The irony of this comment is palpable.

I presume that you are unfamiliar with the meme, so you don’t see the context of someone loudly proclaiming their outrage at something above and beyond something else, only to be pulled up by someone else pointing at the absurdity of considering the something else being treated as the lesser issue. Not contained in the image version is the first person turning to the second and rapidly disclaiming their apparent support (or lack of sanction) of the issue they can excuse.

Given that such lack of care regarding things that do not effect them personally, it’s also an example of the lukewarm acceptance of the white moderate the King discussed in Birmingham. The idea that there are more important issues than the naked bigotry and we must deal with other issues first is the bewildering support that is more frustrating than the outright rejection.

But, then, you should have some inkling of that, shouldn’t you? Given how much you had to demand nuance of those who question where you place your disdain in your edits.

But, sure, let your takeaway be that I said you excused racism.

You may notice that I didn’t say you excused racism, but instead became the meme:

If you’re going to crib from Letters From A Birmingham Jail, maybe don’t become the “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at…” meme?

You’re talking about narrative control, you ain’t gonna be controlling the narrative on your lonesome. You can’t work with the people who are being transphobic at a statue? Work with the people who can. Heck, work with the people who can push the narrative away from the transphobia. Or even just work with the people working to build the frameworks for getting better narratives out in people’s faces. Bottom line, work with people.

You don’t know who’s working to do those things? Work to figure out what should be done and who is doing things, and–this is the important part–get some people to help you do those figure out those whats and the whos. There is so much work to be done, and so much of that work is just figuring out what needs to happen and when and where it that need is. Every org complains about capacity, always, because there is always more to be done.

We spend far too much time yelling at each other for being complicit in the nothing being done about this, and that only serves to suck our time and energy away from working together to figure out how to unfuck this.

I have people in my near-age group who were punished for using their left hand and not the “correct hand.”

“Y’all” like you ain’t part of the discourse. Don’t just complain, educate. What’s obvious to you is novel to someone, and you not getting organized with your narrative is just waiting for someone organized to present theirs instead.

“The left hates us because we’re frog furries” is one of the takes of all time.

Sorry, were you around for the past several elections? Perhaps the 2020 elections where, upon the progressives banding with Biden to get him elected with the expectation that we would be able to “push him to the left”, the Democratic party decided that the reason they didn’t win more seats was because Progressives had damaged their chances of winning, and they must be marginalized. Or perhaps the 2016 elections where, the target of a long running hate campaign was preferred by the party over the popular progressive candidate who was then blamed for his supporters not being won over. Or the 2012 elections where the incumbent Democrat failed to deliver on progressive policies and was a high water mark for drone strikes, but progressives helped bring the win over the candidate Republicans weren’t excited for.

I voted for Harris in hopes that she’d beat out Trump despite how much she and Biden before her discarded progressive policy. I was under no expectation of Progressives being able to do a damn thing to reach her.

I appreciate that they and their personal community is in pain at this moment, but I don’t think they were justified in calling me and mine cowardly and hopelessly sheltered because I personally live in relative safety and am struggling with the helplessness of being unable to make enough of an impact to my government was called for. I don’t want me and mine to go through such pain, but I am increasingly concerned that we will not be able to avoid it.

I have people that I’m working with on the local scene who could not bring themselves to vote for Harris, even with how awful they knew Trump to be. I was able to vote, but I understand why they could and know that they still get out and do the work

Being disappointed by Democrats is unfortunately nothing new for me. Two decades of it under my belt so far.

Yeah, and what they’ve been doing to Rashida Tlaib has been sickening me. I have so much respect for what she’s been doing, and seeing the Democratic Party trying to villainize her and her constituents has been disheartening.