Great essay from Brittlestar this week on just not being a dick.
or How Defending What's Right Doesn't Require A Membership
I always enjoy Brittlestar’s stuff, but this week’s essay seem particularly appropos.
appropot
You butchered 'apropos', dude.
My deepest apologies for the typo. Your policing is deeply appreciated.
Yay! Good writing is good.
Bone apple tea
This comes across as apathy apologetics. I can tell that's not where he's trying to go, but that seems to be the outcome.
It's also a false dilema. Not wanting to see state-sanctioned abuse of certain groups, for instance, doesn't mean I need to plaster my car in party-affiliation stickers and join the campaign team as a true believer. It just means I might need to temporarily ally my efforts with other people in that particular goal. And that group of people might have a political party. Because that's a system for large numbers of people to have serious policy leverage. I'm not going to do shit all on my own.
Buddy's writing is a bit pretentious, I had to stop reading a few paragraphs in.
It's too bad, too. I likely agree with him.