sftn:
aggressive, shame-based, divisive, vengeful politics are a traumatizing and traumatized way of going abt trying to bring abt change in others – and ultimately ineffective; I don’t mean that ppl shld never be angry, shld never feel vengeful, shld never lash out; I don’t mean that these don’t have a place – these communicate important and valuable information, and draw attention to exasperation, to suffering, to exhaustion, to injustice
but they are also necessarily shocking, alienating, repulsive, and often centre around wanting others to be harmed or feel the harm that one feels – which, again, can all be appropriate, and all have their place; but ultimately, they cannot encompass the breadth n depth that messages/politics of love and unity can; they can’t touch that universal, fundamental vulnerability in humanness that love and unity can
