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This piece is really speaking to me right now.
"There’s also often a devil’s bargain buried in all this, that you flatter and, yeah, respect these white people who think this country is theirs by throwing other people under the bus— ..." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"There’s also often a devil’s bargain buried in all this, that you flatter and, yeah, respect these white people who think this country is theirs by throwing other people under the bus— ..." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"by disrespecting immigrants and queer people and feminists and their rights and views. And you reinforce that constituency’s sense that they matter more than other people when you pander like this, ..." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"and pretty much all the problems we’ve faced over the past four years, to say nothing of the last [500], come from this sense of white people being more important than nonwhites, Christians than non-Christians, ..." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"native-born than immigrant, male than female, straight than queer, cis-gender than trans." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"Appeasement didn’t work in the 1930s and it won’t work now. That doesn’t mean that people have to be angry or hate back or hostile, but it does mean they have to stand on principle and defend what’s under attack." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"There are situations in which there is no common ground worth standing on, let alone hiking over to. If Nazis wanted to reach out & find common ground & understand us, they probably would not have had that tiki-torch parade full of white men bellowing “Jews will not replace us”"
"and, also, they would not be Nazis. Being Nazis, white supremacists, misogynists, transphobes is all part of a project of refusing to understand as part of refusing to respect." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"It is a minority position but by granting it deference we give it, over and over, the power of a majority position." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"Some of us don’t know how to win. Others can’t believe they ever lost or will lose or should, and their intransigence constitutes a kind of threat. That’s why the victors of the recent election are being told in countless ways to go grovel before the losers."
"This unilateral surrender is how misogyny and racism are baked into a lot of liberal and centrist as well as right-wing positions, this idea that some people need to be flattered and buffered ..." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
"even when they are harming the people who are supposed to do the flattering and buffering, even when they are the minority, even when they’re breaking the law or lost the election." https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
ALL THIS. ALL OF IT.
