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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Equally political…?

Mate, I don’t imagine that Mariah Carey’s latest album and the Rosa Parks Bus Boycotts are, like, the same severity. I don’t really know how to respond to that.

You are pushing back against people who don’t want to involve themselves “in politics.”

No.

I’m pushing back against people who don’t see politics. Who view being “normal” and doing what society expects of you as anti-transgressive.

To coerce people into normal society is transgressive. After all, you can’t do that without power.

What I’m describing is a “no standing still on a moving train” kind of situation. I’m challenging the idea that “being normal” or “maintaining the status quo” or “not rocking the boat too much” is a moral good. That “difference” is political, and “the same” is where we ought to be. The idea that the real problem with society is that people complain too much.

Somebody can agree with everything I just said and never talk to their congress person once.

I think it’s horribly reductive to paint them all as wanting to go back to the 1950s.

But in the 1950s, people wanted the rabble-rousers about women to shut up, didn’t they?

The issues today are different, but it’s all the same.

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