Kee Hinckley@nazgul@infosec.exchange
A friend gave me permission to share this. I think it's an important message, especially for those targeted by this regime.
❝ I think that's part of what is annoying me about these "why aren't the peepul doing this and such" editorials. Like, what is it you are expecting us to do, render ourselves homeless by not going to work so then we can't pay rent? HOW does that help?
It feels like its coming from a place of privilege. Like, seriously, maybe you editorial writer for the Atlantic have the housing and food security to take a week off to feel sorry for yourself, but I do not.
And also there's a measure of, jeebus you threw us working people under the bus over and over and over and now you are whining that we aren't out in the streets restoring your cosy certainties.
The other thing that feels very privileged about all these fucking 'why is no one rising up, where are the peepul in the streets' editorials is that I think its disregarding the very substantial courage it requires to get up in the morning and feed yourself and do your work and pay your bills when you are the actual people this regime is targeting. Rather than just giving up. Every trans person who gets up and goes to work and makes soup and feeds their cat under this regime is a fuckin hero for getting out of bed. Obviously brown people in LA who are still going to work at the auto body shop or the elder care home when they know that ICE could be pulling up any minute, or just going to the damn grocery store. Courage. So stop it, sitting in your San Francisco apartment with your tech exec money in the bank telling them they aren't doing enough to save democracy because they aren't acting like extras out of Les Mis.. ❞
I think it's also a reminder that American workers have no economic or medical safety nets, and very few have personal ones. And that's not an accident. It limits the collective action we see in European countries.
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