strap in folks welcome to the super cool zone
getting similar vibes to the beginning of blm. despite having nothing directly to do with cops, it’s not like the cops are capable of restraint and using the pigs’ own fascist tendencies to expose the contradictions on things that are widely popular ideas being protested and violently oppressed might be a good line to build on.
cops beating protestors over police protests at least plausibly makes sense in a very vulgar way. cops beating protestors over women’s rights is reaching the cool zone that will force libs to experience extreme cognitive dissonance in the best of ways.
You say that but cops kicked the shit out of a women’s vigil after a cop murdered a woman here in the UK and the next week the Guardian was naming and shaming people from the follow-up protests and asking protesters to get in touch with their real names so they could shop them to the cops.
I hope I’m wrong but liberals will tut for a moment and then back up the fash.
it’s our job to agitate the libs and advance them towards class consciousness. ive seen a lot of status quo supporting posts recently about the low potential of the response to the overturning of roe v wade, but i see a lot of potential.
the potential just needs to be analyzed correctly and exploited correctly, and libs being libs isn’t a good enough reason to not see this as an incredible opportunity
That’s true and to be fair I wasn’t trying to be wholly cynical about it, although a bit of my bitterness about being involved in recent movements in the UK probably shone through more than I intended.
I absolutely believe in the ability to agitate and help radicalise individuals, whether that’s those in our lives or at demos etc. I just think it’s important to remember that the liberal blob, whether that’s media, politicians, NGOs or prominent figures aren’t going to back you up. We should be agitating, but we shouldn’t be relying on anyone but proven comrades.
There’s a massive difference between liberal media institutions and the average person on the street who politically identifies as a liberal because its the only mainstream alternative to chuddery and they haven’t thought that hard about it.
The former is as much an arm of capital as the cops or army, a human mask for hollow inhumanity and a pied piper to lull to sleep, the latter our future comrades who absolutely need to be radicalized if we’re ever going to get anything done.
