Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸I saw some people talking shit about No Kings in light of the warehouse fires. Like, saying No Kings is inferior, even pointless or counterproductive.
So here goes. Rant mode on. (I made a similar comment over on YouTube but I didn't think y'all would need this.)
We need BOTH types of action. Any study of American civil rights history shows this. You need the "soft" MLK non-violent rhetoric to be backed by the stick of MalcolmX. I'm fuzzy on earlier periods to cite names, but I know you'll find this wrt unions, first wave feminism, and other successful movements throughout the US and Europe.
Thing is, without millions of people who will show up in the streets, a warehouse fire can be easily dismissed as a lone nut, easily suppressed along with the other lone nuts lost to history. Nothing to fear, boss, we'll just do another crackdown, suppress media reporting, and the handful of copycats snuff out of sight until it's business as usual.
But millions of people in the streets who AGREE with the arsonist's demands? That's another thing entirely! That's a potential mob. A rather large one at that, geographically distributed. If a mob of that size turned, even the U.S. military couldn't take it on.
This is also where regular people (who haven't, until now, thought about activism in these tumultuous decades), make contacts and get inspired to put in more effort outside the protest.
Literally pick a lane and then don't spilt! Don't fall for pointlessly fighting amongst ourselves by downplaying the efforts of allies.
*I'm* not in any position to go Luigi or Waluigi on anything. Few of us are! I can hardly make it to a No Kings event. That doesn't mean I fail to support either! They are both absolutely necessary, as are voters, people who show up to town halls and PTA meetings, letter writers, people who run for something, zine printers, protest medics, food pantries, social media warriors, artists, financial donors, all of it.
I won't have anyone picking fights by dismissing efforts because it's not their personal pet pony. We don't have time for that ego shit anymore. To me it looks like nothing but flat out propaganda meant to release steam from this work. I will mentally file you under the category of "false flag psyop." Stop it and get back to your own work.
(Rant mode off. I will likely not engage with most replies. I need to protect my energy.)
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