[Image: A tweet from @AmyDentata that reads: “BLM is just as peaceful as the #WomensMarch – only difference is cops aren’t as willing to jump white women. Acknowledge privilege.”]
“Taking a stand and refusing to support the career of a self-declared anti-feminist” apparently equals “not allowing different political opinions”.
Also, it makes me chuckle that a mediocre tabloid “journalist” and TV host tries to put down a national treasure and international star as “just an actor”…
Right now, the black bloc protesters from the D.C. protest are facing a decade in jail and a fine (each) of $25,000. No one was hurt during their protest, but Starbucks and McDonald’s had to replace some windows and a limousine, a symbol of America’s wealth disparity, burned. And meanwhile, liberals are gleefully making memes of a black bloc protester engaging in the great American pastime of punching Nazis. Lots of people secretly really like the black bloc. If you doubt that, just Google ‘Richard Spencer gets punched in the face’ to see just how fond people are of the black bloc’s direct action approach to stopping Nazis in their tracks. And that’s what we need to do right now. Many progressives have been raised to tolerate outlandish ideologies in the spirit of inclusivity, but the far-right is now exploiting the sanctity of safe spaces in order to advance fascism, which will destroy our democracy. You don’t hug and coddle Nazis. It doesn’t work. Fascists only understand aggressive defeat. Radical protest creates the space for actions like the Women’s March. By pushing the Overton Window left, the black bloc makes the Women’s March look like a hyper-reasonable movement. ‘We’d better deal with these nice white ladies,’ some in power might say, ‘They’re nothing like those crazy kids dressed in black.’ I promise you: the Nazis don’t fear peaceful liberal protests, but they may think twice about marching in public if the black bloc is there to meet them.
Right now, the black bloc protesters from the D.C. protest are facing a decade in jail and a fine (each) of $25,000.
If you want to talk about their tactics, talk about their tactics, but if you enjoyed seeing that asshole get hit in the face, put $5 into their legal defense fund or the NLG defense fund. Your meme hero could easily have been among the ones arrested.
As far as I can tell, the white male twitter left spent today complaining that the women’s marches were nothing but liberal, corporatist nonsense, or as one pile of stinking dick cheese put it: “vapid and petty.” Also, not enough cars set on fire.
Ok but the guy describing it as ‘vapid’ (because as we all know, True Protest means whipping out your dick and banging it on the table while you boast about how you’d love to set fire to a car and if the car-owner complains you’re a pussy neoliberal) is only my THIRD favourite type of white leftist today.
The second prize has to probably go to the leftists currently swearing blind that women as a culture have no tradition of direct action, women activists need to be mansplained to about how to protest, women protestors are never attacked (apparently forcefeeding, water torture and r*pe-as-punishment-tactic are just imagined), and there is simply no incredibly large, varied and historic movement amongst women that might even have the slightest idea about politics or political theory. Basically, How Dare women be Better at this protest shit than us, don’t they know we’re inherently more woke???
But tbh all of those guys pale into comparison before the glory that is White Male Leftist Who Is Suddenly An Expert on Women’s Rights Abuses in the Middle East, just as american women decide to have a march. (But only in Saudi Arabia, Never Iran, you see, because then you can work in an edgy woke attack about how lame liberals sold arms/bought oil. Iranian women’s rights abuses are the Good Kind of Abuse. Anti-Imperialist, Culturally Relative Abuse.)
Nope, wait, I forgot one – White Leftist Woman who insists that there would be “no space for actions like the Women’s March” if it weren’t for her noble manarchists. Women have never had a march on their own, apparently, and fear retribution to be heard, because brocialists did it for them. (The fact the women’s march was more powerful, better attended and changed more minds than anarchists hiding their faces and burning shit ever could is actually really just a sign of how wrong the children public are!)
Also, apparently, the Women’s March was 100% made up of “nice white ladies", who those in power automatically loved, and would never fear, because they were all soft liberals. All of them And White Leftist Woman isn’t like those girls, you see. She’s a Cool Girl.
The fact that this was the biggest march in inaugural history, and the inconvenient fact that there were smaller marches happening in middle america as well as the coasts wouldn’t worry lawmakers at all, because the only way to achieve lasting change is to Let the Big Strong Leftist Men take credit. See how Cool and not naggy she is, guys?
With millions of participants in all seven continents, the Women’s March has to be the largest coordinated global protest in history. Women did that! Specifically, Tamika D. Mallory, Carmen Perez, and Linda Sarsour–a black woman, a Latina woman, and a Palestinian Muslim woman–organized this and made it a huge success. Women of color DID THAT
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