anticolonialist,

Incrementalism is what got us here. We were led to believe that incremental baby steps is what was necessary for progress. They use those incremental baby steps as small, little, minute, undetectable steps to the right. They compartmentalized the rightward shift so all we saw were small puzzle pieces and couldn’t piece them together to show the larger overall picture. And when people started to challenge their views, they would throw the marginalized communities in front of them to defend their actions, ’ you challenging our systems might hurt this black person, it might throw this lgbtq+ person under the bus,’ etc. and I use that tactic to silence opposition. It’s the same tactic that Republicans use when they scream ‘save the children’

If incrementalism actually worked, we wouldn’t be having the same discussions about wages and housing and healthcare and education that we were having 50 60 70 years ago.

Regarding P2025 we are at the

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

Martin Niemöller’s poem First They Came

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