out an effective way to deal with the situation, a.k.a. diplomacy, is gaining traction. The US penchant for prisons being a focus.
It's starting to sound as if we're fighting for the different revolutions.
@janisf @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild No, just different tactics. On the scale of domestic abuse, leaving is just about the only thing you can do. But, on the scale of the institutionalised sexism and the patriarchy, diversity of tactics is both a strength and a necessity.
@enoch_exe_inc @alexwild All around. All I'm saying is it takes one rogue soldier to spoil the implementation of a plan. In politics there are no second chances.