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"We cannot win without caring for one another and they cannot win without stripping away our empathy and will to protect and care for one another." ~ Kelly Hayes as quoted in the book No Pararan edited by Shane Burley.
[https://truthout.org/audio/anti-fascists-are-adapting-to-a-strange-new-world/]
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"We can choose something entirely different. Remember that, my friends. Every day, in everything we do. This is a good time for values check-ins, and it’s a good time to make sure that our actions are in alignment with our values, because it takes work to resist cynicism and the erosion of empathy, in these times."
Thank you so much, @MsKellyMHayes & @Shane_Burley.
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has been embraced by many people on a practical level, even if it’s not something that they would espouse ideologically. Given that Democrats are pushing “normalcy,” a lot of people won’t see the rollback of COVID mitigations and government-sponsored testing or treatments as being connected to fascism. But that’s a huge mistake, because Democrats can and have steered us in the direction of fascism." ~ Kelly Hayes in the above linked interview
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"A lot of people are hurting over the deterioration of collective empathy we are experiencing right now. This is particularly true of people who still want some basic COVID protections in place, like masking on public transit or in grocery stores, so that people who are immunocompromised, or otherwise vulnerable, can more safely participate in society. The idea that disabled people need to disappear or die, much in the same way unhoused people are often expected to simply disappear or die, >
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"When I think about how to reach the world I want to live in, I’d prefer one with no government or capitalism, but, honestly, I’d probably settle for one that just isn’t being destroyed by fire and floods and Nazis. The only way that seems realistic is to see a movement of movements. A federation of equals, with our own needs and tactics and strategies and ideas and aesthetics, learning to work together, not in unity but in diversity.” ~ Margaret Killjoy in No Pasaran edited by Shane Burley.
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