Also a good lesson for anyone whining about whether mutual aid can realistically scale!
Centrist elites turning into mid 2000s American creeping sharia and anti world brutal destruction enjoyers is very good and moderate
what a bunch of Cnuts
It also def matters that social media has fractured. X/Twitter + Facebook are less useful for organizing and media agenda-setting than they were in the '10s (when Zeynep and I both wrote books on the topic). But that's secondary. Student protest hits less hard bc the targets are less vulnerable.
Student mobilization around Gaza was countered by (a) large donor mobilization against the students and (b) targeted congressional hearings. The modern American university system, after decades of defunding higher ed, is MUCH more attuned to the will of Bill Ackman et al than of the student body.
This strikes me as not-quite-right. She's correct that the campus protest in particular has lost power, but social media isn't where we should be looking for an explanation. Simply put: universities used to take student disruption more seriously because they took *their students* more seriously.
we spend an almost incalculable amount of money just so we can give a bunch of barney fifes a gun so they can pretend to be punisher
also every time something like this happens the cops get sued and the settlement money comes out of the city/county budgets for libraries, schools, roads, and other essential services people actually use
When so much about trans people, both in reality and fiction, is written and handled by cis folks, the cis folks in the room NEED to do everything they can to get us in there, in whatever form they can. Cis folks may be educated in trans life and genuine allies, but they'll never KNOW what it's like