As far back as 2009 I had one of my professors pull me aside and caution me that putting “antifascist” in my political views on Facebook could “hurt my career”. Over a a decade later, I still haven’t bombed the RNC, and the same folks who excluded me from agencies assigned to monitor threats to the “homeland” literally ran up on the Capital with guns drawn. I’m happy to wear a mask in public, but not just for public health - because “civil” society has so utterly failed us that the tech savvy at risk youth who deleted Facebook in 2016 and spent four years studying cults, cryptography, and cognitive psychology looks downright sane.
These old, white men (and women - looking at YOU Nancy Pelosi) need to do more than festoon their lapels with BLM hashtags or rainbow stickers, and start listening to true reason (not magical thinking about invisible men in the sky or invisible hands in the market) lest they want another summer of boomers stacked like cordwood from COVID and mobs in the streets when the cops shoot yet another black guy
