Total agreement!
Yet, I wonder how good at distinguishing various types of speech people who seem uncomfortable with confrontation are. This is what is fascinating about this discussion for me. I think we all agree that the messages of the right need to be fought. The fitness of using a rape whistle to shut down Matt Gaetz is probably l…
Yet, I wonder how good at distinguishing various types of speech people who seem uncomfortable with confrontation are. This is what is fascinating about this discussion for me. I think we all agree that the messages of the right need to be fought. The fitness of using a rape whistle to shut down Matt Gaetz is probably lost on just about everyone who didn't know that was what the whistle was designed for. And I do think there is a clear difference between name-calling - which the right indulges in toward outspoken progressive women vociferously - and loud, articulate, pointed protest. I see a difference, you see a difference - whereas some herein see only rudeness and incivility on both sides. As long as we are ALL doing our parts to fight the right, does it matter our methods? I think that, just as not all of us have the same learning style, neither do we all have the same style of doing good trouble. This fight needs ALL of us.
I agree with you that limits need to be applied to methods of protest. In my opinion, the protest we have been discussing did not reach that limit. No physical harm to others must be agreed upon. Some members of extreme, far right-wing are not just people we disagree with; they are literally poisoning people mentally and physically. To make another point, the selfishness and ignorance of many Americans is horrendous and we all pay for it.
Total agreement!
Yet, I wonder how good at distinguishing various types of speech people who seem uncomfortable with confrontation are. This is what is fascinating about this discussion for me. I think we all agree that the messages of the right need to be fought. The fitness of using a rape whistle to shut down Matt Gaetz is probably lost on just about everyone who didn't know that was what the whistle was designed for. And I do think there is a clear difference between name-calling - which the right indulges in toward outspoken progressive women vociferously - and loud, articulate, pointed protest. I see a difference, you see a difference - whereas some herein see only rudeness and incivility on both sides. As long as we are ALL doing our parts to fight the right, does it matter our methods? I think that, just as not all of us have the same learning style, neither do we all have the same style of doing good trouble. This fight needs ALL of us.
I agree with you that limits need to be applied to methods of protest. In my opinion, the protest we have been discussing did not reach that limit. No physical harm to others must be agreed upon. Some members of extreme, far right-wing are not just people we disagree with; they are literally poisoning people mentally and physically. To make another point, the selfishness and ignorance of many Americans is horrendous and we all pay for it.