Coming to terms with privilege
We need to know our privileges, our intellectual, social, economic privileges and how they actually intersect with other people.
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Selling people short
Personally I’m really critical of [the belief that] in order to mobilize people [you] have [to] appeal to the lowest common denominator.
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Acting to win
….I think that the left needs to stop feeling like a perennial loser and start acting more like the obvious winn[ing] choice.
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The meaning of ‘radical’
…from our most individual and most intimate and personal relations all the way up to the most impersonal and macro social relations there’s something wrong here and that it’s a change at all levels that’s going to be required…
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Demonstrating success
…we actually have to be able to win things because that’s the only way that we convince people that we can succeed.
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The limits of telling a better story
…we rankle at the idea of simplifying things for good reasons.
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Violence and social change
There’s ash and bits of charred ground and I don’t think that, in and of itself, can make lasting change. But there is a time and place for that explosion.