Donald Unger
Feb 7, 2021

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It’s not clear to me that you have understood what I am saying. For the record: discrimination, hate, and finger-pointing are bad; having ones conscience burdened is a reasonable moral response to our failings in a broad swath of areas of discrimination and oppression over a long period of time. You are “wasting your ammunition” against an ally rather than “speaking truth to power.” And you reinforce my point perfectly: every calorie that you expend “politically correcting” someone in your own ranks for having a detail wrong on the uniform is energy not spent on attacking real, serious, dangerous, and malign enemies. Achieving change requires focus. If we want “tolerance” and “acceptance of difference” we should practice the same within the movement. If we don’t? We simply swap one class of inflexible oppressors and “hierarchy creators” for another. That’s not progress.

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Donald Unger
Donald Unger

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