As a 70+ yr old anarchist who came of age when Enoch Powell was popular, I recommend ranting at every bigot you come across in person and taking the piss until you elicit death threats from them. ✊🏼
I sometimes think “yeah maybe it was too much all at once” but then I remember (am old) the hysteria of the late 1980s over AIDS, section 28 in the UK (an earlier version of homophobia combined with book-banning for schools) and police time spent in entrapment of gay men in public toilets and I think that social change will always create upheaval, until everyone ends up accepting that particular thing, while deciding that the next thing is unacceptable.
As for a third way, my horrible feeling is it is only when the ones making $$$ out of divisive posts have totally blown the world apart, WW1- or WW2-style, that there will be consensus on behaving better.
In the book Ground Control by Anna Minton, she describes how much the Broken Window Theory failed in the UK, creating immense distrust by the population due to overpolicing. I always felt there was a lesson there for the feminist, and as you describe, the whole progressive field.
As a 70+ yr old anarchist who came of age when Enoch Powell was popular, I recommend ranting at every bigot you come across in person and taking the piss until you elicit death threats from them. ✊🏼
I sometimes think “yeah maybe it was too much all at once” but then I remember (am old) the hysteria of the late 1980s over AIDS, section 28 in the UK (an earlier version of homophobia combined with book-banning for schools) and police time spent in entrapment of gay men in public toilets and I think that social change will always create upheaval, until everyone ends up accepting that particular thing, while deciding that the next thing is unacceptable.
As for a third way, my horrible feeling is it is only when the ones making $$$ out of divisive posts have totally blown the world apart, WW1- or WW2-style, that there will be consensus on behaving better.
In the book Ground Control by Anna Minton, she describes how much the Broken Window Theory failed in the UK, creating immense distrust by the population due to overpolicing. I always felt there was a lesson there for the feminist, and as you describe, the whole progressive field.