"Speak truth to power" Bayard Rustin. There should be no wrong or right way to resist this administration. Our power lies in numbers, hence their need to revitalize and emboldened the racist and recruit new ones. Too many people want to have a unique take and be heard. We all need to focus on the mission. Do what you can and encourage others as long as we are all doing something.
This is excellent. You make great points. Resistance should come in different forms. Because what speaks to one group might not work with another. And this is going to require so many of us.
Exactly. Bishop Budde was also, in my opinion, speaking directly to the "boiling frog" groups within organized religion. Those who have not figured out how to speak up in their own irl lives, haven't known how to have those uncomfortable conversations..those who perhaps haven't truly realized how far off the rails and how far away from Jesus they've gotten.
Any kind of resistance will not have a magic bullet solution, as it seems many people criticizing these two hope for. It will take millions of people finally saying "wow, I actually can't support this anymore"....
Exactly this. The only thing any one of us has direct control over is our own grounding in our sense of what is right. Speaking that truth when it is dangerous to is most definitely an act of resistance because it reminds others that they are not alone in the truth when it feels like all the external structures of good are crumbling around us. We can't do anything if we feel like the values of love and kindness that we know to be true don't matter, because then we give up. Something as simple as openly Iiving our individual values in a time like this feels like nothing, but it's everything. It's easier to each put on sandals than to try to carpet the world.
As I said elsewhere, loathe as I am to respect Christian clergy in any way, she did the right thing. Sadly, I also expect she just shortened her own lifespan considerably.
I would especially like to ask anyone who is criticising these two what exactly THEY are doing to magically stop the current administration from doing what it likes? Oh, posting on social media and shit? Writing that no one else is even talking about or having a longer conversation about? Yeah, I thought so. More has arguably come from these two pleas than the whole of online writing and discourse to date. (Which is not shade on this publication, it all matters, in the end, as you say.)
Noah, these two responses are resistance. You are correct. Everyone's resistance may not be identical, that doesn't mean that the point hasn't been made here of "shame on you".
I'm not sure that I have a ton of thoughts that other people haven't expressed better elsewhere...I think the idea of parasocial relationships as a new thing is maybe overblown? Charismatic leaders and in group/out group dynamics are longstanding features of fascism...
I only just heard that phrase last week because a friend shared a video by The Leftist Cooks. I'm too slow to have formed an opinion re: parasocial relationships yet, but I wholeheartedly endorse the channel.
"Speak truth to power" Bayard Rustin. There should be no wrong or right way to resist this administration. Our power lies in numbers, hence their need to revitalize and emboldened the racist and recruit new ones. Too many people want to have a unique take and be heard. We all need to focus on the mission. Do what you can and encourage others as long as we are all doing something.
This is excellent. You make great points. Resistance should come in different forms. Because what speaks to one group might not work with another. And this is going to require so many of us.
Exactly. Bishop Budde was also, in my opinion, speaking directly to the "boiling frog" groups within organized religion. Those who have not figured out how to speak up in their own irl lives, haven't known how to have those uncomfortable conversations..those who perhaps haven't truly realized how far off the rails and how far away from Jesus they've gotten.
Any kind of resistance will not have a magic bullet solution, as it seems many people criticizing these two hope for. It will take millions of people finally saying "wow, I actually can't support this anymore"....
Exactly this. The only thing any one of us has direct control over is our own grounding in our sense of what is right. Speaking that truth when it is dangerous to is most definitely an act of resistance because it reminds others that they are not alone in the truth when it feels like all the external structures of good are crumbling around us. We can't do anything if we feel like the values of love and kindness that we know to be true don't matter, because then we give up. Something as simple as openly Iiving our individual values in a time like this feels like nothing, but it's everything. It's easier to each put on sandals than to try to carpet the world.
As I said elsewhere, loathe as I am to respect Christian clergy in any way, she did the right thing. Sadly, I also expect she just shortened her own lifespan considerably.
well I certainly hope she isn't going to get murdered! she's certainly getting a lot of harassment though.
Same. I absolutely despise Christianity, but I'd be a liar if I said I didn't respect her for showing more spine than most of the country.
Even a stopped clock (or misattributed moral compass), yadda yadda
I would especially like to ask anyone who is criticising these two what exactly THEY are doing to magically stop the current administration from doing what it likes? Oh, posting on social media and shit? Writing that no one else is even talking about or having a longer conversation about? Yeah, I thought so. More has arguably come from these two pleas than the whole of online writing and discourse to date. (Which is not shade on this publication, it all matters, in the end, as you say.)
Noah, these two responses are resistance. You are correct. Everyone's resistance may not be identical, that doesn't mean that the point hasn't been made here of "shame on you".
I'm not sure that I have a ton of thoughts that other people haven't expressed better elsewhere...I think the idea of parasocial relationships as a new thing is maybe overblown? Charismatic leaders and in group/out group dynamics are longstanding features of fascism...
I only just heard that phrase last week because a friend shared a video by The Leftist Cooks. I'm too slow to have formed an opinion re: parasocial relationships yet, but I wholeheartedly endorse the channel.