I’m attacking you, yourself for thinking what you do is enough. Your politics don’t even enter into it. You could actually have voted for Trump and have a shirtless Putin pic above your headboard and I’d still give you the business for thinking what so many of us are already doing is enough. I’ll also give you the…

They learned that from the oppressors?

Totally, it is galling to have a double standard like that where on the one hand you say “There’s no cookie for standing up for women and I shouldn’t have to explain it” and “What do I get for showing up to a BLM march?”

Some people actually do need cookies to validate their actions. Instead of lamenting it, why not learn to be a baker?

It’s the least bad option among many?

Totally makes sense. Keep up the good fight! 

Poor white people are the last safe refuge of mockery to puff up white urban liberals. It’s what many of them were at one time and fled from and in small part why our electoral college has failed us. I don’t disagree wholly that there are inherent seedy parts of the left but it’s hard to imagine most on the west coast…

At what point does that not come across as patronizing lip service?

Solidarity doesn’t exist when you write on the internet for a living.

It is a fault that so many want impeccable bonafide credentials to gain access to the movement instead of selling the movement once you have a captive audience.

If you look at it in the context of a lifetime of fighting and being vigilant for what you believe in, you seriously can’t get hung up on why it took a big thing to fire people up and join you. If you’re not up to the lifetime task of doing something thankless and right, how can you hold it against other people who…

All of them? Myself included?

Beer. Pitchers of Beer.

Beer. Pitchers of Beer.

A thousand times yes! You nailed it, it’s seeking approval for being as passively ‘woke’ as you could possibly be.

Totally, and your frustrations are not lost in the mix (I appreciate it!), they just aren’t validated by the ones you’re trying to reach.

If you have 150k at any given rally, the numbers offer protection to some extent both from police and from people within the movements who want to take it up a notch. When you have little Jon Benets on their mom’s shoulders it makes it a lot harder to stomach the tear gas and police batons thrown protester’s way when…

And that’s when you grab them and say “come with me to this protest, I’ll buy a few pitchers afterwards (or beforehand if your companions need some liquid courage)“ and you call them out when they think their petty laments on facebook are doing their part and offer another opportunity for them to join.

And as much as you may hate this, you are going to be the one to hold them personally accountable and nurture them in this. Its fucking thankless, that’s life.

Do you know how morale works?