Thank you for this. I've been frustrated and sad all week, feeling my own compulsion to say something, to push back against the tsunami of destructive and hate-filled declarations about who should do what to whom. I've been especially confused about this thin you describe, where speaking out against the massacre of one population results…
Thank you for this. I've been frustrated and sad all week, feeling my own compulsion to say something, to push back against the tsunami of destructive and hate-filled declarations about who should do what to whom. I've been especially confused about this thin you describe, where speaking out against the massacre of one population results in assumptions that I am in favor of massacre on the other side. Making the statement that nobody should be massacred seems to be met with either accusations of being utterly unrealistic or somehow missing the point and being out of touch. This has been very confusing, but you have described it such that now it all makes sad-but-true sense. I just commented on another article a few minutes ago, with this quote, which seems to me appropriate here, too, as a compliment to what you have written:
"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support." - Audrey Lorde
Thank you for this. I've been frustrated and sad all week, feeling my own compulsion to say something, to push back against the tsunami of destructive and hate-filled declarations about who should do what to whom. I've been especially confused about this thin you describe, where speaking out against the massacre of one population results in assumptions that I am in favor of massacre on the other side. Making the statement that nobody should be massacred seems to be met with either accusations of being utterly unrealistic or somehow missing the point and being out of touch. This has been very confusing, but you have described it such that now it all makes sad-but-true sense. I just commented on another article a few minutes ago, with this quote, which seems to me appropriate here, too, as a compliment to what you have written:
"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support." - Audrey Lorde