I’m curious how many immigrant rights, workers’ rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and anti-DAPL protests Ms. Brown has attended. I agree with those who are saying that white feminists need to step up their game when it comes to intersectionality, but how many of the folks making that argument are doing their part for social…

I like to think it is encouraging to see new people coming out. Yes, it is great to see people caring enough to come out for more than one cause. But that is not a realistic standard to hold people to. Black Lives Matters woke up a lot of people to get involved and speak up for the first time. Was the right reaction…

You guys are nothing if not predictable.

I’m still missing your point. You think demonstrations that aren’t focused or angry enough are useless? No one here (except for you) feels that now that we’ve done this we’re finished. ALL of us who attended (save you of course) felt that it was an important first step. That if you are a water protector, abortion…

So we can expect you at the next Farmworkers march right? Or the next immigrations march? Or at Standing Rock (which IIRC, you did not attend?).

I think it’s interesting to watch a metaphorical infant taking its first steps, and then trash said infant for not being able to run a 40-yard-dash in record time. That, to me, is what this article does.

I am in complete agreement with you. I feel as if we are going to repeat the worst parts of our history. The Chinese Exclusion Act, the follow up of not allowing them to testify in court, the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. In that one they threw pigs blood on people, sound familiar?

Yup. That’s why I had a pretty great high after attending our tiny hastily thrown together march. In an area that went hard for Trump in a swing state it was downright heartwarming seeing hundreds of like-minded individuals. I made a ton of acquaintances with progressives in an area I ALWAYS felt alone in.

For many it is and was the first step. I see a lot of people shitting on those new to activism. Frankly you can choose to be pissed that these people didn’t have your back before, or choose to use this opportunity to turn these people. You had a bunch of people try activism for the first time and it felt good. They’re…

Agreed. An activists job at a large successful action is not to whine about why the people who showed up weren’t at the previous actions, but to do something — other than whining — to make sure as many of them as possible come back to the next one. This article is not helpful.

Likewise: I was at the march in DC, and I loved the diversity of purpose: women’s rights, Black Lives Matter, pro-disability, Support Your Local Sex Worker, trans visibility and rights, pro-immigrant. I got the chance to talk with the people carrying those signs, and now I know more about what these movements (not all…

I work for an advocacy organization. We all went to the march, with our friends and our families.

“I also know several people who felt excluded ... and I think it’s because it was about so many things at once.”

My $0.02, FWIW.

What’s with these purity tests that people on the left require of one another?