And one of the things that tells us is that the One Good Mind of consensus actually requires the active participation of everybody in the community, that it can’t be done without active participation by all. So, everybody matters, everybody counts. And I remember my mother specifically saying, “Don’t leave anyone out, don’t leave anyone out”. And if anything was ever counted up and somebody was left out, you started counting again, from the very beginning. Why? Because somebody was left out.
And that’s not acceptable, because exclusivism destroys community. It’s the first and best way to destroy community. Inclusivism, on the other hand, is very important to creating community; it hears absolutely every comment, it hears everything that’s going on, and it hears it in the voices that raised the issue. That’s pretty important.
“that’s just the way the world works” it literally doesn’t have to be but okay
if anyone ever tells you “humans are just selfish / life is cruel / that’s just how the world is, get over it” be critical of them bc there’s a 75% chance they’re just using that as an excuse for their own shitty behavior so that they don’t have to put an effort into being better, kinder people
But they’re totally dislocated spiritually by the discovery that institutions are just human-made. They’re just people-made. People made them, and people can unmake them, and people can remake them, people can retool them anytime they like.
If things are unfair, all of a sudden they start realizing, as you said [gestures to someone in audience], if somebody’s rich over here it’s because somebody’s poor over there–if things are unfair, it’s because the unfairness benefits somebody powerful. And people just don’t want to change the unfairness. There’s nothing God-given or God-driven about that unfairness, it’s a totally created situation.
Every queer person I know over the age of 30 is fucking appalled by the state of the queer community, and I have heard some absolutely stellar anti-gatekeeping tirades from queer grandparents. I had a long conversation with a 43 year old pansexual who told me the infighting is almost certainly because we’ve collectively forgotten our joint history and have become more interested in individual social clout than actually advancing the movement for across the board queer equality.
So this is a reminder, I guess, that our elders are on our side. The gatekeeping and the exclusionary behavior is crap.
Skimmed through the “comment” section of this post. Wish I hadn’t. The people in that section are the reasons I’m not anywhere near this god damn community.. y’all are acting just as bad a cishet people who deny our existence and our rights to be who we are.
April 12, 1968: Oakland high school students part of the Asian American Movement salute the casket of 16-year-old Bobby Hutton, a member of the Black Panthers killed by police two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
saw a goth girl irl wearing a veil and those really clunky boots that look like they have shit hidden in them in 80 degree weather thats so brave i hope she didnt have a heat stroke
fuck the troops protect goth girls from heat stroke
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