This is also why any kind of “what did the student protests for Palestine accomplish” drives me nuts - let’s see what the policy of the US government is in 2040 and then I’ll have an opinion

...and then people imagine that the electoral/NGO institutionalization is how things started.

But of course, that formal structure was built to implement and protect movement wins. It didn't create them.

It's worth remembering this is always the way of successful popular movements.

They change the culture, those shifts are used to win concrete victories (including electoral victories). Those victories are institutionalized through government and NGOs...

It's fascinating in some ways because geriatric millennials (b. 1987 or before) and older will remember that Occupy is pretty much single-handedly responsible for mainstreaming these issues.

But younger millennials and Gen Z assume Bernie (and podcasters) did it.

Neither one of the media billionaire newspaper owners gave a fuck about ‘fairness’ or ‘Harris didn’t impress us’— that’s the narrative they gave us all to fight with instead of them.

Paul Krugman?

Yes!! Introduce not Schrödinger!

Value on the labor market // "deservingness" with additional resources and opportunities given to those with higher grades

This is the "school is for sorting, not learning" approach

In order for the renunciation of vengeance to be meaningful, vengeance itself has to be a real option

That’s an interesting choice

It’s been 18 years, something like 16% of the people who were alive in 2008 are now dead

Do we think respondents are indexing vs the best and worst of their life?

A lot of Native folks are critical of land acknowledgements, myself included, and in some spaces, that criticism has led folks to incorporate actual calls for material solidarity with Native folks, or to meaningfully draw connections between types of actions people can take against colonial violence

You don’t have to like prison abolitionists but this degree of aggressive misreading to the point of making yourself stupid just to dunk on people you agree with 89% is very annoying to me!

I am blanking on who but I have seen “a land acknowledgement without a call to action is just an end zone dance”

I think they are great when followed by a call to action

Eg at schul they give the land acknowledgement and then say “that’s why we pay the Shuumi land tax to support rematriation and ask that you join us in paying Shuumi”