It's the myth of the "non-violent revolution." We worship and point to non-violent protesters like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and say "look, they got the job done without hitting anyone over the head" while ignoring the fact that they got to be non-violent figureheads on the backs of hundreds of thousands of acts of violence by other people on their side.
But that's why I'm a centrist, not a leftist (or rightist); I don't want a revolution because revolutions are violent. My sympathies will lie with leftist violent revolutionaries, and I'll certainly gain major satisfaction from watching Richard Spencer get punched in the face, but I'm not going to join them. Major change to a "system" (whether the U.S. government, society or furry fandom or whatever) can only occur one of two ways; quickly, via violent revolution, or slowly, by working with the system.
I've seen Tweets claiming centrists don't think the world can get better, but that's not the truth; I'm saying the world can improve, but I'm not willing to risk violent insurrection to get there. I'm just going to slowly grind it out, and trusting in the system to do its job. I live in a democracy; that means I'm going to get outvoted sometimes. It's not in my best interests to overthrow the government every time that happens.
So, yes, Trump is president, and that fucking sucks balls, but, hey, look, he can't get anything goddamned accomplished, because the system is working. For fuck's sake, his trans ban is getting stonewalled by those liberal hippies at the fucking Pentagon.
But anyway, my original point was, if a furry convention wants to ban fascists, well, they are, by their own admission, violent.
It's the myth of the "non-violent revolution." We worship and point to non-violent protesters like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and say "look, they got the job done without hitting anyone over the head" while ignoring the fact that they got to be non-violent figureheads on the backs of hundreds of thousands of acts of violence by other people on their side.
But that's why I'm a centrist, not a leftist (or rightist); I don't want a revolution because revolutions are violent. My sympathies will lie with leftist violent revolutionaries, and I'll certainly gain major satisfaction from watching Richard Spencer get punched in the face, but I'm not going to join them. Major change to a "system" (whether the U.S. government, society or furry fandom or whatever) can only occur one of two ways; quickly, via violent revolution, or slowly, by working with the system.
I've seen Tweets claiming centrists don't think the world can get better, but that's not the truth; I'm saying the world can improve, but I'm not willing to risk violent insurrection to get there. I'm just going to slowly grind it out, and trusting in the system to do its job. I live in a democracy; that means I'm going to get outvoted sometimes. It's not in my best interests to overthrow the government every time that happens.
So, yes, Trump is president, and that fucking sucks balls, but, hey, look, he can't get anything goddamned accomplished, because the system is working. For fuck's sake, his trans ban is getting stonewalled by those liberal hippies at the fucking Pentagon.
But anyway, my original point was, if a furry convention wants to ban fascists, well, they are, by their own admission, violent.