Here's my probably unpopular opinion about a lot of recent US social media activism. If you're not willing to condemn all political parties doing a bad thing, then your complaint about only one group doing a bad thing that others also do, may actually be hollow and performative.
It probably even takes less characters to post condemning the thing itself and the institutions that allow it, then targeting only one subgroup of people doing the overall thing.
¡Abbie!
in reply to Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD • • •without assigning blame to a primary actor it’s hard to mobilize against it.
Ice is bad is less effective in this sense than trump is using ice to do significantly more bad even if the democrats helped along the way.
Ultimately, I’m currently in various intersections of specific people want to murder me, & almost none of them are democrats, and they certainly aren’t leading the charge. It takes way less spoons to say the GOP wants me dead than to explain politics.
Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD
in reply to ¡Abbie! • • •This is kind of what I'm saying though
You could say: the US systemically engages in fascist policing and using state violence against poor and non-white groups, and it needs to stop
Instead of saying one political party, in this current moment is doing this bad stuff, and other sides are less bad even if they do it too, so we need to stop the thing we're seeing on news right now, but it would harm us to discuss how other groups do this or how the US has done this for centuries