tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post6533603053651843492..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Making Fun of FascistsJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-72995206475099401932017-08-18T17:31:15.741-04:002017-08-18T17:31:15.741-04:00Remember the photo of the hippie putting a flower ...Remember the photo of the hippie putting a flower in the gun barrel of a riot squad man? That was a defining photo. That is Public Relations. Ghandi knew. Susihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08491909280925749677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-13707023856253429662017-08-18T17:04:57.588-04:002017-08-18T17:04:57.588-04:00@pootrsox
I'm actually vehemently against wea...@pootrsox<br /><br />I'm actually vehemently against weaponizing glitter. A lot of people have allergic reactions of the skin to the most common metals used in glitter, and it's a nightmare if you get it in your eyes, throat, et cetera.<br /><br />Larger materials like streamers and confetti would be more or less fine though. There are also time honored political protest tools like pies, bags of flour, and the like, but those can easily ruin clothing, and so should probably be eschewed.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-13394748334216178272017-08-18T15:55:13.084-04:002017-08-18T15:55:13.084-04:00I would love to see a white supremacist rally show...I would love to see a white supremacist rally showered with rainbow gitter and streamers. Think about it! More effective, I think, than pelting them with flowers.pootrsoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05975929246429466067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-74138720790402982972017-08-18T13:32:44.387-04:002017-08-18T13:32:44.387-04:00“I would want to punch a Nazi in the nose, too,” M...“I would want to punch a Nazi in the nose, too,” Maria Stephan, a program director at the United States Institute of Peace, told me. “But there’s a difference between a therapeutic and strategic response.”<br /><br />The problem, she said, is that violence is simply bad strategy.<br /><br />---<br /><br />I think that in America there are a lot of people who are just angry and fed up, and who aren't really concerned with having good strategy. They seem to just want to vent their anger at the injustices of the world.<br /><br />I see this sort of behavior a lot on topics of racial tensions in particular, with racism overwhelmingly being responded to by reverse racism. I see a lot of absolutist blanket statements, and a lot of failure to differentiate between certain actions, groups of people, or beliefs.<br /><br />It also seems to me that often when people try to point out that this is self destructive, that it alienates potential allies and actually sets back the fight for justice and progress, they get branded as "just another racist" and their arguments get dismissed out of hand. I also routinely come across the sentiment that anyone who isn't already an ally isn't worth having as one. People in general just seem more interested in being angry and self-righteous than they do in actually working to produce real change.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com