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JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
There will always be those who shout that progressive legislation doesn't go far enough. Folks who are one bad tweet away from insisting that incremental progress is somehow worse than no progress at all. By setting an impossibly high bar for what constitutes "true" progressivism, the purists effectively create a circular firing squad, one in which no one can ever measure up to their exacting standards. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-perils-of-purity-politics
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Jared 🎩
@javabu.eth
I struggle with the do no harm attitude in DEI conversations. Sometimes not pushing back against stupid shit a conservative says so they vote for my legislation is better than calling them an asshole.
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Just Build
@justbuild
Its the tension between different parties / groups that allows middle ground to be found and agreed upon. But when either side gives in too fully to its most extreme voices than rather being a gauge of the outer rim of a movement, it turns into what we have today, purity policing by true believers. What an awful place to find ourselves as a country, world, community. Its no wonder things feel so impossible to achieve, how can you move a majority of any population of scale under these conditions?
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Chainleft
@chainleft
Maybe personally I'm not in the group you're talking about because I believe incremental progress is very important. Yet I somehow feel I belong in this "purist" group (I rather call it "left") I think this article misses two important points: 1. Progressives / leftists often don't get the need for leftist groups in shaping the conversation. 2. Progressives often themselves actually don't agree with the said progress (see the current TERF movement) in time. After all, the last century's entire social progress in the West on race, gender, sexual orientation are all enabled by what people like to call "purists" or "far left". All of these groups made powerful protests that caused inconvenience to liberals or so-called progressives before they caught on the shift in public conversation and finally adopted them in legistlation.
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Frank
@deboboy
Was reading this morning about LBJ and the civil rights act. He was an ass + bully and yet the art of the possible happened. Often wonder how a second term would have moved the progressive agenda farther.
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Karim Salta
@karimsalta
What did you use to make this frame?
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