Morning After the Revolution Quotes

“US representative Jamaal Bowman, who is pro-defunding, requested special police protection for his Yonkers”
― Nellie Bowles, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

“You're not giving the land back. You're not giving money. You're just saying, Hey, I'm sorry. And then the meeting can start.”
― Nellie Bowles, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

“When large threats disappear, the mind goes hunting for smaller ones. … This is just the human condition. We were always like this. We’re monkeys. We get overexcited, irrational, and tribal. Satanic panics come and go. That’s our nature. Everything else is the challenge. Liberalism, tolerance, living among people we disagree with—that is what is completely unnatural.”
― Nellie Bowles, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

“Falling in love with someone outside the community made me suspect. And most damningly, it made me soft. Because around my 30th birthday, there came a day when I didn’t cancel someone, and it was the true end of my time in the movement. Reporting on the wrong topics had gotten me close, but it was resisting a cancellation that did me in. I knew the thing I was meant to yell about that day. I knew the tweet I was meant to send.”
― Nellie Bowles, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

“To do a cancellation is a very warm, social thing. It has the energy of a potluck: everyone brings what they can, and everyone is impressed by the creativity of their friends. It’s a positive thing, what you’re doing, and it doesn’t feel like battle so much as nurturing the love for one’s friends, tending the warm fire of a cause. You have real power when you’re doing it, and with enough people, you can oust someone very powerful. The easy criticism of a cancellation is: ‘You went after someone who agrees with you on almost everything except some minor, tiny differences? Some small infraction? That seems bizarre.’ But that’s the point. The ‘bad’ among us are more dangerous than a group. Mormons don’t excommunicate a random drag performer, they excommunicate a bad mormon.”
― Nellie Bowles, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History