soe noire by far the most intriguing part of the mask bar:
- self-described “multidisciplinary artist” who is genuinely terrible at all disciplines
- he seems to fund decent lifestyle off sales of terrible art and 2020-style e-begging
- thinks age of consent should be 21 1/
The mask mandatory lesbian bar story and its 4 hour zoom struggle session reminded me that in my first foray into campus activism the YDSA kids organized a “coalition planning meeting” for a protest and some liberals from Amnesty International quite literally took the stage and told us it was not our place to lead “their” protest and, in this order:
- Vetoed a march because it was not wheelchair accessible (?)
- Vetoed a sit-in because it was also not disability friendly due to being an enclosed cramped space
- Vetoed a picket line because if black and brown students were on a picket line then it would make them targets for the police and if white students formed the picket line it would be centering white people
- Banned an artist who drew protest art/flyers because they “depicted brown suffering”
The meeting lasted probably 5 hours with frequent interruptions to make people leave the room and come back in when they had written an apology for whatever transgression they committed. Almost everyone dropped out and everyone just had to do their own thing if they wanted to protest.
I honestly wouldn’t blame you if you thought I was making this up but if you have spent any amount of time organizing you have experienced some variation of this problem and the only way to deal with it is to exclude these people from any kind of decision making immediately. They are pathological narcissists and obsessed with turning their activism into a career. You cannot try to people-please them into cooperating. Ignore them and anyone who listens to them.
Things to say to a small business owner:
- You are ontologically evil
- Let me speak directly to hitler
- What are your intentions with my dead labor?
- Do you have any rare fish?
- Sell me this fasces
- I am proletarianizing your daughter
- Have you heard of Mei Mei?
I wish babies dropped off at Fire Stations were raised there, becoming apprentice fire fighters at like 7 years old, writing 1000 page epics on the history of Local Engine 9 and whatever.