Why activism is considered a no no now?

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Anonymous wrote:Crime? Can you cite which crime is being committed?

If you are oblivious to human suffering then there is nothing to discuss.

You need to learn to read.

There is nothing criminal about protesting in the US. Hell, we suspended Covid protocols for the summer of love.

This is a really dumb comment. No protocols were suspended. The difference was that the protests were outside and didn't involve having people packed together indoors in a poorly ventilated space like a classroom. Can we please put a stake in this and every other dumb right wing comment that outlasted any worth long ago?

And yet playgrounds, school outdoor basketball courts and golf courses were closed because, you know covid. But millions of people packed cheek-to-jowl screaming at mostly peaceful protest were ok.
Stop trying to rewrite history.

Playgrounds, school outdoor basketball courts, and golf courses are owned and operated by private or municipal entities and as such had the authority to create and enforce guidelines.

Public streets, where protests happened, had no such guidelines. So unless you can point to any laws whatsoever that were enacted during COVID that said you aren't allowed to be on public streets, stop trying to rewrite history.

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Anonymous wrote:It's ultimately really stupid to bring this issue up on social media or attend a rally for either side. You inevitably say something that is interpreted as offensive by someone and the easiest course of action your employer can take is to fire you. Know someone who went through law school then lost their first job posting about a Hamas terror attack

This is true. People are waking up to the fact that they can’t really change anything but can easily get fired

Well also, activists eat their own. Before 2020, I was a progressive liberal. Then I heard a series of messages about how I am intrinsically and irreversibly evil because I'm a white lady. I'm not progressive anymore. I think I'm still liberal in the classic sense of the word. But I'm not into the Sartre garbage that the west must participate in its own demise in order to reverse colonialism. No thank you.

I underwent a similar transition after 2020. I really don’t know what I am now.

I’m still a liberal, a Democrat, a white male, a strong believer in unions, women’s rights, and that people of color have got the short (often violent) end of the stick in this country since the beginning.

I’m also a strong supporter of Israel and its right to end Hamas, including the assault on Gaza. Hamas is willing to sacrifice every Gazan civilian if it would mean the end of Israel and Jewish people. And I feel horribly for the children of Gaza - I want nothing more for them to be taken out of that strip of land and protected.

I love how Rep. Richie Torres of the Bronx has been addressing his support for Israel. He’s been steadfast, clear eyed, and so forceful. It’s so important for Gentiles - especially a man of color representing the Bronx! - to show that kind of support.

If Hamas got a hold of any one of us - white, black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, man, or woman - they would torture and murder us for being an American. Especially true if they suspect you of being LGBTQ. These terrorists are pure sadists out of your worst nightmares. Once they are done with Israel, they will next aim at Americans and Europeans.

They want theocratic slavery.

I no longer consider myself a progressive or a liberal. I never called myself a liberal anyway, because the word always had a tinge of insult to it from the way conservatives sneered it. Regardless, starting in the fall of 2020 I began to have my doubts. Doubts which had been heavily reinforced in me that whole summer where I observed, as did you, that many people believed I was inherently and irredeemably racist because I was white. Add that in to what I perceived as glaring inconsistencies in behavior with regards to the early covid protocols , and I guess that was the coup de gras for my identifying as a progressive.

As I said, I don’t know what I am now. I haven’t changed. But I feel like a lot of other people I thought I identified with, did.

Get off social media and garbage podcasts. No one is calling me "irredeemably racist" and - even if someone did - I'd laugh at them because its not something I believe about myself. Have a bit more self-confidence.

If you see yourself as a victim I guess you're destined to be one.