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Mx. Luna Corbden

It is also productive at this stage to discuss how we or our representatives have done wrong in the past *only* towards solutions & avoiding the same mistakes.

It is NOT productive (purity politics) to interrupt momentum on a different topic (say fundraising, volunteering) to bring up past mistakes of OTHER, DIFFERENT Dem representatives for no other reason than to dunk on how shit past Dems have been.

I know this behavior has won a lot of social clout for folks in the past, look at me, look how much further left I am than you, but FFS it’s divisive & detracts from actually moving the world left. We all know how shit past Dems have been. It’s all we’ve talked about the past decade. How well has that worked out for us?

In the words of the late great Bob Newhart, “Stop it!”

If we want to move the world left, now is our chance. Pick up some tools and do what you feel is right, but do not derail someone else’s efforts unless they’re actively causing harm.

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Mx. Luna Corbden

Since I got asked this a bunch last night after reporting stuff I heard from the White Women Call #AnswerTheCall2024, “Now is not the time for purity politics,” I’ll define what I think that means.

Leftist purity politics is:

“I’m not going to do that thing to move the world left because the world is not already left enough.”

(You can feel this way I guess but what’s the point in saying it? It only brings down the energy of those who have chosen to act in a way they think best.)

Or variants, including “I’m going to distract from leftward momentum and drain energy from people moving the world left because they aren’t left enough.”

Purity politics is NOT:

“Please consider the effects on marginalized people as we work together moving left.”

(This is worthwhile actually, and not what I was calling “trivial.”)

Nor:

“I have a better idea for a strategy / approach / policy, so I’ll try to persuade you but we may disagree and have to hash it out.”

Also productive.

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Omar Moore

From Shannon Watts on Thursday:

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