What do you mean by “reactionary courses of action”?
You keep saying “Democrats should stop doing x!” but what you mean by “x” seems to be either something they can’t very well stop doing because they weren’t doing it in the first place, or something so vague that I can’t understand what you mean.
I credit these prosecutions to the efforts of a lot of people and groups, most operating outside the auspices of BLM.
When police brutality was a hot a few years ago, I wanted to find organizations to donate to help in the fight. So I did my homework and found that BLM had very weak aims on its website. It was unclear what my money would go to if I gave to them, but there were other groups that did list the kind of specifics that spoke to me (like bail funds for people with bogus resisting arrest charges). So that’s whom I supported.
BLM is the most well-known but that doesn’t mean they were the most effective.
BLM (meaning the amorphous popular movement that resulted in relatively spontaneous demonstrations around the country, rather than some specific organized group with a website) was the most visible, and clearly had the most impact on public opinion. And it was changing public opinion that made body cameras nigh-ubiquitous, and pushed politicians into thinking that prosecuting bad cops was now good politics (at least in some localities). Those other organizations are great too, but the big unorganized blob that is BLM, and those hundreds of protests, were absolutely instrumental.
Groups like…?
Fair enough, I would agree I’ve heard it as an anti-LGBT epithet, though my perception is that it codes for “black” 90% of the time I hear it. In either case, my point stands that the right wing has so effectively turned “woke” into a snarl word that at this late date, it’s delusional to think one can credibly claim “woke” as an intra-left critique.
Especially given how few people seem to agree that it ever had that valence at all. I think I recall it? But I also remember getting a lot of pushback about using it that way in ~2020 or so, and by 2022 the right-wingers had reappropriated it so widely that I wouldn’t use it anymore because it was basically the N-word.
I think I understand why you’re expressing concern.
Wait, what? Are you insisting on a cite for groups that ran bail funds? Seriously? Start here. This does not seem like a reasonable request for a cite. @ywtf may have made up other things in this thread, but bail funds are pretty widely known and easily googlable.
No, I was asking for examples of groups he contributed to.
I don’t see the relevance, nor do I think misgendering is cute or rhetorically powerful or ethical. In what way does it possibly matter which group she contributed to?
Nor do I but it CAN happen accidentally, something you might want to consider before throwing accusations around.
Why? Why do you care?
This thread is done.
Lots of stuff crossing the line.