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The following is my reaction to someone saying we should kidnap children as forms of resistance to the current political narrative.
If you’re in a punk band that claims they are influenced by bands from the 90s, but then you talk shit about Operation Ivy (one of the most influential punk bands ever, created in 1988), you might be a poser.
And if your solution to ICE agents kidnapping children, includes kidnapping the children of ICE agents, you might be a fascist.
We need to do better, not worse, and if we can’t find a solution that doesn’t also involve behaving like the people we’re against, we are only becoming the people we’re against, and continuing the cycle.
Reminds me of a story from “A Man for All Seasons” – Roper talks about breaking all laws to trap the Devil, and More comes back with this: ”
When the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast– man’s laws, not God’s, and if you cut them down, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety’s sake.”
@ravdiablo thank you for sharing, I haven’t come across this story. It presents an interesting conundrum of our own morality.
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People are doing that? Kidnapping the children of ICE agents? My God, what is this world coming to? We seem to have arrived at a place where common human decency is a thing of the past …
@ghostdancer This is not true, and probably created by the SCROTUS to divert attention away from the untold horrors he has committed on innocent people.
@ravdiablo Oh I didn’t realize that factoid was something the SCROTUS thought up. I might have known …
@ghostdancer my apologies for the confusion, this was something that another person proposed as a means of resistance, and something I highly disagree with.
@ravdiablo I didn’t explain clearly – this was an idea someone else proposed to resist the current narrative, which I disagree with as a good solution.
@sleeponflyon As do I! Thanks for the clarification.
@ghostdancer I keep coming across wild suggestions like this and I find incredibly disturbing. People are chomping at the bit to get their shot at being the fascists.
@sleeponflyon I must be reading the wrong mail — I don’t ever come across anything even remotely like that. Maybe because I seldom read the other side’s mail?
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