Jul. 1st, 2011

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I tend to write about community struggles, such as over gender, and why it's antifeminist, and avoid writing about worldwide injustices, such as war, ecocide, and torture.

But ecocide already affects us, and it is likely to have as much impact on our daily lives, in ten or twenty years, as patriarchy/misogyny has.

I think the difference is this: it's often other equally disempowered individuals wielding gender. It's easier to persuade some of these people, and easier to disarm the institution. But it's the ruling class wielding torture. It's useless to attempt to persuade these people. They respect each others' opinions. They give some credit to more prosperous' constituents' opinions, and they give only disrespect to our opinions. They also wish to protect the institution of torture, and they turn that institution against anyone who acts against them.

Brad Manning did the right thing, and they tortured him for it.

We could have a million Brad Mannings, but I wonder if they would all be imprisoned and the ruling-class murderers would still be unaffected.

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