No More Eggshells, No More Sectarian Identity Politics
I am anti-sectarianism in an immoderately-inordinate way. I'm tired of hearing groups say, "We can't talk about liberation until my group is free," or they'll use a different sectarian term like "until ____ is tackled." They argue in bad faith against "nobody's free until we're all free," as they anchor themselves to the past and refuse to let themselves and others be helped, because it's not about getting help, it's about being afraid to move on from that part of their identity, a part of their identity that should be a tool for teaching and advancing humanity collectively towards tomorrow. Not a tool to halt our collective healing and keep our wounds open and infectious. Race is one of the easiest and most common examples of this to point out, because mention that we have to make it right for yellow and red-skinned people and people lose it, because those are the "wrong" marginalized/minority groups. Like, what do yo...