Laura

“Most legends are lies”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Monsters—the bad kind—show us the way forwards, as well as pushing us back.” That the old world is dying is widely acknowledged and addressed. The old ways of doing things no longer fit who we have become: the systems fail, break, decay, fall into corruption; anachronistic school curriculums and journalistic and political norms, social roles and customs, rules, laws, and institutions don’t offer us equipment to face the realities of our time, whether they feel like cages or outgrown garments or broken tools. Poverty and displacement, degradation and alienation are byproducts of voracious, ruthless systems committed to inequality and indifferent to human rights and the rights of nature, which is to say that they are violence by other means, and sometimes they are the violence itself.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“demands for political freedom and self-government. The Arab hatred of the Jewish population is a direct result of Zionist politics. Zionism has poisoned the atmosphere and put the Jewish population of Palestine in danger…. The nationalist demonstrations that Zionists have organized exploit the victims of these tragic events and the understandable upset of the Jewish community…. This meeting calls on Jewish workers to fight the storm of nationalism and chauvinism that Zionists are unleashing on the Jewish Street. The answer to tragically but pointlessly spilled blood cannot lie in more national hatred, which will inevitably lead to more communal clashes, but in international solidarity and the growth of the socialist movement.”
― Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

“Great replacement politicians teach privileged groups to covet policies and practices that provide them with a generally better quality of life over disadvantaged groups, rather than coveting the shared power of antiracist democracy to provide themselves with the best quality of life together in solidarity with previously disadvantaged groups. For instance, lower-and middle-income White Americans are taught to covet the privilege of struggling less than their peers of color, rather than harnessing democratic power to eliminate financial struggle for all Americans. To defend their privilege of struggling less than people of color do, White Americans must defend racism. To defend racism is to defend racist power. To defend racist power is to increasingly defend dictatorial power. To defend dictatorial power is to defend their own domination.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age