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KW's avatar

I feel like culture war is all liberals know how to do now. They go on social media and yell at people all day, not just conservatives on the other side, but the less-woke people on their own side. Its less about improving the world and more about shoring up your own status in the gang. I've seen friends fall into this pattern, and it's pathetic. They should realize that every screaming social media-based tactic they're using is something that their opponents know how to use too. They hate you as much as you hate them. At what point do you want to break out of this madness? I know I do.

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Erin E.'s avatar

I’ve come across a good deal of criticism lately about MLK and his group’s tactics and concessions lately. The gist being he wasn’t radical enough. It’s in vogue to uplift Angela Davis and Malcolm X. Which is not wrong! There were many facets to the movement at that time. But one thing I think keeps getting ignored: MLK and John Lewis and their crew *got shit done.* They spoke and wrote prolifically, demanding radical change and also making concessions to what is now called White fragility. They knew that emotional change often trails intellectual change which often trails policy change. The march on Washington was called the march for jobs and freedom. Both specific and aspirational. “Defund the police,” for example, isn’t really either. And CRT? Well that’s so tangential that as you pointed out most people probably don’t haves clue what it even actually is.

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