also reject the right-wing myth that in calling out harm, the Left proves itself intellectually rigid. I reject the idea that in our attempts to bypass a brutal criminal legal system by using our voice instead of the police, we have somehow moved from being defenders of dissidence to suppressors of speech. That is right-wing propaganda and white supremacy’s lie. That is patriarchy’s gaslighting and capitalism’s violence. For criminal legal violations that cannot be entrusted to the law, asymmetrical responses like call outs are exactly right.
